Nettles

With Nettles, Trickster-p invites the viewer to immerse themselves in a multifaceted experience that dialectically explores the two extremes of our human journey: childhood and death. Nettles ' childhood, however, does not refer to a simple anagraphic moment, but to a much larger container that symbolically and metaphorically accompanies our entire adult life, just as death is not only the inevitable cessation of the vital pulse, but a much stronger archetypal dimension that connects us to unknown and disturbing dimensions.

As is now a common feature of his peculiar poetics, Trickster-p works in the absence of performers and places the spectator at the centre of the dramaturgical event.

Guided through a journey with the aid of headphones, he is left free to elaborate in total solitude his relationship with the experience he is both witness to and actor in, and to experience at first hand the succession of atmospheres based essentially on the transformative power of the imagination.

The voice that accompanies him on the journey creates connections, astonishments, mysteries, facts, moments of lived life that explore the thin borderline between dream and reality, memory and reflection, the restlessness of childhood and the immanence of death.

Nettles is the listening of an ego that takes it upon itself to reveal its own thoughts, and lets autobiographical splinters and moments of great intimacy break through the rawness of the themes and the inevitable radicality of the confrontation with the end. If the vulnerability of the human being is manifested in the double plane of the fragility of the body and the dreamlike and mysterious life of our deepest selves, the primordiality of childhood is realised in the ferocity of memories and the obsessions of memory.

Immersed in a sound and visual setting that amplifies and expands the levels of interpretation, the journey through the rooms is a physical journey that is a metaphor for an intimate and mental movement, as well as a deeply emotional and humanly involving experience.