ISTRUZIONI PER LA SOPRAVVIVENZA

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Performance

by and with Elvira Frosini Ilaria Patamia

directed by Elvira Frosini

 

live video processing Lorenzo Letizia

 

 

Instructions for survival is a 20 min performance. Two performers welcome the audience like two hostesses, make them sit, continuously manipulate them and give a series of instructions of a very varied kind, from simple road signs, to the most common instructions that are encountered in daily life, to instructions to survive in case of war. Meanwhile, a performer whose face cannot be seen captures the audience with a video camera, while a video is projected onto a screen in which the faces of the spectators appear.

Instructions, rules, signals, network of messages that unpredictably involve the spectator by asking him the question of passivity, a serious game between the forest of the signals of civilization and the underground presence of violence and precariousness under the apparently reassuring map of civil rules.

 

" The reduction-to-object: isn't this the main source of violence? The fetishization, within public communication, of living and contradictory men and processes, to the point of crystallizing them into prefabricated pieces and theatrical scenes: dead themselves, and that kill others. "(Christa Wolf - Premises to Cassandra)