The Wall Newspaper, created for “Journeys through the Lands of Remorse” and staged in the village of Corigliano d’Otranto, begins with a reflection on a ‘tradition’ now watered down by the allure of spectacle – a showcase that takes no account of the PAIN, of that which lies at the heart of the TARANTATO RITE-MYTH. An unresolved pain, which persists and changes, draining all energy from life. The SPIDER is no longer the symbol of loss; it has been transformed. The desire for LOVE finds other ways to express itself; WORDS are still lacking, and the SENSITIVES no longer dance; trapped in the lair of SILENCE, they wait. There is no longer a crowd waiting for the SAINT to resolve matters; few are watching, and very few know how to weave a ritual that brings resolution; even the music has changed. There is no need, then, for NOSTALGIA for what is no longer; what is needed is to be open to LISTENING – to PEOPLE and to the WORLD.
The Wall Newspaper was produced in collaboration with the Expressive Arts workshops at the Centre for Eating Disorders – ASL Le.
A world made up of pastings, tears, scissors for cut-up techniques and ‘hiccups’ of words. From around the early 1980s, this became the world of MOTUS. The images capture the possible suspensions, the suggestions, the whispers of a verbal-visual poem that takes shape, becoming a communicating sheet, a voice, a ‘page’ in search of itself and in search of a gaze, of sharing, in a suffocating and stifled world that has forgotten creativity.
