Story of the octopus wiyh a heartshaped head .... is a reading a video , food , music happening ,ephemeral ice sculpture ;
“Once upon a time there was a Heart beating. He was inside a small living human being,
For nine months, he had been inside a human being in which He had been lulled by the liquid movement of the dark water and nourished by the placenta(….) When they were born they stopped being lulled (….)
The beating Heart,that is a pump, ,that is a plunge, that is an unceasing jump,(….)couldn’t survive. (….)In a fullmoon night of february He plunged himself into the only true water: the seeThe Heart, in quest of an identity and in order to survive, throws itself into the sea, the water that is the most similar to the liquid of the placenta. There He couples himself with an octopus by substituting what we would call the “head” but that in reality is the stomach. (….).”(excerpt from the reading)
Alessandra Cianelli © 2007 -2009 video http://vimeo.com/19739549 performance http://vimeo.com/8967190
