concept Cristina Kristal Rizzo with Paolo Bufalini, Edoardo Ciaralli, Giuseppe Vincent Giampino, Laura Pante production Xing/Live Arts Week X



Now and then a slight, unaccountable tremor ran through her body, as the leaves of a tree are shaken for a few moments by a sudden breath of wind. She would touch her hair, then, not having arranged it to her liking, would raise her hand to it again with motions so consecutive, so deliberate, that I was convinced that she was about to wake. Not at all, she grew calm again in the sleep from which she had not emerged.
(Proust, 1927)

A mobile surface on which it is possible to slip and lose depth. Like a resource for detaching from the body. There is no concrete, tangible, objective plan, no time of the image. It is architecture without purpose. It is like falling into a stop. Which means that you are taking a break. Let's stop our right to move freely.
(Cristina Kristal Rizzo, 2021)

And now who will be able to gather the gods for you / so that you find the life you seek? / Come on, try not to sleep for seven days and seven nights. / ... But as soon as he sat on the ground with his head / between his knees / Sleep fell upon him like a veil of mist.
(The Epic of Gilgamesh, I/II mill BC)