XI Edition 2021 — Rythmós

From the 18th to the 25th of September Video Sound Art presented the 11th edition of the Festival with a rich programme of installations and performances was presented at two important places of scientific knowledge in the city of Milan: the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale and the Planetario Ulrico Hoepli.

The theme of the eleventh edition of the Festival was rhythm, starting with cycles of cosmic and biological origin, from the motions of celestial bodies to the human body.

There is a beat that crosses all the elements, so that distinct parts are in perfect symbiosis. Rhythm is the basis of every social and natural phenomenon, the essence of every organism, and perhaps of the whole world. A dance without music that combines the frequency of a breath with the vibration of a quartz, the motion of a car with the beating wings of a bat, up to the cosmic motions of the Moon, the Sun and the stars. Laura Lamonea, curator

The 2021 programme, which continued with Gestus at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi in Venice, aimed to explore the relational practices by which the individual discovers the cosmos, trains to hear rhythms without being able to listen to them, and learns to embrace previously alien gestures and thoughts. A research on physical actions, starting from the reflections of the great theatrical masters of the 20th century (Copeau, Mejerchol’d, Artaud, Grotowski), in order to follow the traces they have left in contemporary art and performance, certain of the topicality and transformative power they still possess.