Time, vapour and breath transform air into sculptural matter.
Audience and performers share air and presence: breathing is the body’s first individual autonomous action. Its beginning gives life and its disappearance is the sign of the end.
In the action created by Francesca Grilli in 2016, the performers, whose biography is marked by a history of migration or who work with migrant people, move in a space filled with steam together with the audience: their breathing is amplified by some megaphones and is lost in the sound of the steam escaping into the air.
performers
Bashir Abdiaziz, Cristina Gasperin, Mohamed Harmouche, Meryem Lakhouite, Albertino Meneghetti, Micaela Tatiana Zurita Poma
credits
stagecraft Paola Villani stage training Benno Steinegger breath training Alessandra Bordiga production Chiara Massari / Corpoceleste diffusion and curator Elena Regazzoni administration Chiara Fava / Corpoceleste a production of MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo co-production Contemporanea Festival / Teatro Metastasio, Prato; Terni Festival, Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria, Perugia; Kunstencentrum Vooruit, Ghent special thanks to Galleria Umberto Di Marino, Naples
individual seats reserved for myMAXXI card holders by writing to mymaxxi@fondazionemaxxi.it, by the day before the event
Time, vapour and breath transform air into sculptural matter.
Audience and performers share air and presence: breathing is the body’s first individual autonomous action. Its beginning gives life and its disappearance is the sign of the end.
In the action created by Francesca Grilli in 2016, the performers, whose biography is marked by a history of migration or who work with migrant people, move in a space filled with steam together with the audience: their breathing is amplified by some megaphones and is lost in the sound of the steam escaping into the air.
performers
Bashir Abdiaziz, Cristina Gasperin, Mohamed Harmouche, Meryem Lakhouite, Albertino Meneghetti, Micaela Tatiana Zurita Poma
credits
stagecraft Paola Villani stage training Benno Steinegger breath training Alessandra Bordiga production Chiara Massari / Corpoceleste diffusion and curator Elena Regazzoni administration Chiara Fava / Corpoceleste a production of MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo co-production Contemporanea Festival / Teatro Metastasio, Prato; Terni Festival, Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria, Perugia; Kunstencentrum Vooruit, Ghent special thanks to Galleria Umberto Di Marino, Naples
individual seats reserved for myMAXXI card holders by writing to mymaxxi@fondazionemaxxi.it, by the day before the event