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SG: Eva is not only one, it is  you think about it, the instal- role of initiation, that is, ini-
    as I can say, a condition, both  lation, I couldn’t know if the  tiation into the hermetic da-
    sensorial and spatial, but  containers with the tempe- tum.  I perceive this presence
    also of ideas put into play. To  ra burst at the precise mo- and seeing this project it is
    say: the criteria of the poe- ment, I arranged everything  evident how it continues and
    ms, four poems but basically  so that it was, it all happened  extends the macroproject
    a mini science fiction story  there. It happened that I, like  that is  The Blackchurch
    with frame, whose contents  those who came, felt a bit of  Archive, what is the link?
    have not been agreed with  anxiety, a bit of contrasting
    Stefano. Obviously we chat- sensations that I consider  SN: Becoming Eva is the se-
    ted a lot, but the text is not  real life, that’s what interests  cond chapter of Discipline
    an ecphrase, a commentary  me, that’s real life, with all its  of the Great Space, a macro-
    on the exhibition in literary  contradictions: let’s go back  project I’ve been working
    form, it’s something that was  to the fact that without sha- on for some time. The Black
    born together, obviously I  dow there’s no light, without  Church Archive I created it
    knew what the exhibition  tragedy there’s no fully lived,  as a link between chapters
    would be like, I didn’t see it  without fear there’s no joy.  and the complete project,
    in advance, almost nothing,  This is the point: Eva - and  which then the complete
    but some things, those that  even those who want to be  project is me. It immedia-
    were practically needed to  Eva - had to understand that  tely became an ‘architectu-
    get in tune, then he and I  life is not only intelligence  re in motion’ because it is a
    passed all kinds of feedback  or information or correct  strategic system, I use and I
    to each other and so in this  distribution of data, even  like this word, in which I play
    sense my Eva has her own  if you move within such a  between the visible and the
    content, which obviously  scheme today, a comfortable  non-visible, between future
    resonates with her work,  scheme. Eva does not move  present and past of my work,
    but the Eva of the story is  in a comfortable room, but  changing the terms from
    not the Eva of the perfor- in a room that becomes a  time to time. I move within
    mance from a certain point  room overloaded with lan- the idea of infrastructure.
    of view, they are sisters,  guages, which become no  One of the questions I have
    but they are not the same.  language. In the space you  always asked myself is how
                                          found ideography, because  to bring out in an original
    SN: There is a shared intent,  physically with chisel and  way all the great process and
    basically also political, on a  hammer - as the ancients  research apparatus in my
    common territory characte- did - I engraved the stone of  work, both theoretical and
    rized by subjects in move- the wall to insert the alumi- in relation to media structu-
    ment. It is, however, essential  nium, the strap. Then there  res.  The Black Church Ar-
    from an individual dimension.  is the next step which is the  chive goes in that direction,
                                          verbal, then again icon and  it becomes the extra ele-
    IB:  That’s a bit in the tit- index and simulacrum. The- ment of the media meal that
    le too, isn’t it? In the sense  re is everything that can be  I cook, it balances the diet.
    that you don’t present Eva,  summarized of human sign
    the  title  is Becoming  Eva.  production. And all this im- IB:  A shared diet, howe-
                                          plies the collapse of langua- ver, through the devi-
    SN:  Very interesting point.  ge. What is collapse? a new  ce that you put in place.
                                          primordial broth, it is be-
    SG:  It also refers to the path  coming fundamental in my  SN:  Yes,  it holds  together,
    of the Great  Work: there is  work, I find great satisfaction  it binds. On the one hand it
    the becoming the becoming,  in melting, then to change  documents my work and on
    everything must become.  the state of one thing and  the other a bit of his but it
                                          in soldering, then to asso- has two accesses, two pos-
    SN: Exactly, the becoming,  ciate one form and another.  sibilities to access the first
    the  Spinotian  idea  of  pas-                                               is  the  common  one  inhe-
    sions, of the mint, of the push  IB: Yes, but in the same way,  rent in the internet and the
    towards something. I always  what interests me is how  other is the one instead of
    find it very interesting, the- you link the passage from  a LAN local area network
    re is no completeness apart,  language to art with this te- in which there is an access
    even with respect to a ste- chnological capacity, with this  through the NFC keys that
    rile contemplative idea of  new technological tool that  I also put in the exhibition.
    art.  There are a series of  allows you this idea of fusion.  The keys here have a visi-
    actions, revisions, trying and  In your being you always say  bility that is for the month
    trying again, paradoxically a  “it’s fire that interests me,  in which there is the exhibi-
    not knowing what happens,  it’s what melts” and here we  tion for everyone, but then
    but the preparation for the  go back to Sergio’s framed  you take away that part that
    event that is fundamental. If  story, where fire has a great  becomes no longer visible
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