CALIBAN CANNIBAL
performance
2011-2068 Animale politico-project
Caliban Cannibal. Santarcangelo Festival. 2014
Mohamed-Ali Ltaief and Silvia Calderoni. Motus
After the tempest, a journey and a temporary landing, a lightweight emergency tent is quickly installed in the empty zones of public and private spaces: from squares, to parks, to malls, all the way to the theaters. A suspended and transitory non-place inhabited by two improbable characters: A+C: They are together by chance and for necessity, landed in this shelter after tormented events of actual and existential wrecks, great gestures and frustrated claims. They try to have a dialogue without speaking the same language, they try to tell their stories, mixing Italian, French, Arabic, a massacred English. They try to support each other without having the strength to actually do it all the way to the end. “A” could be Ariel after the tempest, aphasic and narcoleptic, in full confrontation with a freedom sought after in slogans, but fundamentally feared. Fragile like the chrysanthemum, “the flower of the dead”, that she has brought with her. “C” could be Caliban after the island's explosion, after the attack on Prospero. After the fireworks / after the Tunisian revolution. Silvia and Dalì have thrown themselves into the camera’s “occhio belva”, actually inhabiting the space, to truly get to know one another, to try breaking the limits and “transforming carbon dioxide into oxygen”..Violent Flowers. They wear on their bodies pieces of crossed worlds, remains of desires, now piled up in a corner of their refuge. A shelter, a shack? An elsewhere without solid foundations. With the risk of being destroyed by the first tempest… But in any case, what’s the problem? We move without actually inhabiting, we inhabit without questioning the stability. To be a fracture of time and space.
