Medusa (2022)

Interactive Earth art performance

Materials: sea weed, water, body

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I breathe and I feel the deep swinging rhythm of the sea.

I let the water fondle softly my skin, the seaweed caress my cheeks.

My hips are being spinned by the energy of the ocean.

I feel the undines tingling in my body, the sylphs’ dancing on the surface of the water. 

I taste, see, feel and hear the elementals uniting in me,

softly penetrating every part of my body; charging me, purifying me.   

I merge in the rhythm of the waves, dissolving to the spirit of the sea.

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Medusa was a female character in Greek mythology, denounced as a devil and a monster who could turn man into stone with her glance. According to the story we have heard, Medusa was once a beautiful woman who got raped by the god of the sea, Poseidon, who was attracted by the astonishing golden hair of her. Medusa was then cast out and cursed by her own sister, who turned her hair into snakes.

 

The narrative of Medusa is only one representation of our society’s ingrained patriarchal philosophy and culturally deep-rooted shame narratives concerning bodies and sexuality, which have been shaping our consciousness through milleniums. On cellular level, these phallocentric stories are becoming less dominating while we renew the frequencies and integrate new neural circuits.

 

Medusa performance challenges you to confront your body and your nature, to create arches and vines around the corners, to build more balanced architecture in both physical and mental level.