After exposing the first studies of [White] Heresy to the gaze of passers-by in the cities of Ancona, Rome, Krakow and Wroclaw, Sineglossa continues to investigate the iconographic stratification that has been made of Joan of Arc during the history. The performance temporarily occupies abandoned cities spaces to re-define them as places for future actions and lay spirituality.
Images that once occupied the walls of the chosen locations are returned to the audience in new ways, in a precarious fashion as is the contemporary world we live in.
No more oil paintings, as those used at the time in which identities were a certainty, but ephemeral appearances. These new images delineate the shapes of a new generation looking for the real or virtual communities it belongs to, while refusing heroic/iconic figures which are distant from their own lives.
The generation that we are talking to, and the one we want to give more visibility to, is the one comprising all those who are contributing to changing the history, in which the identity of every individual becomes irrelevant – think of Anonymous, Femen or Wu Ming; a community which, through old and new communication forms, becomes an engine of worldwide revolutionary actions without falling into an attitude of narcissism, as selfies sometimes show.
This (site-specific) process entails the involvement of artists and creative people from the city in which the project is presented. This consists in a absolutely horizontal dimension of exchange, where artistic questions are shared, tested directly on the scene, rejected or accepted, to establish another form of artistic community, temporary and fighting.
[White] Heresy is supported by the Grotowski Institute (PL) in view of the upcoming Wroclaw European Capital of Culture 2016.