I’M FREETAKE A PIECE OF ME
Ciriaca+Erre 2012, 3-day performance within a 120 sq. m. installation Museo della Permanente, Milano (IT
In an installation of over 120 square metres, with imaginary rooms, the artist, silenced and fast, involved the public in a three-day performance in which she gave away over 500 of her personal possessions and objects of value, from 80% of her clothing to her scooter, bicycle, books, CDs and her children’s toys.
Ciriaca+Erre relives two events that she had removed from memory: when as a child her father had taken away her house and clothes, bicycle, etc., and when, at twenty-six, she lost her possessions again through flooding. Three days before Christmas in the depths of consumerism, Ciriaca+Erre publicised what is usually a private dimension, reflecting on female identity, the dependence of objects, and on art as a gift and connection.
Each piece has a tag where, instead of the price is written “I’m free” with quotes by the artist, Henry David Thoreau and Lao Tzu.
The public is invited to enter and choose an object for themselves and one to give away. The artist accompanies them in silence while in the background there is a sound of plates, cutlery, breaking glass and whispered phrases.
As in the catharsis of Greek tragedy, the artist frees herself from the superfluous to reach the essential, the richness of emptiness and the simple flow of
Ciriaca+Erre 2012, 3-day performance within a 120 sq. m. installation Museo della Permanente, Milano (IT
In an installation of over 120 square metres, with imaginary rooms, the artist, silenced and fast, involved the public in a three-day performance in which she gave away over 500 of her personal possessions and objects of value, from 80% of her clothing to her scooter, bicycle, books, CDs and her children’s toys.
Ciriaca+Erre relives two events that she had removed from memory: when as a child her father had taken away her house and clothes, bicycle, etc., and when, at twenty-six, she lost her possessions again through flooding. Three days before Christmas in the depths of consumerism, Ciriaca+Erre publicised what is usually a private dimension, reflecting on female identity, the dependence of objects, and on art as a gift and connection.
Each piece has a tag where, instead of the price is written “I’m free” with quotes by the artist, Henry David Thoreau and Lao Tzu.
The public is invited to enter and choose an object for themselves and one to give away. The artist accompanies them in silence while in the background there is a sound of plates, cutlery, breaking glass and whispered phrases.
As in the catharsis of Greek tragedy, the artist frees herself from the superfluous to reach the essential, the richness of emptiness and the simple flow of
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