Dissonanze [2015]
performance
Concept & performance: Federica Dauri
Prop: Moran Sanderovich
Sound Composition: LVM
The work draws on Hokusai’s erotic woodblock The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife, where the encounter between a woman and an octopus entangles sexuality with animality, pleasure with transgression. Dissonanze does not attempt to reproduce the image, but takes its erotic ambiguity as a point of departure: the attraction towards a body that is simultaneously intimate, foreign, seductive, and potentially threatening. The sculptural prosthesis adheres to the body while altering its form, generating a hybrid anatomy in which distinctions between human and animal, body and object, attraction and repulsion become unstable. Metamorphosis emerges through this tension, not as the arrival at another form, but as a condition of the body itself: a body that remains suspended between identities, exposed to the possibility of becoming other.
Photo credit: Alwin PoianaPhoto credit: Alwin Poiana
Photo credit: Yauhen Yerchak
Photo credit: Yauhen Yerchak