Violetta Cottini and Wissal Houbabi are the artists who will be supported for the 2025/2026 annuity of FONDO, a network dedicated to emerging creativity, born from the collaboration between 14 national institutions including festivals, theatres, residency centres and circuits.
Within the 55th edition of Santarcangelo Festival (10 July, 3.00 p.m.) at the MUSAS garden in Santarcangelo di Romagna there will be the talk ‘FONDO a network for emerging creativity’: the first presentation meeting with Violetta Cottini and Wissal Houbabi. Also present will be Genny Petrotta and Giorgiomaria Cornelio, whose research, supported by FONDO for the year 2024/25, is present in the programme of Santarcangelo Festival 2025.
Violetta Cottini, born in 1997, is an artist from the Piedmontese Alps and explores the fields of dance, performing arts and visual arts. She trained at the Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi in Milan in contemporary dance. From 2020 to 2023, he collaborates with the collective Sorelle di Damiano. In 2023, she creates the workshop Chincaglierie-fare rumore and participates in the performing arts festival Exit in Bologna. Since October 2024, he has been part of Sardegna Teatro’s Creative Campus project. As part of the Giornate del Respiro 2024 festival, together with the musician Carlotta Sofia Grassi she brings the work Chincaglierie fare rumore x posto’segreto, a performative extension of the research on objects carried out in the form of a workshop. She works with Cristina Kristal Rizzo and performs in the show Monumentum the second sleep/second part, the quartet. For two years she has been collaborating with the collective DOM- (Leonardo Delogu and Valerio Sirna) and is present in the works: LA CITTÀ CHE CAMMINA and in Darkness Picnic. Winner of the call ERetici, le strade dei teatri 2024 supported by Centro di Residenza Emilia-Romagna with the project Do fairies have a tail? in collaboration with Alessandra and Roberta Indolfi, now produced by Fuorimargine. He is currently deepening his study of visual and installation art in relation to performance.
Wissal Houbabi is a performance poet, artist, writer, creator and artistic director of Spore, hip hop head. She interrogates the relationship between languages and dialects, between sound, stigma and meaning. Over time, she has distinguished herself through creativity, vocal and political radicalism, and the ability and care to communicate to people. Her research has a declared political perspective, associates the search for beauty with dignity, and understands poetic practice as a radical search for the we. Her projects investigate the epistemology of diaspora and has worked specifically on oral heritage in relation to colonial history, the voice of the body, muscle memory, dreams in diaspora, the right to love and to be loved. She collaborates with cultural and artistic institutions bringing practices that truly challenge structurally oppressive patterns. He has worked with cultural institutions including the University of Bologna, Goethe-Institut, Museum of Civilisations and collaborates with various universities and realities on the European scene including the Ville de Besançon. His latest works include: La Madelaine de Proust – La Vache qui Rit, published in Visible: Art as Policies for Care. Socially Engaged Art (2010-Ongoing); Una gran puzza di merda nell’aria, a monologue presented in more than 40 events including Hangar Pirelli 2022, phonomuseum_rome at Museo delle Civiltà; Offesissima at Ar/ge Kunst Bolzano and more.
FONDO is a project dedicated to the artistic and creative development of emerging artists coordinated by Santarcangelo dei Teatri and realised in cooperation with 13 other Italian partners: AMAT Associazione Marchigiana Attività Teatrali; Centrale Fies; Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT / Teatro Nazionale; Fondazione Fabbrica Europea per le arti contemporanee; Fondazione I Teatri – Reggio Emilia; Fuorimargine / Centro di produzione della danza in Sardegna; L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino | Centro di Residenza Emilia-Romagna; Lavanderia a Vapore / Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo; OperaEstate Festival Veneto / Centro per la Scena Contemporanea; Ravenna Teatro; SCARTI Centro di Produzione Teatrale d’Innovazione della Liguria; Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria; Triennale Milano Teatro.
