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ANAMNESIS OF ART: VOICE / MEMORY / IDENTITY both surrounds us like a wave, as well as communicating with this part of us which is inside. This interior part is not filled, and that is what allows us to grow, live, understand, feel. Remembrance is fundamental for the function of art. Téchné (téxvn) cannot exist without anamnesis. Theater through anamnesis can transmit/transit and transgress the experience —foreign to me — that does not consist of the same elements as before but is deeply human, and legible. Through the infinite requiem about crossing I tried to build a field message for all those whose names or even numbers we will never know. One of the fundamental shifts within our anthropological approach to defining a performer’s score is that we no longer see it “only” as restoration of behaving but rather as restoration of recomposed experience. Theater/performance shall be understood as “recomposed experience.” We will not be able to remember anything even if everything we understand, we understand only thanks to memory. + 223 +
