An intense week dedicated to performance art, where Fine Arts students will bring a series of performative interventions to the stage, exploring the body, mind, and the physical and conceptual space around us. An opportunity to immerse oneself in live artistic experiences, where gesture, presence, and relationships become expressive languages.
Curated by Giulia Bergantino and Gianluca Ricco.
Duration: March 17-21, 2025 – RUFA Space, Pastificio Cerere – Via degli Ausoni, 7. FREE ENTRANCE.
PerformanceBox was born from the artists’ need to close a moment that, self-managed, comes to life and dies in a defined space. It’s the creation of a time capsule; tradition, culture, and personal experience that leave a legacy for posterity who would wish to access it.
In this closed box where time expands and distances widen and cancel, the web – invisible but present – of human experience binds distant worlds, and divides and reconstructs tradition.
The dialogue that is created is an open window onto different identities, slowly shaped around beliefs and customs.
The lines we have drawn with our presence get re-traced and at the same time, by stepping back and favoring a more comprehensive view, they seem to dissolve. And then again, by bringing them back to focus, they come together, at times even intertwining. Here, then, belonging is no longer so certain, perhaps not even so important.
We don’t seek answers, much less a complete understanding; what moves these encounters is the possibility of creating meanings that go beyond mere definition. It’s the desire to delve deeper, to study and learn, to make new internal or external connections, to understand what we have in our hands, to look at it, turn it over again and again, maybe even play with it. After all, what is tradition if not something that someone before us started? To keep it alive requires continuity; to kill it, one would think it would suffice to cut it off.
But tradition is deep-rooted and it never exhausts itself.
It grows where soil is fertile and gathers, merging to itself, all it finds that is a necessary tool to narrate the particular – that is also universal. A great set where the individual is also the whole, and the whole, in the end, can be traced back to the individual.
Critical Text by Giulia Bergantino.
The programme – artists and performances
SOFIA ARREDONDO
Nosotros los Pecadores
17 March – H 17:00
Duration: 3 hours
ARIFAH BINTI ASHRI
Sembah
17 March – H 17:00
Durata: 3h
BIANCA POLAKOVA
M.A.K. (Milk of Ancestral Knowledge)
18 March – H 17:00
Duration: 3 hours
NOLWENN KERAUDREN
A Walk in Rome
18 March – H 17:00
Duration: 3 hours
ARIFAH BINTI ASHRI, SOFIA ARREDONDO, JULIA VASCONCELOS
Weaving Roots
19 March – H 15:30
Duration: 4 hours and 30 minutes
GIANLUCA RICCO
Parlare coi Giganti (I & II)
20 March – H 15:00
Duration: 5 hours
JULIA VASCONCELOS
Red Heritage
20 March – H 15:00
Duration: 5 hours
GIULIA BERGANTINO
Sorry, I’m still learning / Scusate, sto ancora imparando
21 March – H 15:00
Duration: 5 hours
GIULIA ROSINI
Invito a Cena
21 March – H 15:00
Duration: 5 hours