Warding off fear
Based on the fresco "The effects of good and bad government", Warding off fear deploys a language for dancing: it describes absent images and, in so doing, produces, prolongs, interferes with, deviates from or deliriates them. But it is also a question of connecting ourselves to the history of representations by physically immersing ourselves in them, and measuring what remains of them. The Italian fresco painted by Ambrogio Lorenzetti was a propaganda tool through painting, a proposal for a political program: resist tyranny, and relearn the art of living well together. It was Siena, 1338. Yesterday, so to speak.
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Directed by Claire Ananos