Depopulated could be seen as a collective performative journey. But I'm not holding the space to display my practice. Instead, I'm here as an anchor, a lighthouse with the urgent desire to share a ritual process about separation and togetherness. Depopulated is the first and last date simultaneously, between the audience and me.

So, we have to be present. We have to care and maybe remember.

What changes emerge from individuals inside a group after months of consciousness/unconsciousness of bodily and mental struggle? 
What inner epiphany drove those visible/invisible changes? 
How do those elements influence and transform an intimate and collective linguistic?
When 'going back' is not an option, who and what are we becoming?
Is there someone inside? 
Can we rekindle with our former selves? 
What are the mental limits of digital emotions? 
Are we still here, grounded? 

Like many, I experienced a dense and seemingly endless disconnect and shared my intimacy for most of the last two years on screen, behind smartphones. Gradually I felt the distance generated an emotional and spatial separation between dears friends and family members. Stuck in the middle of political agendas and desperate coups by extremists all over the globe, it became painful and almost impossible to hear ourselves, to listen to the others. Where frontiers and oceans failed, digital design and engineering succeeded! This separation is not a footnote, it is the tipping point of our civilization. 

There is one disease that is far worse than dystopian fantasies and casual fascism, loosing our humanity will start when we’ll lose each other. I just had few ropes, few people and few minutes but I gave them my body and my soul to reconnect to what is still buried inside.

Depopulated is more than a performance, it is an attempt to document liveness as a language and life as a corpus, multiple corpora.

I proposed a concrete link to strangers, and for a moment, I asked them, without asking, to be a part of my space. No strings attached, but vulnerability and realness are not an option in my pocket world. If you decide to enter, you have to give it all, as if it is the last time we’ll see each other. I'm the first link, and the audience draws the lines, occupies the space and creates a tribe of the intimate where I can exist and vanish. 

Depopulated is an ode and a celebration of the unknown and togetherness.

• Brooklyn Art Haus, New YOrk, 2023.

• Movement research at the Judson Church, New York, 2022.

• Inverse Performance Art Symposium at The Momentary, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2021. curated by Emma Saperstein and Cynthia Post Hunt.