Che succederebbe se organizzassi una protesta e venissero tutti?

When bodies are gathered in streets, squares or other public areas (including virtual ones), they exercise a plural performative right of appearance, a right of affirmation and of embodiement at the center of the political field. Being visible, standing up, breathing, moving, staying still, talking, keeping silent: are all aspects of a spontaneous aggregation, an act of gathering that expresses significance.
In 2019 from Hong Kong to Bogotà, from Barcellona to Beirut to Quito to Baghdad to Teheran riots of different, even divergent nature are multiplying, uniting the new generation in the common realization of a wish for a brighter future. Franco «Bifo» Berardi describes it as the “convulsion” produced from the capitalist’s absolutism in the living body of the planet, in the human cognitive system and in the collective phsychic rhythm. The world burns from California, to Siberia, from Australia to the Amazon, Venice is flooded by water and a new alliance of the bodies floods the city.
It is in Hong Kong that “be water” becomes an invitation to be shapeless, limitless, because water can flow or can flood. Because being water means being like the sea, manifold and in motion, recognizing oneself in the multitude of the waves that form it. Only in the moment when a wave merges with another, body-to-body, the fear of being touched disappers, a complaisance towards the others occurs, as if one was the other, no longer set apart, a reliance that one cannot escape, a feeling of strength, a leap, obtained exactly for being all together. Suddenly, it seems like everything is happening inside a single body. Elias Canetti in Massa e Potere suggests that the sea cannot explain this strange cohesion among humans, but it expresses it.
Divided waves, separated by cultures, traditions and geopolitics, are pouring into the world’s streets, miles away from each other, in their endeavour for a common language, a rhythm capable of transforming the convulsion in a consciuos collective process.

The project has the intent to investigate the moment when the bodies touch and become a wave. The formalization of the artwork will include the use of different media such as video installation, sculture and editing, as per customary of the artist’s practice.