> MANIFESTO NO. 3 (Interpreted by Marco Galletti, December 2024)
MANIFESTO NO. 3
SENSORIUM DEVELOPS THE RESEARCH
METHODS OF ITS MEMBERS ON AN ONGOING
BASIS.
SENSORIUM INCLUDES THE RESEARCH ON
ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS,
RESEARCH ON THE MANIPULATION OF THE
BODY AND THE SYNETHESTIC EXPERIENTIAL
RESEARCH THROUGH SOUND, TASTE, TOUCH,
SMELL AND VISION OF THE SENSORIAL
THEATRE.
In the collapse of certain "pre-established"
structures, the Sensorium (Us) seeks an opening
towards rebirth and fulfillment.
On vision, smell and sound: it is rare to find an eye
so powerful, so meticulous and so crystalline as to
observe the color of a melody; and there are those
who have spent their entire lives traveling to distant
places, hoping to meet someone who possessed the
quality of knowing how to listen. What sound did that
sensation have? What perfume was it, to have
inebriated me so much, warming my blood?
Events and sufferings create openings, events in the
execution, aimed at discovering what we are, what
we are not and going beyond ego.
We must ask you, we pray and implore you to be
sincere. In every circumstance and occasion that
presents itself from now and on, in every proposal
and question that will be put forward to you, in every
danger and in every victory.
In every moment from now on, there will be no room
for moralisms and ideologies. It is not a false and
attractive judgment that can save you, no more than
a sad and cruel lie.
Laugh like crazy, in the moment you want to. Cry
until your eyes hurt. Scream until you lose your
voice, if you feel the anger exploding in your chest
and pushing to come out.
Close your eyes and dream, until you are sated.
"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light
gets in." said Leonard Cohen
Sensorium is a crack in the social structure, in the
construct of our own egos. Sensorium opens a chink
through which light can shine.
There is such a high universe of senses, where it's
possible to tell tales through sighs.
Therefore, (We) are awakening now, by choice.
We take note of the laws that govern society and
pay them a vision made of wonders, we erect
palaces and towers and castles on dreams and
fears, we travel on the notes of a song played by a
star's orchestra.
We play with raindrops and with the wind, with
flowers and with fire, with smiles and with tears.
1. OUT OF LOGIC, INTO EMBODIED PRACTICE
AND SPIRITUAL BEING.
Sensorium will exit logic forward abstract meaning;
(We) go beyond rational experience into poetry.
Because it wouldn't be a mistake, if anyone wants to
ask the question, to suppose the existence of
incredible events. Events that, perhaps, escape the
evidence.
Nevertheless, the attention required from you in
perceiving absurd manifestations of creation, as well
as the eccentric nature of case, as well as a miracle
hidden behind the most usual functionings of dawn
and dusk, is not easy to apply even for the most
meticulous and smarter minds on the planet.
2. ART: LIFE: POETRY. BREAKING
BOUNDARIES.
We believe that life is only poetry, Art is only poetry,
and they become one.
We believe in the decostruction of colors and
shapes and in the introduction of new harmonies,
sperimentations and perspectives.
There will be neither good or bad emotions, nor
emotions to be ashamed of or to repress, and there
will be no one telling you what ethics you will be
required to observe.
It will be lecit for us to be amazed in front of a mirror,
perceiving what, deeply in the reflection, calls us to
discover mysteries and richnesses.
Sensorium actively explores the crossing of
boundaries between Art and life, moving towards
radicality.
We explore mutable perceptions, facing fears and
shifting reality.
We wear the mask of Pan, as the essence of wild
power and vital, primordial and uncontrollable force.
As an asomatic mask because it portrays, within its
absence, what is not representable and what is not
given to represent.
3. ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
Through performance, we create an opening for
chaos to enter inside a state of liminality, to reset
ourselves and find resonance.
We merge the dreamlike and the corporeal in the
embrace of Saturnalia, offering ourselves in
sacrifice, emerging from the enchantment to reach
ecstasy.
First of all, we must focus our attention on senses.
"How can man find pleasure in the absurd? In fact,
to the extent that people laugh in the world, this
happens; indeed, one can say that almost wherever
there is happiness, there is the pleasure of the
absurd." said Friedrich Nietzsche.
Explain it with horrifying and frightening visions;
hidden in the terror, resounds a melody of dull notes,
the sweetest and most thunderous that can be
heard.
There are apocalyptic landscapes where the death,
the nature, a mother and a machine reign supreme.
Its gears are lubricated by blood, its pistons push
crowds of men and women towards unjustifiable
choices and in its valves flow rivers of words and
thoughts that covet to be written, but instead they
drain into the deep darkness of a sewer.
This reality is tyrannical, devoid of any color, it
seizes every dignity and vitality.
4. NON-HIERARCHY OF MATERIALS.
We maintain that if life and Art are the same thing,
the same goes for expirience materials, in its
multisensory and non-hierarchical nature. A human
arm is the same thing as milk, it is the same thing as
a canvas. A human arm is the same thing as human
genitals and a human face.
In the synaesthetics of art, a melody becomes
tactile, a light is felt from its scent, pain echoes in the
sound of our voice. All these participations return to
be evoked and to evoke in a textual, visual, material
and gestural level.
Each material is treated with awareness, highlighting
the systems in which the human body interacts with
material objects and offering an analytical lens
through which we reflect on how, depending on the
sense involved, the properties and bodily
characteristics of objects can induce interaction, with
all the respect and attention that is due to them.
5. STRUCTURES OTHER THAN HUMAN.
We, Sensorium, aim to move towards non-human
forms. We imitate the ecosystems and structures
present in the mycelium and the rhizoids.
In action, we become an organism. Each offers the
opening, triggers an endocrine process with its
ligands, releases its own energies and emotions,
aware that others will be able to receive and grasp
them. Our touch raises synaptic bridges towards
others.
We express ourselves in a paracrine and autocrine
way and by reaching each other in the
entanglement, in catharsis, we explode in the
Magnificent Entropy.
We observe the movement of the stars to reproduce
them.
From the Magnificent Entropy of chaotic processes,
we gravitate towards meaning, we forge the signifier.
We listen to the synapses in the weaving of the
planet to transcribe them.
We perform the macabre danse on the beat of its
pulsating core.
6. BEING HERE NOW: THE CLAUSE OF
RADICAL PRESENCE THROUGH
IMPROVISATION AND INSTINCT.
Sensorium uses improvisation and instinct as tools
for performance and creation in life.
From Chaos to form, openings are offered to us or
created by us, through engagement with Radical
Presence.
What is Radical Presence?
This is attuned to the practice of being here and
now, surrendering totally in acceptance of what is
here and now. The act of being here and now.
Relax your nerves, now. If you hide the anger, let it
flow. Define pleasure. Do it with passionate words,
tell what the taste of flesh and the smell of sex are.
7. ON NUDITY AND LANGUAGE.
We explore movement and nudity, as a way to
deconstruct social rules and liberate natural bodies.
That the body is nothing but the emulation of the
union of cosmic and ancestral principles, that it is
celebrated and not concealed.
We also sustain that morphological language is a
sinful act, a fad and a service.
That language can be sound material and can be
deconstructed as an associative sensory tool.
So that the body becomes language and language
resonates in the body, elevating the word to the
union of all its meanings and its experiential load.
Many bodies and many languages, as notes of the
same score, variations of the theme of a harmonious
and indivisible song.
8. NON-JUDGEMENT, ART-LIFE PARTITIONS
AND THE FUSION OF IDENTITY: COMMUNITY
AND AUTONOMY.
Sensorium works with the fusion of identity to create
collective bodies without hierarchy and with common
positions, in which the community is valued more
than individual comfort and all individuals have
equal autonomy and decision-making power.
We aim to perceive all impulses as revelations and
without prejudice.
Sensorium, we experience life and Art as equals,
interconnected and with a fluid and permeable skin.
We value pleasant situations and painful ones, with
the same weight and importance.
We have an anti-hierarchical approach to the
spectrum of emotions, sensations and experiences.
9. POST-ACTIONISM: CONTEXTUALIZATION.
Sensorium, we come from a context spearheaded
by Wiener Aktionismus, Happening and Fluxus, as
well as from their persistent social and political
backgrounds.
We are actively engaged in what could be
considered Post-Actionism, or third wave of avant-
garde.
We adhere to a Dadaist vision of reality, marked by
encounter and we're determined to paint ideal forms,
of dissent, in existence.
The latters, perhaps to provoke or perhaps to make
reflections on vital, political, social issues.
Inside and outside conventional forms of artistic
expression.
We are awared that Art releases a manifestation of
the spirit and by virtue of this it cannot be considered
not a political act, rather a human act.
10. WE CANNOT LIVE, WE CANNOT CHANGE, IF
WE DON'T ACCEPT.
Sensorium diverges from civilization as a rule or a
structure and aims to return to create a natural
existence together.
An understandable reaction, no doubt, would be to
look away.
And yet, we dare to exasperate this fragile intuition.
We push hope to the rebellion, to the point of
shaping new rules for the world, and so an idea
takes form. An innocent whim of the mind, for which
we would feel pity.
It would not be complicated, it would be
understandable, to believe it an appearance. A
tragic creature.
Let us dare again. Let us gather the creature, resist
the primal impulse to crush it into oblivion, guard it
jealously. Let us cuddle and nourish it. Let us warm
it in our laps.
Let us admire its enchantment – as it grows,
mutating, cumbersome and acrobatics images will
appear.
It will arise changed, an idea of great value. The
monster of ecstasy.
It is not wise to try to think of it in terms of good or
evil. We will discover, weighing its potential, that it
travels and holds on a border, perfectly at ease,
perfectly in balance; and if we were doubting at the
point to apply human tools, we would finally notice
the level of perfection it reaches.
The exact proportion of its forms, the precious
harmony with which it evolves, the distinct ringing it
produces in the soul. Using intellect and instinct in
the right measure, we will be able to hear its voice,
its jolt.
If we know how to employ the right grace, we will be
able to grasp its surface and then its essence.