The work is inspired by a dialogue in Roman Polanski’s The Tenant (1977), where the main character wonders when one stops to be oneself, imagining parts of his body being cut off he meditates: ‘You cut off my head. What would you say? Me and my head or me and my body?’. The who- le scene questions the well-established ancestral identification of human identity with the mind, where the head identifies with the sense of consciousness and the self. The dualism produced between the mind, where the conscious comprehensible living is hosted and the body, terrain where overpowering feelings and impulses constantly thrive, has always implicated a somatic centralisation of identity within the head: the supremacy of rationalism over the body. The performance wants to reject the reduction of the self within its rationality, which neglects our being-incarnated.

My recorded voice asks over and over: - What right has my head to call itself me? - While the voice addresses the audience for any answer, I start to slowly cover my head with a long black fa- bric, symbolising the disappearance of the mind-self. The performance ends with my head/mind/identity disappeared, buried within the blackness of the fabric, me standing still, while the voice keeps asking .