Dive into the Dark

Performance | Activation of the installation Abolition Garden – Chapter V: Intuition Frees Imagination

“Unless, alternatively, we suspend the laws of logic for a moment and consider the possibility that Dana’s journey is not spatiotemporal, but material…” — Denise Ferreira da Silva (Unpayable Debt, 2022)

In Dive into the Dark, I descend into matter.
Shrouded in white fabric, I activate the installation Abolition Garden – Chapter V as one who enters another time — a suspension, a pause.
I do not move through space, but through the density of what has been and still resonates.

The whiteness of my still body absorbs the landscape, the gazes, the soil, the dust — traces of a memory that insists on remaining.

This performance is a ritual of refusal.
I refuse the acceleration of the present. I pause. I contain. I spiral.
Together with the audience, I recreate the image of the triangle.
I listen to the sound of leaves and wind.

I let the materials speak.
I let the body remember.
I let time bend.

It is an abstraction — an immersion in the archive, not as document, but as living presence.
Diving into Darkness is descent. It is suspension.
It is body-matter in deep listening.

Concept & Direction: muSa Michelle Mattiuzzi
Performers: Brenda Alamilla, Yedam Ann, Paulette Penje, Sarah Reva Mohr, Sophia Tabatadze, Saša Tatić and Marie Zbikowska.

The performance will take place as part of the Berlin Municipal Galleries Days of Action - the first Kommunale Kapitale from October 16 to 19, 2025.