Silvia Calderoni, Ilenia Caleo

The present is not enough

Performance
Ménagerie de verre
novembernov 13 – 15
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French premiere

1h

Prices €8 to €15 
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Ménagerie de verre

Thursday november 13

20h30

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Friday november 14

20h30

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Saturday november 15

19h30

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A project by Silvia Calderoni, Ilenia Caleo. With Tony Allotta, Silvia Calderoni, Ilenia Caleo, Nico Guerzoni, Gabriele Lepera, Fedra Morini, Ondina Quadri. Sound creation by Gabor + SC. Production support and management by Elisa Bartolucci. Dramaturgical consulting by Anna Antonia Ferrante and many friends.

Coproduced by Azienda Speciale Palaexpo – Mattatoio (Progetto Prender-si Cura); Kampnagel Internationale Kulturfabrik (Hamburg); Kunstencentrum Vooruit (Ghent); Motus Vague
With the support of progetto residenze coreografiche Lavanderia a Vapore (Turin)
Special thanks to Leonardo Cruciano, Michele Di Stefano, Paola Granato, Simona Gallo

La Ménagerie de verre and the Festival d’Automne à Paris present this performance as a co-presentation.

Saturday, November 15
Conversation between Silvia Calderoni, Ilenia Caleo, and Elisabeth Lebovici.

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The performance piece The present is not enough, directed by Silvia Calderoni and Ilenia Caleo, deals with the utopia of the body. The recumbent, sinuous, and twisted onstage bodies flirt and are flirted with, exploring forms of unbridled intimacy. In doing so, they create an opening on new modalities of relationships.

The starting point is the historical experience of cruising on the New York City piers in the late 1970s, and early 1980s. Gay men came here to hang out, fuck, take drugs, and photograph each other. This was prior to the onset of AIDS and gentrification, which lead to the annihilation of these spaces of artistic and sexual experimentation. Silvia Calderoni and Ilenia Caleo draw on documentary archives from the time, in particular the photographs of Peter Hujar and the audio diaries of David Wojnarowicz, in order to build a new, imaginary world on the basis of an experience they did not live through. In The present is not enough, the mixture of temporalities combines with the entanglement of lustful bodies in an attempt to conjure up "baluginii" - glimmers of hope in response to an overwhelming desire for community. Together, they draw up the contours of an emancipatory political project.

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