Eskaton

ESKATON

by and with: Luisa Cortesi
in collaboration with: Massimo Barzagli

The performance takes place in the framework of the project Focus on Art and Science in the Performing Arts.



ESKATON - "Approaching" epistemologically means to separate thought from reality.In a "close up" knowledge, reality loses somehow its solidity, its constancy, its substance; and shape and thoughts end up in the same nothingness. When we are as close as possible, only seeing through touch remains possible.
ESKATON focuses on the concepts of nearness and distance, analysing them first in sculpture and in painting, then in relation to performance and to the ability of seeing, the ability of staying in contact with the details of the whole vision. The dancer's body becomes the body of the opus: relations between anatomy and painting and then between anatomy and dance are emphasised. Painting draws what has been already marked by anatomy, dance underlines the anatomy of the body in its unceasing effort to move and close in with the eyes of the beholders. A way to experiment changes of perception on the feeling of distance and nearness.

PER VEDERE is a project composed of various performative, visual and expositive processes, both two-dimensional and three-dimensional. It's a polyptych about "the capacity of a vision to surprise" looking into the destructive power and the creative force, in relation to the human capacity to alter nature and the natural course of events, so as to produce "an image that has never been seen before". Examining the connection between the perception of an image in motion and the intervention on the expectation of seeing a certain event, we achieve creation by using technical instruments and scientific applications. PER VEDERE analyses to what extent the philosophy of science, science and its doctorates shall be able, starting out from the idea, to support and to put into practice each of the planned works.