Thursday, 8th September | 22.00 and 23.00
LA PELANDA| STUDIO 2 | 25′

performance audio/video

MP5 / Teho Teardo

Phantasmagorica

within the frame of SOURCE

premiere

disegn and animation MP5
music Teho Teardo
assistent director Jacopo Gonzales
video editing Rizoma film
video staging Simone Palma
produzione Short Theatre nell’ambito del progetto SOURCE

http://tehoteardo.com/en/
http://www.mpcinque.com

Phantasmagorica is a project which explicitly refers to the shows created with the magic lantern in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
Phantasmagoria was a form of theatre which used a modified magic lantern to project frightening images such as skeletons, demons, and ghosts onto walls, smoke, or semi-transparent screens, frequently using rear projection.
The theater technique Fantasmagorie has been used as the basis for the first animated cartoon of the history, named Fantasmagorie, made in 1908 by the Frenchman Emile Cohl. The piece is composed by about 700 drawings, inked in black on white paper and then developed as a negative to get a blackboard effect.
In Phantasmagorica a white structure back projected stand in the middle of the scene. It’s where the staging happens projecting animated black and white drawings by MP5 and animated by using various techniques, from traditional to digital.
The developped dramaturgy is guided by an original soundtrack composed and performed live by Teho Teardo.
As in Phantasmagoria of the origins, the spectator is carried in a both playful and disturbing setting. characterized by both fear and astonishment.
A divertissement inspired by the fascinating entertainment practices of the past now combined with the contemporary aesthetics of MP5 and Teho Teardo to tell to the audience about the dreadful but also astonishing aspects in today’s world.

BIOGRAPHY

Teho Teardo, born in Pordenone, is a musician, composer and sound designer.
During the ’90 he found the band Meathead which collaborates with Cop Shoot Cop, Lydia Lunch, Erik Friedlander. With Mick Harris they initiate the project Matera and the album Same Here, released both in Europe and America.
In 1998 he releases Here’s album Brooklyn Bank, made in New York together with Jim Coleman. With Scott Mccloud (Girls Against Boys) he starts the project called Operator, which debut album Welcome To The Wonderful World is released in Europe in March 2003. During the same months the Operators plays with Placebo at Olympia in Paris and so they will be the opening act of Placebo’s european tour concerts.
He cures the music for Rooms, a performance by theatre company Motus.
With the actor Elio Germano he realises the performance Viaggio al termine della notte, adapted from Céline’s masterpiece.
With the company Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio he realizes the piece Ingiuria, where also violinist Alexander Balanescu and Blixa Bargeld from Einsturzende Neubauten participate.
For the cinema he makes soundtracks for the most important italian directors, such as Gabriele Salvatores, Paolo Sorrentino, Andrea Molaioli, Guido Chiesa, Daniele Vicari, Stefano Incerti and Claudio Cupellini.
For his soundtrack of Il Divo by Paolo Sorrentino, Teardo win the “David di Donatello” Award. He win the Nastro d’Argento award for the movies Lavorare con lentezza and L’amico di famiglia.
In September 2012 he starts a collaboration with french photographer Charles Fréger to set up a live project, which premiered the 17th October in Rome at Auditorium Parco della Musica. Then the project as been released on 26th January with the name Music for Wilder Mann with the label Specula Records.
With Einsturzende Neubauten’s leader Blixa Bargeld Theardo writes e releases on 22th April 2013 an album with the title Still Smiling.
He composes the music of Ballyturk, for the play of  Enda Walsh which debuted the 10th July at the “Galway Festival” and then on 11th September at the London National Theatre for a month. There are Cillian Murphy and Stephen Rea into the cast too. On 6th December and 7th 2014, at Villa Manin (UD), Teardo composes and performs live three soundtracks to three films by Man Ray in the frame of the exhibition dedicated to him. The same project was also presented in 2015, on 6th February at the Film Museum in Turin and 7th February at MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome.
He is currently on tour with Blixa Bargeld for their second album: Nerissimo.

MP5 is one of the most promising and versatile artists of the moment in Italy. Born in Naples, she studied theatrical scenography in Bologna and animation at the Wimbledon School of Art in London.
Very active in the European underground and counterculture scene, MP5 has closely linked her work during the last decade to the queer and feminist movement. From her scenography studies comes a close and lasting relationship with the experimental theater, mostly evident in her audio/video installations, and which continues to influence undoubtedly also her outdoor interventions.
Her images in black and white give shape to contemporary myths that underlie a critical and politically engaged vision of reality. She works either on posters, illustrations for newspapers, drawings, video animations or creating public mural works. Her artworks have been exhibited in relevant national and international festivals and art institutions, such as the XII Biennal of European and Mediterranean Young Artists, the Triennale di Milano and the MACRO.
She has collaborated in the UK with Lazarides gallery and in France with the designer and gallerist Agnès B. She was one of the Italian artists invited to the La Tour 13 project in Paris. Her works have been appeared in numerous international publications including Le Monde Diplomatique, Vogue, Wooster Collective, Juxtapoz.