22.06.2025/from 10.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Pleasure Rocks explores a possible material relationship between human and non-human bodies, Pleasure Rocks opens up questions about the urgently needed shift in the anthropocentric viewpoint on the world: just as with animals and plants, with minerals and the conformation of territories, we need to rethink our being, in a perspective that is not only devoted to exploitation and predation, but to knowledge, relationship and listening. In a place of observation, contemplation and listening, we accompany the group to enter into a relationship with stones. The stone from object becomes subject, body, companion of exploration. During the workshop, moments of somatic experience will alternate with moments of readings, comparisons and visions.
Titta C. Raccagni and Barbara Stimoli, together in the duo Ultimabaret, bring on a research explores the boundaries of matter and the possibilities of crossing them, in between human and non-human forms of life, between the fluid and the tangible. They navigate the sinuous nature of pleasure, continuously seeking and redefining it through each experience. Titta C. Raccagni is a filmmaker, director, and performer, while Barbara Stimoli is a dancer, choreographer, and performer. Their distinct backgrounds, eclecticism, and experience in activism and poetic inquiry are in constant dialogue, giving rise to a process of dis-identification—dismantling genres, languages, disciplines, and categories. Their research initially centered on creating new imagery related to sexuality, particularly the visual deconstruction of bodily boundaries. This exploration led to performances such as Pornopoetica and Camera Oscura, as well as the film Diario Blu(e), which was presented at Pergine Spettacolo Aperto, Torino Film Festival, Visions du Réel, and the Far East Festival, among others. Since 2018, with the launch of Pleasure Rocks—a project created in collaboration with visual artist Alessia Bernardini and presented in hybrid cultural spaces such as Triennale Milano, Fabbrica del Vapore Milano, and Leporello Roma—their research has shifted its focus to the relationship between human and non-human bodies, particularly in relation to the materiality of stones and minerals, opening up unexpected new directions.
A journey into the aura of key practices and figures of spirituality and performance art between body, gesture and vision.
Fondazione CROSS
Ente del Terzo Settore
Via Canton Sopra 2
28010 Nebbiuno (NO)
tel. +39 351 8081786
Email: info@crossproject.it
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A journey into the aura of key practices and figures of spirituality and performance art between body, gesture and vision.