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L’ AMORE  CON TE     NELLE MIE PIANURE
/LOVE  WITH YOU     NEVER ENTERING

 

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Senza Bisogno di un Regno disposes itself as a sculptural, gestural, semantic and emotive locale, continuously appearing in equilibrium between being modeled, eroded, transforming.


 

Interpreting neutrality as the drawing of exogenous (appearing) content within a de-localized space and the ensuing process through which the acquir-ed/ing, potentially charged porosities of space and content alike can generate emergence, the project's installation and consequent activation revolve around and through hosting, transforming, deforming this emergence.

This emergence is the word, or better "the restitution of the word to its nature as [...] announcement" (Agamben, 2020). In presence of the Kingdom, to keep hearing the word springing forth is to offer a fantasy, a break from its very presence.

The need for no Kingdom begins within a local space: a disused wheat storage in the rural region surrounding Verona, Italy. Between June 20th and July 20th, 2022, this space is de-localized in and through a practice of hosting, of holding, of change. In a phoenixian drama, the space is at once sacrificed and growing as a space of building, marking, hosting, letting. It is basically transformed (or eroded, or balanced) as a place of birth.

Between June 20th and July 20th, otherness, what entered but lived beyond the space, for a wider, eventually unconceivable environment, is witnessed, acknowledged, recorded, offered the space of a frame — the three-channel video work Meanwhile, necessarily enclosed, but vertically infinite, opaque.

Between June 20th and July 20th, 2022, words, readings are collected, processed as realities appearing as printed words in a generic alphabet, dark on clear, pre-assembled and re-assembled by the varying intelligence of the reader as writer, of the writer as reader. Realities addressing contemporary warfare infrastructure, mental health, emotional intimacy, nihilism, immanence, the miraculous, identity. Conceived elsewhere, these realities are about to be drawn into and within home.

In the collision between reading and space, or perhaps in the collision of reading in space, something that was else is made belonging. On the event (July 20th, the installation’s activation), content appears, the readings are brought in, unreasonably, purposefully, resonate in the space, where more marking, more building, takes place. The space’s coordinates are upset and revolutionized in being shared in and with this content, through and as a practice of instancing objects composing and composed by gestural, elemental, dynamical figures, offering themselves as contamin-ating/able fields.



 

From space, a place is created as a result of this inhabiting. “Each time and always, the world rises from a specific, local-instantaneous fold” (Nancy, 1996). A place lived and architectured in space+time by the (sculptural-gestural) situations that arise in/as the collisions pacing the installation's activation on July 20th, presented from a unique, narrativizing perspective — a camera's — functioning as an eye, paired on a recording screen with what of other we had witnessed. [Full recording of the event and a full bibliography of the texts read still to be released]

 

Directly influenced by Giorgio Agamben's text Lessons in the Dark (published in the collection Quando la Casa Brucia, Giometti&Antonello, 2020), Senza Bisogno di un Regno and Agamben's text could be read and experienced as provocations at each other.

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