Matilde Cerruti Quara x Paolo Carzanapresents the fall winter 2023 collection with a libretto.
Queer Symphony
I want to be hope for you.
I (allegro - sonata)
a desert landscape, a mindscape, a soundscape a backdrop where music falls escaping rules, heart-felt vibrations rustling the uidity of water, the long-lost Welsh river, electric current through our bones, our spine, our structure, unxed owing not xing, arming, time for time in time,
a few minutes, to exist in sheer glory, divine
I know how the story goes: all the old souls shall eventually be saved from Purgatory–
II (adagio)
I want to be hope for you here & now
when the gates of Hell close behind you and Heaven chimes away, ciao ciao Paradiso
I want us to become collective harmony of sound
I want to be hope for you when you are proud
when you are proud & loud when pride elevates you to paradise when numbness ceases to leave place to light
I want to be hope for you
when you fight hypocrisy and you resist you resist and you –
You trade Wrath for yet another day of Temperance and choose Kindness over Envy patiently stroking your restless Lust
I want to be hope for you
when you unbind yourself when you untie your bow when you don’t bow to compromise when you become unbound bountiful desire of freedom rainbow liberation–
I want to be hope for you
when you dream
and imagine what peace might feel like
III (minuetto)
I want to be hope for you when we are dancing in the flames
burning rose petals and mugwort cleansing our spirits from the tongues of disgrace
evanescent, immortal combustion
I want to be hope for you when you resist the mirror
when you xate on ‘errors’ when you get mad, madder, marigold
& when you nally transcend it all jumping throughout the looking glass
I want to be hope for you when you drink the sacred red wine the glowing goblet of vanity distilled
Iwanttobehopeforyouifyougetdrunkonit I want to be hope for you when we destroy the pyramid
I want to be hope for you when you judge me for what you think I am
I want to be hope for you sinuous shining sensual hope
when the sun sets and plunges hiding in the Haggerston canal
and you say it’s a wonderful night to survive
IV (finale, rondò?)
I want to be hope for you if you are other than anyone else
when you become hero of the queer Renaissance when you sin and when you sing and when you sob and when they try to rob me of my Pride I still want to be hope for you; and them too
I want to be hope for you
I want to be your angel
I want to be your bride silky shining shadow of bamboo silk
I want to be your fresh start the end that is but a beginning spinning free in the intergalactic intimacy firmament
I want to be hope for you I want to be hope for you I want to be hope for you
I want to be hope, I want to be, for we are made of endless energy and whatever otherness is, that is, a gift it carried us all here, lonely children full of dreams, trying to t within the immensity and to commit to hope these days is as radical as to commit to life to gamble with all the gods and devils in spite of what we hear & see
I want to be a queer symphony
Aren’t we all just trying to feel something again?
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