VIE TALKS

 

Saturday 15th October
PER ORA LABORA

Talk about Cantiere delle Arti managed by Piergiorgio Giacchè
Biblioteca Delfini, Modena, 11.00 a.m.

The actor’s work is an unending training on himself, as an instrument but also as a result. An instrument at the work’s disposal but also – if he’s able to – the result to become a work on his own. After all, which is the highest finishing line of theatre, but for producing actors?
The actor condition, more than the others arts and entertainment professions, forces him to a constantly personal research work that goes together with a perpetual professional research of work.

It isn’t a wordplay and least of all a contradiction, but it’s the necessary combination of two inseparable “work”: there’s no learning, growth, improvement of the actor but for concrete work opportunities. Il Cantiere delle Arti, instead of the perpetual “training course”, proposes an occasional “vocational training”. Is it a wordplay or a way to keep in touch and even in short circuit the actor’s work and a work for the actor? That’s the topic of the meeting in which will take part the actors of the Cantiere, their theatre teachers but also other colleagues and guests, that will give their contribution to this eternal and careless problem of the “work and its double”.

Entrance to the talk is free.

VIE BOOKS

Three are the appointments with the publishing area, rare and significant occasions to deepen the contemporary scenic reality.

Marco De Marinis, who will be exceptionally assisted by Pippo Delbono, opens on Sunday 16 at 12 and he introduces his new book Il teatro dell’altro.Interculturalismo e transculturalismo nella scena contemporanea, published by La Casa Usher. In the book the issues of identity and otherness are considered as they were pointed out to the general attention by the protagonists of the two phases of the theatrical reform of the XX century and as they put today themselves in the most progressive sectors of the scene.

The second appointment (Wednesday 19, at 17.30) it’s with Piersandra Di Matteo, who introduces the upcoming book  Eccezione alla lettera. La scena di Richard Maxwell/New York City Players published by Editoria & Spettacolo. A careful and critic reading of the book traces the steps of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players’ - at VIE with Vision Disturbance - artistic history, which is marked by a special tendency to overexpose and fuel the paradigms of the stage play.

Lastly Luca Del Pia, Lucia Amara, Adele Cacciagrano, Piersandra Di Matteo e Tihana Maravic, introduce OVERGROUND - Visioni dalla scena performativa italiana (Saturday 22 at 12.00). The book, published by Boiler, collects the theoretic thinking and Luca Del Pia’s images, which are displayed at the homonymous exhibition at ex Ospedale S. Agostino. All the meetings will take place at Biblioteca Delfini in Modena.

Sunday 16th October
Marco De Marinis
presents the book Il teatro dell'altro,
Interculturalismo e transculturalismo nella scena contemporanea
La casa Usher – edizione 2011

Biblioteca Delfini, Modena / 12.00 am ( 1h 30’)

Marco de Marinis presents his new literary work entitled Il Teatro dell'altro - Interculturalismo e transculturalismo nella scena contemporanea. This one is a good chance to have a deeper look on scene reality. The book is dedicated to Pippo Delbono. This work is focused on identity and diversity analysed by contemporary theatrical masters. There are three different theoretical experiences and three guidelines: Artaud's one with his trip in Mexico (theatrical journey mixed with anthropology); Eugenio Barba and ISTA(International School of Theatre Anthropology)'s one, where anthropology become a new enquiry field and an excellent perspective on research and analysis; last but not least, Jerzy Grotowski's guideline, whose research works on the theatre as necessary tool in order to explore shapes and dimensions of diversity.











www.lacasausher.it

 

Wednesday 19th October
Piersandra Di Matteo
Presents the upcoming bookEccezione alla lettera. La scena di Richard Maxwell/New York City Players, ed Editoria & Spettacolo

Biblioteca Delfini, Modena / 5.30 p.m. ( 1h)

Richard Maxwell is a famous director, dramatist, musician and composer from New York theatrical scene. His works are formally controlled, built on a series of elements that are filling the scene with weak and useless elements. A wise critical analysis goes through Maxwell and New York City Players' works. Piersandra Di Matteo. Performing arts theorist, dramatist and independent editor. She is a researcher at DMPA, The Department of Music and Performing Arts, University of Bologna. She works on performing arts and contemporary performances, developing, in particular, researches on (mis) pronounciation in post-dramatic theatre. She is founder, together with the philosopher and performer Snejanka Mihaylova, of MONT ANALOGUE, travelling-magazine and editor project focused on the relationship between performing arts and philosophy. MONT ANALOGUE has been hosted at Critique and Humanism Megazine, Raum (Bologna), Red House (Sofia), Futura Festival (Resana), Repetition Island, Centre Poumpidou (Paris). From 2004 to 2010 she is directing the column arteatro of "exibart". From 2011 she is editor-in-chief of the magazine "TEATRO" for "Artribune". Her works appeared in many different magazines. Together with Lucia Amara, she is the editor of the book Teatri di voce, for "Culture Teatrali", 2010 yearbook. You can find her work dedicated to performative arts at Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea in Siracusa, Neon campobase in Bologna, Crisalide Festival 2010 in Forlì, Hapax, Centre Poumpidou (Paris). She has been dramatist of Parsifal by Richard Wagner, directed by Romeo Castellucci,at Teatro dell'Opera La Monnaie (Bruxelles).

www.editoriaespettacolo.it

Saturday 22th October
Luca Del Pia, Lucia Amara, Adele Cacciagrano, Piersandra Di Matteo, Tihana Maravić
present the book OVERGROUND
Boiler edizioni

Biblioteca Delfini, Modena / 12.00 a.m. ( 1h 30’)

Overground is a plural work that put in contrast three action of different nature: photography, performance and theoretic thinking. Each discipline it’s called to give his contribution, starting from his own language but also allowing possibilities of shifting, departures and overlapping. Born in 2009 from the collaboration between four scholars of contemporary theatre and performing arts – Lucia Amara, Adele Cacciagrano, Piersandra Di Matteo e Tihana Maravic – and the photographer Luca Del Pia, Overground hasstarted the homonymous editorial project (Boiler Edizioni) that has included, with the passing of time, ten performers – individual artists or groups – with the aim to investigate together the notion of the performance from different points of view.

Entrance to all the appointments is free.