Marianna di Majo Norante
PERFORMER, CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Performance art, Multiscreen Video installation
London, Central Saint Martins
8th/ 19th June 2025
London, Central Saint Martins
8th/ 19th June 2025
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Endurance performance, in collaboration with the tide, brought to the public through a video installation.
This work emerges from a critique of the Western philosophical tradition, which separates intellect from emotion and culture from nature. At the root of the climate crisis lies this binary thinkingāreinforced by colonialism and capitalismāwhich casts the natural world as a resource to be exploited in the name of linear progress. In contrast, To Breath at the Pace of The Sea encourages networks, and collaboration rather than hierarchies.We live in the Anthropocene, a geological age shaped by human impact, yet thinkers like Donna Haraway argue for the term āCapitalocene,ā to better identify capitalism as the true driver of ecological collapse. Drawing from Ursula K. Le Guinās reflections on how humans once adapted to nature, and Anna Tsingās call to observe life within capitalist ruins, this work imagines alternatives. It asks: how can we collaborate rather than dominate? How might we surviveāand even thriveāthrough symbiosis, entanglement, and respect for non-human agency? Ā
Credits :
Performance and installation: Marianna di Majo NoranteĀ
Digital video: Rhianna BonterreĀ
Super 8 recording: Nicole Littleton
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