Italiano
MARSALA is an artistic collective born in 2013 from the meeting between Maralla Rita and Teresa Sala. We develop multimedia projects of research about the relationship between body, gender, identity and space. In addition to produce audiovisual materials, “Marsala” promote a visual anthropology workshop aimed to explore the relationship between city and identities in the contemporary society. Rita is a visual anthropologist specialized in different forms of expression: video, collage, installation, photography and writing. Teresa works as a filmmaker and director, alternating commercial work in independent projects. Always interested in the performing arts, in 2015 she writes and directed her first play, “Sanificata”: a monologue about the obsession for cleaning body and spaces.
Tecnicha: performance
Stella Stefania Gagliano
Stella Stefania Gagliano studied Visual Arts at IUAV, in Venice, and graduated in Bologna at the Fine Arts School. At the same time she practiced theatre, dance and contemporary dance.
She paints on blank canvases nailed to the wall using clay and black charcoal, working on the individual, the human being, evil and madness as well as each peculiarity that makes us different from the rest.
Goghi&Goghi
Goghi&Goghi is an artistic collective project born by the ideas of Mara Pieri, actress and performer, and Elia Covolan, director and illustrator. Goghi&Goghi work on several artistic projects aiming at fusing different artistic languages, based on an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach, from theater to performance, from video to illustration and installation.
Their production is especially focused on gender issues, transexuality, migration, identity and sexuality. They have worked in Italy, Argentina, Chile, Norway and Spain, with the aim of creating a continous, reciprocous dialogue between approaches and skills.
Riccardo Buscarini
Award-winning choreographer Riccardo Buscarini trained at Accademia Domenichino in Piacenza, Italy, and London Contemporary Dance School graduating in 2009. Since then he has been presenting – and often performing in – his own work in the UK and internationally. Riccardo has also taught choreography and performance at Birkbeck University and lead improvisation and composition workshops internationally.
A curious person of eclectic inspirations, Riccardo is an artist focussed on constantly changing his creative approach to choreography driven by a strong desire for the new. His works to date are all quite different. Although his works have taken different shapes and have been presented in very diverse contexts – theatres, galleries and urban spaces – Riccardo is often inspired by autobiographical events translated in viscerally symbolic expressions.
Margherita Elliot
Margherita Elliot is a performer and movement maker originally from Ferrara (IT) and currently based in London. Her artistic practice started mainly with the division of movement-based solo live performance events (artistic label: M.E. Lonely Artist).
In early January 2014 she formed Live Studio Casserole in order to upgrade her practice to a more collaborative and interdisciplinary one; her projects involve movement as well as cinematic imagery, collaborations with visual artists, sound, and creative writing.
Shakinart Community
“ShakinArt” is an artistic Italian duo, active in the field of visual arts and more particularly in Performing Art. Founded by Marco Zocca JeanPierre (musician, writer and visual artist) and Jonathan De Checchi (visual artist and theater actor), the artistic duo is supported by an ever-changing pool of young artists, such as: painters, musicians, actors, writers;
The aim is to go beyond the boundaries of the personal artistic features, channeling them in the implementation of an shocking art experience, designed to interact and communicate with the public in a profound way.
ideadestroyingmuros
ideadestroyingmuros es un colectivo nacido en venecia en 2005. consideramos imprescindible posicionarnos políticamente en la creación artística. esta práctica ha hecho posible la elaboración de procesos geopolíticos y sociales que nos han atravesado, por medio de la interpretación y la traducción de nuestras experiencias singulares y colectivas.
la perspectiva que hemos compartido se basa en diferentes posiciones fronterizas en relación con los conceptos de nación, género, sexo, lengua y creación, con los cuales buscamos juntas nuevos modos de entender y de practicar resistencia, de realizar procesos creativos, recorridos auto-antropológicos y de autogestión. el auto-empoderamiento y la desgarradura de las relaciónes de poder que tejen lo cotidiano “ideal” nos ayudan a entender los mecanismos de mercado y refuerzan nuestra capacidad de negociación. gracias a esto, reencontramos una conciencia de nuestro valor, que no radica en la explotación y en la medida única del neoliberalismo, sino en la creación de nuevas formas.
Eyes Wild Drag
Eyes Wild Drag is a queer-gender-drag group based in Rome that has worked for several years experimenting with genders, roles and erotic imaginary which represent the main forms of expression employed by women in Italy.
Attivist* queer, they curate workshops and drag events (standing on the thin line between harrowing absurdity and magic poetry), they rediscover and redraw the imaginary feminine queer and they organise Genderotica, an international festival of queer art. In 2012 they travelled around the world for exhibiting their work in different European cities and US states.
In 2013 they were guests of Arte Fiera di Verona, the biggest art fair of Verona, in the space curated by association Cuntemporary. In 2013, they organised the most activist and international edition of GendErotica, bringing for the first time within the Italian queer community the concept of Fem. In the same occasion, they established the first Italian (and European) Fem Conference with the help and contribution of many activists and teachers coming from around the world. They’ve currently been working on the new GendErotica.
Anna Ramasco
Anna Ramasco inscena performances collettive volte a superare la diffidenza verso i “diversi” grazie a turbini leggeri, ironici e positivi che li vedono protagonisti. Ha particolare attenzione alle disabilità, soprattutto alla sordità. La performance “50 segnanti” si è svolta a Palazzo Grassi nel Maggio 2014 all’interno dell’atmosfera straniante di un’opera di Doug Wheeler.
Nella performance individuale “La fioraia” ArtVerona 2013 una sessualità a tratti drammatica, morbida o kitch viene festeggiata in una danza in cui falli fatti a mano o acquistati vengono inseriti in vasi di piante fiorite.
Gennaro Maione
Gennaro Maione got trained as a ballet and contemporary dancer at “Ballet Teatro Scuola Rossella Rossi” in Naples and in order to refine his skills attends seminars, lectures and workshops in Berlin at the contemporary dance schools Tanzfabrik and Dock 11 and in Brussels at DCJ contemporary dance school and Thor company.
His project Piel il.el takes its cue from the French novel by T. Jonquet “Tarantula”, then played in the movie by Spanish director Pedro Almodovar “The Skin I Live In.”
It is a performance on the theme of identity. What’s identity? Who can really know? Why is there still a need to confuse “gender identity” with “gender role”?
[…] Gender and sex are two separate things, even though the two words are often used interchangeably. Sex is a physical element whereas “Gender” is a component of identity which is placed in the brain.