Digital Residencies – 2021 Edition
The second edition of Residenze Digitali, the project promoted by the Artistic Residency Centre of Tuscany (Armunia – CapoTrave/Kilowatt) in partnership with AMAT, Anghiari Dance Hub, ATCL Lazio for Spazio Rossellini, the Artistic Residency Centre of Emilia-Romagna (L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino / La Corte Ospitale), the Teatro della Tosse Luzzati Foundation in Genoa and ZONA K in Milan, selected 7 projects to be assisted for seven months by the partner structures and the three tutors Anna Maria Monteverdi, Federica Patti and Laura Gemini. At the end of the process, the projects had the chance to be showcased to the general public within La Settimana delle Residenze Digitali, the Digital Residency Week, from the 22nd to the 28th of November 2021.
Chiara Taviani
Whatever Happens in a Screen Stays in a Screen
An inquiry into image transformation and the meaning of image itself, through the use of green screen. The project aims to realise a semi-cinematic work carried out with remote performers and created entirely from home using a computer, resulting in an online mini-film.
Choreographer and dancer Chiara Taviani works as an independent artist between France and Italy, having won various awards; in 2020 she was selected as a AerowavesTwenty20′ artist.
Giacomo Lilliù, Collettivo ØNAR and Lapis Niger
WOE – Westage of Events
A non-linear, characterless tale – inspired by Martin Vaughn-James’ groundbreaking graphic novel from 1975 – where the only thing remaining of humans is their absence. WOE reshapes the desolate landscape of a graphically developed virtual reality environment into an infinite three-dimensional desert, to explore the digital territory that has become part of our everyday life, yet hides vast grey areas.
Actor and director Giacomo Lilliù is the founder of the multidisciplinary group Collettivo ØNAR. Napo Lapis Niger is both an illustrator and one half of Uochi Toki.
Jan Voxel (Lorenzo Belardinelli, Cinzia Pietribiasi and Lidia Zanelli)
The Critters Room #experience
The central characters of the projects are PM10 fine dust particles measured by self-built and free-access control units, and microscope slides that have been exposed to the air, catalogued and micro-photographed for the performance. The Critters Room is an interactive web-application that will allow viewers to “visualise the air”, to listen to the sound of critters, and observe the creatures as they tell us about the end of the obsessively (and toxically) human-centred era.
Jan Voxel is an informal group created in 2019 and formed by physicist and computer scientist Lorenzo Belardinelli, performer and director Cinzia Pietribiasi and dancer and set designer Lidia Zanelli. The project is in collaboration with Compagnia Pietribiasi/Tedeschi, and with the support of Ateliersi Bologna and Officina Leo van Moric in Parma.
Lorenzo Montanini with Simona Di Maio and Isabel Albertini
Into The Woods
Ten short video stories taken from Calvino’s Fiabe Italiane: inspired by object theatre, miniature worlds are recreated through a 4k camera, a 360˚ camera and a Lidar scanner, in order to reconstruct the fairy tale sceneries in 3D and explore the possibility of also seeing the story in VR.
Lorenzo Montanini is a director, educator and performer; he has directed more than thirty shows for theatres and festivals in Europe and America. Simona Di Maio is an actress, educator and director. She is the co-founder of the company Il Teatro nel Baule and co-artistic director of the family theatre season at the Teatro Bellini in Naples. Isabel Albertini works with materials; she has a background in contemporary jewellery making and cultural management.
Margherita Landi and Agnese Lanza
Dealing with Absence
The project investigates the relationship between body and technology in choreographic and physical terms, exploring the learning of a physical language through a VR visor to create a choreography originated from a 2D video montage repositioned in 360-degrees, alternating with specially-made immersive videos.
Margherita Landi is a media artist and anthropologist, Agnese Lanza is a dancer and choreographer.
fuse*
Sàl
The continuation of a journey crossing the horizon that separates conscious perception from waking reality to realise a multi-layered artistic performance, an all-encompassing trans-media experience.
fuse* is an independent studio and production company founded in 2007 which explores the expressive possibilities given by the creative use of digital technologies, with the goal of interpreting the complexity of human and natural phenomena.
Mara Oscar Cassiani
I Am Dancing In A Room
The project’s title is inspired by Alvin Lucier’s sound art masterpiece “I Am Sitting In A Room”, where the author observes how a track decomposes as it gets repeated on a loop inside a room; similarly ‘I Am Dancing In A Room’ meditates on the eternal reverberation of gestures online, from one user’s room to another, joined solely by the continuing of the same choreography.
Mara Oscar Cassiani is a wi-fi based artist working in the fields of performance, choreography and digital media, recipient of the 2019 Digital Award by Roma Europa Festival.
DIGITAL RESIDENCIES 2021 PROGRAMME
From Monday 22nd to Sunday 28th November, one episode per day, 4.00 PM
Lorenzo Montanini, Simona Di Maio, Isabel Albertini
Into The Woods – la finta nonna
duration: 10 min per episode
A project for the younger generations, ages 7 and up
One ticket gives access to all the episodes, which once shared will remain available until November 28th.
From Monday 22nd to Sunday 28th November, one episode per day, 6.00 PM
Chiara Taviani
Whatever Happens in a Screen Stays in a Screen
duration: 8 min per episode
One ticket gives access to all the episodes, which once shared will remain available until November 28th.
Monday 22nd November, from 7.00 PM Margherita Landi e Agnese Lanza
Dealing with Absence
duration: 20 min
The project will be accessible until Sunday 28th November.
Wednesday 24th November, 9.00 PM
Jan Voxel (Lorenzo Belardinelli, Cinzia Pietribiasi e Lidia Zanelli)Olga reads the critters
extract from the project “The critters room”
duration: 30 min
in collaboration with Mikroradio
Thursday 25th November, 8.30 PM
fuse*Sàl / Rite studio 0.2
duration: 75 min
Friday 26th and Saturday 27th November, 6.30 PM
Giacomo Lilliù, Lapis Niger, Collettivo ØNAR, MALTE
WOE – Wastage of Events
duration: 40 min
Sunday 28th November, 6.00 PM
Mara Oscar Cassiani
I Am Dancing in a Room _ La Fauna 2k21
duration: 45 min
TALKS
Tuesday 23rd November, 7.00 (free entry)
“Dust and data: what we know about fine dust particles”
on Jan Voxel and AMAT’s Youtube and social media channels
Wednesday 24th November, 6.00 PM (free entry)
“Reality as relationship: Sàl | Studio 0.2”
on Armunia and La Corte Ospitale’s social media channels
Thursday 25h November, 7.00 PM (free entry)
“Taking care of the air: environmental activism during the Anthropocene”
on Jan Voxel and AMAT’s Youtube and social media channels
Friday 26th November, 9.00 PM (free entry)
“I am dancing in a room, La Fauna 2k21; Wi-Fi performance, memesthetics and Tik Tok liveness”
on Teatro della Tosse’s Youtube and social media channels