performanceMuna MussieCurva Cieca
Academy of Fine Arts of L’Aquila, theatre
free admission subject to availability
A meta didactic device that uses the didactic form to establish an intimate landscape
Subjects are always situated in the world and in their body.
I am a Subject for myself and an Object for others.
If I close my eyes and try to define my image, what do I see?
A blind mirror, a lack.
No one is master of their own image because it implies a co-relation.
What is immediate – my body, my image – is distant from me.
Curva Cieca investigates this lack. The focus of the performance is the discovery of Muna Mussie’s mother tongue, in the form of a dialogue with Filmon Yemane, an Eritrean boy, blind since the age of twelve. Words, signs and fluctuations of meaning are composed around Filmon’s voice, a sound track to Tigrinya language lessons, with the aid of images from an old spelling book.
Curva Cieca is a meta didactic device that uses the didactic form to establish an intimate landscape, in which biographical narration leads to philosophical reflections.
