All for All! is a trip through
All! (2012-2017), a project conceived by Kinkaleri and instigated by the voracious attacks on
language committed by
William Seward Burroughs. It intentionally strays beyond the limits of theatre and dance, suggesting an outside and setting the possible into motion along an undecidable boundary between the body and language.
Along with contributions coming from Piersandra Di Matteo (ed.) and Kinkaleri, who converse about the choreographic dialectics of the gesture, Lucia Amara retraces the path that led Kinkaleri to probe into the virus of language seen through Burroughs' naked and elated eyes, in relation to other experiments on irregular and minor forms of language (from James Joyce to
Brion Gysin). Joe Kelleher enquires into the power of a body that gives up on any univocally pronounced declarations, incarnating a “state of emergency” that consists in interrupting an expected practice. Anastasio Koukoutas dwells on
Real Good Time and the posture of the spectator, trapped in a zone split between anomaly and familiarity; an uneasy area, it intentionally operates to confound any assumptions already seduced by a confirmation of the identical.
An encounter with
John Giorno,
Someone in Hell Loves You, retraces the spoken word, and does so in a contamination with the poet's biography: fragments of life, poetry, hesitating bodies, an impasse guarded by a certain dose of extemporaneity, are all thus rewritten in the pages of this book.
Kinkaleri is an artistic collective founded in 1995. It operates between
theatrical experimentation,
dance, research on
kinetics, visual installation,
sound art and
performance. The group is currently formed by Massimo Conti, Marco Mazzoni, and Gina Monaco.
