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AN ANGEL IN THE SWAMP

Tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini death 42d anniversary How to resist to the process of degradation implemented by the extravagances of politics and the brutal disturbances of financial speculation? As citizens of the present, we are the heirs of this machine of production that has become total and omnipresent; not just capitalism but world-spread and excessive capitalism that has transformed every single domain of life into markets. Unlimited accumulation and its corollary, the missing/search of pleasure have become the panacea. Here, in Australia, as one of the western modern societies where pleasure is simultaneously an obligation and a subject of anxiety, doesn’t capitalism feed itself on this consumerist motivation par excellence? One which is constituted by the quest for satisfactions endlessly renewed since they are always unfulfilled. The body, like the rest - such as the landscape - coveted object of greed, has been degraded, turned into merchandise and stretched beyond any recognisable limits. Overused and abused as it is, the body is nonetheless the conveyor of this morbid duet consumption/deception. This show is a way of counter-documenting the manufactured – however consented to – contemporary perversion of an anatomy, while keeping in mind that the body, in its most bare form, has always been the vector of undomesticated innocence, insubordination and natural beauty. Just the way Pasolini symbolically placed it at the core of his polemical cinematography.