The project is based on readings and deconstructions of Le sacre du printemps by Igor Stravinsky, which will be used as a lens to analyze those communitarian practices in the Mediterranean that employs leisure as form of aggregation, espe-
cially focusing on pagan feasts related to the celebration of seasons and to natural or socio-economical events that mark their transition. In this process I’m interested in looking at those choreographic languages and spaces deployed by in-dividual and collective bodies in the frame of these ritualistic celebrations. In a previos performative project I work with dancers isolating and working on movement patterns and kinesthetic habits as they are documented in ethnographic museums, home made video footage and in the living bodily
memory of people. For Mediterranea 19 - School of Waters, I elaborate one of
the installations of this body of performative works, taking my home city (Oristano, in the west coast of Sardinia) an its Carnival celebrations as a starting point for the formalization of the research. As a territory that has been frequently occupied and colonized throughout history (Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Roman, Berbers, Spanish and French cultures), Oristano gave birth to a very dense and stratified corpus of feasts and celebrations. This ensemble of aesthetic experiences, explain how layer by layer the different cultures influenced each other (from a symbolic, metaphorical and aesthetic point of view) to create something like an “aesthetic of the partnership” modeled by the convergence of ideological elements, certainly not very compatible. The rereading of the “authentic”; representations of a national cultural heritage, in the form of a three-dimensional collage, aims to make a perspective of nationalistic purity unstable.

Per mezzo di stelle

Sweet fritters ballad

photography / editing by Rui Wu
color by Giulia Spreafico
sound curated by Paolo Romano
graphics by Francesco Dipierro
screenplay by GianMarco Porru and Raluca Andreea Hartea
Arianna Orlando in Medea
Giulia Spreafico Medea's hands
voice over Raluca Andreea Hartea
hair and make-up Stefania Mercuri

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GianMarco Porru