Nadjim Bigou-Fathi & Soto Labor

Nadjim Bigou-fathi (1990) is a designer, visual artist and performer. He is interested in the emergence of boundaries – from walls to words – and the normative dynamics that underlie them. Through curatorial, sculptural and performative projects, he produces situations in which the public is included in order to question the power relations that bind them. Soto Labor (1990) is an author, visual artist and performer. Influenced by hip-hop as a means of empowerment, he explores different forms of narrative and performance, while examining the conditions under which discourse is exercised. He produces short stories, fables, poems and rap lyrics as critical tools.

Leaving Vegas is a documentary-fiction, part speculative investigation, part performance film, in search of the anonymous performers of Scuola di Ballo al Sole (Uccellacci e uccellini, 1966, Pier Paolo Pasolini). In Rome, Soto Labor and Nadjim Bigou-fathi will stage their quest, relying sometimes on archival documents and land registry plans, sometimes on oral accounts and rumors.
Leaving Vegas looks at the politics of citation and credit recognition in order to make the contributions of so-called “subalterns” more visible. The intention is to question the power relations between authorship, authority and posterity.