Laura Cionci da Melbourne, Victoria (Australia)
Your new daily ritual ...
It's wonderful that we can talk about rituals. We are no longer overwhelmed, therefore we can find our inner space. Everything can be internalized in this moment, therefore everything is absolutely TRUE. The sand castles built by a too superficial and fast time fall. The days are marked by the needs of the body, from looking at the sun and the moon. We shape our deepest being through the arts, writing. We escaped the format. We either mourn our prisons or run breathless in the opposite direction happy, towards the unknown.
With which objects and spaces of your daily life are you interacting the most?
My daily life is out of my usual spaces. I got stuck in Australia and had to integrate into a family's life. This is my new job, my new artistic production: flowing in the interstices of an intense relationship. Wife, husband, padre, madre, son, daughter, sister, brother. There is the intimate space, the cultural difference, the linguistic limit but a form of love so free that a program is created within every freedom. There is no invasion, just a new form of learning, an enrichment, so each element becomes a work, every gesture, spatial structure, manual work, all together in one big exchange without the need for any kind of extra material.
What you're missing? Your personal experience of "absence" and "lack".
Absence and lack are a very precious source. Through lack the mind and body generate new forms, new ways of survival, they dig into our forgotten past, in our troubles and reopen roads never travelled. Maybe I'm speaking as a lucky person right now. I have the option of touching a tree or stepping on fresh grass. But when everyone was traveling at breakneck speed, I lived my quarantine in sickness. I went through many tests to figure out how to live in the moment, live in the now. Understand that the essential will save us. Like some kind of prediction, I talk about it in my book "State of Grace" published by Postmediabooks, Sartoria Editoriale released in February.
When all this is over: one thing to do and one never to do again.
If all this ends, it will mean that we will have lost the possibility of understanding how to improve our lives. It will mean that all the efforts made and all the deaths that have occurred are nothing but another effect of society. But I believe in the tremendous power of human contact. I believe in missing him and therefore in his renewed and amplified strength when he returns. I believe in man's need to experience nature. I also believe in the violent event that generates reflection, change and a form of hypersensitivity, for better or for worse. I think there will be people who will go back to "doing" much more than before and others who will definitely stop doing it. Great divisions await us.
Laura Cionci (1980) was born in Rome. She attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, a pupil of Gino Marotta. He began his artistic career in 2009. His research begins to develop around social phenomena, deepening the anthropological aspects that make different cultural codes legible, arriving today at a more specific research on man's energy sensitivity, of biodiversity, the territory in relation to the human being, using relational practices for the realization of creative processes. Her job takes her from 2012 to date to carry out various projects and residences in Italy, South America and Australia. It's part of 2015 of the “Waiting Posthuman” platform with Leonardo Caffo and Azzurra Muzzonigro. She collaborated as a photographer for Stefano Boeri Architetti. In 2020 his first book "State of Grace" is released and opens a cycle of exhibitions in Australia that revolve around the content of the text entitled "State of Grace".
www.lauracionci.com
www.waitingposthuman.com