In Griko, Naka means cradle.
The visual structure unfolds around Aióresis: the ritual act of being gently rocked in space.
In certain practices of Southern Italy, oscillation functioned as a way to contain crisis, a controlled movement that withdrew the body from impulse and returned it to rhythm.
What might have become disappearance was transformed into repetition.
The body did not fall. It was held.
Slow oscillation, fabric, and the sustaining hand establish an asymmetrical relation between surrender and function.
Support without intimacy. Holding without fusion.
The cradle emerges not as refuge, but as decompression.
A threshold where identity loosens without collapsing, where excess emotion, grief, or blocked desire are placed inside a regulated movement echoing water, boats, and non-linear time.
Historically, Aióresis interrupted destructive trajectories by converting them into shared, sustained gestures.
Suspension became a way of moving through crisis without resolution, neither catharsis nor cure, but containment.
Within Naka, technology operates as an artificial cradle.
Screen, sound, and repetition reactivate oscillation as a primary form of regulation in a present marked by hyperstimulation and emotional fatigue. No spectacle. No climax. Only suspension.
A body that neither reacts nor disappears, but remains in between, entrusted to rhythm, slowly passing through.
This work emerges from
@yoniro__ research into the choreo-musical exorcistic paradigm of the Taranta, interwoven with visual propositions by
@1111office_ and guided by a ritual conceptual framework articulated by
@agf_hydra
Full clip out now on yt
Naka out on
@ninaprotocol produced by
@saverology ritual frame drums
@robertochiga
Creative direction:
@erotocomatose
Creative consultant & Spatial design: HYDRA
@agf_hydra
Art direction:
@1111o ffice_
DOP:
@ileniasiciliano_
Camera operator:
@whosfra
Editing video:
@leonardosennis
Production: 1111Office, 00part_
Prod assistant:
@isaleucci
Set design:
@laadmc
Styling:
@joanazibat
Stylist assistant:
@josieuncut
@yoniro_ is wearing full look
@maseforthemasses
MUA:
@elisabetta_breadif
Hair:
@antoniocandidounique