Iliada Charalampous' "meet weave become  " was presented before live audience at Centrale Fies, Dro, Italy on July 28th, 2023 as one of 19 AEROPONIC ACTS of  WHERE THE MOON IS UP curated by Elisa Giuliani.

Here you will find the documentation of Iliada Charalampous' presentation as filmed by Baha Görkem Yalım. The written report is by Giulia Crispiani and it includes a summary of the comments by esteemed guest respondents.

meet weave become  

Iliada Charalampous' question: How to be together?

Iliadas' introduction:

Exchanges -

may bring solidarities.

Proximities -

may invite a change in perception.

Togetherness -

may form a 'We'.

The 'we' comes with complexities but may form a front.

A 'we' can be scattered, yet formed across distances.

Our letters, our presences, our knowledges, our struggles.

They come in many forms but for a 'world of many worlds',

they weave, they bind, they expand, they break, they unfold, they become.

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Giulia's report: There’s a long fabric unfolding from the ceiling what seem to be a script in a diary form with dates and places, it comes down and is laid on the floor as a spiral and the audience comes in and start walking around and reading. The crowd echoes around the Sala Comando. Some lay over the fabric, most sit around it. The notes sound like a diary of intuitions. The audience shhs and everyone’s invited to sit down, and the author begins to read a letter to their friends and comrades—“every time momentarily we become a we. How can we be? How can we live together? How can we resist together?” The voice moves around the space and sits down and keeps reading, circling around and becoming audience, sitting down—“the work we need to keep doing to see the transformation. Collective reframing—spaces to gather exchange and learn collectively. Multitude, social movements, your words among the words of others toward a different future.” In fact on the cloth there are quotes collected in collective gatherings mostly around the Netherlands, everyone is invited to add their own idea or read out loud what’s on the cloth, personal notes and experiences on matters of living together, communication, privilege, difference, mutual learning, community, immigration, government, activism, society, past and collective futures. It all ends with a quote from a letter written by the Kurdish women resistance movement to the Zapatistas: “your triumph will be our triumph, our struggle is your struggle, (…) we fall in love with the same utopia and we resist for the sake of the same love.”

Phanuel Antwi The way you started made me think of a ritual ceremony. I thought back about the moon, for indigenous people each direction is related to a color, and the energy of us moving through the space is clearing the space and creating a sense of community. I was listening to the rhythm and the beauty of a voice, and the texture of each voice, things you don’t need to name but are brought up in the room, things you might not agree with but saying them nonetheless, as part of the negotiation with the community. I ended up listening beyond and behind the words, for the intention rather than the content, looking for the kind of world we’re aspiring for.  

Ayesha Hameed There’s this aspiration of video games to reach the uncanny valley, you’ve done it. It’s a videogame for the end of the world. The huge spiritual component to it, indigenous mythological figures, rites of passage, this archeologist’s face is only pixel, you don’t give us resolutions and this measures the affect. How do you talk about the end of the world? You can’t. There’s things that make you laugh and pull you in. 

Francesco Urbano Ragazzi When I walked into the room, I pulled into this corner. A spiritual place and I was called to this quote. There’s such a trust in this room. “Study is what you do with other people (…)”—a longer quote from Moten and Harney’s The Undercommons. There are two temporailties, your diary and the space of the room, a moleculous space, with different qualities of attention—it takes a lot of trust to create such space.

I’m struck by the liturgy of this piece and its aesthetics: we’re all sitting down but at the same time there’s the quest for mobilization and this is what creates movement, the voices create some sort of musical instrument. We’re already together and we can see and feel together, the point is why we decide to be together, why we invest in this being together, when and where.

Iliada Charalampous "meet weave become" was presented before live audience at Centrale Fies, Dro, Italy on July 28th.

Find the overview of all nineteen AEROPONIC ACTS 2023 here: WHERE THE MOON IS UP

In italiano: 

TITOLO: incontrare intrecciare diventare        

DOMANDA: Come stare insieme?     “ 

Gli scambi -

possono portare solidarietà.

Prossimità -

possono invitare a un cambiamento di percezione.

Insieme -

può formare un 'Noi'.

Il "noi" si presenta con delle complessità, ma può formare un fronte.

Un "noi" può essere disperso, ma formato attraverso le distanze.

Le nostre lettere, le nostre presenze, le nostre conoscenze, le nostre lotte.

Si presentano in molte forme, ma per un "mondo di molti mondi",

si intrecciano, si legano, si espandono, si spezzano, si dispiegano, diventano.

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