Ambra Pittoni: She the One lying on the Bottomless Bottom. The Space of the Tongue

The performance She the One lying on the Bottomless Bottom. The Space of the Tongue features artist Ambra Pittoni, dancer and performer Francesca Ugolini, and musician and performer Vera Di Lecce, with music by Federico Chiari.

Exploring language in its poetic, critical and dysfunctional forms, the work draws on the clandestine semantics of écriture féminine, a mode of writing that gives voice to a female subject historically denied a language of her own. Through fragmentation, repetition and sonic devices such as refrains, reverberation and echo, it investigates the relationship between language, darkness and knowledge.

The cave, associated with oracular and otherworldly realms, meets the mouth as a site of linguistic articulation, where the tongue incorporates and expels the world. Conceived as a ‘speleodrama’ in three acts, the performance unfolds through sculptural, editorial and performative elements, activating an installation comprising three walk-in sculptures, three headpieces and a book.