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2023 -
A Funerary Celebration for Pier Paolo Pasolini
- A large-scale installation in Rome’s Torre Fiscale park in celebration of the anniversary of the death of Pier Paolo Pasolini. The anniversary offers an opportunity to reflect on the artist’s relationship to the urban fringes of Rome that intersect with the ancient infrastructure of the aqueduct Felice. This aqueduct, carrying water across the many layers of the city, bore witness to nearly 2000 years of urban transformation.
With this idea as a starting point, we propose to create a site-specific installation, dedicated to Pasolini and to the oft-neglected stories of the people he highlighed in his films. The proposed site for the installation is the path defined by the Acquedotto Felice, which starts from the Roman countryside, and cuts through the south-east section of the city, running between the major arteries of via Tuscolana and via Appia, on its way to the urban center.
“For he who only knows your color, red flag,
you must really exist, so that he can exist:
he who was covered with scabs is covered with wounds,
the laborer becomes a beggar,
the Neapolitan a Calabrese, the Calabrese an African,
the illiterate a buffalo or dog.
He who hardly knows your color, red flag,
won’t know you much longer, not even with his senses:
you who already boast so many bourgeois and working class glories,
you become a rag again, and the poorest wave you.”
-Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roman Poems, translated by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Francesca Valente, prefaced by Alberto Moravia (City Lights Books: San Francisco, 1986), pp. 78-79.