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Title: La camera della morte
Authors: Presicce, Luigi
Editors: Rossi, Valentina
Issue Date: 3-Dec-2012
Document Type: Working Paper
Abstract: Il progetto donato da Luigi Presicce (Porto Cesareo, 1976) consiste in una performance mai realizzata. L’azione, dal carattere utopico e teatrale, è ispirata alla ricorrenza annuale in cui i tonni migrano verso l’isola di Favignana per riprodursi, compiendo secondo l’artista un viaggio d’amore. In questa occasione i pesci attraversano un labirinto composto da reti da pesca per finire inesorabilmente nella “camera della morte”, dove vengono arpionati e uccisi. L’azione progettata dall’artista consiste in un gioco di rovesciamento di ruoli, in cui gli uomini prendono il posto dei tonni e inconsapevoli sono pronti a partecipare all’ultimo loro momento di vita, aspettando appunto di essere massacrati da altri uomini. Trasposizione dell’uomo dal cacciatore alla preda, da carnefice a vittima, inversione che crea straniamento e trauma violento. Tutti questi elementi conducono il possibile spettatore verso una sorta di visionaria allucinazione, dove il ruolo di Presicce non è più quello del protagonista delle sue stesse performance ma è quello dell’esperto direttore attento alla costruzione di una nuova apparizione. Questa performance trae inoltre spunto da un breve aforisma di Carmelo Bene in cui l’attore afferma che il pubblico dovrebbe pagare con la stessa vita il costo del suo spettacolo.
The project donated by Luigi Presicce (Porto Cesareo, 1976) consists in an unrealized performance. The action, with an utopian and theatrical nature, is inspired by the annual event in which the tuna migrate to the island of Favignana, in the south of Italy, to reproduce themselves, and according to the artist to make a journey of love. On this occasion the fish goes through a maze made up of fishing nets to end up inexorably in the death chamber, where they are harpooned and killed. The action has been designed by the artist as a game of reversing roles, in which the men take the place of the tuna and unaware they are ready to participate to the last moment of their life, just waiting to be slaughtered by other men. It is a transposition of the man from hunter to prey, from victim to victimizer, an inversion that creates alienation and a violent trauma. All these elements lead the viewer to a possible kind of visionary hallucination, where the role of Presicce is no longer that of the protagonist of his own performance but of an expert Director of expert careful towards the construction of a new appearance. This performance also draws inspiration from a short aphorism by Carmelo Bene in which the actor claims that the public should pay the cost of the show with his own life.
Description: The work donated to MoRE is a drawing that represents the final phase of the performance. The line drawing is stylized and the Chamber of death is represented according to a central perspective as if it were a long corridor with balconies, from where the perpetrators overlook the massacre.
The work donated to MoRE is a drawing that represents the final phase of the performance. The line drawing is stylized and the Chamber of death is represented according to a central perspective as if it were a long corridor with balconies, from where the perpetrators overlook the massacre.
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