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Prague Quadrennial’s Symposium

Schermata 2024-09-15 alle 21.15.37


 

We invite you to Prague Quadrennial’s symposium on Technologies in theatre, performance, and exhibition design. Together with almost a hundred speakers from 30 countries across six continents, we will be exploring the multi-dimensional dynamic of technologies in theatre, performance, and exhibition design.

SYMPOSIUM: ‘TECHNOLOGIES’

Technologies in theatre, performance, and exhibition design

Whether old or new, high or low, digital or analogue, technologies, or different tools, instruments, devices, equipment, machines, and machinery, are potential and potent resources in the scenographic process. The recent technological developments that require more specialized knowledge and expertise have brought on the need and the opportunity for scenographers and designers to collaborate with scientists, engineers, and industry partners. While pushing the boundaries of what is possible in performance, employing these most advanced technologies is conditioned by access, stemming from material, institutional, and political conditions in which we produce art. Moreover, our ideas of technologies are often reduced to Western notions of progress and innovation.

Together with more than 80 speakers from 30 countries across six continents – performance designers, scenographers, makers, artists, and researchers who work with and on technologies – we will be exploring the multi-dimensional dynamic of technologies in theatre, performance, and exhibition design.

 

 

Vir – OPERA HACKATON

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Visual Artist: Azzurra De Gregorio
Libretto: Pier Lorenzo Pisano
Composer: Ljubomir Nicolic
Director: Máté Czakó
Concept: Mate Czako, Ljubomir Nikolic, Pier Lorenzo Pisano
Artists: Francesco Venturi, Bojan Milinkovic, Alice Norma Lombardi, Patryk Tiktak Matela, Azzurra De Gregorio, Mate Czako, Pier Lorenzo Pisano, Ljubomir Nikolic, Thea Soti, Balázs Várnai, Marko Dulic.

VIR is an opera hackathon, which is based on the concept of open work with parts containing verbal instructions, sheet music – classical music notes and graphic symbols. The improvisational parts will be carried out within the “already prepared” sound-painting live composing language. In addition the artists use specially reconstructed or newly created instruments made for this occasion.
Stages of VIR:

-> 12 July, 20:00 – Lepenski Vir, Serbia
-> 14 July, 20:00 – Dorcol Platz, Belgrade
-> 18 July, 18:00 – Museo Sigismondo Castromediano, Lecce

-> 22-23 July, 18.30 – Valley of Arts Festival,Kapolcs, Hungary

FIRST EUROPE PROJECT behind VIR aims to promote and celebrate Europe’s archaeological heritage, with a special focus on the fascinating site of Lepenski Vir in Serbia, which formed one of the oldest settlements in Europe, hence the name of our project: FIRST EUROPE.

Partners of the project:
Y csoport
ECCOM – Idee per la Cultura
Lepenski Vir

First Europe project is co-funded by the Creative Europe project of the EU.

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Arts festival on and around the canals

REIEFESTIVAL

Schermata 2023-05-11 alle 23.48.13

Fourteen national and    international makers and    artists created shows in   keeping with Bruges’ status as  a World Heritage site. Each  maker tackled the theme of “Faith” in order to make their own personal interpretation. From 18 to 20 August, you will discover how their ideas have been transformed into theatre, dance, art performances, music and more at various locations along the Bruges canals.
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P.G.R. (PRO GRATIA RECEPTA)

WORKSHOP Azzurra De Gregorio

During this participatory project, Azzurra De Gregorio explores the magic     and rituals behind faith as well as the role of ex-votos together with the    public. Participants make their own ex-votos, with inspiration drawn from different countries and historical periods, and experience new forms of hybrid and shared rituals.

With the support of Erfgoedcel Brugge, CC Brugge and Musea Brugge

P.G.R. (PRO GRATIA RECEPTA)

  PROCESSION Azzurra De Gregorio

P.G.R. is for all visitors to the Reiefestival who would like to thank someone   or something for granting their wishes. The ex-votos made during the workshop will be offered to a mysterious figure during a boat procession, who will then perform a ritual on the water.

With the support of Erfgoedcel Brugge, CC Brugge and Musea Brugge

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MY PARTICIPATION @ DANSATHON 2021

DANCE + HACKATHON = DANSATHON

DANSATHON

DANSATHON is a 3 days connected, collaborative, European event to imagine the future of dance.

At the crossroads between dance and new technologies to imagine new artistic forms, new stages, new experiences and new ways to engage. Combining the best of these two worlds to imagine the dance of tomorrow, enhance cultural life and social interactions. These are the aim of the DANSATHON project.

Initiated by BNP Paribas Foundation, the Dansathon is co-organised and developed in partnership with three major Dance Institutions :

  • La Maison de la Danse de Lyon (France)
  • Sadler’s Wells (UK)
  • Théâtre de Liège (Belgium)

Mix dance and technology to imagine new forms of art, new stages, new experiences and interactions.Combine the best of two worlds to imagine the future of dance, enrich cultural life and increase social interaction. This is our aspiration with the DANSATHON.

Dance is a language which can create a shared sense of belonging, of endeavour, of experience. The Dansathon proposes to explore how this can be retained while embracing the opportunities of new technologies.

Today, dance exists in theatres, in the city, on the web. Theatres are important actors of the city and play a major role in people’s social and cultural life. In the digital era, they search for new paths to connect with their community and talk to new audience.

Mixing dance and technology, can we create new artistic forms? What kind of performance can we imagine? What kind of new experience? How can we make dance more viral and accessible?

How can digital dance cross boundaries, social, physical, cultural? How can theatres better contribute to a rich and harmonious urban life? 

How can we multiply positive collective experience? What would be a digital dancing society?

This 2nd edition, if the global health situation allows, will take place between 19-21 November 2021 in the Média Rives Studios of Radio-Télévision belge francophone.

POIETIKA ART FESTIVAL

MACCHINE UMANE

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Artist network About the Future Festival

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SPAZIO 1 PALAZZO GIL

“Non c’è nessun luogo che non ne contenga un altro, così come non c’è nessun confine che non offra un varco.”
Poietika torna con la sua sesta edizione, dedicata al tema del “Confine” non limite, ma margine di contatto e di condivisione.
Un’edizione che guarda a un nuovo inizio, dopo un anno di assenza, ma anche alle problematiche del mondo contemporaneo quali Afganistan, diritti dell’uomo.
Appuntamento dal 13 ottobre, prevendita e prenotazioni dal 4 su
Poietika è organizzato da Fondazione Molise Cultura e cofinanziato da Regione Molise Visit Molise Patto per lo Sviluppo del Molise e patrocinato dal Comune di Campobasso e Unimol
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APOTROPAICA, MY NEW TEXT FOR VOGUE ITALIA

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Creature fiabesche difformi, contornate da    un’aura di perturbante bellezza, emergono lentamente da un paesaggio misterioso, dando corpo e bellezza alle nostre paure più recondite. La visione di simili creature è possibile solo se scegliamo di guardarle intenzionalmente, solo se accettiamo che dentro di noi abiti una parte oscura, lunare, non addomesticabile. Accettare significa vedere, e vedere conoscere, portare alla luce. Accade dunque che imparare a praticare questo tipo di sguardo ci coinvolga in una battaglia perenne ma necessaria. Come aveva infatti ben compreso Nietzsche: “Chi combatte con i mostri deve guardarsi dal non diventare egli stesso un mostro. E se guarderai a lungo nell’abisso, l’abisso guarderà dentro di te”.

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Fotografia Ryan Simo
Art Direction Fabio Messana
Styling Nicola Pantano
Visual Artist Mariano Franzetti
Modella Marija Emilova
Nails Carlotta Saettone @WM Management
Video director Angelica Calia e Giuseppe Biancullo @NeoVideoProduction
Testi Azzurra de Gregorio