“Storm/0″ by Giuliana Lo Porto (Italy)
By Stefano • May 18th, 2008 • Category: Agenda| June 8, 2008 8:30 pm | a | June 11, 2008 8:30 pm |
STORM/O
performance by Giuliana Lo Porto
production Napoli Teatro Festival Italia
from 8th to 11th June 8.30pm
duration 15′
location: Real Albergo dei Poveri
poetic text by Francesco Balsamo
camera Alessandro Aiello
Unlike Giuliana Lo Porto’s previous works (more intimist and addressed to a restricted number of spectators), Storm/o is characterised by a strong stage impact and an intentionally theatrical style.
In a dark, completely plain environment two hands, busy in knitting by means of long metal needles, come out from the darkness. Twittering in the distance can be heard. Against the light the outlines of small birds and then, slowly, a female body wearing a black dress appear; a huge construction, similar to the tangled foliage of a bare tree, towers above. Motions are slow, following the swinging of the branched shape inside of which many birds can be seen. A sound mix starts and the distorted birds’ chirp turns into words, into the poetical words by Lucio Piccolo and Francesco Balsamo.
There are many symbolic references: the human appearance, the presence of animals and vegetables; Ovid’s metamorphosis as an expressive figure of the pain, the images of the monster and of what is unusual that have always generated ambivalent reactions, fear and curiosity, repugnance and fascination.
Giuliana Lo Porto (1970) lives and works in Catania. She is a versatile artist; her fields of interest are: exhibitions, performances and research in co-operation with theatre groups. Organic and perishable materials characterise her first productions, summarised within the project “nero raccolto”, in which the inexpressible and after life condition is investigated. At the “Trevi Flash Art Museum” the artist presents a performance entitled Invito a bere una tazza di te al gelsomino. The topic of the object “made unfit” to play its daily role is the core of her latest works, characterised by a rigorous representative language and a subtle emotional emphasis (e.g. Closed Waters). In 2005, in co-operation with the Segnalemosso group, she presented the performance AnimaLenta drawn from Lucio Piccolo’s poems. In her latest works the artist deals once again with the most obsessing problems of the human history: life, death, fleeting reality.
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