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This section contains older projects, works in process and unexhibited or unpublished material.
DANCE/
DF approaches dance via video recording himself in his studio in The Hague, NL, during the pandemic of 2020-2022.
Video-recording emerges in response to the unexpected and sudden absence of audience (Video-performing and video-dancing are found to behold an epistolary diachronic principle with their audience, the camera becoming a stand-in puppet-mediator).
Studio-recording has been especially inspired by the auto-recording practice seen in the exhibition Bruce Nauman: Contrapposto Studies, at Punta della Dogana in Venice, in 2021.
There is something in dancing, DF slowly realizes, that recalls the transition of the flux of language between speech and writing.
While taking the first steps to respond this call, DF moves within the spaces of loneliness, the frame and screen(a camera, une chambre) and its projections in the staging of present>past>future. This additional layers add to DF interest in the person, memory, permanence, impermanence and transformation.
SPEAK/
In 2019 DF starts developing speech based performances, where different unwritten texts are orally transmitted to the audience within installations of objects (and sometimes drawings or artworks) that serve as a memory device to repeat the speeches and the actions or gestures they involve.
Each text functions as a different dissertation of DF's own reflections, lingering between conveying a provoking point of view and articulating the persona behind it, leaving the ambiguity unsolved as to show how the presence of truth is manifested through the medium of speech.
Throughout the pandemic of 2020-2022, the speech performances gradually transited into recorded videos (secondary orality), culminating in the lengthy project Derive Romane(2022), where DF uses the city of Rome (especially the bankside of river Tiber, Imperial Forum, EUR district and his family house) to develop a real time spoken derive/delirium recursively transforming and staging his presence to play with the fabric of reality, mediated and directed through the camera frame that constantly follows.