Angela Viora

POST SCRIPTUM, live performance (2010-2011)

Designed and performed by Angela Viora

Duration: variable (30 mins – 3 hours)

Itinerant (IT, TK, AUS)

P.S. is a site-specific performance with an open end initially designed for a prison cell. What would it feel like to live in detention? I’d miss the body of those who I love: hugging, kissing, sex. The white walls of the cell become pages on which I write imaginary letters through my body, signing them with my lips. Stubborn love, waiting for those kisses to be reciprocated.

The bride dress wore during the performance refers to Laodamia, the Ovidian heroin whose husband Protesilaus left her on their wedding day to join the Troy war, and never returned. Laodamia incessantly kissed a statue of him, waiting for her love to come back, being forever a bride and never a wife. [The Heroides (The Heroines), or Epistulae Heroidum (Letters of Heroines) by Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid, 43 BC-18 AD)].

This performance is itinerant and, over time, it has become a way for me to explore places and measure space. This is now a work about openness, discovery, and welcoming, from me towards places and back.

Live performance:

Ars Captiva Festival, Ex Carceri Le Nuove prison. Turin (IT), 2010. Live performance in a prison cell.

12th Istanbul Biennial. Marmara University. TK, 2011.
Italia 150, OGR Museum. Turin (IT), 2011.

Video screening:

Men Per Ex Lati, Brunswick Street Gallery. Melbourne (AUS) 2015.

Human Rights #Migrantes – UNESCO. Rovereto (IT) 2014.