PERFORMANCE
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Elogio della Lentezza / Sandrine, 2007
Performance, reading, dance, music, car lights
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Reading performance of original text "Sandrine" for Strade BluArte: SP 65 exhibition, curated by Chiara Pilati, underground parking lot of Viale Gramsci, Pianoro (Bologna).
Dance act by Silvia Traversi
Live music by Giambattista Giocoli
Comrade Alfredo Neri, 2006
performance, video, sound
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Comrade Alfredo Neri is a "performative documentary" on media representation and identity construction through the media, by Khaled D. Ramadan and Alfredo Cramerotti.
The video is a constructed documentation, with real interviews and footage material, about the life of Alfredo Neri, the spokesman of the Italian fraction of the Skinhead Movement. The skinheads are affiliated with the neo-Nazis and are active in the European countries as well as in the former East Block. Neri is the representative and promoter of the Italian division of the skinheads, their international affiliations and events; in other words, the representative of the state of fear that envelops civil societies. In the documentary, he explains how the movement changed its strategy to suit contemporary global political tendencies, urging its members to operate as invisible as possible and infiltrate the political, economic, and cultural structures, with the ultimate aim to rule in Europe. They operate without being exposed and are directly affiliated with the neo-Nazi ideology. Is history about to repeat itself, changing only the outfit? The authors met Alfredo Neri during his visit to Scandinavia, on his travel to Helsingborg, Sweden, for the annual gathering of the neo-Nazi movement in Autumn 2005.
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The film is presented after a short lecture-introduction by Khaled d. Ramadan, followed by a discussion with the audience, in which the spokesperson, takes part unexpectedly. The whole project «Comrade Alfredo Neri» questions media representation and construction of identity through a fake documentary-portrait based on real facts, presented as Part 1 of the project. The audience expects Part 2 to come after the debate; instead, the audience itself becomes Part 2, the debate, discussion and sparking of stimuli injected by the film (Part 1).
– – – Presented at the Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen (2006), Hotel Pro Forma in Copenhagen (2006), and was part of the itinerant project «The Disappearance of the Public Space», curated by Goran Petrovic. The piece has also been shown on tv-tv Copenhagen (2006) and at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide (2008)
ENTER>NET, 2003
Performance, room, red thread, scissors, needle
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ENTER>NET
You are not placing yourself according to a stage
You are the stage.
You are not only looking at the performer
You are the performer.
You are not situating yourself outside a network
You are part of the network created.
You connect
You get connected.
You disconnect
You get disconnected.
You break up
You get broken.
You are we. Something happened in that room. You got sewn together, separated, challenged, intimidated maybe. You were in the spotlight: objectified and objectifying. You saw the others and got seen. Eyes were following while the threat silently went through your jacket and connected to a a pair of jeans, a jumper, or the surrounding walls. In the meantime an abstract, diagrammatic structure occurred on the floor and your voices, laughs and unspoken words -combined with the noise from the loudspeakers- generated a sound scape.
ENTER>NET is about human relations. Sometimes the closest seems the most distant and vice versa.
The Seven Virtues [contribution], 2003
Performance
Performance act within The Hafler Trio/Andrew McKenzie's session "The Seven Virtues"at Tesla (ex-Podewil) Berlin