The performance will open with a guided testing by Eleonora Matarrese, wild grass expert and cook, author and popularizer. Matarrese will introduce the main plant in Voli Radicali from a wild herbs point of view.
Voli Radicali is an imaginative journey into the relationship that human beings establish with plant species from distant ecosystems that are able to settle in a new ecology, upsetting the established order. The protagonist of this flight without a plane will be the Reynoutria Japonica, an invasive alien species that has overwhelmed the banks of the Agogna stream. The Ameno Lido, commonly known as the Vog, is full of them and this is where we are going to intervene through a performance of voices, gestures, sounds and sculptural objects. Resta Qui Airlines' pretext is always to contrast a high-tech model of rapid transit (the airline) with the slow observation and materialist imagination of organic movements. Voli Radicali aims to evoke a new perception of the "wild" that looks at the relationship of interdependence with the plant world in its complexity of non-sentient subjects. The performance will also be attended by the girls and boys of the Children's Councils of the neighbouring municipalities of Armeno, Invorio, Gozzano and Orta, through a woodland trek guided by the maps created together in the project "Sentieri di Partecipazione" (March, April, May 2022, Associazione DragoLago).