22.03. - 23.04.23
TOUCHY FEELY FESTIVAL

 

What are the politics of emotion in contemporary art practice? A multi-sensory exhibition architecture by Stéphanie Rosianu hosts a program of interventions from Saul Pandelakis, Simona Ferrar & Vana Kostayola, Andrea Marioni, Luca Depietri and Lumpenstation. The installation and events programme transforms espace libre into an emotional zone of vulnerability, tenderness, (out)rage and euphoria. 

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PROGRAMME: 

 

22.3.2023 / 19:00

Opening, installation, Stéphanie Rosianu & Vanessa Schindler 

Reading by Saul Pandélakis from his science-fiction novel "The Aardtman Sequence" at 19:30

Stéphanie Rosianu’s immersive in-situ work questions our relationship with the domestic and its conventional representations. The installation, with forms created in collaboration with designer Vanessa Schindler, hosts the various interventions that will take place during the festival. 

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Saturday 1.4. / 3 pm

Performative workshop

Vana kostayola & Simona Ferrar "Daddy says"

A performance workshop about the words of the father, real fathers but also father figures, and patriarchal substitutes as symbols of authority and power. Open to all, no performance experience necessary. Registration:espace.libre.bienne@gmail.com (before 30.03)

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Wednesday 19.4. / 7 pm

Spoken word performance // apéro // artist talk

Andrea Marioni, Luca Depietri, Lumpenstation

Andrea Marioni "I did art to be with others: i Got only solitude”

A monologue of often tragic-comic anecdotes from Marioni’s attempts to enter a cultural world that regularly closes its doors to him and which he continues to enter through the window, or simply camp out in the garden.

Luca Depietri shares his thoughts on the practice of Christopher Schlingensief, the late German artist-provocateur whose work blurred the line between art and politics, spurring public outrage, moral debates and controversy. The evening is presented in collaboration with Lumpenstation

 

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