At the same time that the official 2008 Olympic Torch is being kindled by the light of the Sun (Olympia, Greece), Stromajer & Zorman are digitally igniting a robot with computer software. Ballettikka Internettikka is an ongoing artistic study of the internet guerrilla performance.
BOXING MATCH - ready-made theatre is a literal boxing match, realised according to all professional standards of boxing as a sport. However, that boxing match is transplanted in the institution of theatre, and surrounded with literal theatre protocol
Was it a thriller? A hopless love story? A melodrama? Is it about aliens, or dead men, or vampires, or lovers, or a fantasy? Or is it a dream? Or a cinema experiment, or the myth of Orpheus, or about the way we remembr things, or just about "persusasion"...or a pop video?
An inner and an outer voice echoing along the urban sections of the river. Lines conceived in the intimacy of a poet's room. Stranger's gaze sliding across the water as he passes by. The river. A flow of images. A being to live with for a lifetime. A coagulum of our past and present bleeds.
Performance is realized though 50 minutes of simultaneous performing of theoretical-practical events of constructing and deconstructing of ideological apparatuses of gender.
He staged a building, some kind of historical site.
he invited his colleagues and friends to stage the site
and to direct themselves
and to direct it themselves
so they did
a coming and going of friends and colleagues and friends and colleagues of friends
discussing their work
discussing proposals of work
working
working together
a platform
of exchange
of merging
of the smoothiest way to produce and gain knowledge
of experiencing and training
of invention
a performance
a strange performance
a permanence
Artists from all artistic disciplines (installation, video art, net.art, sculpture, creative writing, architecture, electronic music, painting, drawing, performance, photography, etc.) are invited to send us a proposal.
The initiative aims to select among the participants twelve young performers from all over the world, who are invited to realize a previously unseen performance on the evenings of October 10th and 11th, 2008 at the Teatro Sociale of Trento.
Borrowing the title from the famous Dean Martin song, this notebook-like
performance explores the mechanisms of forgetting, emotional consumption
and remembering moments and spaces that have been evacuated or that were never there.
