curated by Ilaria Mancia
Pelanda is opening its doors to the public with a new movement of artistic appearances by re-creatures. Installations and performance events staged from March to the summer at an ever-growing rhythm will breathe life into the space in synergy with the other educational, research and production activities that are played out in Mattatoio. The artists presenting their work create tangencies among the various different projects, showcasing works produced during their Prender-si cura residencies or sharing their practices during MAP_PA (Master in Performance Arts run by the Palaexpo and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma) postgrad course and free workshops.
re-creatures is an invitation to publicly share in a multifaceted network of proposals linked to the different languages of the performance arts, in the belief that artistic research and discursive and critical practices are the most effective tools for overcoming identity-related prejudice, for activating dialogue (including among different species), for preventing conflict escalation and for working on coming to terms with the lunacy of human destructiveness. Today more than ever before.
Openings in May are following hot on each other’s heels in an attempt to create an ambiance in which bodies, through being, turn their presence into an “intense becoming”, a multiplicity in which the difference, a chant, a lamentation, a ritual isare given voice.
This space for experimentation where different languages flow together in an encounter, highlights an attempt to decipher the invisible, which is removed, hidden, through forms of experience of the "animal", human, vocal body.
The artists present in the program shed light on the need to ritualize being together, causing spatial, immersive and sensorial resonance to emerge in the need to tune into listening in a collective and public dimension.
Aspiring to poetry knowing that it is unreachable is a political act which comprises care, danger and self-awareness.
Image: Motus, you were nothing but wind | 2021 ©Vladimir Bertozzi