STILL
- 2024
- by Gaetano Palermo, Michele Petrosino
- with Michele Petrosino
- with the support of I Fumi della Fornace-Rassegna Incolta/Congerie.
- awards Winner of “Cosmogiani: un atlante sensoriale” organized by the Heritage and Culture Sector of Emilia-Romagna Region
- 160’ - durational performance
Still is a performance of sculptural matrix in which the body of the performer turns into a living fountain. A continuous flow of liquids spills lastingly over the entire body surface. The vision is that of a sluggish and static body which oozes movement despite himself. His stasis is a stasis of a time to lose, of existence as continuous melting. The exhausted ecstasy of a still life always emerging destined to disappear in a water pond.
“A performance indifferent to the world, to its laws and its hierarchies, and it happens without apparent reason as if in a fold of reality, capable of showing a completely unexpected temporality”
Still is a performance of sculptural matrix in which the body of the performer turns into a living fountain. A continuous flow of liquids spills lastingly over the entire body surface. The vision is that of a sluggish and static body which oozes movement despite himself. His stasis is a stasis of a time to lose, of existence as continuous melting. The exhausted ecstasy of a still life always emerging destined to disappear in a water pond.
“A performance indifferent to the world, to its laws and its hierarchies, and it happens without apparent reason as if in a fold of reality, capable of showing a completely unexpected temporality”