Artist Nark BKB's performance honoring Marco Pannella resurfaces after politician's death at 86

Key facts

• Marco Pannella died at age 86.
• Artist Nark BKB (Stefano Tolio) created a performance titled 'Giacinto Pannella, detto Marco' between 2005 and 2006.
• The performance lasts about 15 minutes and uses sound, lights, A4 sheets, and two masks.
• It includes a six-minute audio excerpt from Pannella's Radio Radicale monologue.
• The work explores the relationship between fasting and language, and the automatic, free-associative aspects of Pannella's speech.
• After the audio, a sheet with correspondence between Nark and Pannella is distributed to the audience.
• Nark described Pannella's discourse as 'flows of thought that unfold and advance—now slowly, now suddenly accelerating—like the motion of a spiral.'
• Pannella granted permission, saying his image is not private and only requires his testimony when falsified.
• The performance was presented at the Premio Internazionale della Performance in Dro, Trento, and at the Uovo Performing Arts Festival in Milan.