Matteo Ruggiero / sxilence
Bright threshold image with My Last Drop of Gasoline title.

A/V performance / 2025 / around 12 minutes

My Last Drop of Gasoline

A car wreck speaks after the crash. Sounded wreckage and film projection: the moment movement stops and the car starts narrating its own end.

My Last Drop of Gasoline is an audiovisual performance made from sounded car wreck parts and film projection. It stays inside the moment of a crash and gives that moment a voice.

The car is treated as something with its own emotions, looking back on its own destruction. What it's really about is a thing built for movement suddenly going still: falling, breaking, and still wanting to push past its own limits.

A scrolling text runs through the projection, carrying the car's inner monologue.

What happened?

What happened to myself?

What happened to my sweet bodywork...

Did I break myself?

Have I driven too high, or maybe too low?

Have I tested my own limits?

I guess who cares. Nobody cares.

I'm here to stay anyway.

Or actually I do remember.

Everything is coming back.

I remember vividly the moment everything shattered.

documentation / projection / bodywork

Selected media

Performer leaning over illuminated car wreck parts.
live performance documentation
Red car door and headlight used as physical sound objects.
sounded wreck parts / object body
Projection still with car monologue text over car image.
projection text / first memory loop
Projection still with roadside monologue text.
projection text / roadside prison
Blurred abstract car bodywork projection still.
bodywork trace
Blue blurred projection still showing car frame shapes.
blue frame / inactive machine
Performer silhouette in front of a bright projection.
performer as interruption
Foggy blue projection still.
fogged memory