1993
Terra di nessuno is a stage performance that only sees an actress on stage. The live voice is the earliest cell of the acoustic environment around the audience, but it is not a monologue, there are other voices and other sounds partly coming from acoustic landscapes of cities: the presence is not limited to the factual place, it is part of a wider geography.

Terra di nessuno looks at Walter Benjamin’s work – especially his monument to the fragment Das Passagen-Werk is taken into consideration -; his text develops between poetic and philosophical writing, in a postponement of mutual admissions of surrender, where body and voice alternate for tension and truce. The sound gives back a three-dimensionality to an essentially two-dimensional and pictorial work: the use of hardware and software allow the acoustic complexity necessary to deepen the dramaturgy of the work.

RPD

Terra di nessuno is the experience of disorientation and loss. It is the experience of an identity in its fragmentation rather than in its recomposition, made plural, in having as a condition a state of permanent mobility of thought. Terra di nessuno approaches a place, a time, a condition that are those of instability and impermanence. The territory of the fragment, of partiality, of childhood. […]
Its most intimate structure is that of a field of rubble as it appears in the eyes of the survivor who, wounded, awakens in the aftermath of a battle or catastrophic bombardment. The field of rubble is that of European culture: this is the dream from which, against all historical fiction of continuity, we must awaken. But, against any attempt at escape, this is also the only place where we can wake up. IB RPD

del Disorientamento | Metrodora

Terra di nessuno was realized within the project del Disorientamento (1992-1995) by Giorgio Agamben, Isabella Bordoni, Guido Guidi, Roberto Paci Dalò. On the occasion of the debut, and during the presentation of the replicas, in March 1993 at the Teatro Furio Camillo in Rome, were organized two days of conversation entitled del Disorientamento: attraverso le terre di nessuno del corpo e della voce, with the participation of Giorgio Agamben, Lorenzo Mango, Carlo Sini, Roberto Paci Dalò, Isabella Bordoni, Claudio Meldolesi, Corrado Bologna, Marcello Sambati, Pinotto Fava, Franco Quadri and Valentina Valentini.
Terra di nessuno became part of the Metrodora project in 1996.

Credits

Terra di nessuno
Stage execution by
Isabella Bordoni
Roberto Paci Dalò
Marcello Sambati

With
Isabella Bordoni

Direction
Roberto Paci Dalò

Text
Giorgio Agamben
Isabella Bordoni
Marcello Sambati

Music, sound environment
& computer systems
Roberto Paci Dalò

Lights and stage design
Giardini Pensili

Voices and instruments
David Moss
Marcello Sambati
Stefano Scodanibbio

Production
Dark Camera Production
Giardini Pensili

march 1993
Teatro Furio Camillo, Rome