‘Birds singing electrons flowing in circuits’ is a mixed media text-based video and performance. It explores illness and pain focusing on the human electrical system and brain. It also questions the concept of femininity connected to the sick body.
‘Birds singing electrons flowing in circuits’ develops as a dream where two women are intertwined by illness. They belong to different dimensions. One is a savage figure connected to the animal and magical world, while the other one is connected to the social world translating the brain areas into movement and stillness.
They both resonate with the landscape through the four elements of fire, air, earth, and water that represent the alchemical journey of metamorphosis.
The text is written by Gentili mixing embodied writing, medical terminology, and text taken from Leonardo Da Vinci’s Notebooks.
In the live performance, Gentili disassembles language and recreates it playing with tone, rhythm, repetition, her own physical presence, and video’s projection.
Still from Birds Singing Electrons Flowing in Circuits