Periferico 2021

October 16/17, 2021

Zeta Archive – 
TREE-SIZED

an experiment in acentered reticular TRA theater

loosely inspired by Claudio Damiani’s Nymphal

Info
Bosco Albergati Park
Via Lavichielle, 6, 41013 Castelfranco Emilia MO
3 p.m.-4 p.m.-5 p.m.
roving performance for a small group of visitors
reservations required for individual time slots
mail [email protected] tel 059/8777673

In collaboration with The City of Trees and Cesare Leonardi Architect Archive

sound installation/touring performance by Patrizio Barontini, Gianluca Guidotti, Enrica Sangiovanni
cello Francesco Canfailla
technical assistance Andrea Sangiovanni

the tree does not see the landscape, because it has no eyes


he feels the air around him


in which he is immersed as in a water


and this air is never the same, but every moment

changes, now warmer or colder

Without light or with light, wet or dry


And an infinity of variations feels


the tree and I believe that for him the days


Are never the same.

Ninfale, Claudio Damiani

On the occasion of the 2021 edition of the Periferico Festival, archiviozeta will carry out an artistic residency in Bosco Albergati, a lowland forest designed in 1990 by architect Cesare Leonardi and still cared for and managed by the Association The City of Trees.
Walking in a forest always turns out to be an extraordinary experience: at the same time an experience of listening and discovery. Listening to our own internal sounds and those of the environment in which we move and discovering ever-shifting relationships and geometries of space.
We then imagine walking through a space that whispers words, a place to explore by approaching the sound sources unobtrusively, in search of a micro-phonic listening perspective.
However, we also imagine that in this place the sounds of the surrounding environment are not erased but integrated into the soundscape generating our own personal point of listening and balance between different sound planes.
Finally, let us imagine a perimeter within which the geometries of the speakers suggest ever new and wandering paths.
Bones of the sound path are the words of Claudio Damiani, mainly taken from his poem Ninfale, a poetic play about the life of trees and their way of seeing the world. The beauty of his verses that speak of life and death, transformation and birth, the cosmos and the void, are the material that together with the sound fabric composed and directed by Patrizio Barontini are interwoven with the voices of Gianluca Guidotti and Enrica Sangiovanni and the wooden body of Francesco Canfailla’s cello.
In assonance with the SRA – the Acentered Reticular Structure – mosaic of irregular polygons at the base of Cesare Leonardi’s potentially infinite design for this utopian forest, we invite visitors to lose their center, in a festival that is meant to be stubbornly peripheral, in an anthropo-a-centric crossing, in short to lose themselves in this vegetal experiment of TRA – paroleradici, suonocorteccia – an Acentered Reticular Theater that branches out from nodes – from signs of meaning – until it becomes plural body, choral breath.
We could wish you in the words of philosopher Baptiste Morizot – author of On the Animal Trail (nottetempo 2020): as you get lost in the architecture of trees, try to inforest yourself! – In the meantime we with the last ritual resources at our disposal will try to inalberate.

Oct. 16, 2021

public meeting

Info
Bosco Albergati Park
Via Lavichielle, 6, 41013 Castelfranco Emilia MO
6 p.m.

with the participation of Archivio Zeta (Bologna), Collettivo Amigdala (Modena), Associazione Archivio Cesare Leonardi (Modena), Associazione La città degli alberi (Castelfranco Emilia), Mino Petazzini

archivezeta is an association founded in 1999 by Gianluca Guidotti and Enrica Sangiovanni, independent authors and producers of cultural work. In 2003 they conceived the Gothic Line Project by staging tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Karl Kraus, and Pier Paolo Pasolini at the Futa German Military Cemetery, the largest German shrine in Italy, in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. 

Among the works staged are: The Persians by Aeschylus, Antigone by Sophocles – Oresteia by Aeschylus (2010-2013): Agamemnon, Coeforas, Eumenides. This project obtained the High Patronage of the President of the Republic and was also taken to other places of Memory: Montesole/Marzabotto, Sant’Anna di Stazzema, Asiago. 

archiviozeta also produced the Shoah Project The Night of Elie Wiesel (2002), consisting of a play and the film Journey through the Night in which Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel collaborated by reading excerpts from his testimony. He conceived and produced with the Monte Sole Peace School The Gray Zone from Primo Levi. 

For the centenary of World War I, Karl Kraus’ The Last Days of Mankind debuted in 2014. From 2014 to 2016, he had an intensive collaboration with VolterraTeatro Festival by carrying out theater projects and workshops with citizens. In 2014 he won the Critics’ Network Award for best artistic project. Since 2014, the organizational headquarters has moved to Bologna where it collaborates with the Municipality of Bologna and ERT Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, carrying out residential projects of theater production and educational work with schools. Since 2019, he has conceived and directed the Meta/Nidi di ragno project for the Emilia Romagna Region/Memoria del ‘900.  From 2019 to 2021, he curated the three-year theater project Dostoevskji Topography. In 2020/21 archiviozeta conceived and curated inosservanza, an artistic residency and urban regeneration project at Villa Aldini (Bologna).

October 15/November 28, 2021

Cheap – 
RECLAIM

poster campaign in two acts
Public space of the city of Modena

Info

Reservations required for Saturday, Nov. 13 assembly at
OvestLab – Via Nicolò Biondo, 86, 41126 Modena MO
email [email protected] tel 059/8777673

Who practices listening?
RECLAIM your voice

Cheap posters, who have been invading Bologna for years with their tenacious dialectic, come to Modena in a RECLAIM proposal.
Reclaiming as an answer to a list of questions that try to flush out as many shortcomings, of the citizens, of a community and of a multitude. To reach each of us.
Sixty original large-format posters will be hung along the city’s avenues from the beginning to the end of the festival, to accompany as a background and a timely prod to all the events of Peripheral 2021. A first campaign posted in October will make known the questions that the CHEAP collective has cast in block letters, which Modena can read and reread; the second act, in November, will instead account for possible answers. 
From listening to voice, from neighborhood to body, from public space to one’s own ideas.
A street art poster intervention that helps us not to lose our bearings, and not to stop thinking.

RECLAIM feeds off Cheap’s meeting with Collective Amigdala and Non una di meno Modena.

https://www.cheapfestival.it/

CHEAP is a street poster art project active in Bologna since 2013 and founded entirely by women. CHEAP is a project, a collective, a non-objective gaze, an association: the material it has chosen to investigate is paper-until now, it has found nothing more ephemeral. She mainly intervenes in the urban landscape, deals with contemporary languages, and is engaged in the search for a balance between curatorial practice and activism. CHEAP began as a festival but had the good sense to become something else.

Saturday, November 13, 2021

Cheap and Amygdala – 
RECLAIM public space

Public meeting
WestLab 6 p.m.
with the participation of Cheap (Bologna) and Collective Amigdala (Modena); coordinated by Florencia Andreola (critic and historian of architecture)

Starting with the street poster art intervention carried out as part of the festival, Cheap and Amigdala Collective open a discussion table around the relationship between feminism and urban planning.
How do women’s bodies move and can move in the public space of a city? How do cities reflect on the bodies that pass through them, and in particular on women’s bodies?
Starting with these and other questions, the meeting aims to turn into a real assembly, to debate and concert all* together on issues that are as vertical as they are cross-cutting.

Saturday, November 20, 2021 6:30 p.m.

Amygdala Collective – Elementary

album presentation with concert

Info

OvestLab – Via Nicolò Biondo, 86, 41126 Modena MO
reservation required
mail [email protected] tel 059/8777673

Four years after the production of Elemental – a one-night vocal performance, Collective Amigdala is continuing its journey around the work by producing a vinyl collection of the musical, visual and textual tracks of the original performance.
Following a long work of synthesizing and chiseling away at the original magma, musician Meike Clarelli and the entire artistic team involved account for a journey in and out of live performance that reverberates today in a material medium: the recording space opens up another mode, that of a language that enters the circle and makes the voices of the six singers vibrate in a new air.

https://collettivoamigdala.com/

Credits

Amigdala Collective Care
Original music Meike Clarelli
With the voices of Meike Clarelli, Elisabetta Dallargine, Vincenzo Destradis, Davide Fasulo, Fulvia Gasparini, Antonio Tavoni

Amigdala is a social promotion association and art collective based in Modena, Italy. Works in contemporary and performing arts, with a strong interest in urban regeneration and civic innovation. 
The collective creates multidisciplinary artistic productions, with a specific vocation for site-specific and community-specific creation methodologies. 
In 2017 it produces. ELEMENTARY – Vocal performance lasting one night., an evocation of ritual through song, an uncertain pact around the paths that words trace when shaped in music. In a space equipped for sleep, a temporary community takes shape, founded on the desire to inhabit together a ridge, a transitory instant that will be made to last through the hours. Elementary establishes a temporary alliance between audience and artists, who are called to share the time of one night.

November 5/7, 2021

Pietribiasi/Tedeschi Company – 
VILLAGEARTIGIANO#MEMORIEDELSUOLO

Info

MOP / Modena Ovest Pavillion – Via Emilio Po, 186 – Modena

Friday, Nov. 5 from 5 to 11 p.m.
Saturday, Nov 6 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Sunday, Nov 7 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Installation with regulated entry.
Hourly entrances are accessed with reservations required

admission 3€; ticket office at OvestLab 15 minutes before reserved admission

email [email protected] tel 059/8777673

Credits

dramaturgy and treatment of space Cinzia Pietribiasi
textual environments Pierluigi Tedeschi
images Giuseppe Boiardi
sound environments Alfredo De Vincentiis
actions Katia Capiluppi, Cinzia Pietribiasi, Pierluigi Tedeschi

carried out as part of To Echo/Fare Echo – The Oral Sources Archive of the Craftsman Village of West Modena in work

Silvia Tagliazucchi, AFOr science manager
Federica Rocchi, artistic direction Periferico
Isabella Bordoni, art project curator

a production by Amigdala/Periferico Festival, CivicWise Italia and the entire AFOr group
With the support of Fondazione di Modena – Mi metto all’opera; Regione Emilia Romagna; Comune di Modena

TO ECHO / FARE ECO is the three-year (2021-2023) research and artistic residency project based in Modena that gathers around the materials of AFOr-Archive of Oral Sources of the Artisan Village, the energies and skills of the working group of the same name, Collective Amigdala/OvestLab and IMAGONIRMIA art residency & publishing project.

TO ECHO / FARE ECO reinforces the collaboration between these three realities already connected on long-term projects and dedicates the first residency to Cinzia Pietribiasi and Pierluigi Tedeschi, who as the Pietribiasi/Tedeschi Company signs the installation-performance VILLAGGIOARTIGIANO#MEMORIEDELSUOLO.

TO ECHO / FARE ECO takes body, extension, depth and re-inhabits MOP-Modena Ovest Pavillion, the partly inhabited and partly decommissioned building on Viale Emilio Po that with a concerted process of re-signification between owners, inhabitants and cultural stakeholders, continues the bet started two years ago, to give life to a contemporary art place in the decentralized, multicultural and hybrid vocation – living and working – heart of the city. That gesture of transformation ignited in 2019 and remained alive even during the lockdown of 2020, retains today its double movement that on the one hand, assumed some desires of an inhabiting community in order to revive an otherwise closed and hidden space, and on the other hand, converged training, processes and artistic gestures there, in order to regain its own urban presence through a different way of living.

Pietribiasi/Tedeschi Company with VILLAGGIOARTIGIANO#MEMORIEDELSUOLO, outcome of the residency located in the Craftsman Village Modena West and whose dramaturgical and installation outcomes it places at MOP, takes up some of its own modes, such as working around documentary sources and summarizing memory in a contemporary key. In re-inhabiting the spaces of the building with its own artistic rewriting, VILLAGEARTIGIANO#MEMORIEDELSUOLO rekindles the relationship between the archive and the subject of dwelling, as well as between data and their interpretation, between extractive procedures and the generation of meaning, and redraws the political and affective relationship between domestic space-craft-village-city-costume-collective history-public memory.

The apartment on the second floor of 168 Viale Emilio Po, is interpreted as a living organism: its rooms compose the polysemous and multifunctional map that accommodates and connects the private and public dimensions, both contextualizing the lives of individuals in the history that has been unfolding here since the second half of the twentieth century, and decontextualizing those same lives from the completed and finished biography, in order to reposition them within a temporality that concerns us. Through the macro themes of the home, of the sociality, of the worker priests – a movement that in the post-World War II period joined a part of the Catholic world to the factory world and union militancy – and the women’s movements – the different Modena experiences of neo-feminism inside and outside UDI, the season of women’s movements and collectives – who precisely at the Craftsman Village Modena West have had some of their carrier experiences, Pietribiasi/Tedeschi Company with VILLAGEARTIGIANO#MEMORIEDELSUOLO, rekindles the expressions of testimony and makes memory living matter.

Compagnia Pietribiasi/Tedeschi presents VILLAGGIOARTIGIANO#MEMORIEDELSUOLO within Peripheral 2021, over three days invites the audience to an immersive and dilated experience, with crossings of environments and pauses that involve each subject as a witness and as a body of memory itself.

November 6, 2021

TO ECHO / FARE ECO meets ALESSANDRO PORTELLI

Meeting
WestLab, 6 p.m.

Alessandro Portelli, Pietribiasi/Tedeschi Company, Isabella Bordoni, Amigdala Collective, CivicWise Italia, AFOr, Historical Institute for the Resistance of Modena are present

https://www.facebook.com/compagniapietribiasitedeschi

Pietribiasi/Tedeschi Company 

Born in 2012, the Pietribiasi/Tedeschi duo combines new technologies with the storytelling of places, people, communities and historical memories. He prefers site-specific work in non-theatrical places (private homes, disused work and gathering places, natural environments, etc.); a long, relational work of slow (possible) building of trust and empathy; a hypothesis of searching for the Genius loci of disused and dismissed places. One example is the long-term #MEMORIEDELSUOLO project, which the duo has been pursuing since 2015, a resemantization of stories with a lowercase s. 

To Echo/Fare Echo – The West Modena Craftsman Village oral source archive in the works.

Amigdala, together with Isabella Bordoni, is launching a three-year project in 2021 designed as a platform for the production of artistic works that are born and developed from the legacy of the Archive of Oral Sources of the Artisan Village of West Modena.

The project invites an artist or group each year to work through a residency around Afor’s content to produce an artistic work, welcoming diverse and cross-cutting languages and formats.

October 28/29/30, 2021

Darren O’Donnell – 
COMPELLING TELLING / Working in public space

workshop

Mammalian Diving Reflex / Darren O’Donnell

Info

The Phoenix
Via Canaletto Sud, 17, 41122 Modena MO

Thursday 28 // h 10-13 / 14 – 17
Friday 29 // h 10-13 / 14 – 17
Saturday 30 // h 10-13 / 14 – 16

free participation, registration via email to [email protected]
Limited places.

Compelling Telling. Working in public space is a workshop for all those, artists and non-artists, who are interested in the playful and provocative process of creating a social-specific performance with non-professional actors of all ages and social backgrounds. This workshop addresses the basic principles of audience interaction. Through a specific theoretical course, case examples, practical exercises, discussions and debates, and finally through devising and testing real performance actions in public space, participants will gain tools and input to develop their own artistic practice that is socially oriented and able to engage this real real world.

October 30, 2021

Darren O’Donnell – 
Compelling Telling | Workshop Outcome

Sacca District public space, 4 p.m.

At the end of the workshop curated by Darren O’Donnell and Chiara Prodi, participants will propose a performative action in some significant places in the Sacca neighborhood. Beginning at La Fenice, a venue and gathering point for the audience before the performance begins, Compelling Telling’s temporary art formation will test itself and the city audience.
A promoter of the idea of social acupuncture, or work that focuses on specific fragile points in the social fabric capable of unleashing connections and moving energies, Darren O’Donnell returns to Italy to spread his method of intervention in public space.

http://www.darrenodonnell.ca/

Darren O’Donnell

Novelist, essayist, playwright, director, designer and performer. His books (published by Coach House Press) include: Haircuts by Children and Other Evidence for a New Social Contract (2017), Social Acupuncture (2006), which debates an aesthetics of civic engagement, and Your Secrets Sleep with Me (2004), a novel about difference, love and the miraculous. His stage works include White Mice (1998), [boxhead] (2000), and All the Sex I’ve Ever Had (2012), all produced by Mammalian. Darren was the 2000 winner of the Pauline McGibbon Award for directing and was nominated for several Dora Awards for his writing, directing and acting, later winning one (with Naomi Campbell) for their White Mice project. His play [boxhead] was nominated for a Chalmers Award and he received a Gabriel Award for broadcast excellence for his CBC radio piece Like a Fox. Under his direction, Mammalian won the Mayor’s Arts Award for Youth in 2010, and his Mammalian Protocol for Collaborating with Children received the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children Supporter Award in 2012. Darren has a master’s degree in urban planning, a degree in acting; he also studied shiatsu and traditional Chinese medicine at The Shiatsu School of Canada.

Chiara Prodi

Artist. He studied visual arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. A collaboration with artist Veronica Billi was born in 2016. Together they create scenic devices, interactive installations, through workshops and cooperative games born out of research into what social stratification exists in the specific space in which they work.

Since 2018 he has collaborated with the Mammalian Diving Reflex company, nurturing an ever-changing and growing group of mammals who share direction and coordination of each project.

Alba Qerimaj

He studied at ITAS Natta in Milan resulting in a degree in Health Biotechnology. Since 2018, he has been collaborating as a teen in the Mammalian Diving Reflex in a pre-sequel to the Last Minutes Before Mars project, from there an increasingly close friendship and collaboration was born.

November 6/7, 2021

Elisabetta Consonni – 
I love you a public good

Artisan Village Roads.
WestLab starting point, hrs. 15.00

Concept and direction Elisabetta Consonni

In collaboration with Sara Catellani


Sociological consulting Adriano Cancellieri


Artistic consulting Cristina Pancini


Development and promotion Vittoria Lombardi/cultureandprojects

“The first person who, having fenced a piece of land, thought to say ‘this is mine’ and found people stupid enough to believe him, was the true founder of civilized society. How many crimes, how many wars, how many murders, how much misery and error would mankind have been spared who, tearing out the plinths or filling in the ditch, had shouted to his fellow man, ‘Beware of listening to this impostor! If you forget that the fruits belong to everyone and the land belongs to no one, you are lost!'”

(J.J. Russeau Origin of Inequality, 1754)

I Want You Public Good is an urban game that reflects on dividing infrastructures such as gates, walls, and fences that operate a partition within urban space, defining the ‘more or less private’ and the ‘more or less public. Everything around us is made of walls and fences; understanding their meaning, from time to time, is an extremely necessary practice to build active and critical citizenship.

Elisabetta Consonni. He choreographs everything, human and inhuman beings, moving and still objects, maps, interstices and spatial vacation groups. It weaves networks of relationships, subtle and strong, like sugar glass.

A Communications graduate with a final thesis on the social construction of the body in dance and a graduate of The Place-London, she then deepened her research in performing art while living in the Netherlands (2004-2009) and Poland (2013-2015). His works for conventional spaces aim to expand the practice of choreography by seeking performative devices to incorporate social discourse.

His activism in the social and civic spheres, takes the artistic form of a research process named Ergonomics that has been investigating the use and social meaning of public space and the declination of choreographic skills in working with marginalized groups since 2013. She has been invited to perform performance actions, participatory processes and theoretical symposia at Konfrontatje Teatralne (PL), Centrum Kultury Lublin- (PL), Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (NL), Venice Dance Biennale (IT), , Cango (Italy), Pergine Festival (Italy), Zona K (Italy), Indisciplinarte Terni (Italy), Prague Quadriennale (CZ), Orlando (IT).

October 30, 2021

The Innocent Camp – HOW ARE WE?

Tube
Lancelot Street, 10/12
6 p.m.

To return to the stage with one’s body, to return to planning and sharing in presence.
What were the conditions of this restart? The Innocent Field, a few months after the occupation of the Globe Theatre in Rome, returns to question the forms of vulnerability that distinguish the lavorat_ of culture, art and the performing arts and that turn out to be common to so many other sectors of precarious work.
How many times have you had to accept work situations and conditions that made you feel unhappy, powerless, discriminat_? Is violence always evident? If you received a guaranteed income would you work under the same conditions? Is it possible to say NO? How to make the struggle sustainable?
Beginning with these and other reflections around the themes of mutualism and income support, art accessibility, authorship and shared practices, the appointment will take the form of a nomadic and intersectional public assembly to listen to how we are and continue to remake the world.

The Innocent Field is a zone of shifting imagination, a fluid grouping of people: artist_, ricercat_, live art lavorat_, mutant creatures.
We want to draw attention to the pressing issues of precarity, violence, ableism, sexism, colonialism, racism, and homolesbobitransphobia that still survive in the art world, which can no longer boast of being a place apart, because art is not an innocent field.

https://www.facebook.com/ilcampoinnocente

Sunday, November 21, 2021

Marilyne Grimmer – Postcards from Elsewhere

OvestLab
Via Nicolò Biondo, 86 – Modena
4 p.m.

“Accompany me to your favorite corner of the city and I will teleport you to the place of your dreams!”

During April 2021, Belgian artist Marilyne Grimmer met with a group of Artisan Village residents, engaging them in a process of constructing photographic postcards that combined a love for their city with a longing for elsewhere. After meeting and walking together, Grimmer captured the subjects at a specific spot in the Village, then made a photomontage that transports a small piece of Modena to other places in the world. The artist also shared his journey with the editorial staff of Slingshot, which in issue 4 collects original postcards printed by the artist.

November 14, 2021

Iaconesi / Persico – Alchemy of new living

Residency and public meeting

OvestLab
Via Nicolò Biondo, 86 – Modena
5 p.m.

Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico

artists, researchers, teachers and cultural agitators, have been living and working together since 2006. Authors of global works and performances united by their exploration of contemporary technological humanity and its continuous mutation, they are founders of AOS – Art is Open Source and HER: She Loves Data, the networks and research centers they use to study the psychological and data and computational implications. Since 2020, they have been engaged in the establishment of the New Living Foundation and ARNA, the Archives of Rituals of New Living, which represents the evolution of their journey. “Incuria,” forthcoming from Sossella Editore, tells how and why the fledgling foundation is inspired by the anthropology of Rome and its particular urban philosophy, the fruits of millennia of interaction with power.

Together they have written Digital Urban Acupuncture (Springer, 2016), The Cure (Codice Editore, 2016), Read/Write Reality (FakePress Publishing, 2011), Romaeuropa FakeFactory (DeriveApprodi, 2011) and Angel_F: life diary of an artificial intelligence (Castelvecchi, 2009).

Sunday, November 28, 2021

Virgil Sieni – 
Before the eyes of others

Choreography and Interpretation Virgilio Sieni

Live music, Francesco Cammarata, guitar

Production Company Virgilio Sieni

Theatre Le Merlan Scene Nationale à Marseille

Before the eyes of others is a rare project, which is built from encounters with people and communities.

The show was born in 2012 at the invitation of the Museum of Memory in Bologna, as a testimony and denunciation of the Ustica tragedy of June 27, 1980; starting from this experience, the desire to continue the journey through new opportunities of encounter was born.
To date the project has been carried out in addition to Bologna, in Gibellina with the participation of Belice earthquake victims, in Modena and Sarzana with the participation of the last remaining partisans, in Milan where Virgilio Sieni dedicated the work to the Piazza Fontana massacre, and in Brescia dedicated to the victims of Piazza della Loggia.
The structure of the work is articulated in a hand-to-hand transition that takes place between Sieni and the guests: the participants are fully involved in adjacent dances, in contact, as continuous resonances from within, plots that from time to time are composed with respect to individual identities. Everything refers to each person’s lived experience, to the events that have traced different existences. “Wanting to meet these people,” says Virgilio Sieni, “who by their existence remind us of the need for sharing in events and tragedies, becomes for me a ‘game of touch’ that continuously wants to render dignity, freedom and redemption to the condition of belonging to a body. Opening an inexhaustible cycle of dances in memory coincides, finally, with my being in dance.”

– to follow

What is the purpose of theater?
Crafts and Theater
meeting with Oliviero Ponte di Pino
with the participation of Virgilio Sieni and Angelo Canali

Virgil Sieni is an Italian dancer and choreographer, an internationally active artist for top theatrical and musical institutions, art foundations and museums. His research is based on the idea of the body as a place to accommodate diversity and as a space to develop the archaeological complexity of gesture. He creates his language from the concept of transmission and tactility, with an interest in the haptic and multisensory dimensions of gesture and the individual, delving into the themes of resonance, gravity and the poetic, political, scientific and archaeological multitude of the body.

She is trained in art disciplines and architecture, devoting herself in parallel to research on body languages and dance. 

In 1992 he created Compagnia Virgilio Sieni, establishing himself as one of the leading figures on the international contemporary scene. Since 2003, he has directed CANGO Cantieri Goldonetta in Florence, a National Dance Production Center for research and transmission on body languages, a space for hospitality and artist residencies, in an interdisciplinary program between dance, music and visual arts.

In 2007, he founded the Academy on the Art of Gesture, established to create and deepen training contexts aimed at people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities, on the idea of a gesture community. Develops paths in cities and territories based on the idea of participation, listening to the body and regeneration of the territory. In 2018, he founded The School on Gesture and Landscape, a training context to explore the relationship between body and territory: from nature to gesture and vice versa, from the memory of movement to the creation of new urban geographies. Founds and directs, following a regeneration process, a space located in the Cascine Park, PIA | Palazzina Indiano Arte. The building is home to the school but more importantly a permanent resting place and laboratory for dancers, citizens, researchers, students, amateurs and the public.

He was Director of the Dance Biennale from 2013 to 2016, developing a four-year plan on the concept of inhabiting the world and the idea of polis and democracy, conceiving the city through its metaphysics.

http://www.virgiliosieni.it/

Sunday, November 21, 2021
Slingshot – Artisan Village Collective Magazine
Issue 4 – BALENO

OvestLab
Via Nicolò Biondo, 86 – Modena
4 p.m.

with the participation of Marilyne Grimmer

Slingshot – Collective Magazine of the Artisan Village of West Modena is an editorial project edited by Amigdala and a participatory and open editorial team of citizens and people who work or live in the Artisan Village. On a completely voluntary basis, since 2017 participants have been meeting together to discuss content and issues around which to think about a magazine. These people share the bet to remove the dust that parallel to its economic decline has settled on the Craftsman Village and wiped it off the map of the city, to bring back to light the things that even if they still exist can no longer be seen, make their voices heard and reconstruct new imaginaries around them.
Each issue is based on a keyword around which to establish unexplored connections between physical and science fiction dimensions, between dramatic everyday life, glorious memory and fantastic hope.
As part of Peripheral 2021, the fourth issue of the magazine titled BALENO is presented, which investigates the phenomenon of the phantasmagorical appearance of light through the figurative and physical gateways it opens. Conceived during the second lockdown caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, Slingshot and his Whale pose as a flame of light that appears unknowingly in the darkness of a journey and can only be grasped with the combination of deep hope and unrelenting tenacity.

https://collettivoamigdala.com/portfolio-page/fionda/