From 4pm, continuous Monte di Pietà, Performances, Lorraine de Sagazan
Texts written by Laura Vazquez (Italian translation, Luca Bondioli)
with Azzurra Fiume, Amandine Pudlo, Benjamin Tholozan
La Brèche (compagnie conventionnée par le ministère de la Culture – DRAC Ile-de-France) and the Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis
Company administration, production and distribution: Altermachine
In French and Italian
Based on 200 testimonials, the Monte di Pietà installation is an attempt to visualize the pain associated with the consequences of injustice. The space presents itself as a sanctuary of sorrows; the objects installed there, collected by director Lorraine de Sagazan during her residency in Rome, are all associated with the memory of a wrong suffered at the hands of the people encountered. The installation is activated by a performance combining improvisation and stories about these objects written by Laura Vazquez.
From 4pm, continuous: parassita/ simbiosi/ la mia vita, Performance, Liv Schulman
with Bianca Friscelli
In Italian
An alter ego of the artist moves around the exhibition halls and, from time to time, approaches visitors to whisper in their ears intimate stories and tiny episodes linked to his life.
From 4:30 pm : Tri sélectif, Installation / Performance, Hortense de Corneillan
with the collaboration of the Villa Medici Art History Department
In French from 4:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
In Italian from 5:00 p.m.
In 2012, the partial collapse of a retaining wall at the Villa Medici took with it part of the Bosco embankment, uncovering several thousand fragments of ancient objects, once recycled as earthworks material. Arranging them one by one on the ground, as if to create a panorama of a forgotten daily life, restorer Hortense de Corneillan exposes to the public these vestiges of an intimacy dating back over 2,000 years. A video shot by one of the workers on site accompanies the installation.
In the flowery meadow of the Festival des Cabanes
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm: Program of readings and lectures
– Il marmo messo in scena, Conference and projection, Ariane Varela Braga
with Maria Grazia D’Amelio
In Italian
Duration: 20 minutes
Art historian Ariane Varela Braga talks to Maria Grazia D’Amelio, Professor of Architectural History in Rome, about the construction of the obelisk dedicated to Mussolini at Rome’s Foro Italico. The conversation is combined with a screening of the documentary, Le fasi del trasporto del monolite utilizzato per l’erezione dell’obelisco dedicato a Mussolini al Foro Italico (1927 – 1930) by Archivio Luce.
– Griot.t.e.s, Performance reading, Bocar Niang
In French, Wolof and Italian
Duration: 20 minutes
Originally from Senegal, Bocar Niang is heir to an oral culture handed down by the griots and griottes who trained him in the arts of memory and storytelling. Author of two collections of texts and articles, Niang offers a performance reading in several languages – French, Wolof and Italian.
– Le peuple innocent des fleurs, Reading, Marion Grébert
Chapter from the essay written during the residency year, to be published by L’Atelier contemporain
In French
Duration: 15 minutes
Marion Grébert, art historian and essayist, reads two chapters from her book written during the residency year, to be published by L’Atelier contemporain. From a perspective of visual anthropology, Marion Grébert offers a history of European artistic, political and economic modernity through a deceptively tiny story: that of flowers.
– Ius deambulandi, Reading, Sarah Vanuxem
Reading and presentation of the newspaper series Ius deambuli
In French
Duration: 15 minutes
Lawyer Sarah Vanuxem presents the first seven issues of Ius deambulandi, the journal of freedom of movement in an age of ecological upheaval, and reads some excerpts.
7:30pm – 8pm: Needy Greedy, Performance, Lasseindra Ninja
with Steve City (voice), Perry Gits (voice), Kyara (voice), Lorenzo di Marzo (dance), Lana Milan (voice)
Duration: 25 minutes
Needy Greedy is a performance that touches on the very essence of voguing, a dance born of imitating the plastic poses of the models on the covers of Vogue magazine. By superimposing existing voices from the ballroom scene onto gospel songs performed by male and female singers, Needy Greedy highlights the role of music in voguing as a means of self-transcendence and communication with the spirit for performers.
8:30pm – 9pm: s.a.m.pl.e ► a r t e f a c t, Concert, Samir Amarouch
voice, flutes, soprano saxophone, electric guitar, xamp microtonal accordion
with Virgile Pellerin (vocals), Rémy Reber (electric guitar), Sandro Compagnon (soprano saxophone), Jean Etienne Sotty (accordion), Flavio Musillo (flute), Davide Stanzione (flute)
Duration: 25 minutes
Samir Amarouch presents three pieces symbolizing the composer’s musical research and aesthetic milestones: Blooming, the first piece he wrote at the age of 20; Artefact and Mouvement, pieces written at the Villa Médicis around the composer’s reflections on rhythm, dance, trance and instrumental virtuosity.
