Vesper No. 6 | Magic | Spring-Summer 2022
Sonia D’Alto
Release
Magic is a speculative
practice and strategy to release marginalised memories and knowledge. In
artistic practices – as well as in rebellious lives – allows
insurgent alliances working through different temporalities and subjectives,
free movements from the power systems and allowing the becoming of a
metaphysical tool of resistance. By releasing an interruptive movement, the
haunting insinuates to embrace and embody a plurality of temporalities, a
continuous montage and de-montage through multilayered historical
frames.
In this regard, the
performative practice of the artist Chiara Fumai is more than indicative as it
was literally visited by spirits. Her body through multiple possessions became
a political body able to articulate alliances with feminist struggles and
social issues. Another struggle with the present – a present haunted by
historical echoes was released by Le Nemesiache, a group and a political
reality who embedded mythological methodologies in feminism. They affirmed the
need for feminist groups not to be overcome by fear, isolation, competition.
Demonstrating that time and space are cultural barriers and that there is a
need to overcome them.
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