We will always have Rome

Performance Festival - 7th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art

Marcel Sparmann, We will always have Rome (2019) by Photos: Gabriel PsaltakisMOMus - Experimental Center for the Arts

The performance '“We will always have Rome“ retraces the marks and circumstances of a nesting deer in my belly. 

Marcel Sparmann, We will always have Rome (2019) by Photos: Gabriel PsaltakisMOMus - Experimental Center for the Arts

he deer is one thing that has to be taken care of.

Marcel Sparmann, We will always have Rome (2019) by Photos: Gabriel PsaltakisMOMus - Experimental Center for the Arts

Therefore, my body becomes the disguise, the knife, the carrier. 

Marcel Sparmann, We will always have Rome (2019) by Photos: Gabriel PsaltakisMOMus - Experimental Center for the Arts

For the deer to pass through times, I exist. 

Marcel Sparmann, We will always have Rome (2019) by Photos: Gabriel PsaltakisMOMus - Experimental Center for the Arts

That’s why a mother is there.

Marcel Sparmann, We will always have Rome (2019) by Photos: Gabriel PsaltakisMOMus - Experimental Center for the Arts

Marcel Sparmann, We will always have Rome (2019) by Photos: Gabriel PsaltakisMOMus - Experimental Center for the Arts

Marcel Sparmann, We will always have Rome (2019) by Photos: Gabriel PsaltakisMOMus - Experimental Center for the Arts

It lives fleetingly, always ahead of time, conflicting past, obscuring future.

Marcel Sparmann, We will always have Rome (2019) by Photos: Gabriel PsaltakisMOMus - Experimental Center for the Arts

In stillness and vitality, the deer will always be revolutionary, confrontational and so, my birth giving rib shell. 

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