concept and direction: Chiara Bortoli
performers: Alessandro Bevilacqua, Chiara Bortoli, Francesca Contrino, Marina Fornasier, Matteo Maffesanti, Vasco Manea, Giada Meggiolaro, Martina Peretti, Francesca Raineri, Monica Zucchetti
year: 2012
duration: 30′
Ten performers, side by side, carry out, in a unison, a score of actions suggested by an MP3 player. The track is the same for each one of them: it is a common score, made of daily and extra-daily gestures, of words, stories, inner states and pure presence, aimed at composing a cross-section of a possible portrait. The use of the MP3 player enables an estranging syncrony, which would be unachievable with other means.
The performers go in and out of individual actions by clean cuts, with no time for preparation nor pre-set actions, thus linking themselves resolutely to fragments of their own identity.
“Identity is what makes two things the same thing or what makes them different”.
Performed in:
- Mogliano Veneto, Stazione FS (Festival A piede libero 2015)
- Como, Piazza Duomo (Esposizione Boston-Como 2013)
- Pontelagoscuro, Argine del Po (TotemArtFestival 2013)
- Berlino, Emerson Gallery + Tempelhof (Buongiorno/Arriverderci” Sommerfest der internationalen Kunst 2012)
- Vicenza, Ponte S.Michele (Evento Be Aware 2012)
- Mogliano Veneto, Stazione FS (Festival A piede libero 2012)
