Petrolio2
Before
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s unfinished novel Petrolio was first published in the fall of 1992, 17 years after his tragic death. November 1994, Cristina Caprioli presented Petrolio – accumulation of matter, a choreography that, departing from Petrolio, confided the political power of poetry. Twenty years later, November 2014 she presented Petrolio2, once again a work confirming Pier Paolo Pasolini’s faith in language, poetry, austerity, intellectual effort, visual wallowing, power politics, violence, eroticism. This time through a reading of his last film, Salò, or the 120 days of Sodom. Petrolio2 became a poetic barricade performed inside an empty pool, by a flock creatoids and a poet in collective crawling speaking listening reenacting texts by Johan Jönson, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Marquis de Sade.
Now
Petrolio2 returns to PPP and the empty pool, now with guests whose poetics sustain current political activism. Petrolio2 runs for several days and by several events. Between events, audiences are engaged in different interactions. Amongst others will they climb down into the pool to partake in a collective crawling listening reading cutting of selected texts (word-quake). Later, they will crowd into a parked car to perform a collective reading of selected texts (car-reading).
When no performances are on, the space turns into the installation POOLLOOP. A film is projected onto the bottom of an empty pool. The film is watching two women as they with unrestrained body-crawling map the enclosed territory of the pool. The same two women sit on the edge of the pool and watch themselves crawling onto the bottom of the pool. Audiences peak over the edge of the pool and watch them watching themselves. Or walk around the room and their minds. Sometimes they slide down the pool and join their own bodies to the cinematic female-crawling. The room is silent and inclusively beautiful. A quiet place for restful contemplation. A homage to Pipilotti Rist. och till David Hockney’s Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) from 2014.
