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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.



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