wednesday 22 april > 9 pm > Ex Ospedale dei Bastardini (sala bianca)
concept, direction, set design and video Claudia Triozzi
Claudia Triozzi (F/I)
Boomerang ou "le retour à soi"
performance, italian première
Boomerang is an investigation on the meeting with the other. Triozzi asks questions in a series of interviews which she incorporates in the performance. What is she showing by the on-stage screening of an archeologist attempting to describe an erotic scene or an Italian actress from the 1950’s confiding that, out of love, "I’ve said lots of ‘no’s”? What is this story that is being transmitted? Is it the story which these individuals put into words or that which is left unsaid? Is the artist telling us something about the birth of language and sexuality? Or is it about performance, particularly in the case of someone who declares, at the start of this new piece, that she “gives up her body to art”, in the way that others might donate their bodies to science? For the last thirty years, she has made it her goal to bring out the artifice of these theatrical conventions. Claudia Triozzi sings Caprice, "A dupe scene, that I dreamt about for far too long, agonizingly so". The driving force, as the title suggests, is a return to oneself. “Autobiography mixes up gender, voices, births and ages. The question reveals its different levels of meaning and opens up possibilities. It is all about still being able to perform ‘there’, where we pose the limits of what we are, and where the response cannot possibly be an affirmation. A stage opens itself up to you, unexpectedly.”

