What is the time of research and experimentation for you?
The time of research and experimentation is the time of existence. Attrition, the gap, the contemplation that concreteness imposes on the form of the question. Implementing (the There in bring there) makes the question a field of experience, it suspends the name, it makes it possible to embody the question, to the way of in-sisting and of ex-isting, of frequenting it, of staying there and or returning, in the beat of Time.
In what ways is your practice influenced by the space of an artistic residency?
My practice is the assumption of what can be senses, a search for a perceptive opening, an extension and an intensification of interrupted dialogue with the present. Space is the matter and sense of this dialogue, it is the situation and the situated, it situates and solicits the recognition of the individual in the multiple flow of the instant. It manifests the dimension of simultaneity, of simultaneous presence. It is the absolute inspirer in the face of which I am always the background.
How do care and artistic research interact?
I envisage curating as the permeable organ of a gestation, capable of the movement required to identify and guard specificity and plurality.
Curating is a leap in scale, an artistic action capable of changing focus and in the longer term of one’s own gesture it composes temporary exercises in reality, casting existence, vision, dynamic beyond one’s gaze and restoring them to the present
Each one us, society, has an extreme need of this declinable generative attitude.
Habillé d’eau
Independent, performative research project founded in 2002 by Silvia Rampelli. A Philosophy graduate, Silvia Rampelli also works within theoretical, educational, and social contexts that can include vulnerable groups. Habillé d'eau explores the nature of the performative act, the stage as a perceptual device, and all that can be experienced of the human presence. Its members are the independent artists Alessandra Cristiani, Eleonora Chiocchini, Valerio Sirna, Gianni Staropoli. Habillé d'eau was produced by the Venice Biennale and presented its works in major festivals in Italy and abroad. It has been the focus of a number of critical essays. Among the many awards, Habillé d'eau received the 2018 Ubu Prize for Best Dance Performance.