ARCANE MOTIONS
What if we suddenly woke up in a world no longer governed by power but by superpowers? What would it look like if politics rewrote reality according to magical principles?
In the 2024-2025 season, Lavanderia a Vapore becomes the lair of an alchemic game, a mixing zone for people and things, an amalgam of potions for a poetic revolution that reconfigures the present by subverting the principle of non-contradiction, not resolving questions in formulas but making them resonate in a trembling echo that shakes assertive thoughts and postures. Dreamlands, underworlds and abysses, phantasmagorias flash lighting in an empty space, roles swapping and unveiling of clothes are just some of the poetics that will undercur in the residencies and creations of the public programs, allowing us to take journeys into vibrant spaces.
This page is an archive of Lavanderia a Vapore’s overarching theme of this season, a collection of contents: changing, mutant, and shapeshifting organisms, bringing to the surface what lies beneath artistic processes.
IL GIOCO DEGLI AVANZI
COME SI CUCINA CON GLI AVANZI? La comunità di Dance Well ha aperto un tempo di ricerca rivolta alla costruzione di un gioco, quale pratica incarnata del suo mondeggiare. Nella residenza collettiva, abbiamo messo in tavola gli avanzi, tutto ciò che è rimasto...
LIQUID BODIES IN CONVERSATION: A HORIZONTAL CHAT WITH JIJA SOHN
Jija Sohn is a Japanese-Korean artist in residence with a bodywork based on water as an intimate and self-reflective space. The research aims at an artistic translation of this unique quality of intimacy, creating a safe and alternative space that can bring new...
THE WORKSPACE RICERCA X: A COLLECTIVE RESIDENCY
We are submerging in the "misty, unconditional core, the dreamy, foggy, steamy matter, the uncontrollable and wet foam of imagination" * of the self-structuring methods that mediate Ricerca X collective residencies. The soft matter reveals us a question:what kind...
ARCHIVIO LIQUIDO
La memoria è una coreografia sensuale, che nasce segretamente dentro di noi. Grazie al magico portale dei sensi, il mondo esterno si connette al nostro mondo interno, evocando emozioni, affettività, esperienze, informazioni, ricordi che si impastano tra loro...
TATAMI TALK
Il copia-e-incolla di frammenti di film horror, un metodo ispirato alla residenza di Teodora Grano „Grindhouse: Cosa sanno i film horror di noi?“, propone un'estetica che incorpora i materiali raccolti dal Tatami Talk "Perché abbiamo tutti così tanta fretta?"...
CONVERSATIONS WITH THE LIGHT
What do you summon? How do you deceive? Do you wish to challenge eternity? Can we have a chat? I enter the house and touch the switch. You diffuse. Do you like the theatre? You belong more to time than to space. You sculpt and you severe. In theater, light reveals...
WHY ALL THESE QUESTIONS?
As the new year unfolds, we take a moment to celebrate 2024 as the first year of documentation practices guiding the work on our Blog by gathering questions which have emerged from various artistic residencies and projects into a speculative scrapbook. We will be...
ICEBERG: residenza artistica di Salvo Lombardo
L’Iceberg è una massa che fluttua, un paradosso della fisica fatto di stratificazioni che ha il potere di emanare rifrazioni o far infrangere utopie: ha un potere di inversione di rotta e istigazione del cambiamento, in modo visionario o catastrofico. In un momento...
MONUMENTUM the second sleep/ second part, the quartet
The dreamlike dimension of Cristina Kristal Rizzo’s Monumentum the Second Sleep/ Second Part, the Quartet (BandoAir 2024) enveloped those who danced and those who witnessed the open sharing on the 17. of October into an affective social fabric undergirding the...