bodies in Macadamia Nut Brittle. There are limbs, squares, epidermic areas being unveiled, speaking their voice where vocal chords can’t reach. The performers have a machine at their disposal and the fact that they shake every time it is used, shows us the level of brain curving where we buried ourselves. The skeleton, the organs it contains, the body, become bridges, communication hooks to drink from an oasis before the distressing journey under the sun of delusions, west of the existence.
material put into play belongs to the most intimate and private sphere of all of us. The artistic transfiguration elaborated is a long process – made of flashes of inspiration and setbacks – but for sure it is an adventure with the right people as a good starting point. We do not care about the final destination: we let our experiences, our flaws flow and we confide in our hearts. With MNB it has been a journey in the night, painful and apparently endless. The brutality of the work is an amplification of deep uneasiness, compared to the sorry situation Italy is in at the moment, culturally speaking. We are tired of the entertainment, of false values linked to success and self-abuse, exasperated by a government raising the blank, we cry out with all the breath we have to stop this ride towards useless things. Alessandra Coretti: I would like you to talk about your aptitude for remixing different materials on scene, which references does your scenic approach feed on?
Alessandra Coretti: At the core of it all is there a material conception of the scene in which the raw material – the performer – interfaces with other scenic materials?
Ricci/Forte: Ours is also a work of quotations, crossover, interferences, combinations of Rauschenbergian
Ricci/Forte: Just like any following creations (Pinter’s Anatomy, Some Disordered Christmas Interior Geometries e Grimmless), Macadamia has been a journey within ourselves and the performers who have been collaborating with us for years. The
memory, assembles of objets trouvés coming from visual arts, advertisement, videoclip, musicals, Bmovies, comic books, fashion, design, etc… to satisfy, stimulate the 91