#Signs
SIGNS like flashes of light in the night signalled by a boat on the high seas, not for us to be saved but as an affirmation of life that goes beyond. Remaining as an unfolded sail at the mercy of wind that leads and misleads us. An opportunity to stop and give back new senses to our words, with small stones, fused and laid on the ground to find our way back home.Walking without a compass, accepting the risk of getting lost but with a North marked inside our eyes. An open journey that starts with one step, followed by another, perhaps, and then another, perhaps. The driving force of an urgency that is a necessity at this other time, immobile, constrained, carrying something that we still do not see.
Piano: Luigi Polimeni,
Percussions: Giacomo Farina
Voice: Salvatore Arena
Translations: Elizabeth Grech
#SIGNS / Johnny’s Family / Traditions
It’s a mafia family, vulgar and corrupted, mediocre and violent, faced with the most violent mutilations, and yet, full of unconscious philosophical observations.
Everything is based on a system of negative value, the criminal mafia counter-ethics. Here, they are however brought to excess so as to unintentionally and fully reveal its paradoxical nature that is intrinsically and bitterly comic.
It’s a mafia family, vulgar and corrupted, mediocre and violent, faced with the most violent mutilations, and yet, full of unconscious philosophical observations.
Everything is based on a system of negative value, the criminal mafia counter-ethics. Here, they are however brought to excess so as to unintentionally and fully reveal its paradoxical nature that is intrinsically and bitterly comic.
Music: Luigi Polimeni, Reading: Elizabeth Grech, Massimo Barilla and Salvatore Arena.
Translations: Massimo Barilla, Virginia Monteforte, Elizabeth Grech and Roger West.
“Questo nostro andare fermo” (Moving in stillness) is a postcard of the soul. It is a moving snapshot of the present moment that we are experiencing – caught between constraint and the need to move, between the search for meaning and the inconsistency of time. A poetic act for voice, body and images, a little original production of #videopoetry for SIGNS n°3.
Text: Massimo Barilla
Voice: Salvatore Arena
Movement dramaturgy: Mariano Nieddu
Video editing: Rosario di Benedetto
Translations: Elizabeth Grech