SPE - PERFORMANCE AND EXHIBITION SPACE

16-17 APRIL 2016
SATURDAY 16 APRIL: H 21.00
SUNDAY 17 APRIL: H 18.00

Motus
MDLSX

winner of "Provisional Assemblages" open call

with  Silvia Calderoni
directors  Enrico Casagrande and Daniela Nicolò
dramaturgy   Daniela Nicolò and Silvia Calderoni
sound project  Enrico Casagrande
in collaboration with  Paolo Panella and Damiano  Bagli
light and video project   Alessio Spirli
production   Elisa Bartolucci and Valentina Zangari
promotion Italia   Sandra Angelini
tour manager   Ilaria Mancia

a Motus production, 2015; in collaboration with La Villette - Résidence d’artistes 2015 Parigi, Create to Connect (EU project) Bunker/ Mladi Levi Festival Lubiana, Santarcangelo 2015 Festival Internazionale del Teatro in Piazza, L’arboreto - Teatro Dimora di Mondaino, Marche Teatro; support of MiBACT, Regione Emilia Romagna

MDLSX is an explosive sound device, a lysergic and solitary hymn to the freedom of becoming, to gender b(l)ending, to being other than the borders of the body, skin colour, sexual organs, being other than an imposed or acquired nationality, a belonging to a Fatherland. Rosi Braidotti in “On Becoming Europeans” talked of “an open belonging to Multiplicities”, a text that suggests a post-nationalist identity... And MDLSX aims at going beyond categories – the artistic ones, too. It is Silvia Calderoni’s road trip, who – after 10 years with Motus – experiments a Dj/Vj Set like format, in order to start an exploration around borders. Autobiographical bits and literary evocations come together, and MDLSX, by blurring action and reality, swings from Gender Trouble to Undoing Gender. We quote Judith Butler who, with Donna Haraway’s A cyborg Manifesto, Paul B. Preciado’s Manifeste Contra-sexuel and other bits of the kaleidoscopic universe of Queer, weaves the background of this “Monster-Performance”.

suitable for an adult audience only