“L’effigie” is the opening story of La notte, the posthumous collection by Italian writer Giorgio Manganelli, published in 1996. The text moves across the thresholds of language and time to give voice to a man condemned for heresy — not for what he has done, but for what he has seen, or dared to imagine: the end of the world has already happened, but no one has noticed.

Through a first-person narrator, we are led into a suspended world, where time has fractured and reality has become a simulacrum. Cast out from the community, the protagonist receives a punishment both archaic and metaphysical: his image is carved in wood and burned in effigy — a forgotten ritual that, rather than destroying, ultimately reveals.

It is a story about form and formlessness, guilt and representation, and the visionary power of language. At its core lies the tension between language and truth, between identity and the form it takes when it is told. The effigy — wooden body, figurative body, burned body — becomes the symbolic fulcrum of an inner cosmology.

From this material emerges an acousmatic performance in which voice, sound, and space merge into a radical listening experience. Curated by the duo Cicuta Das Ombras, the piece weaves reading and electroacoustic landscape into a perceptual dis-orientation device. No stage action, no visible bodies — only the echo of a voice and the sonic debris of a residual world.