Cinque Separazioni: Five Partings is a site-responsive performance and site-specific installation that took place on two stages, and at various intervals of time, during the residency and exhibit, Living in the Play: nido III, August 2024.
Living in the Play: nido III Exhibition
silk remnants, needle, and thread, 14:45 minute loop, dimensions variable
Informed by my research visits to Piero della Francesca’s Madonna del Parto in Monterchi, and his Polyptych of the Misericordia in Sansepolcro, I enacted a curtain dance to translate the partings of the Virgin Mary’s dress depicted in these works. My dance was performed in five intervals while wearing This Dress—a translucent dress made of silk fragments. Installed between a theater at the north end of the ACLI building of the International Center for the Arts, and the projection windows at the south, I sought to fold the audience between two sets of curtains, 16 meters apart, in homage to Monte Castello di Vibio’s fabric of community.
This installation was activated with a live performance, Filomena II.
