Watershed, 2013

Video, loop 15 minutes

With contributions of Nichi Vendola, Maurice Nio, Filippo Timi, Jan Fabre

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Final work of the homonymous European project, the video has been conceived as a tribute to the complexity of such a vital element as water, which is considered from three different perspectives, provided by the Belgian artist Jan Fabre, by the Dutch architect Maurice Nio and by the Italian politician Nichi Vendola.

A politician-philosopher, engaged on current and topical issues, and the governor of a region of southern Italy, Apulia, Nichi Vendola weaves a refined, poetic and conscious discourse on water, considered not as a commodity, but as a good to be protected and controlled in its excesses of scarcity and abundance which might cause droughts and floods; a vision of water as a common good to be respected and protected.

Through his play, "L'Histoire des Larmes", played by the film and theater actor Filippo Timi, Jan Fabre talks about water as the cause of the changes that take place inside our body as well as in our soul. A glorification of the  fluids that our body excretes and which have become social taboos since The Renaissance; a return to a medieval view of our excrements, as a necessary source of purification and transformation. Maurice Nio, on the contrary, seems to be fascinated by a pseudoscientific vision of water.

He shares recent theories, not validated by mainstream science, such as that of Professor Louis Frank of Iowa University, according to which water came to our planet from space, through lightning and ice balls which, once  in contact with the atmosphere, expanded to such an extent as to create the oceans and the conditions for the origin of life on Earth; an "extraterrestrial" origin, according to those theories. Another theory states that water is a hard disk capable to store information of everything which it comes into contact with: water, as Masaru Emoto's experiments aim to prove, seems to be able to write and listen to the messages that are sent to it whether voluntarily or involuntarily ....

The video by Sarah Ciracì has been edited in post-production with visual effects and 3D simulations, processing the images of the main characters' contributions and of the settings, virtual or not, that hosted them. It is the natural evolution of a research in progress that Sarah Ciracì has been carrying on on environmental issues and settings for several years.

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Download the full PDF with an interview by Lorenzo Madaro 

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ITALIANO / ENGLISH

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