Chiaro che me ne faccio una ragione,
però che ogne tempo è un cominciare
e io mi sono posta in attesa talmente tanto che non dormo, né di notte né di giorno
ma fo clamore, parlo esmesurato.
– Giulia Martini, “Frammento di Re Enzo” in Tresor, InternoPoesia, 2024.
• Santa Caterina’s Church
Thursday 14th November, 21.00-23.00
GIUNGLA Circle
Radical happening
With the poet Giulia Martini, the artists Marius Escande and Sarah Illouz, live coding with Gabriele Favazza and Gabriele Paolini
A happening, it happens, in the Santa Caterina’s Church. Amidst words, images, sounds and smells, materials whose touch can make one itch, the public is invited to enter, listen, watch, dance, move and succeed and then enter again, at will.
Giulia Martini will recite her poems, also taken from her latest work Tresor, a journey through the Italian language, an original combination of lyrical gesture and programmatic reuse of the already spoken and already written word, the result of an empathetic and active listening that spans centuries of sounds and rhythms.
Marius Escande and Sarah Illouz, after a short residency in Lucca, will realise a participatory performance starting with 30 kg of raw wool found in the area, in order to shed light on this material that is now only a waste commodity.
Gabriele Favazza and Gabriele Paolini, live coders, will accompany the event with incursions inspired by the themes of JUNGLE and the evening, drawing on royalty-free materials to create a unique performance between analogue and digital.
The Church of Santa Caterina and its circularity will resonate the contributions of everyone, the artists and the audience, wool with words and sounds with images, voices and dances, smells with baroque.
Giulia Martini
Giulia Martini was born in Pistoia and lives in Florence. In June 2018, she published the book of poems Coppie minime (Interno Poesia). Again for Interno Poesia, she edited the anthology Poeti italiani nati negli anni ‘80 e ’90, published in three volumes between 2019 and 2022. In 2023, he obtained a PhD with a thesis entitled L’apocalisse dialogica. Forms and functions of line exchanges in twentieth-century Italian poetry.
Marius Escande and Sarah Illouz
Marius Escande and Sarah Illouz live and work in Brussels. Duo of artists born in 2021. Sarah graduated from the Villa Arson (Nice) and Marius from the Erg (Brussels) in 2022. Their practice explores sculpture, installation, textile art and digital arts. They conceive devices, ways of living, connecting and thinking together, inhabiting and learning with others and locally. They explore ancestral techniques, their evolutions and history. Their main means of expression are sheep wool, wood and streaming, through the use of open-source technologies.
They work with a certain economy of means. As opposed to a production chain, they build a genealogy of objects that have kinship links of background and form. Their works are spatiotemporal and emotional reference points that connect people and/or places: the techniques and forms used vary according to the context and era they echo. Materials are worked in their entirety. The scraps of the previous work become the raw materials of the next. A detail can become the stage for a new installation. They see their research and practice as part of what they call a blockchain of technologies, of production/creation rather than human: people, sheep, myths constitute a creative ecosystem that produces their works.
Gabriele Paolini
Gabriele Paolini lives in Pietrasanta. He graduated in biomedical engineering in Pisa in 2020 and entered the world of research, combining the academic field with a love for computer graphics. His main areas of research concern the analysis and separation of structural and aesthetic properties of surfaces in 3D space. Since 2023 he has been part of the Italian live coders community, Toplap Italia. In this environment, distorted graphics and electronic music come together in performances improvised on the spot via computer. His creative process, marked by his technical background, focuses on the use of technology as an interface between man and art. His work is realised through algorithmic music and dreamlike virtual spaces stripped of any message outside of their beauty.
Gabriele Favazza
Gabriele Favazza is a digital artist, specialising in sound and programming. He attends the Multimedia Arts course at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, where, thanks to the artistic-creative approach, he deepens the programming previously studied. He produces and releases independent music through the label NoseVomit Records, which he founded in 2019. She combines all her passions with sound and visual Live Coding performances with the group TopLap Italia.a Faktoria Choreografic Center (Spain), Organising director and project manager is Elisabetta Fiorini teacher at the Liceo musicale artistico of Lucca and director of the Fuoricentro Danza school. The occasion for this union and the idea of starting with this project came with the birth in Lucca of a new space entirely dedicated to and renovated for dance and contemporary arts: Motore 592.
