The performance Dancing in the dark, 2009, where some dancers danced completely in darkness, is the starting point of this audio installation. Ten years ago the performance was actually an experiment to understand what would remain of the moving body by removing the possibility of seeing it. At the end of the performance some things remained in the memory: the thermal sensation of heat and wind, the smell, the sound, and some faint glare that the eyes believed to recognize. A second work followed in 2014, where the recordings of the sound of body movements of the dancer Enrico Labbate led to the Eco sound installation.
A new step came from the encounter with the project All! by the group of dancers and artists Kinkaleri. The group has indeed developed a code that translates each letter of the alphabet into a corresponding gesture of the body, making possible a real translation, at the same time literal but free in the way of performing it, from text to dance.
Thus, with the help of the musician Nicola Giannini, an audio track was generated from the body sounds of a dancer who danced, or rather spoke, according to the language so defined, the sentence “Come prego?” (“Wie bitte?”). By detaching the sound from its physical reference, what remains indeed is a trace that you can’t no more decipher with the help of the code, a signifier without signified, an high information entropy message. What matters however, just like when the soul detaches itself from the body to become a ghost, is the obstinate need to communicate, to establish a contact.
