[Texto disponible solo en inglés] Participating: Pierangelo Di Vittorio, Giuseppe Palumbo, Enrico Mastropierro, Giovanni D’Aloia
The superhero is a kind of Messiah. He comes to save us. He can defend us against the criminals or protect us from accidents and natural disasters. He could be a hyperbolical representation of the police and the world order, but also, and simultaneously, an allegory of the welfare state, that guarantees a certain amount of security against the accidents of life. The superhero could present himself in the form of a Dux or a Führer, but he could also be the new man announced by the proletarian revolutions.
Today we are no more keen to confide our salvation to a superior power. As from the Sixties, the superheroes had progressively lowered themselves to take part in the everyday life problems. They have become the icons of a “normality”, considered as a unique source of significance and worth. After 11th September, a further awareness has arisen: that the only possible heroes are the average people, sometimes almost the victims.
The great superheroes have died and that is okay. By dying however, they have given birth to the crowd of small super-normals. A terrible species of mutants has invaded sports, fiction, reality shows, everyday life. Exceptional only to the level necessary to render brighter the normality, by levitating it from within. The performance of the super-normals: that is our everyday doping.
This reality is accompanied by a substantial economy of the “monstrous”. The analysis of phenomena such as hooliganism and bullying shows that the normalizing processes base themselves on rendering banal the racist outbreaks. One should dig deep into hell in order to encounter the normality, intended as something elevated, superior, subliminal.
But in the Earth’s womb, resistance is preparing. “I am not only made of rubbish, that is why I will challenge you with my rubbish!”. The erudition of mole women and men shakes the normality and gives space to radical politics.
The superhero is a kind of Messiah. He comes to save us. He can defend us against the criminals or protect us from accidents and natural disasters. He could be a hyperbolical representation of the police and the world order, but also, and simultaneously, an allegory of the welfare state, that guarantees a certain amount of security against the accidents of life. The superhero could present himself in the form of a Dux or a Führer, but he could also be the new man announced by the proletarian revolutions.
Today we are no more keen to confide our salvation to a superior power. As from the Sixties, the superheroes had progressively lowered themselves to take part in the everyday life problems. They have become the icons of a “normality”, considered as a unique source of significance and worth. After 11th September, a further awareness has arisen: that the only possible heroes are the average people, sometimes almost the victims.
The great superheroes have died and that is okay. By dying however, they have given birth to the crowd of small super-normals. A terrible species of mutants has invaded sports, fiction, reality shows, everyday life. Exceptional only to the level necessary to render brighter the normality, by levitating it from within. The performance of the super-normals: that is our everyday doping.
This reality is accompanied by a substantial economy of the “monstrous”. The analysis of phenomena such as hooliganism and bullying shows that the normalizing processes base themselves on rendering banal the racist outbreaks. One should dig deep into hell in order to encounter the normality, intended as something elevated, superior, subliminal.
But in the Earth’s womb, resistance is preparing. “I am not only made of rubbish, that is why I will challenge you with my rubbish!”. The erudition of mole women and men shakes the normality and gives space to radical politics.
Duración (minutos)
58
Qué se necesita
L'invasione dei Supernormali..
- AV Performance
- Live Cinema (Narrative)
- Experimental Electronics
Autores
Action30
Italy Roma, Matera
Eventos
LPM 2008 - Live Performers Meeting
lunes, 02 junio 2008
lunes, 02 junio 2008
