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Resurrection of Catastrophe


for 4 performers, drowned piano and 12-channel dispersed fixed media
2025 - 82’
premiered by Giuli Tritto, Leandro Landolina, Zack di Lello and myself —
Plas Bodfa, Llangoed, 11 September 2025

Building from Annea Lockwood’s Piano Drowning, this is the third project at
Plas Bodfa after boddi and Christ of Agony.

Programme book: English and/or Cymraeg

The texts within the performance are inspired by or are quoting:
  • Suzanne Cusick — “You are in a place that is out of the world. . .”:
    Music in the Detention Camps of the “Global War on Terror”

  • Abu Saif — Don’t Look Left: A Diary of Genocide
  • Bucks Fizz — The Land of Make Believe
  • Trevor Horn — in Adam Curtis’ Shifty
  • Kate Williamson
  • Jonathan Lewis
  • Dominic Chennell
  • Julie Upmeyer
  • Plas Bodfa’s pond planning application
  • Sigmund Freud trans. A. A. Brill — The Interpretation of Dreams
  • Jacques Lacan — Tuché and Automaton
  • Dorota Semenowicz — The Theatre of Romeo Castellucci and Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio
  • Umut Yıldırım — War-torn Ecologies, An-Archic Fragments
  • Steve Mannion and Eddie Chaloner — Landmines and Landmine Injuries: An Overview
  • Andrei Tarkovsky and Aleksandr Misharin — Mirror
  • José Saramago trans. Giovanni Pontiero — The Gospel According to Jesus Christ