Videohttps://doi.org/10.25620/e140522-1
Cite as: ‘Giuda’, performance presented at the workshop Anatopies: For a Critique of Spatial Reason, ICI Berlin, 22 May 2014, video recording, mp4, 36:17 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e140522-1>
Performance
22 May 2014

Giuda

Dragged by the flow of time in what appears to be a pre-established series of events, and compelled to act in the absence of any definite soundscape, the performer sinks into the doom of repetition – or the mysterious consciousness of the initiate. Suspended between these two conditions, he has no choice but to cling to the instant that precedes each action. Like a goalkeeper in the locker room shortly before the game, he foreshadows what his body should strive to accomplish. He generates and suffers, with equal aplomb, the mechanism in which he is placed against his will. His problem is to deal with chronology, to create what has already been decided, while being too early and too late at the same time.

The performance Giuda is based on a solo commissioned by the Nuovo Teatro Nuovo of Naples in 2010. It was restaged at the ICI Berlin in the framework of the event Anatopies. For a Critique of Spatial Reason.

mk was founded at the end of the 1990s and is now considered as one of the most interesting groups of the Italian dance scene. The latest production, Robinson, which resulted from a collaboration with the visual artist Luca Trevisani, premiered in 2014 at the Teatro Argentina of Rome.

Biagio Caravano is a musician and a performer. He is a co-founder of mk and has performed in all the major works of the company.

Michele Di Stefano is mk’s choreographer. He is currently creating choreographies for Aterballetto and the Korean National Contemporary Dance Company in Seoul. In 2014 he was awarded the Silver Lion of the Biennale Danza of Venice, where he will present two projects. He has published Agenti autonomi e sistemi multiagente, a book on choreographic instructions and meteorological reports (with Margherita Morgantin, Quodlibet 2012).

Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch is a composer of electroacoustic music. He lives and works in France, where he collaborates with the IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique) of Paris and teaches at the conservatory of Montbéliard.

Music and audio: Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch
Choreography: Michele Di Stefano

Venue

ICI Berlin
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With

Biagio Caravano
Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch
Michele Di Stefano

Organized by

ICI Berlin
Bard College Berlin
Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Berlino

Video in English

Format: mp4
Length: 00:36:17
First published on: https://www.ici-berlin.org/events/giuda-dance-performance/
Rights: © ICI Berlin

Part of the Workshop

Anatopies: For a Critique of Spatial Reason

Anatopy is the name for an error on a map, and nonetheless retains the potential to challenge positivist assumptions about the representation of space. Anatopies thus invoke operations of displacement divorcing places from their supposedly fixed topographical position, perfomative acts that undo standardized spatialities, whether those be the cartographic space of geography or the fetishized space of globalization, the extensional semantics of classical logic or spatial schematizations in art, dance, and literature.

Rephrasing Jacques Rancière’s call for a historiography based on anachrony, the workshop seeked to “redeem spatialities from a homogenous and linear understanding” through an investigation of theories, methods, and acts that challenge and sabotage our normative conceptions of space and time.

Venue

ICI Berlin
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With

Jamila Mascat
Filippo Trentin
Stefano Osnaghi
Wolfgang Struck
Russel West-Pavlov
John David Rhodes
Michele Cometa

Organized by

Jamila Mascat
Stefano Osnaghi
Filippo Trentin
The workshop was a cooperation between the ICI Berlin, Bard College Berlin, a Liberal Arts University, and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Berlino

Part of the Workshop

Containing also

  • Giuda / Biagio Caravano, Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch, Michele Di Stefano, 36:17