AHAHAHAH Archivi dei sentimenti HIHIHI

The event will be held at the Istituto Svizzero, Via Liguria 20, Roma
Curated by Léa Katharina Meier (Fellow Roma Calling, Visual arts, Performance).
‘I Pomeriggi’ series

Free entrance

02.-03.05.24
Laboratorio: Lacrime di Arlecchino – performare la maschilità da una prospettiva queer
The workshop is divided into two days. To participate in the second day, it is necessary to have participated in the first.
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03.05.24
AHAHAHAH Archivi dei sentimenti HIHIHI – performances
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Biographies

Léa Katharina Meier (1989) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Lausanne. Through performance, textiles, drawing, video and writing, her artistic practice develops narratives in which failure, shame and ridicule are forms of healing. In 2021, she won the Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the Swiss Performance Award with the play Tous les sexes tombent du ciel. In 2018 and 2019, she was in residence in the spaces of Faap and Pivô in São Paulo (BR). She has shown her work in theaters and arts spaces such as the Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts de Lausanne, Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain, TU-Théâtre de l’Usine and Tunnel Tunnel. She is a member of the translation collective BRASA. In Rome she will continue her research into the notions of shame, dirt and cleanliness as opposed to a context laden with the presence of the history of Christianity and the history of Fascism.

Marlène Charpentié is a visual and performance artist who completed the Work Master at HEAD (2022) and ESADSE (2019) and lives and works in Geneva. They develops dreamlike and humorous worlds by mixing genres and references. Her performance practise focuses on the staging of clownish and burlesque characters. She imagines these characters through illogical and unexpected associations, for example by combining stripping and the grotesque. She animates and brings to life her sculptures, which ultimately transform themselves, animated by a playful irreverence.
For her objects and stage sets, Marlène uses reused materials or misappropriated objects and transforms them into absurd and poetic costumes, backdrops or artefacts, like a cabaret of the strange in which grotesque figures grimace. Between 2022 and 2023, they presented her work at Les Urbaines, Urgent Paradise (Lausanne), Soul2Soul (Geneva), Zabriskie Point x Limbo for Art au Centre (Geneva), La Placette (Lausanne), Halle Nord Capsule (Geneva), Backslash Festival (Zurich), Canale Milva (CH). In 2024, she presented her first theater piece: Un pied dans la merde, l’autre dans les étoiles at the Théâtre de l’Usine (Geneva).