Matteo Sedda
FUCK ME BLIND – studio
Matteo Sedda
Inspired by Blue, Derek Jarman’s last autobiographical film, FUCK ME BLIND is a duo in which the performers share the same pivot point. In the movie, that was shot shortly before his death from complications from AIDS, the director takes on his imminent end as an active vindication of his entire existence.
The International Klein Blue, dear to the filmʼs director and the only image in the film, becomes the input to begin a tangible research of the body in continuous rotation towards infinity.
Using the same non-narrative tools of the film, FUCK ME BLIND aims to create a hypnotic experience by intertwining bodies against the backdrop of a homoerotic landscape. With centrifugal force, the dancers wind and shape each other, while Eros and Thanatos penetrate one another and coexist as centripetal forces in a
fatal and irreducible balance.From this exchange of opposing forces, an undisturbed Hypnos emerges, drawing the spectator into a liminal state, suspended between dream and reality. The two dancing bodies use aesthetic codes that reveal a new homo-folk dance, enacting the same claim to existence as the director.
In Jarman’s film, blue becomes the body, in FUCK ME BLIND the dancing body becomes blue.
CONCEPT AND DIRECTION: Matteo Sedda
CHOREOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCE: Marco Labellarte, Matteo Sedda
SOUND: Gio Megrelishvili
DRAMATURGY AND LIGHT DESIGN: Margherita Scalise
COSTUME DESIGN: Maarten Van Mulken
MENTORS: Igor Urzelai Hernando, Moreno Solinas
PRODUCTION: Fuorimargine – Centro di Produzione di Danza e Arti Performative della Sardegna
COPRODUCTION: Théâtre de Vanves / Scène conventionnée dʼintérêt national « Art et création » pour la danse et les écritures contemporaines à travers les arts (FR)
SUPPORT: Grand Studio (BE)
RESIDENCIES: SʼALA – spazio per artist* (IT), Con lʼaiuto di Ad Lib – Residenze Belgio LIBITUM (BE), Destelheide (BE), Residenza presso lo Studio Thor, con il supporto della compagnia Thor / Thierry Smits (BE), Festival Pedra Dura (PT), Bora Bora (DK), BAMP (BE)
THANKS TO: FESTIVAL + DE GENRES (FR), Aids, archives, and arts assemblies in Belgium (BE), oester (BE), LILA Cagliari (IT) e Benoit Van Aken
winning project of DNAppunticoreografici Promoted and supported in collaboration between Fondazione Romaeuropa (IT), Gender Bender Festival (IT), Triennale Milano Teatro (IT), Centro Nazionale di produzione della danza Virgilio Sieni (IT), Operaestate Festival/Centro per la scena contemporanea del Comune di Bassano del Grappa (IT), Lʼarboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino (IT)
Duration: 30ʼ
