Dove: Italian Academy – New York
Durata: 28 minuti
Quando: 20 Aprile 2023 (prima)

lyrics for the actress
POP_DETOX_ N°1

it is an achene
globular — flattened
to pericard
leathery
of brown colour
shiny on the outside
hairy inside
Alone
or with one or two other chestnuts
armed with long, dense quills.
….
When I was little
I held those quills in my left hand
until I bled
I wanted to steal the red color
Of my mom’s nail polish
….
At the time, all doors were open
Now all doors are closed
They call it lockdown

b.

The twins Hansel and Gretel
live upstairs
pissed-off teenagers
(rightly so)
About their ridiculous nicknames
He scratches the door
But he doesn’t open it
He scratches the door
In order not to scratch himself
….

Do you feel it? Do you hear the sound of his feet?
it is Gretel dragging her feet across the floor
Dancing with her headphones
She prepares for the ritual
which unites them
Look out the window
Any hypothesis at all
Of the infinite

POP_DETOX_ N°3

When I was a child

1-
I didn’t like the lampshade
It looked like a hat
And so I ran
Everyone had a hat

2-
I liked the wallpaper
I wanted to become wallpaper
And so I ran
Everyone had wallpaper

3-
I didn’t like sofas
the stale smell of bodies
And so I ran
Everyone had sofas and bodies

4-
I didn’t like biting into food
Except for marshmallows
And so I ran
Everyone was biting into marshmallows

5-
I liked the photos hung on the wall
Because I talked to them, but they stayed silent
And so I ran
Everyone had photos that were silent

6-
I liked drumming on the radiators
With the head of my plastic doll
And so I ran
Everyone had a plastic doll

7-
I had nothing but the shadow of love,
the shadow of those who undressed in the bathroom
And so I ran
everyone undressed in the bathroom

8-
I liked poppies
Because I was the only one who saw them
And so I ran
And everyone didn’t see me

POP_DETOX_ N°5

1)

Curry (looking up)
Is everything OK?
Did you wake up?
(break)
How long did you sleep?
A week or two??
When I smell that curry spice smell, it means you’re fine

2)
(After banging the chestnut 3 times)
I am very touched when you knock three times
Is that still the same chestnut that I gave your wife?

3)
Curry never answers
He is an elderly Marxist aristocrat who cooks only curry dishes
He lives upstairs
Next door to the twins

He has run out of money
and he hardly speaks anymore
He insists that reification
He turned him to stone

what does that even mean? I don’t know

A few years ago he shook my hand and gave me a weird note:

I want to detox from induced imagery
(He wrote)
To rediscover my personal imagery
And rebuild everything, starting with silence
The silence of the eyes
Of your new generation
Your suspended generation
(break)
Curry,
I never told you:
I’m not suspended AT ALL:
I’m pissed off

POP_DETOX_ N°7

1-I’m not device
2-I’m not ink
3-i’m not lover
4-I’m not stone
5-I’m not metaphor
6-I’m not trace
7-I’m not gesture
8-i’m not hombre
9-I’m not iris
10-I’m not armpit

11-I’m not symptom
12-I’m not sound
13-I’m not fog
14-I’m not lgbtq+
15-I’m not digital
16-I’m not sage
17-I’m not book
18-I’m not private
19-I’m not smartphone
20-I’m not scab

21-I’m not pop
22-I’m not dog
23-I’m not ketchup
24-I’m not link
25-I’m not multiple
26-I’m not moon
27-I’m not not storm
28-I’m not ash
29-I’m not bergamot
30-I’m not door

31-I’m not time
32-I’m not eros
33-I’m not water
34-I’m not beautiful
35-I’m not sad lady of the lowlands
36-i’m not cut
37-i’m not body

38-I’m not powerful
39-i’m not broken
40-I’m not definition

but they are much more
I’am human