Load Line
chapter #1 and #2

by and with Manuela Martella and Irina Hortin

LOAD LINE: waterline, term used in shipping, denoting the line
resulting from the intersection of the water surface with the sidewall of
a floating vessel. An appropriate marking on the vessel indicates how
far the vessel can be loaded without being impaired in its navigability.

How much can a person carry?

When do we reach the maximum load capacity?

And then what?

Under load, testing one’s strength and one’s limits, weighing the load
and realizing that load – also in the figurative sense as life and
challenges – weighing heavily.

Duration: 20 min
Original music: Vincent Wilkin

Load Line
chapter #2 part 1

by and with Manuela Martella

Do circumstances move us or do we move the circumstances?

Challenging the point as a concept of equilibrium, the body fits into a
system within which opposing forces, intersecting directions,
compressions and suspensions dialogue with each other. As the body
interfaces with an array of staged devices, it aspires to a scientific
precision, yet exudes poetry. Stability and equilibrium are both
precarious and temporary situations that generate and regenerate each
other, each legitimizing itself through the other.

Duration: 20 min
Original music: Vincent Wilkin
With the support of La Radice dei Viandanti
Creative assistance: Frey Faust, Francesca Pedullà

Load Line
chapter #2 part 2