13 September | h 7 pm
14 September | h 8:30 pm
La Pelanda – Teatro 2
theatre
45′
national première
in Italian
L’Encyclopédie de la parole is an artistic project exploring the spoken word in all its forms by collecting and classifying recordings, transcription, recreation through performances. From this collection, including more than a thousand documents available for audio consultation on its website, Encyclopédie de la parole makes use of these recordings to produce sound art, performances, conferences, concerts and installations. The project is led by a collective of poets, actors, ethnographers, curators, directors, and radio show producers.
Its motto is: “We are all experts in speaking.”
Jukebox is a solo piece designed for a single geographic space: a city, its inhabitants and the speeches they share.
Each iteration, composed in close collaboration with an actor or actress, a dramaturg and translator, and eight local researchers, aims on the one hand to share l’Encyclopédie de la parole’s methods and process and, on the other, to pinpoint the singular forms of speech borne by specific cultural and geographic contexts.
If I live in Roma, Prato, or Cagliari, what are the different forms of speech that pass through me on a given day? At home, school, work, in public transportation, on the phone, television, radio, on the internet, at the theater, cinema, on the street, at the market or gym…
By allowing spectators to choose which documents are performed and in what order, Jukebox aims to explore the ways in which a community represents itself.
