summons & parables, 2020

Sangue freddo / cold blood (2020)
In her new work Sangue freddo / cold blood, Giulia Crispiani provides insight into a very intimate space: her bedroom. According to the artist, this has often served as a workplace over the past few months. The watchful eyes of the computer’s camera omnipresent. Conceived as a live stream, however, Giulia Crispiani plays precisely with this ambiguity and gives us a (supposed?) glimpse into an intimate space. Bathed in red light, the bed sheets shimmer white while the artist reads out a love letter. TVB – the colloquial acronym for ‘Ti voglio bene’ (‘I like you’ or ‘I love you’ – and here we are in the middle of another ambiguity) shines behind the bed. We hear her voice: “Do you still know what is happening outside?” Or have we long forgotten the world out there?

Sangue freddo / cold blood (2020)
Musical selection: Giandomenico Carpentieri
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Virgin Blood (2020)
A teaser for ‘HATE ME, TENDER’.

Virgin Blood is Teresa Vittucci’s latest teaser for HATE ME, TENDER (2019) created specially for 1000 spaces. As the work HATE ME, TENDER  and other teasers, it focuses on her research on hate and feminism. The protagonist is once again the Virgin Mary and with a gentle violence Vittucci begins to unravel the queer potential of a figure which is culturally seen as epitome of purity, innocence and perfection, icon of the compassionate woman and mourning mother.
Teresa, through the use of an ironic and metaphorically charged vocabulary, along with a strong presence of the body, describes the recipe for a dirty Virgin Mary. Celery whipping and squirting lemons are the few epithets mentioned during this playful description. In the background we pick-up parts of Donna Summer’s I Feel Love hummed by the artist. The work softly concludes with Agni Parthene (O Virgin Pure) a Greek Marian Hymn, while we gaze into the black screen of the interface.

Commissioned by Istituto Svizzero, Roma and Impulse Festival Köln
by Teresa Vittucci

Biographies

Maïté Chénière (a.k.a. Mighty) adopts theoretical research, music, performance or video to create hybrid experiences. In their practice, they merge the cultural productions of racialized queer people, theoretical and popular knowledge to channel an emancipatory discourse. Mighty is an afrofuturist DJ, producer, and party curator based in Geneva . Through music, they manipulate space and time, inviting fluid and mutating bodies on the dancefloor. They have presented their work at gallery 1.1, Basel ; Un lieu pour respirer, Paris; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Festival Les Urbaines, Lausanne, Théâtre de l’Usine, Cinéma Spoutnik, Geneva; Mains d’œuvres, Paris or at the Ateliers Claus, Brussels. among others.

Giulia Crispiani is a writer and visual artist based in Rome, where she is an editor for NERO Editions and Teatro di Roma. Her favorite media for the written format are interviews, love letters and manifestos.

Lara Dâmaso (b. 1996) works and lives in Zurich. After several years of intensive training in ballet and contemporary dance, she studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig in the art and media section and at the Zurich University of the Arts, ZHDK, where she obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts. Her artistic practice varies between performances, videos, appearances as a performer for various artists and DJ-sets. Lara’s work balances between focused control and sensual chaos. She structures to destructure thus opening intimate spaces in which dialogue can occur. Her work has been shown in various institutions and off spaces such as Kunsthalle Zürich, Cabaret Voltaire, Plymouth Rock, Kunsthalle Bern, Centre Pasqu’Art. She was nominated for The Kiefer-Hablitzel Göhner Kunstpreis 2020 and is nominated for Plattform21.

Simone Bertuzzi (b. 1983) and Simone Trabucchi (b. 1982) have been collaborating as Invernomuto since 2003. Although their work focuses primarily on the moving image and sound, they also integrate sculpture, performance and publishing into their practice. Invernomuto explores what remains of subcultures by moving through different media. Observed through unashamedly affected eyes, oral cultures and minor histories are laid open, their vernacular forms examined. Inauthentic materials play a fundamental role within this process, emphasising the fictitious realities that inspire them. Bertuzzi and Trabucchi have developed individual lines of research into sound with the outlets Palm Wine and STILL, respectively. Currently Invernomuto are developing a new commission for the 2021 Liverpool Biennial and the 58th October Salon-Belgrade Biennial 2020. Another project, Black Med, was conceived in 2018 for Manifesta 12 (Palermo) and has recently been part of the performance programme at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019; Black Med will be further developed in 2020 with Fondazione Morra Greco (Naples). Recent solo shows include: Auto Italia, London (2020) Galleria Nazionale, Rome (2019), NN Contemporary Art, Northampton (2019), MED T-1000, Pinksummer, Genoa (2019), Leto Gallery, Warsaw (2019), Artspeak, Vancouver (2015), among others. In 2017 Invernomuto wins the Museion Prize 1 (Bozen); in 2018 they are finalists of the MAXXI Bvlgari Prize (Rome) and MAC International 2018 (Belfast). Their work has been shown at TATE (London), Manifesta 12 (Palermo), Villa Medici (Rome), Alserkal Avenue (Dubai), Kunsthalle Wien (Wien), Galleria Nazionale (Rome), Nuit Blanche 2017 (Paris), MAXXI (Rome), Museion (Bozen), Unsound Festival (Krakow), Kunstverein München (Munich), among many others.

Teresa Vittucci is a Vienna born artist who is currently based in Zurich. Her practice crosses the fields of performance, contemporary dance, absurd comedy and film. It investigates feminist and queer perspectives on pop culture, history, religion etc. Bad jokes are always part of the process. She works as a solo artist, but chooses to collaborate from time to time: some collaborations include working with Nils Amadeus Lange, Marilu Mapengo Namoda, Claire Sobottke, Michael Turinsky and Colin Self. Also she has performed with Simone Aughterlony, Marie Caroline Hominal, Benny Claessens and many others—which also is part of her practice. Vittucci was awarded several prizes for her work including a recogniciton prize for her work as a performer by the City of Zurich and the federal Swiss Dance Prize for her piece HATE ME, TENDER. Teresa is Young Associate Artist at Tanzhaus Zürich. Her new work RECKLESS BITCH will premiere at Tanzhaus Zürich on February 24th 2021.