work
Moto Contraddittorio
| category | Performance |
| subject | Political / Social, Human figure |
| tags | |
| minutes | 30 |
| seconds | 0 |
| year | 2019 |
Performance 28/12/2019 Verona; Video: Andrea Bonetti and Chiara Ventura 29:44 minutes, 18:04 minutes
Starting from an analysis of the saying: "Keep your feet on the ground" and, subsequently, from putting it into physical practice, the project focuses on the motor difficulties that can be generated by a movement caused by the impossibility of detaching oneself from the ground, i.e. from one's own foundations and certainties.
The aim of my work is to arouse a spontaneous sensation, whether positive or negative, generated by the vision of a physical/sensory transposition, in an everyday context, of this well-defined boundary between one's own individual intimacy and the moment given by the reality that surrounds us. In particular, the attention turns to a literal application of this attachment to a strictly subjective concreteness that is transformed from a mental condition into a physical impediment.
For this reason I need to go into a subject which is as much a part of everyday collective reality as it is of subjective individuality: we are talking about walking. In order to walk, it is necessary to move one foot at a time. The sole of the first foot rests on the ground and the second one rises, moving towards a stability provided by a more distant, secure support for the body weight, so as to allow the first one in turn to rise in its moment of lightness.
The reasoning indicates that in order to achieve a correct progression in a path, not only in distance but also in life, a moment of uncertainty and understanding is necessarily needed.
The action takes place in a famous destination in the city of Verona, Piazza Bra, at a particular time of the year when there are Christmas markets, a source of attraction for a large number of visitors.
I start by girding my ankles with a belt (symbol of the well-defined boundary of my certainties) and taking position on the imaginary line (always positioned in the middle of the paving that makes up the square) that marks my direction exactly under the Portoni della Bra. Under these conditions, my 'individual space' translates into the physical impossibility of taking my feet off the ground or of being able to move them freely: reducing all my movement to a slow shuffling from one point to another, I keep my body and the border with reality as a sort of central axis towards which every single piece of information converges.
Thus begins a 'silent' movement, detached from everything, without thoughts, solitary and isolated, but with a purpose, the achievement of the completion of the path. Once through the citadel gate I have reached the end of the line, the removal of my limitation and the cessation of action follow.
All this is filmed, as well as by third parties, by an action-camera positioned right in the middle of the belt, on the buckle, which tells the vision of what is happening through the origin of my point of view, the feet.
Starting from an analysis of the saying: "Keep your feet on the ground" and, subsequently, from putting it into physical practice, the project focuses on the motor difficulties that can be generated by a movement caused by the impossibility of detaching oneself from the ground, i.e. from one's own foundations and certainties.
The aim of my work is to arouse a spontaneous sensation, whether positive or negative, generated by the vision of a physical/sensory transposition, in an everyday context, of this well-defined boundary between one's own individual intimacy and the moment given by the reality that surrounds us. In particular, the attention turns to a literal application of this attachment to a strictly subjective concreteness that is transformed from a mental condition into a physical impediment.
For this reason I need to go into a subject which is as much a part of everyday collective reality as it is of subjective individuality: we are talking about walking. In order to walk, it is necessary to move one foot at a time. The sole of the first foot rests on the ground and the second one rises, moving towards a stability provided by a more distant, secure support for the body weight, so as to allow the first one in turn to rise in its moment of lightness.
The reasoning indicates that in order to achieve a correct progression in a path, not only in distance but also in life, a moment of uncertainty and understanding is necessarily needed.
The action takes place in a famous destination in the city of Verona, Piazza Bra, at a particular time of the year when there are Christmas markets, a source of attraction for a large number of visitors.
I start by girding my ankles with a belt (symbol of the well-defined boundary of my certainties) and taking position on the imaginary line (always positioned in the middle of the paving that makes up the square) that marks my direction exactly under the Portoni della Bra. Under these conditions, my 'individual space' translates into the physical impossibility of taking my feet off the ground or of being able to move them freely: reducing all my movement to a slow shuffling from one point to another, I keep my body and the border with reality as a sort of central axis towards which every single piece of information converges.
Thus begins a 'silent' movement, detached from everything, without thoughts, solitary and isolated, but with a purpose, the achievement of the completion of the path. Once through the citadel gate I have reached the end of the line, the removal of my limitation and the cessation of action follow.
All this is filmed, as well as by third parties, by an action-camera positioned right in the middle of the belt, on the buckle, which tells the vision of what is happening through the origin of my point of view, the feet.
