Dates
| 4 March 2023 | Poggiorsini, Italy |
| 7 March 2023 | La Mefite di Rocca san Felice, Italy |
Stillicidum: die Tränen des Steines (The Tears of the Stone) reveals how landscapes inscribe themselves onto the senses—through pressure, vibration, and the body’s negotiation with forces that predate and outlast it.
In the limestone amphitheater of Poggiorsini’s quarry, participants became “weather vanes”, conduits for the stone’s ancient animacy—its latent capacity to act and be acted upon. Following the choreographic score by HYENAZ, participants held and adapted their bodies to channel the energies they encountered, forging a taut circuit between sound and affect.
On the banks of the toxic sulfur lake La Mefite di Rocca San Felice, the workshop unfolded as a procession. Led by ritualists through a liminal landscape whose noxious gases are fatal to those who linger too long (yet do not allow bodies to decompose), participants traversed the border between living and non-living. Amid vapors bubbling from the earth, those present attuned to the tense symbiosis of life and death within their own organisms and psychologies.
Credits
| Concept | HYENAZ |
| Production | Donato Laborante, Ferula Ferita |
| Documentation (Poggiorsini) | Vittoria Elena Simone |
