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arte, die nacht/la nuit capri special
by paul ouazan
march 23rd 2010, 00:25
"le regard du sphinx / der blick der sphinx", explores capri's island through the low resolution lense of a fisher price children camera . stripped out of its glossy reality, capri becomes an endangered archive, a world at the crossroads of past and future, an enigma symbolized by villa san michele's sphinx.
the show includes a monologue by umberto d'aniello naming all local characters by their nicknames, italian arias sang by nicole and poetic quotes by hermann broch's "the death of virgil" ...
"the infernal a-stir before his eyes and he knowing it, he knew simultaneously his own life, knew it to be carried away by the stream and counter-stream of night in which past and future cross each other, he knew it here at this point of crossing in the fire-bathed fire-ringed immediacy of the landing-place, between past and future, between sea and land, he himself in the center of the plaza as if someone had wanted to bring him to the ceneter of his own being, to the cross-roads of his worlds, to the center of his world, compliant to fate."
herman broch (the death of virgil)
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