SOL INVICTUS: Sounds and performances for the winter solstice in Palermo

Art, Performance, Sound, Palermo - Officine Bellotti

11.12.2024 H20:00-23:00

Location
Palermo - Officine Bellotti
Category
Art, Performance, Sound
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11.12.2024 H20:00-23:00

Istituto Svizzero celebrates the winter solstice with an exceptional line-up of performances and DJ sets in Palermo, Rome and Milan.

The shortest day of the year: the winter solstice, by convention, is the moment in which, due to the position of the Sun with respect to the equator, the longest night and the shortest day correspond. An astronomical event rich in symbolic meanings—sometimes even controversial—that was celebrated in antiquity by pagan populations before the advent of Christianity: the Romans celebrated Sol Invictus, the Egyptians the birth of Horus, the Greeks worshipped Helios. After the prevailing hours of winter darkness, the Sun seemed to be reborn and became invincible (from Latin Sol Invictus). A time of year that, ancestrally, marks the passage from darkness to light. And it is precisely this hope, this search for light in dark times, to which Istituto Svizzero dedicates these three evenings.


 

11.12.2024 H20:00-23:00
Officine Bellotti, Via Gagini 31, Palermo
Free entry

Performances by:

Emma Saba, La fine di tutte le cose/l’inizio di tutte le altre, 40’

Sultan Çoban, I came knowing, I would show up again, 30’

Sandar Tun Tun, Diasphoria, 40’

 

 

Food and drinks will be available for purchase on-site.


 

The event is organized in collaboration with Officine Bellotti

Choreographer and dancer Emma Saba has worked with Collettivo Cinetico, Clara Delorme, Cosima Grand, and Marie Jeger. In 2022, she created her first solo, la fine di tutte le cose / l’inizio di tutte le altre, co-produced by Emergentia. She is a member of Collectif Foulles< , co-creating Medieval Crack (2022) and Le cerveau mou de l’existence (2024). A graduate in contemporary dance from Manufacture – Lausanne (2021), she combines dance, singing, and self-hypnosis to revisit her classical musical heritage. Supported by Reseau Grand-Luxe and (ac)compagnons in 2024-2025, her next work premieres at Pavillon ADC in 2025-2026.

Sultan Çoban works at the intersection of the visual and performing arts. Her practice is characterized by a formally self-conscious exploration of space, time, and sound and engages in the question of how cultural identity is staged and performed. In most of her works, she draws on elements from specific cultural contexts to represent and recreate a certain period in time. She examines the translation and transferability of emotions between different linguistic and social contexts as well as performed identity. Sultan wears a lot of faces but rarely her own.

Sandar Tun Tun build their work around fabulation, new alliances and collaborative trajectories. Artist, dj and composer, they develop a sonic, spatial and performative practice focused on listening as a critical and sensitive responsiveness. Drawing on music social space and its transgressive perspectives their projects explore ways of reverence or interversion to inhabit dissonance, fragmentation and noise. Their research focuses on the modalities of transmission within aural cultures and engineered narratives, diasporic feelings and queer affects, and often leads to the experimentation of languages, strategies and co-composition processes.