Gianluca Caporaso and Francesco Scaringi, a writer and a philosopher, come together along the lines and thoughts about time. The game will consist precisely in chasing time, attempting, as one does with butterflies, to grasp what by its nature remains elusive instead.
Time is the fabric of which we are made, and with it, we reckon at every moment of our lives.
A protagonist capable of challenging philosophers, scientists, artists, and writers, urging them to provide a definition of it.
The performance is a fantastic adventure of words, feelings, and imagination, aimed at sketching a hint of time, its plurality of definitions and dimensions. As the Greeks teach us, encounters follow the paths of chance and necessity: encounters are purely coincidental, but only up to a certain point.
The performance takes inspiration from Gianluca Caporaso's text "Tempo al tempo. Rime sulla vita che viene e che va" (Adrano Salani Editore, 2021) and from the "poetic reflections at the table of a café" that Francesco Scaringi engaged in during the same time, aiming to listen to the subtle temporal variations of the everyday, a taciturn dialogue between the inner flow and external perceptions.
Through arcane and mysterious inspirations, the two met, deciding to bounce verses and words off each other to pick up the thread of a conversation that can never truly en.
Gianluca Caporaso writes and tells stories. His own stories and stories from all over the world, passed down from mouth to mouth to this day. He is a reader and a narrator, a person who tries to light fires of words to bring people together, find reasons to walk together, and weave the threads of community. Traveling around Italy, he leads fantastic writing workshops for children, educators, and parents, and organizes events to promote reading and storytelling. In September 2017, he conceived the La città delle infanzie festival in Potenza. He has already published the collection of poems "Tempo al tempo. Rime sulla vita che viene e che va" (2021) for Salani. His latest production is "Il signor conchiglia"(2022). www.gianlucacaporaso.it
Francesco Scaringi. Holding degrees in philosophy and sociology, he resides in Potenza and serves as the artistic director of the Città delle 100 Scale Festival, now in its fifteenth edition. He also presides over the Basilicata 1799 association, through which he has curated numerous projects of significant cultural and artistic value, including "Arte in Transito" and "Estetica del virtuale". He teached philosophy and humanities at the "Rosa Gianturco" high school in Potenza. He contributes to various newspapers and websites, primarily addressing cultural matters. He was a member of the Board and the Technical-Scientific Committee of the Summer School "Mediterraneo, Identità e Alterità dell’Europa" (Mediterranean, Identity, and Otherness of Europe), held in Maratea and Matera. As he has explained in the past, he lacks any literary ambitions and apologizes for the audacity stemming more from irrational impulses than deliberate reflection.
