6. Apotheose, 12 September 2019, Daniela Maria Geraci
Talk and performance with artist Daniela Maria Geraci at HuMBase, followed by a playlist and pizza at Ins Blaue (Stuttgart).
Daniela Maria Geraci’s work is informed by the study of gesture, and the ways that the gesture can or cannot be recorded, translated, remembered, re-enacted and reconstructed. Through various digital, analogue and performative mediums, her body of work addresses issues of Sicilian diaspora, touching on displacement, and nostalgia of traditions passed through generations, with a particular focus on the gesture of kneading dough. When kneaded, the dough’s visceral material quality is a recording of each gestural pounding imprinted on its surface. The re-enacting of this monotonous gesture, and the sounds produced from doing so, is a nod to the equally monotonous nature and longstanding history of kneading bread now lost to the impatience of modern society.
Talk and performance with artist Daniela Maria Geraci at HuMBase, followed by a playlist and pizza at Ins Blaue (Stuttgart).
Daniela Maria Geraci’s work is informed by the study of gesture, and the ways that the gesture can or cannot be recorded, translated, remembered, re-enacted and reconstructed. Through various digital, analogue and performative mediums, her body of work addresses issues of Sicilian diaspora, touching on displacement, and nostalgia of traditions passed through generations, with a particular focus on the gesture of kneading dough. When kneaded, the dough’s visceral material quality is a recording of each gestural pounding imprinted on its surface. The re-enacting of this monotonous gesture, and the sounds produced from doing so, is a nod to the equally monotonous nature and longstanding history of kneading bread now lost to the impatience of modern society.
