“Antropomorfismo lacerato”
(Lacerated anthropomorfism)
"The
naive purity of genius is revealed through vacant gazes, in the
whiteness of enchantment, like a mad gesture. The latter appears as
abnormal as it is pathological, hence, it is regarded as insipid and
deviant from any context conforming to the mediocre canon of the
average person, of average thought. We are mad, insipid, useless
lunatics, hypnotized by the natural display of intermittent
fireflies, excited like children discovering, saddened by the
inevitable realization imposed by parents, mentors who come to
diminish what is obvious, to downgrade what is taken for granted
because it has always been, immutable because it belongs to the
nature of things, intrinsic to the reality of absolute conditions,
undeniable truths, indisputably defined and just. We are abnormal and
insane, foolishly proud of being abnormal, of being inferior beings
in the eyes of parents, professors, the strong, the champions of
order, the judges dispensing justice and morality."
Georges Bataille, a personality
considered out of the ordinary in our days and in the ones of his
contemporaneity, theorizes the concept of “lacerated
anthropomorfism”, name of our artwork and incipit of the reflection
on the actuality of the binomen “geniality and madness”.
Elaborating and reinterpreting Bataille's thought inevitably leads to
the observation of those that are considered uncomfortable and
extreme conditions that today are totally left out or used as
scapegoat with the aim of a social instrumentalization deeply
oppressive towards the Individual who lives of geniality and madness.
This theme is deeply important
to us PromptDsg, it is present in a more personal and extended
context such as our manifesto “Theory of the desecrating, i.e.
theory of the Feeling”. The artwork “Antropomorfismo lacerato”
tells itself the story of a creation considered pathologic, a story
of experiences where the accusation of madness, pornography,
superficiality have been put ahead of the story of us creators: the
depicted body belongs to one of the two persons who gives life to the
artistic project PromptDsgn; the title is an analogy to the
existential and experiential condition felt by both of the
components; the result deals with the creation of an our ideological
self portrait of shared wounds and research.
The manifesto tries to create a
reflection, i.e. an inevitable critic, towards the condition of the
sensible Individual inside an anesthetized collectivity and towards
the oppressive social dogma that martyr the Individual to the point
of a total depersonalization and a loss of the deepest interiority.
The Individual has the right to
feel and to perceive its own Self and its own inner world even and
especially if these are opposite to the canons and the dogma of the
society.
In the contemporaneity that we
live, the health, in particular mental health, is – among the
others – an affirmed dogma, spread and passed down to the point of
acquiring a negative meaning that is the opposite of the positive
initial intention of the preservation of a human being.
We PromptDsgn create the “Theory
of the desecrating, i.e. the theory of the feeling” deeply close to
the Leopardian concept of compassion that is, to us, a deep feeling,
a lacerating observation of the abyss opposed to sliding on a
superficiality that cannot lead to anything other than the creation
of stigma, taboo and censorship.
The Feeling, this flower in the
flank that will make us die having lived and perceived billion of
collective lives of deep passion: the one of Bataille, Kafka, Rilke,
Van Gogh, Munch, Pessoa...
May the binomen
geniality-madness, as the one of the Individual-society, be a
principle of personal reflection on the definitions and the borders
of geniality and madness and on the condition of the co-existence of
the Ego and the Other.
