A world-work made of threads, knots, and interweavings.
With the project DEEPandDANCE, artist Cecilia Sammarco is the winner of the call for ONE’S OWN OWN, the artist residency promoted by BASE Milano and co-curated with Diana Anselmo, dedicated to disabled, Deaf, and neurodivergent artists.
Drawing from her own experience as a non-autonomous disabled person, Sammarco pursues a sensitive and radical exploration of the concept of “dependent autonomy,” inspired by the thinking of Edgar Morin and Zygmunt Bauman. Far from seeing dependence as a limitation or lack, the artist transforms it into a poetic and generative code. In DEEPandDANCE—the work with which she wins the ONE’S OWN OWN call co-curated with artist Diana Anselmo—the body is not isolated, but traversed by relationships, networks, supports. It is both a trap and a refuge, a living organism where the boundaries between self and other dissolve.
“The skein becomes a symbol of our condition: interconnected and irreversibly tied to what has been, what is, and what will be.” DEEPandDANCE is a work in progress, a danced and woven action with no beginning or end—only continuous movements of support and collapse, entanglement and release, visibility and disappearance. The tangle, once an obstacle, becomes language and a form of existence.
The Residency
ONE’S OWN OWN ↗ is a call that questions normative models of autonomy and the urgency of rethinking dependence not as a flaw, but as a universal relational condition. A vision that, echoing Making Kin ↗, invites us to rewrite the ways we care for one another—on and off the artistic stage.
Cecilia Sammarco ↗ is an interdisciplinary artist working across body, language, and space. She explores somatic practices, politics of care, and disability issues, crafting a poetics of tenderness, disorder, and resistance.
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