The current of the 19th edition of Short Theatre begins to flow, stretching along the banks of the Tiber River, where Short Theatre 2024 starts and ends.
ALBULA is the ancient hydronym of the Tiber: the clear waters that flow through the city, the humid transparency that today is dense liquid, an inhabited, unsettled, turbulent swamp where subversions and exchanges of density take place in the soft darkness. An image of the city, a vehicle of possibility and expansion, ALBULA transcends the passage of historical time, testifies to the toxic intra-action between human, earthy surfaces and water, and encompasses the invisible of the city.
Together with Latam Futuro and its guests, on Friday August 30, we venture into the damp and turbulent of ALBULA, to open up passages, feel soft layers of the ground, and, with sound and the body in motion, sprinkle the flow that will drag us into Short Theatre 2024.
Timeline:
❋ 10:00 pm Mamacoca
❋ 11:00 pm La Diferencia
❋ 01:00 am Loris
Born in Northeastern Mexico and influenced by her Palestinian heritage, Loris grew up listening to classical Arabic music without understanding the language, which helped her mix fragments of Arabic and Latin culture using electronic music, and with her productions, Loris unites the multiplicities of her cultural identity. Currently based in Mexico City, being part of the electronic party scene, she has showcased her sound at numerous local club nights including national and international events. Also she has a series of parties called Zoco where brings new sounds of the diaspora from the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Latam Futuro is a collective of Latin American and Italian artists based in Rome, which explores, promotes and disseminates the work of artists of different geographical origins from the Latin American region and its diaspora, musicians, designers, writers, visual artists, DJs, who represent the living voices of the Latinx Futurisms, transmodern practices of freedom and decolonisation of the future for the construction of new spaces of enunciation. Inspired by the cultural current of Afrofuturism, which brought to the forefront the African diaspora and the legacy of slavery in relation to new media and technology, Latinx Futurisms focus on migrations within and across the Americas, Europe and beyond and the colonial and post-colonial legacy. An expression of self-determination and solidarity that shares a radical re-imagining of a collective future, subverting colonial binarism and narratives, creating collective spaces to imagine and act differently. The collective aims to create connections with the Latin American experimental and underground artist scene. So far it has invited musical artists such as Orieta Chrem, Selvagia, Montoya, Shushupe, Lila Tirando a Violeta, Mala Fama, Warrior, Precolumbian, Condoii, Susobrino, Tony Gallardo, Ojosfinos, Sixth Faith. La Diferencia and Mamacoca are the project residents. Chiara and Boen produce visual material and Boen takes care of the live visuals during the events. Latam’s guest visual artists include Zhixto, Carlos Lalvay Estrada, Suc, Rocìo Quillahuaman, and Ruben Ojeda Guzmàn.
