WISHING MACHINE

           Lavanderia a Vapore, as a “wishing machine”, turns into an organism that isn’t meant to fulfil or satisfy desires, but acts as a gym for people to practice desire, to learn how to desire starting from rediscovery and deep listening of pleasure, conceived as a space of self-awareness and potential rebellion to the status quo. Desiring is a choreography that invests body and imagination, flirting with the impossible to imagine possible otherwise and pluriverses: it is an engine of energies that inspires the future by mobilizing dormant resources towards something that is not yet.

This page is an archive dedicated to Lavanderia a Vapore’s guiding theme of the 2023/2024 season.

WISHING MACHINE#choreography

IL TEMPO DELLE MELE

Quando ci siamo innamorati la prima volta? Quante volte possiamo innamorarci ancora? Cosa ci serve per innamorarci? Questi sono i ricordi condivisi tra i partecipanti al progetto IL TEMPO DELLE MELE, incontri in cui un kit sensoriale risveglia le memorie d'amore...

WISHING MACHINE#gyms

IN THE MEANWHILE

how do we create spaces for dreaming,small openings derailing the logic of the ordinary? what about observing,not-viewingwith the questions planted in the body?when we act but collectively a vocabularyof displaced sensations. is not necessarily un-occupied. how do...

WISHING MACHINE#asymmetries

PUBLISHED PAPER

Paper is a body,born out of water,with cells of cellulose fibres,that originate from wood, cotton and recycled paper. Paper is the daughter of linear production, with sisters identical to one another, made with machines, pressed, dried and cut into standardized...