La ascensión (2005) by JORGE MACCHI, in collaboration with EDGARDO RUDNITZKY
Collaboration for the Argentine Pavillion, Venice Biennial.
Oratorio San Filippo Neri, Venice.
Trampoline with the same measurements (1400 x 1400 x 800 cm) and shape than the fresco on the ceiling of the oratorio. Musical piece for viola da gamba and trampoline. Performance for an acrobat and a musician the day of the opening.
"The production of nervous force is directly connected with the diet of an individual, and its refining depends on the very purity of this diet, allied to appropriate breathing exercises.
The diet most calculated to act effectively on the nervous force is that which contains the least quantity of animal matter; therefore the Pythagorean diet, in this connection, is the most suitable.
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The main object was to avoid introducing into the organism what Descartes called 'animal spirits'. Thus, all animals that had to serve for the nourishment of the priests were slaughtered according to special rites, they were not murdered, as is the case nowadays".
