Gold revolution

site specific performance and installation | 2 Harri’s Haws, 13 books on the revolution | Civitella Ranieri Foundatio | 2019

Gold revolution

site specific performance and installation | 2 Harri’s Haws, 13 books on the revolution | Civitella Ranieri Foundatio | 2019

Like alchemists believed in the recurrence of four historical eras, the Age of Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron, so here is expressed the conviction of an organic and cyclical nature of an imminent transition from the contemporary Iron Age to a new Golden Age. 

The work, associated with the free flight of the three hawks around the library of Civitella Ranieri’s castle, reflects on the double meaning of liberation and constraint. The act of freeing animals within the premises of an institution alludes to the need to integrate the new in breaking the rules, leaving room for the free and irrepressible thought that culture carries: through the uncontrolled flitting and presence of the animal, we are compelled to abandon the old for the new.

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