"The Book of Mud" - Ali Cherri

Artist and director Ali Cherri presents his performance The Book of Mud in the atrium of Palazzo Grassi. Using mud as a metaphor for an in-between state, neither land nor water, the performance explores the past and the ways in which it inscribes itself physically: eroding, shaping, reforming, becoming itself through upheaval and destruction. A story of perpetually shifting geographies, of elemental forces and terrain that cracks and rumbles and breaks over eons into new topographical formations. If mud had its own memory, what might it deem worth remembering?

The performance is preceded, at 4 pm at the Teatrino, by a public talk between Ali Cherri and Bruno Racine, Director of Palazzo Grassi — Punta della Dogana, moderated by Christina Hainzl (University Krems).