Collective Performance: Come Home, HOME IV

2017 Performance
Wide view of a collective performance in a large interior with a patterned terrazzo floor, tall paneled walls, broad doorways and a chandelier overhead. Several people occupy the open centre at different heights and orientations: two face one another with raised arms, another stands nearby, and one person is low on the floor. A dense line of spectators surrounds the action along the walls.
Close view of three people pressed closely together. The person in the centre turns their face toward the person at left, whose raised hand touches the side of their face near the cheek and temple. A third person stands with their back against the centre person’s shoulder, their tattooed upper arm extending outward. The three bodies overlap tightly within the frame.
Extreme close view of one person with their eyes closed while another person’s hand touches their face. A thumb rests beside the nose while fingers extend across the mouth and cheek. Another person’s head and tattooed upper back fill the foreground at right.
Wide view of several people occupying the centre of the room while spectators watch from the perimeter. Two people hold long, thin rods that cross diagonally near the floor, positioning them at different angles as other participants stand nearby. A small bundle or object lies on the terrazzo floor close to the crossing rods.
Wide view across the performance space toward a person seated on the floor with one knee raised, looking upward as another person bends over them and reaches a hand toward the top of their head. A bare-backed person sits in the foreground, while other people stand around the open space and spectators line the walls.
Low view of two people on the floor. One lies face-down with their body extended horizontally, while another crouches above and around their upper back and shoulders, knees bent and feet planted on either side. Spectators stand and sit in a semicircle behind the two bodies.
Close low-angle view of a person supported on both hands and one knee on the terrazzo floor. Their palms are spread flat against the ground, the other leg extends behind them, and their head is bowed with their gaze directed toward the floor. Standing spectators are blurred in the background.
Two people dressed in black face one another in the centre of the room with a small gap between their bodies. One bends slightly at the knees and extends an arm toward the other, while the second leans toward them with one hand raised close to their mouth. Spectators sit and stand around the perimeter beneath a chandelier.
Two people stand directly face-to-face beneath a large chandelier. One raises both hands close to their own face with fingers spread, while the other remains upright opposite them with arms lowered and gaze directed toward the raised hands and face. Seated and standing spectators line the paneled wall behind.
Close view of a person gripping black clothing with their teeth and pulling it outward from their mouth. One hand pulls another section of the fabric in the opposite direction, creating several taut folds between the mouth and hand. Another person’s body partially blocks the foreground.
Close view of two bare-shouldered people leaning toward one another. One bends forward with their back toward the camera, two rectangular black patches attached to the upper back. The other faces them at close range with eyes opened wide and both hands raised near their mouth and the other person’s face.
Extreme close view of two people facing one another at very close range. One leans downward with their eyes directed toward the other, while the second opens their mouth widely and raises a hand between their faces, one finger pointing upward beside the open mouth.
Close view of two people facing each other at very close range. One cups the other person’s face with both hands, fingers spread across the cheeks and temples. The second person holds their mouth open and looks directly toward them. Tattoos are visible across the arms and shoulders of the person holding the face.
Wide view of a large group forming an irregular, tightly packed cluster in the centre of the room. Several people kneel or sit close together at floor level while others stand around and between them, with bodies turned in different directions and some hands resting on or reaching toward other bodies. Spectators remain standing along the walls beyond the group.
Wide view of several people standing together beneath a chandelier with both arms raised overhead, hands open and fingers extended upward. Other people occupy the surrounding room at different distances, while tall paneled walls and a broad doorway frame the collective upward gesture.
Photography: Lorenza Cini

I am the crack. I open up, so the water can pass. These stones are parts of the scars of the crevasses of the ancestral territory. I am nothing. I am who I am. I am everything. I am not 'we'. I am not speaking out anybody else's truth. I am a body that is by nature radical, digging to the roots. I am an entry point, as my story is your story, and I am many. I am not just one body. Cracks have opened so water flows. Life is a minefield where we go beyond the simple action to honor the issue.

And what do we want to create from here? We are standing. We are never on solid ground. We continue. All we have to do is a simple act.

And all of the knowledge that is in the space is what we are together. No one shall be afraid of their truth.

Would you stand with me, and hold my hand?

Close view of two people embracing tightly. One person wraps both arms around the other’s upper back and shoulders, one hand spread across the back, while their face tilts upward with eyes closed. The other person’s face is hidden against the embrace and their arms encircle the first person’s torso.
Photography: Lorenza Cini
Presentations
Venice International Performance Art Week, Co-creation Live Factory, Prologue I, curated by Francesca Carol Rolla and VestAndPage, Palazzo Mora, Venice, IT, 2017
Credits
Collective Performance: Come Home, HOME IV, performance, 2 hours, 2017
By and with Sylvie Barbier, Stefan Biere, Madeleine Virginia Brown, James Thomas Bullimore, Bruno Camargo, Don Chow, Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu, Erin Devine, Samira Engel, Julha Franz, Marisa Garreffa, Ria Jade Hartley, Paola Kodra, Marie Künne, Gerhard Liska, Nancy Gewolb Mayanz, Ashley-Louise McNaughton, Yuan Mor'o Ocampo, Daniela Francesca Lillo Olivares, Eva Pyrnokoki, Daiane Rafaela, Enok Ripley, Jewel A Rob, Sara Simeoni, Marcel Sparmann, Alex Spyke, Alex Talamo and VestAndPage
Under the mentorship of Marcel Sparmann and VestAndPage
Acknowledgements: Performistanbul
Performance Collaboration Ritual Collective Memory
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