concept and direction

Barbara Stimoli and Titta C. Raccagni

performers

Barbara Stimoli, Camilla Isola

live sound

Antonio Della Marina

light design 

Titta C. Raccagni and Enrico Peco

production

Nexus 2022

coproduction

Teatro delle Moire / Danae Festival

supported by the residencies of

theworkroom (Fattoria Vittadini/Fondazione Milano), Stazione di Topolò/Postaja Topolove, BASE Milano

in collaboration with Dialoghi Residenze delle arti performative a Villa Manin a cura del CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia 2021/22

duration

55’ and variable duration for the performance installation version

“Together with Haraway, we might ask: whom and what do we touch when we touch electrons? (…) In a breathtakingly intimate sense, touching, sensing, is what matter does, or rather, what matter is: matter is condensations of response-ability. Touching is a matter of response. Each of “us” is constituted in response-ability. Each of “us” is constituted as responsible for the other, as being in touch with the other.”
(Karen Barad)

[IT]

Coming to matter é uno spazio di incontro e intra-azione della materia, tra corpi umani e pietre. Entrare in relazione con le pietre è un atto di cura: non sposto ma sono spostatə, non scelgo ma sono sceltə, non mi muovo ma sono mossə, in una continua riconfigurazione del gesto. La percezione del tempo cronologico muta e si dilata: si genera uno stato meditativo, una quiete dinamica. L’umano gradualmente si sottrae, in un processo di decentramento.

[EN]

Coming to matter is one of the evolutions of Pleasure Rocks research.
Coming to matter focuses on the encounter and the intra-action of matter, between human bodies and stones. Interacting with stones is an act of care: I don’t shift but get shifted, I don’t choose but get chosen, I don’t move but get moved, in a continuous reconfiguration of gestures. The perception of chronological time changes and dilates: a meditative condition sets in, a dynamic quietness. The human gradually draws back, in a process of de-centring.