“Together with Haraway, we might ask: whom and what do we touch when we touch electrons? (…) In a breathtakingly intimate sense, touching, sensing, is what matter does, or rather, what matter is: matter is condensations of response-ability. Touching is a matter of response. Each of “us” is constituted in response-ability. Each of “us” is constituted as responsible for the other, as being in touch with the other.”
(Karen Barad)

Coming to matter is one of the evolutions of Pleasure Rocks research.
Coming to matter focuses on the encounter and the intra-action of matter, between human bodies and stones. Interacting with stones is an act of care: I don’t shift but get shifted, I don’t choose but get chosen, I don’t move but get moved, in a continuous reconfiguration of gestures. The perception of chronological time changes and dilates: a meditative condition sets in, a dynamic quietness. The human gradually draws back, in a process of de-centering.

Concept and direction - Titta C. Raccagni, Barbara Stimoli
Performers - Barbara Stimoli, Camilla Isola
Live sound - Antonio Della Marina
Light design - Titta C. Raccagni and Enrico Peco

Production - Nexus 2022
Coproduction - Teatro delle Moire / Danae Festival
Supported by the residencies of theworkroom (Fattoria Vittadini/Fondazione Milano), Stazione di Topolò/Postaja Topolove, BASE Milano
In collaboration with Dialoghi Residenze delle arti performative a Villa Manin a cura del CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia 2021/22

Duration
55’ and variable duration for the performance installation version