Terra Insola

Terra Insola is a collective enterprise of scientific storytellers, speculative archeologists, regenerative engineering, deviant-mythologists and dirty-physiologist exploring the mythic figure of Ariadne as an archetype of a modern feminist, living within a suspended time between two stages of her life, in the time between her relationships with Theseus to Dionysus.
Ariadne is bound by a daytime routine and her perpetual commitment to a machine, releasing herself from all constraints and achieving self-sufficiency. She lives in an idyllic biotope without context or reference, extracting fluid sap from the eucalyptus tree that sustains her nourishment in an anthroposophic exchange, and mixes her physiological substances (such as urine) with the earth that surrounds her to secrete ceramic for the structure that shelters and interlaces her. The structure itself is a metaphor of an endlessness creation, an architectural process that emerges within an infinite loop. The spiraling mazes and glazed clay components that wrap her body and her mind are developed by and with a machine tamed and domesticated by Ariadne to extend her desires and construct her needs in a reflexive, affective and contingent agenda.
In a political and ideological island, Ariadne appears with two identities, the one who escapes from inside, and the other trapped in a postindustrial location, as a human hostage. The Location of the event is an existing “fortress” in Chania, Crete, an abandoned Venetian walled zone of 15 meters high in the middle of the city, which is inaccessible. Ariadne takes refuge inside this no man’s land, ignored by the people living around. Inside the fortress, she can re-invent a utopia: a daily routine of her freedom.