Conceived for these New York dates, FEMINEA – WHITE FRAME is a performative project, a multimedia study that relates a live performance with pre-existing video (produced by Teatro Deluxe in 2009) named FEMINEA – FIRST ANIMATION. The need for this work comes from the intention to follow the reasoning that the first phase of the FEMINEA project (the video itself and photographic series that gave origin to it) had stimulated, even beyond the authorial intentions: on the screen a study on relations between different media (video-photo-body) becomes - also because of the ambiguity of the protagonist - invitation to ponder the identity of contemporary body. It appeared inevitable to continue the work in this direction, starting from the first element that identifies a human being beyond his appearance: the gesture.

The first frame, then, is white. It’s tabula rasa like the mind of a newborn, a new life that has nothing but instinct, which is essential to the body to overcome its limitations. The beginning of life is characterized by unconscious gesture; his staging can bring the viewer to that part of his own life that he can’t remember and that it is therefore characterized as collective non-memory, although the body of each of us retaining memory, more or less alive traces. Precisely for this reason it was decided to query the body of a newborn, trying to re-locate the sense and the route to reach the self-consciousness. A search, therefore, and an attempt to motion analysis on the way in which the living being becomes conscious of existing.

FROM ROME, ITALY

AN IDEA BY

Claudio Oliva & Vera Michela Suprani

FEATURING

Vera Michela Suprani

MUSICIAN

Alessandro Oliva

DIRECTED BY

Claudio Oliva

LENGTH

40 minutes

A Teatro Deluxe production 2010

JULY 8, 9, 10      8 PM    

Wine Reception follows each performance

FEMINEA - WHITE FRAME

White like milk, like mind of a newborn