A WORK WITHIN A WORK:

“the art of remembering” has been written and directed by the rabbit hole’s founder, Samina Virani, and produced by Carlos Calvo. Itself a performative research, the scripted dramaturgy, framed around saturation and desaturation days, is aimed to provoke and disorient, while, at the same time, providing a space for the artists to wander, to gaze, “to see through.” Designed as a metaphorical labyrinth, each artist is lead down the rabbit hole, embarking on their own poetical journey of self-introspection; deconstructing, and discovering their collective blank canvas.

Throughout the past decade, Samina has worked within the world of playful mysticism interrogating notions of the invisible, subliminal codes, “the secret gaze” acquiring knowledge from various masters of Sufism, Sacred Geometry, Kabbalah, Buddhism and the teachers of Teatro de los Sentidos, where she learned more precisely the delicate dramaturgy of sensory play.

In this work, the artists are voyagers, the path is unknown and certain games are designed to awaken their curiosities. Naples is proposed as wonderland transforming itself into a looking glass, where '"the labyrinth of mirrors" and "the secret gaze" sessions took place.

In June 2021, Samina Virani and Dr. Don Rodrigues, presented the project and methodology at Borderscapes, a seminar program held at the University of Naples, L’Orientale, Post Colonial and Gender Studies Department.

Elements of “the work within the work”:

Poetic invitations: The open call poem, written by Samina Virani alludes to the Persian fable “The Conference of the Birds” a tale of the poetics of oneness and the mirroring of the other that reveals itself through a mystical voyage.