TO CROSS A BRIDGE ONE HUNDRED TIMES
first performed on November 28, 2021
Sesa Bridge, Bienno, Brescia, Italy
performed once in 2021
PIETRO GARDONI
Italy
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TO CROSS A BRIDGE ONE HUNDRED TIMES
PIETRO GARDONI
While it’s snowing I crossed a bridge one hundred times.
This was a one hour and fifteen minute performance filmed by a fixed camera. It took place on a 60-meter bridge in the middle of nothing, over a river, in the Italian Alps, far from every town, on a road closed in the winter season.
The action was repeated as a mantra or a rosary; a prayer to nature.
While I repeat the action, my perceptions of the nature around (water, wind, snow, the forest over the bridge, the bridge itself) have changed. I have become nature, I have become a river, I have become the bridge itself.
Is the bridge also a metaphor? Yes, surely! I thought about crossing bridges as human practice, but also artistic practice.