Costantino Ciervo - DESTROY LINEAR TIME - (Performance)

Costantino Ciervo
DESTROY LINEAR TIME
Opening with performance,
November 5, 2011
at
dispari&dispari project
Reggio Emilia/Italy
www.dispariedispari.org
www.ciervo.org
Performer: Costantino Ciervo
Vocal artist (soprano): Manuela Sacca
Camera: Andrea and Gianni Sassi
Performance duration: approx. 15 min.
Editor: Costantino Ciervo
Performance:
A wall is covered with 220 plates bearing the names of over hundred global activists who, through their own personal courage, have been fighting for social transformation and practical solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the world today. Some of them are laureates of the Right Livelihood Award - also referred to as the "Alternative Nobel Prize". The wall is also covered with the names of the branches and headquarters of over hundred companies from the world's largest public and private businesses (with combined annual revenues exceeding 40 billion U.S. dollars). The vocal artist starts singing the name of one of the companies, the audience repeat the name and then the performer starts to destroy one or more panels on the wall with an electrical polishing machine, causing an earsplitting sound. After 15 minutes all names are declaimed and the remaining panels on the wall form the letters "T I M E". Only the names of the alternative activists have survived...

Special thanks to Manuela Sacca and the audience.

Made possible through the support of: Andrea Sassi, Gianni and Rosanna Sassi, Alessandra Scaglioni, Andrea Fornaciari, Daniele Neve, Dario Lasagni, Anita Tscherne, Manuela Lintl

Copyright: Costantino Ciervo, 2011

Category:

Education

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• Costanton Ciervo
• dispari&dispari
• performance