thursday 11 april – 7.30 pm>11.30 pm + 00.00 am*
friday 12 april – 7.30 pm>11.30 pm + 00.00 am*
saturday 13 april – 7.30 pm>11.30 pm + 00.00 am*
Palazzo Pezzoli
Simon Vincenzi (UK)
From The Dead Air Orgy: The Song of Silenus
live stream, live installation and performance, production Xing/Live Arts Week, première
View the LIVE STREAM 7.30 pm>23.30 pm @ YouTube channel DEAD AIR
From The Dead Air Orgy: The Song of Silenus is a new work by Simon Vincenzi, commissioned by Live Arts Week, that remixes Virgil, Conrad, cosmology and perversity, obliteration and the beginnings of time with the poetics of quantum gravity. Virgil’s Eclogue VI is re-imagined in a residency that inhabits hidden rooms above a shop of oenological and wine making. The work will be developed over the course of three nights with no known outcome, as the space becomes an echo chamber to the poem and the erotic cosmology that surrounds it. Virgil’s book of ten Eclogues were written between 42 and 39 BC as a collection of interrelated pastoral poems. Each of the poems being very different in tone and structure, they combine the politics of the day with very distinct poetic voices. Eclogue VI tells the story of two satyrs and a Naiad who find the mythical Silenus, the teacher and companion to Dionysus, passed out drunk in a cave in Arcadia. They tie him up and insist he sings them a song. The song he sings to them starts with the beginning of creation and leads through a mythical landscape of disasters, passions and transformations.
From The Dead Air Orgy: The Song of Silenus present’s itself through three different portals: an online streaming channel that is broadcast from an installation within the building, that evolves over the three days and then a repeated performance that closes each night at midnight. These different works run in parallel with each other with different relationships to narrative and abstracted time and space.
*we suggest to follow all the different phases: with the same purchesed ticket you can also enter the building in the afternoon over the 3 days
Simon Vincenzi is a London based theatre director, choreographer and designer. With Bock & Vincenzi he presented invisible dances… from afar: A show that will never be shown (2003), a work made only to be experienced on the telephone ,and The Invisible Dances (2004-2006), a theatre work in three acts presented over three years at The Royal Opera House Clore Theatre, The Venice Biennale, Nott Dance International Festival, Kunstenfestivaldesarts and the Laban Theatre, London. He continued with the five-year project Operation Infinity, working with the fictional theatre company Troupe Mabuse. This interdisciplinary work was made up of different but related performances, installations and videos that included: The Infinite Pleasures of The Great Unknown; Club Extinction; Luxuriant: In The Reign Of Anticipation and King Real Against The Guidelines. The ‘live’ documentation of this project can continued to be seen in the on-line work www.operationinfinity.org , A Fugue State of Theatre Hosted On The Internet. Vincenzi’s work investigates the interface of theatre, movement and visual languages that often push the boundaries of expectation. Through an exploration of memory and oblivion, consciousness and the dissociation of the self, these different manifestations frequently tap into the unconscious, taking the audience/spectator into an uncertain and unknown landscape.
Will Saunders is a british composer and sound designer who works in collaborative contexts. A queer, self-taught musician, he studied Sonic Arts at Middlesex University, London, and completed his PhD at Westminster University. Key collaborators include Simon Vincenzi, Lea Anderson, Steve Blake, Dickie Beau, Hans Diernberger, Anna Homler, Lucia King, LampingHuppSaunders, and Sarah Kenchington. His work has been shown widely, including at The Southbank Centre, London; Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow; Fuhrwerkswaage Kunstraum, Cologne; Centro em Movimento, Lisbon; The Barbican Centre, London; Alter Feuerwache, Cologne; Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London; IBT International Festival, Bristol; Festival of Women, Ljubljana, Slovenia. The video/sound installation LANYC from Hans Diernberger and Saunders was selected for the Marl International Media Art Awards, 2016. With Diernberger, Will Saunders has participated in various international residencies including Villa Aurora in Los Angeles, and the Goethe Institut in Salvador, Brazil.
Kath Duggan, british theatre maker and dance performer, trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. With Simon Vincenzi she has worked on King Real against the Guidelines, Luxuriant, The Infinite Pleasures of the Great Unknown and Opening Night. Other dance and theatre credits include: The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable, The Duchess of Malfi; Masque of The Red Death (Punchdrunk); Motorshow (Requardt and Rosenberg); The Damnation of Faust (Terry Gilliam, English National Opera); Remote/The Forest (Sarah Dowling, Royal Opera House); Pictures from an Exhibition (Young Vic/Sadler’s Wells by Kramer and Requardt); Russian Roulette, Yippeee!!! (The Cholmondeleys); Lullaby/Park (Jasmin Vardimon), Jane Eyre (Perth Theatre). Film credits include: World War Z (Paramount Pictures). She directed and performed US THEN with Sarah Dowling.
concept, space and choreography Simon Vincenzi
performer Kath Duggan
sound Will Saunders
production Xing/Live Arts Week