Surgica is a choral and installative performance created site
specifically for a residency at Villa Clea (Milano).
The performance constructs a closed, almost aseptic
environment, in which the domestic is progressively emptied
of its reassuring function to become a space of psychic
projection and compulsive reiteration. The seven performers
move through space and an industrial soundscape which
progressively shifts into a climax. It explores themes such as
medicalization and normalization of the female body,
expressing the short circuit between an aesthetic of
perfection and a disintegrative drive: the domestic becomes
the stage of a shared psychosis, while the body — rather than
adhering to a normative ideal — reveals itself as a site of
excess, deformation, and resistance.
The performance lasts 10 minutes but it was performed
many times in a row, in a time span of two hours, resulting
in a time based work of resistance and repetition.
