Performance "The Conference of the Birds"

The intervention transforms the human form into a modular architecture of branches, wings, and blossoming flora as the participants gather to embody a living sculpture. By honoring the “microscopic courage” hidden behind organic elegance, the intervention unfolds through a practice of “becoming”. A suspended moment of hatching where intertwined hands transition from a protective enclosure into the collective motion of flight, as to to view belonging not as a static state, but as a rhythmic dialogue between safety and liberation.

This act serves as a social reflection on how we can simultaneously be a “place” for others and an “action” within ourselves. The title is an intentional reference to the 12th-century Persian poem by Farid ud-Din Attar; just as the birds in the poem discover that the leadership they seek is their own empowered collective, this work mirrors that strength back to the people. It stands as a hymn to the everyday and an invitation to look up, finding refuge in the boundless space above the urban noise.

The performance is part of the “Invisible City” framework program for Focus Year, curated by Alexandra Pirici.