Volcano Extravaganza 2017 – I Polpi

On Saturday 15th July, we embarked a SNAV hydrofoil to the Aeolian Islands from Porto Mergellina, in Naples. In the following five hours, as we were riding the unpredictable Tyrrhenian waves, the performance Fox took place.

Fox was conceived in 2005 by Eddie Peake together with Sam Hacking while they were both still Slade students. In it, Peake directs two characters intent in the endeavour to exchange clothes without exposing any parts of their bodies. One wears ‘normal’ clothes whilst the other wears a fox costume, exchanging robes and roles in a metamorphic attempt to camouflage, fluidly confusing and somehow erasing their sexual identities.

Under the half-surprised, half-scandalised and often amused gaze of our fellow boat passengers, the performers Francesca Del Sorbo, Xavier Llarch Font, Raffaela Naldi Rossano and Prem Sahib took turns in reenacting the performance four times, sometimes indulging in the occasional break or casual chat while wearing the fox costume…

All photos Giovanna Silva