The Project
Watermill Center, New York, March 2016.
"La Masca" project was presented to the public on March 25.
The project included three simultaneous events, conceptually and visually linked in a kind of circular narration: the US premiere of my experimental film "Ophelia did not drown", the installation of sculptures “La Masca” inspired by the masks used in the film and produced during the art residency at the Watermill Center, and “Ice”, a six-hours living installation.
“Ice”, the six-hours living installation
deeply participatory, aims to involve the audience and interact with three different physical manifestations of the very concept of “mask”: the mask becomes an umbilical cord of wool, a delicious cake that the audience is invited to taste in a sort of cannibalistic ritual, and a heavy ice ballast that I must hold, inviting the public to help dissolve it with their breath, the warmth of their hands or even using an hair dryer that standson stage.
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