a site-specific promenade performance by Claudia Gambino
“Sensual Pilgrimage” is a site-specific promenade performance project, a solitary path lasting between 30 and 45 minutes where the participant is led, in a rural/natural and wild environment, by a voice that accompanies them through the route.
The intention of “Sensual Pilgrimage” is to allow the public to detach themselves from their ordinary fabric of reality, their relationships and their needs for production, in order to make a journey, through the senses, of experimentation and connection with themselves and nature.
The preparation phase of the project begins in each location with the search for a guide, a local expert who may be a forest ranger, a local artist or an adventurous inhabitant.
The desire is to encounter a secret place not so spoiled and touched by human presence, uncontaminated, capable of connecting to a sense of the sacred.
Once found, the place is inhabited, studied, observed and listened to, creating a disjointed path in subsequent steps, a sort of non-religious pilgrimage. A site-specific dramaturgy is composed and recorded by the artist, and during the performance the participant listens to it through an audio soundtrack, while being led by the guide.