Tuesday 7th March 2023 This marks our final day in Italy, and we set off towards Ariano Irpino, a midway point en route to Naples from where we shall return to Berlin. Our first stop is Mefite, a sulphurous lake valley located near Rocca San Felice, Villamaina, and Torella dei Lombardi. Mefite is named for…

Monday 6th March 2023 Returning our attention to our surroundings, we perform a geographical, political, social and spiritual mapping of the Dimora Cagnazzi. This exercise is a cornerstone of our practice, one we have returned to again and again since we began our experiments in ritual with the Critical Magic performance and album. It is…

Sunday 5th March 2023 We wake up and make a sound expedition through the house, moving from room to room, taking the objects we found, and exploring the affordances they give. We take video and pictures as well, with the vague idea of making an integrated audiovisual work. Some powerful moments are discovering an unused…

Saturday 4th March 2023 Today we hold our ritual-performance-workshop “Stillicidum: Die Tränen des Steines” in the so-called “Cemetery of Stone Blocks”. Our general goals are to produce a composition of sound and movement where synchronicity emerges rather than being imposed, that we find a way to move and sound together. We ask all those gathered…

Friday 3rd March 2023 We follow Donato’s white van across the scrublands, weaving a path between Altamura and the nearby town of Gravina. Arriving at our destination, we park our cars at the edge of a massive crevice. Peering below the grassy edge, it’s difficult to see what lies beneath. Three women greet us: an…

Thursday 2nd March 2023 We have begun to start our days later and later, our slow mornings dragging into the early afternoon. So today Donato attempts to realign us and arrives at 8am, baked goods in hand, and beckons us out of the house and into our cars. We follow him to a roadhouse some…

Wednesday 1 March 2023 We spend the morning ploughing through outstanding administrative tasks, mainly related to grants we are applying for. We both harbour ambivalence towards becoming artists who rely on public funding, feeling uneasy about the state capture that threatens free expression, as well as the never-ending cycle of funding applications. And yet we…

Tuesday 28th February 2023 Donato rouses us once again with the scent of coffee and Cornetti. We feel loved. So much care is taken on our behalf, for our funny little vision of a world in which stones can sing if we only know how to hear them. He proposes that we make a performance…