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Aaaaaaa is a hybrid exploration of language, trauma, and the porous boundaries between human, animal, and environment. Set within the Farneto cave in Bologna, a significant site within the Gessi and Calanchi Bolognesi Regional Park, the work follows A., a speleologist whose childhood trauma, being bitten on the face and neck by a dog, left him with a stutter. As A. descends into the cave, he sings extracts from Il Resto del Carlino articles detailing his accident (February 1999), following the melody of Maria by Blondie. In song, his voice flows smoothly, his stutter momentarily dissolved through a technique that allows fluency. The cave, once an image of fear and wounding, becomes a site of reclamation, where the feral mouth that bit him is transformed into a cavern to explore. The act of descending into darkness evokes a return to an untamed state, where human and non-human intertwine. By linking physical geography with the wounded body, the work destabilizes rigid distinctions between species, subjectivity, and the wild, reframing trauma as a passage rather than a scar.

Text by Gabriele Logiudice