MAY FALLING ASLEEP NEVER OPEN OUR MOUTH
Research, concept Gaia Ginevra Giorgi
performance Gaia Ginevra Giorgi, Denise Tosato
dramaturgical dialogue Giada Cipollone
artistic accompaniment Stella Succi
vocal training Veza Fernández
choreographic consultation Asher O’Gorman
lighting and technical direction Andrea Sanson
sound Devid Ciampalini
costumes Gianni Mattarucco
stage design consultant Cosimo Ferrigolo
live electronics consultant Emanuele Pontecorvo
curation and promotion Edoardo Lazzari
organisation and administration Giusy Guadagno
production Extragarbo
with the support of Snaporazverein (CH), Lavanderia a Vapore – Centro di Residenza per la Danza (IT), Murmuris (IT), IntercettAzioni – Centro di Residenza Artistica della Lombardia (IT), Linha de fuga (PT), Premio Vienna (Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture, in agreement with the Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna), Phonogrammarchiv (AT)
In the context of a fake lecture that turns into a séance, the performance explores the stories and practices of female bodies that, through vocal techniques, metaphonic phenomena and sound hallucinations, have hacked the patriarchal and classist languages and practices of dominant (medical-scientific) knowledge and power.
Through a historical reading of the oppressive and pathologising modes of the male gaze in animal magnetism, spiritualism, illusionism, psychoanalysis, technology and science, the performance investigates vocality as a tool for speaking out, between tactics of mimetic deception and desires for resistance.
Gaia Ginevra Giorgi is an artist and researcher active in the fields of performing arts and sound art. Her practice integrates writing, sound, voice and performative devices. As an author, dramaturg and performer, she has taken part in various performance projects presented in institutions and festivals including Santarcangelo Festival, BASE Milano, Istituto Svizzero (Milan), TBA21-Academy (Venice), Short Theatre (Rome), Triennale Teatro (Milan), Romaeuropa, Lavanderie a Vapore (Turin), Fondazione Antonio Ratti (Como), Schlachthaus Theater (Bern), Espacio Fundació Telefónica (Madrid), Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt), Barcelona Poesia, Das Weisse Haus (Vienna), La Biennale di Venezia and many others.
Through a feminist, ecological and situated approach, her artistic practice explores methodologies of inquiry for the affective and political rewriting of archives and landscape. Her interventions—ranging from performances, installations and workshop or text-based projects—produce ephemeral habitats, spaces for an embodied and radical imagination. Her research examines the relationships between memory, archival documents, immaterial traces, ghosts and collective heritage.
