Public Program
XII edition
The life of things
and the invisible qualities of objects
The exhibition was enriched by performative interventions and a video dance screening programme with a selection of national and international titles aimed at awakening the expression of physical language in relation to the things that surround us.
We are used to surrounding ourselves with objects, inanimate bodies that live around us, participating in our actions and motionless in becoming. What do objects tell us? How do they permeate our bodies? Dance, on and off screen, invites us to awaken our perception of the extensions of the body, of the relationships between more or less animate subjects, and of the mutations of space and time.
The Public Programme of the twelfth edition of Video Sound Art revolves around Videodance with a proposal never seen before in Italy, where the language that unites movement and the camera still remains largely unexplored.
Bianca Ambrosio, screening program coordinator
Candoco Dance Company e Jo Bannon
Feeling Thing
In Feeling Thing by London-based Candoco Dance Company and artist Jo Bannon, three performers establish an intimate dialogue with an object: a ladder, a fan, a hoover. The accompaniment is provided by ASMR – Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response – that is the sensation of relaxing tingling in the back of the head when actions such as whispering, hair brushing, scratching and hitting are heard or experienced. The viewer is thus invited to immerse themselves in a sensory, illogical and disturbing space in which all things are alive.
Silvia Giordano
Fresh oranges into the Ocean
Three oranges trace the delicate passage of three young women into adulthood through a metaphorical narration of their present condition and their projections into the future. In an intimate feminine journey between high and low tides, turbulence and contradictions, calm and turmoil, Fresh oranges into the ocean invites a poetic reflection on today’s existential themes in relation to nature.
Park So-Hyun
Pallae: Womanhood Story
With Pallae: Womanhood Story by Korean director Park So-Hyun, an activity as simple as laundry becomes a performative and narrative action set in a remote structure where bodies emerge in all their strength. The film takes its inspiration from Nam Jeongho’s contemporary dance performance Pallae, first presented in 1993.
Ensemble Kotoji
Performance di taiko
During the opening day, Video Sound Art hosted a taiko performance by the Kotoji ensemble. The protagonists of the musical intervention are the traditional Japanese drums that, throughout history, have conveyed multiple meanings. From being an instrument of communication, to serving as an incitement in battle, their use during ceremonies of various kinds – religious, earth fertility rites, social festivals – makes them objects of strong symbolic power.
Silvia Giordano
How can you float without sinking?
How can you float without sinking? is a site-specific performance, a score for three female bodies, which established a dialogue with the video work Con te by Letizia Cariello (LETIA).
In this case, I worked on the immersion of the bodies in dialogue with Letizia Cariello (LETIA)‘s installation work, inviting the dancers to establish a connection with specific sections of the unfolding landscape, a process that starts from the emotional experience to connect perception and individual weaving.
Silvia Giordano
Antonio Perticara, winner of the Open Call
Drilling Down
Starting from the observation of a familiar tool such as the drill, the Drilling down lecture-performance focuses on its application outside the ordinary context.
The artist proposes a reinterpretation of the ancient surgical practice of drilling, which is still half-known and characterised by a perturbing underlying ambiguity.
Devoted to the conspiracy studies and conspiracy fantasies that have interested the debate in recent decades, the project connects a multitude of case studies: from the Neolithic age to 90’s electronic music, passing through the self-styled medieval practices of curing madness, up to today’s requests for drilling in online forums, cartoons, brainbloodvolume theory and much more.
XII edition
The life of things
and the invisible qualities of objects
22 – 28 September 2022
Opening times:
from h 19:00 to h 24:00*
*Saturday 24 September from
h 22:00 to h 1:00.
Opening:
Thursday 22 September, h 19:00
Venue:
Teatro Carcano
Corso di Porta Romana, 63,
MM3 Crocetta, Milan
With the contribution of:
Fondazione Cariplo
Chiesa Valdese
Mondriaan Fund
Netherlands embassy
With the patronage of:
Comune di Milano – Milano è Viva
Consulate General of Japan in Milan
Open Call in collaboration with:
Associazione Amici di Duccio
Curated by Video Sound Art
Artistic direction and curator
Laura Lamonea
Open Call Coordinator
Francesca Colasante
Screening Program Coordinator
Bianca Ambrosio
Education
Thomas Ba
Gaia Lazzerini
Agnese dell’Omo
Ileana Rutigliano
Production
Lino Palena
Anita Wilczega
Carlo di Florio
Visual identity
Ilaria Roglieri
Press office and communication
Francesca Mainardi
Sofia Gemelli
Communication consultant
Valentina Letizia
Technical department
Dario Leone
Cesare Rossi
Administration
Giovanni Licari