Vibrant Natures on Telluric Cosmologies | Heart Brake, performance by Giulia Damiani
24.01.2025 from 18:30 to 20:00
24 January, h.18.30
Almanac, Via Reggio 13
Heart Brake, performance by Giulia Damiani
Followed by the screening of
Le sibille, dir. Lina Mangiacapre and Le Nemesiache, 1977
Il mare ci ha chiamate, dir. Lina Mangiacapre and Le Nemesiache, 1978
Giulia Damiani is an artist and writer working with performance. Her research combines body, place and feminist creative methods to reach fault lines in language and context.
Her new performance Heart Brake bears witness to how a feeling can be a character and a place we live in, peaking into the crevice of the breaking heart. In this extract from a work-in-progress Giulia Damiani articulates the voice of the main character, historically a folk figure silenced by patriarchal violence. The performance explores physicality of vocal registers beyond gender binaries while embodying the sounding and imagery of manual rock-splitting. Stricken, different kinds of bodies vibrate.
The folk singing traditions surrounding this ancient profession are reworked to reveal disruptive narratives registered in orality. The choreographic score emerges in the movement between breath, voice and song; signalling the subversive irony that is experienced in the path to setting oneself, and each other, free.
In 2022 Giulia Damiani completed her practice-based PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London, writing about the feminist group Le Nemesiache from Naples.
Following the performance two short films by Le Nemesiache will be screened: Le sibille (1977) and Il mare ci ha chiamate (1978).
This performance project has developed in partnership with Centrale Fies
The event is part of Vibrant Natures. On Telluric Cosmologies, a program curated by Guido Santandrea e Marianna Vecellio, organized in partnership between Almanac, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, and Orti Generali.
The program is supported by Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, Fondazione CRT and Regione Piemonte .