Kathèuda is a performance of contemporary art to the public of passersby, which will take place Wednesday, May 26, 2010 in Milan, from 17.00 to 19.00 in Piazza Castello, Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, Piazza Fontana Piazza Sant'Eustorgio.
There are four female figures sleeping (lying down, real estate), each of which will be present in one of the four points raised in the city. The four figures represent significant moments in the life of the woman, menarche, marriage, pregnancy and bereavement.
Evolution of each individual human being is closely linked to the preparation and the elimination of steps required by the company to which he belongs. Each route is divided into goals: to achieve and Porsena other is an integral part of life for all of us, that this happens more or less consciously. And this is a phenomenon across all cultures, whether they are traditional, and still firmly tied to the sacred, or modern Western technology.
All this assumes that before reaching a goal and reached it feels after two different people. Change our social status and the perception we have of ourselves, but also that of others against us. From one moment to another we are changed, put on a new role and will have new responsibilities and new expectations. In a
Kathèuda (four photographs and performance) would like to focus on what provides the transition from one stage to another existential, or rites of passage as a universal phenomenon and necessary for all the world's cultures.
We chose to represent female figures for obvious harmony and because the woman is faced with fascinating phenomena in the course of his life, first of all pregnant women.
The rite of passage, whether it be the wedding ceremony between Khond South Indian or a Western degree, imply a gradual investment of energy to achieve this goal, which culminates at the end of the process, in a ceremony, a public recognition that guarantees the passage of state. Going to microscopically investigate the rituals that they are rigidly structured or that they are about, we can concentrate on its climax, being able to identify a hypothetical moment of the ceremony in which the subject moves from one stage to another as if suspended between a zone el 'another, without anything. In that specific fraction of time we would like to imagine the female figure interpret that "nothing" by distancing itself from sleep, and that only death can afford. In a climax, in which being themselves is the focus of of all, the figures will alienate dormant, making eternal moment in which "not" is an unexpected condition, such as evading the indispensable capital required for each individual. This opens a reflection on the essence of our being, our being apart from company to which we belong, then we could call a kind of "not being" so estranged from their cultural and social roots would be to erase our identity, reaching a depth inner and hidden primordial.
The figures chosen are four steps in the life of the woman: her first menstrual period (menarche), marriage, childbirth, mourning. Each of these figures is due to the seasons, as it is possible to "reconnect the ceremonies of the steps in the ceremonies of cosmic human passage (Arnold Van Gennep, The rites of passage. 1981, Basic Books Bollati, Torino, p.. 6). Each of the figures is closely related to the architectural environment in which it appears, choosing the city as Milan. The color of the dress they wear has a precise meaning. Menarche, dressed in red, in Piazza Castello, the rebirth of nature and sexual maturity is the background of the Castello Sforzesco, which attracts a fabulous size, still tied to childhood. Marriage, in a white dress, the woman who reaches full sexual and emotional maturity, in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, in the middle of the intersection of the two arms of the structure, as the encounter with the woman's love, a covered and protected from the elements, as well as the conjugal union is source of protection and support.
Pregnancy, green dress, in Piazza Fontana, water as a source of life. The figure compares with the mourning, black dress, nature falls asleep. The site chosen is the square Sant'Eustorgio background with the Basilica dedicated to the holy, sacred place of meditation and reflection, neglect and comfort in faith, closing the cycle of existence.
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