CONSTELLATIONS
The following are decentralised constellations of critical encounters, which have formed part of our collective productions of performance operas and temporary artistic communities over the past years. They inform our understanding of collaborative formats of art-making and are essential in creating opportunities in production and pedagogy. We share a common philosophy of opening, sharing and holding inclusive and brave spaces for radical art production.
ANAM CARA COLLECTIVE
Since 2018
We are part of the fluid collective of performance artists, sound artists, researchers and writers co-creating in various non-hierarchical constellations, including but not limited to artists from the Northern Hemisphere. We work in production and education through performance operas, temporary artistic communities, residential educational programs and performance-based film.
With VestAndPage (DE/IT), Aldo Aliprandi (IT), Marianna Andrigo (IT), Marilyn Arsem (US), Irina Baldini (IT/FI), Sabrina Bellenzier (IT), Giorgia de Santi (IT), daz disley (UK), Nicola Fornoni (IT), Marisa Garreffa (AU/IT), Francesco Kiais (IT/GR), Fenia Kotsopoulou (GR/UK), Ash McNaughton (UK), Enok Ripley (CA), Sara Simeoni (IT/DE), Mauro Sambo (IT), Joseph Morgan Schofield (UK), Marcel Sparmann (DE), Susanne Weins (DE). Emily Welther (US), the cultural associations Studio Contemporaneo (Venice, IT), Live Arts Cultures (Venice, IT), EntrAxis e.V., (Neckarsulm, DE), Atelier Performative Künste (Düsseldorf, DE).
Production highlights
ART WEEK | Summer Class, joint pedagogy, Venice (IT), since 2013
ANAM CARA – Dwelling Body, collective performance opera, Palazzo Mora, Venice (IT), 2018
ANAM CARA – Mirror in the Mirror, collective performance-based feature film, 2020
STRATA, collective performance-based film (DE), 2021/22
UNDER SCARS, collective performance opera, Palazzo Mora, Venice (IT), 2022
LA POCHA NOSTRA
Since 2016
We collaborate with La Pocha Nostra, the transdisciplinary arts organization founded in 1993 in Los Angeles around Mexican/Chicano performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña, that provides a support network and forum for artists of various disciplines, generations, gender complexities and ethnic backgrounds. La Pocha is devoted to erasing the borders between art and politics, art practice and theory, artist and spectator. For 25+ years, LPN has intensely focused on the notion of collaboration across national borders, race, gender and generations as an act of radical citizen diplomacy and as a means to create "ephemeral communities” of rebel artists.
With Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Balitronica Gómez, La Saula, and many more.
Collaboration highlights
Venice International Performance Art Week, Palazzo Mora, Venice (IT), 2016
ART WEEK | Summer Class, joint pedagogy, Venice (IT), 2017
SIGNUM, performance-based short film, Formentera (ES), 2018
NO MORE IDOLS, collective performance opera, Sculpture Quadrennial, Riga (LT), 2019
ISOLE COMPRESE TEATRO
2005-2011
We were part of the Applied Theatre group based in Florence, IT, whose very name indicates the aim to integrate and include people belonging to the most disadvantaged categories: young people at risk, disabled persons and former drug addicts living on the margins of society. Through both the training of Applied Theatre actors and dramaturgies that speak about the participants' experiences, Isole Comprese Teatro expresses a method of theatrical research in continuous transformation, in which cognitive, emotional and social intelligence coexist and act.
Artistic direction: Elena Turchi and Alessandro Fantechi.
Above images © No Limits Festival / Isole Comprese Teatro
Production highlights
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Hamlet, Emperor's Castle, Prato (IT), Cantieri Florida, Florence (IT), 2005
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Ex and Ex Requiem, Cantieri Florida, Florence (IT), La Città del Teatro, Pisa (IT), 2006
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Corpo 1 Prologo, Cantieri Florida, Florence (IT); madness & arts Worldfestival II, Pumpenhaus Theatre, Münster (DE); No Limits Festival, Maschinenhaus Theatre/Ballhaus Ost, Berlin (DE); Okkupation! Festival, Rote Fabrik, Zurich (CH); Open Ohr Festival, Mainz, (DE); Volterra Teatro (IT); La Fabbrica delle Idee, Racconigi (IT), 2005-2007
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Project Redbox, Contemporanea, Prato (IT), 2007
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The Exterminating Angel, Il Fabbricone Theatre, Prato (IT), 2007
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Fondamenti di Difettologia, Cantieri Florida, Florence (IT); Maschinenhaus Theatre, Berlin (DE), 2007-2008
