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Overview

A hybrid exploration of language, trauma, and the porous boundaries between human, animal, and environment. Set within the Farneto cave in Bologna, 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 articles detailing his accident (February 1999). 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.