This work is based entirely on verbal sounds. All the literary material is constituted of quotations. The five languages used in the piece — Portuguese, English, German, Hebrew and French, besides the Italian that serves to its title — are like allegories of their own cultures. Originally I’ve conceived the piece in four parts which represent a trajectory that goes from difference to similarity between the languages employed. Only the two first parts were realized: in the first one, the languages are at their maximum of differentiation, both in semantic and phonological sense; in the second one, they initially try to come together, phonologically speaking: they tend to polarize common phonemes — like the /s/, the /m/, and so on —, while the signification of words remains divergent. The quotations correspond somehow to an “eulogy of the self” (fragments by Adam Smith, Darwin, Kafka, Nietzsche, Antônio Vieira, Diderot, and from the Old Testament). I would like to thank in this context the poet and friend Roberto Zular, whose literary support mostly enriched this project.

[source: Réseaux des arts médiatiques]