Moira / Mɔjra / Mɔɪ.rə, 2021, video still, MACTE Digital
Moira - Mɔjra - Mɔɪ.rə, 2021, Remov-Click-Garantito-Volontà, video still, MACTE Digital
Sound: Andrea Koch
Sound: Andrea Koch
Moira-Mɔjra-Mɔɪ.rə, 2021, Storia di Moira, empowered by Sezione Grafica, MACTE Digital
Moira - Mɔjra - Mɔɪ.rə, 2021
Per Moira, Ponte della Scienza, Rome, live on MACTE Digital
Per Moira, Ponte della Scienza, Rome, live on MACTE Digital
Moira / Mɔjra / Mɔɪ.rə
Text by Marta Federici
Moira / Mɔjra / Mɔɪ.rə is the title of Caterina Silva's project, conceived to inhabit the virtual space of MACTE Digital and centred around the story of an enigmatic creature, who unexpectedly ends up inside the museum website coming from another dimension. The plot structured by Silva echoes a contemporary mythology, which germinates among 2.0 web and bears the nuances of videogames.
Expanding on the artist's research into the relationship between power and codified languages, Moira / Mɔjra / Mɔɪ.rə specifically proposes an investigation of verbal language, understood as a tool that shapes reality and as a universe in which we are immersed. Using Italian, her mothertongue, as a reference, Silva exposes the linguistic dimension as a non-neutral field, in which the speaking subjects’ domination over the named objects represents a pattern constantly reproduced and nurtured.
Where does the boundary between subjects and objects lie beyond verbal language? When, how and why is a person referred to as an object? Neither completely "thing" nor clearly "person", Moira embodies the shifting relationship between these two poles and tries to unhinge it, shattering the device of linguistic signification with her gestures and words. Overall, the events involving this character can be read as a long exercise in deconstructing the subject (on both a linguistic and physical level), but also as an unusual transformative ritual, seeking to lead the spectators towards unknown territories, where it is still possible to try and restore to the word its capacity to describe and transform the world without subjugating it.
The project is structured in four consecutive stages aligned with the phases of the lunar calendar.
It will be possible to access each stage by navigating through the museum's website.
Concept and making Caterina Silva
Curator Marta Federici
3D animation and modeling Ruben Piergiovanni
Soundscape Andrea Koch
Moira’s voice Ornella Paglialonga
Performers Caterina Silva, Giuseppe Vincent Giampino, Marta Montevecchi, Matteo Locci, Natalia Agati
Language Consultant Andrea Zaninello
Filming Margherita Panizon
Produced by MACTE Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Termoli
Design Sezione Grafica
Code Dude
Text by Marta Federici
Moira / Mɔjra / Mɔɪ.rə is the title of Caterina Silva's project, conceived to inhabit the virtual space of MACTE Digital and centred around the story of an enigmatic creature, who unexpectedly ends up inside the museum website coming from another dimension. The plot structured by Silva echoes a contemporary mythology, which germinates among 2.0 web and bears the nuances of videogames.
Expanding on the artist's research into the relationship between power and codified languages, Moira / Mɔjra / Mɔɪ.rə specifically proposes an investigation of verbal language, understood as a tool that shapes reality and as a universe in which we are immersed. Using Italian, her mothertongue, as a reference, Silva exposes the linguistic dimension as a non-neutral field, in which the speaking subjects’ domination over the named objects represents a pattern constantly reproduced and nurtured.
Where does the boundary between subjects and objects lie beyond verbal language? When, how and why is a person referred to as an object? Neither completely "thing" nor clearly "person", Moira embodies the shifting relationship between these two poles and tries to unhinge it, shattering the device of linguistic signification with her gestures and words. Overall, the events involving this character can be read as a long exercise in deconstructing the subject (on both a linguistic and physical level), but also as an unusual transformative ritual, seeking to lead the spectators towards unknown territories, where it is still possible to try and restore to the word its capacity to describe and transform the world without subjugating it.
The project is structured in four consecutive stages aligned with the phases of the lunar calendar.
It will be possible to access each stage by navigating through the museum's website.
Concept and making Caterina Silva
Curator Marta Federici
3D animation and modeling Ruben Piergiovanni
Soundscape Andrea Koch
Moira’s voice Ornella Paglialonga
Performers Caterina Silva, Giuseppe Vincent Giampino, Marta Montevecchi, Matteo Locci, Natalia Agati
Language Consultant Andrea Zaninello
Filming Margherita Panizon
Produced by MACTE Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Termoli
Design Sezione Grafica
Code Dude