“Some things to put in order”

The performance

And did you get what you wanted from this life, despite everything? Yes. And what was it you wanted? Being able to say I am loved, feeling loved on earth. (Raymond Carver)

After a long period of work in nursing homes for elderly people, Rubidori Manshaft recalls his memories in this long “field” journey.
Linking himself to his past works, through narratives he further develops his artistic research on the passage of memory, on lack and on loneliness.
He starts from there to question himself about the body, about its political meaning. On care.

About time. About fear. On doing. On the loss of self, strength, role and sometimes even memory. Some things to put in order is the story of a woman just beyond the threshold of sixty, who begins to ask herself questions about the path of life, an echo of us all (and everyone).
We recognize ourselves in her words, in her thoughts which are perhaps also ours, we are taken aback by her surprising ability to mix them up, use them, appropriate them, forget them, invent them to replace what is wrong in the mind. Thoughts which, like real events, become co-protagonists of this story about living, about dreams and disillusions, about memories and regrets.

In this sublime reversal of reality we will be forcefully brought into a new time that perhaps will belong to us. An interior and real journey towards something, a montage of events, poignant, ironic, in the game that life plays in the attempt to redesign a human dimension that is perhaps lost today.

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And did you get what you wanted from this life, despite everything? Yes. And what was it you wanted? Being able to say I am loved, feeling loved on earth. (Raymond Carver)

After a long period of work in nursing homes for elderly people, Rubidori Manshaft recalls his memories in this long “field” journey. Linking himself to his past works, through narratives he further develops his artistic research on the passage of memory, on lack
and on loneliness. He starts from there to question himself about the body, about its political meaning. On care.

About time. About fear. On doing. On the loss of self, strength, role and sometimes even memory. Some things to put in order is the story of a woman just beyond the threshold of sixty, who begins to ask herself questions about the path of life, an echo of us all (and everyone).
We recognize ourselves in her words, in her thoughts which are perhaps also ours, we are taken aback by her surprising ability to mix them up, use them, appropriate them, forget them, invent them to replace what is wrong in the mind. Thoughts which, like real events, become co-protagonists of this story about living, about dreams and disillusions, about memories and regrets.

In this sublime reversal of reality we will be forcefully brought into a new time that perhaps will belong to us. An interior and real journey towards something, a montage of events, poignant, ironic, in the game that life plays in the attempt to redesign a human dimension that is perhaps lost today.