❋ 5:00 pm Laboratorio di Autodifesa Transfemminista: scoprire l’autocoscienza combattente by Marika Marianello (workshop)
❋ 6:30 pm Angela Balzano + Ilenia Caleo + Maddalena Fragnito / Master Studi e Politiche di Genere Roma Tre (talk)
❋ sound
Iceboy Violet (live)
Bunny Dakota + Egeeno + Yva (live)
Bosco Marino / Velia / Qursarina / Marara Kelly / Silvia Calderoni (dj set)
Mixings, attractions, slips, intimate and collective concertations: MERENDE by Industria Indipendente returns to become soft and expand inside and out of the Angelo Mai to celebrate the last night of Short Theatre 2024-Viscous Porosity.
Covered in carpets, textiles, fabrics and symbols, MERENDE is a temporary occupation of space and time. The principles of sharing, offering and hospitality shape artistic practice and togetherness. What is offered in MERENDE is a safe zone open to elsewhere. A public place where one can take off one’s shoes, stop, recognise oneself, mingle, initiate transformations. A party where evasion becomes an act of resistance. During Merende by Industria Indipendente it is possible to get lost among DJs and live sets, receive advice on tricky messages or impossible projects, transform oneself, learn different types of divination.
We creep into the last night of the festival through the words of the latest text by researcher, lecturer and activist Angela Balzano, Eva Virale (Meltemi, 2024), in a talk imagined together with the curators of the Modulo Arti del Master in Studi e Politiche di Genere di Roma Tre, Ilenia Caleo and Maddalena Fragnito. Following, MERENDEXSHORT is ready to welcome you into a musical and poetic flow catalysed by the magnetic presence of Iceboy Violet.
With Eva Virale, we will understand that life develops by ignoring the boundaries of gender, species and nation, we will discover that there is no reason to believe that only the patriarchal West owns life, and we will learn that earthly survival is increasingly dependent on the end of capitalism.
Living well does not mean ‘growing infinitely’. This concept is taught to us by small and large life forms: bacteria, viruses, cetaceans and the Earth as a whole. However, many humans believe they can dispose of the planet for their own benefit. Aided by capitalism, this presumption of species has created the phenomena of the sixth mass extinction and global warming. Anthropocentrism has also excluded women, LGBTQI+ people and all non-human otherness from access to and appropriation of knowledge.
In order to reverse course, it is necessary to start again from ethics and sciences considered heretical, such as materialist ethics and cyborg and transfeminist epistemologies and biologies.
With their raw and emotional voice, Iceboy Violet dives into the audience in a performance where hip-hop rhythms, noise, drill, ambient and grime influences intertwine. Iceboy Violet’s work seeks personal and collective catharsis. Their performances are emotional, voice-based and use physicality as a point of connection. They draw from raw experimental club music, shades of distorted pop abstraction, rap and performance art.
Industria Indipendente is a visual and performing arts collective founded by Erika Z. Galli and Martina Ruggeri. Over the years they experimented with various languages and practises: from the creation of performances to long-running happenings, from installations to writing for theatres, museums, independent and unconventional venues. Their works reflect on the relationship between humans and nature, the dimension of unproductive time, the construction of alternative and fictional worlds where communities and alliances can be created, and the constant overturning and recreating of individual and collective identities. Their latest work, Klub Taiga (Dear Darkness) debuted at the 48th edition of Biennale Teatro (Venice, September 2020) and became a concert and a record (NERO edizioni, 2022), a movie (by visual artist Rä Di Martino) and an installation for exhibition venues (Fondazione Sandretto, Torino-Palazzo Guarene, May-July 2022).
MERENDE is a resident project at Angelo Mai since 2018 and has traveled through places and contexts – ITZ/Berlin, Nobody/Milan, Fondamenta/Matera, etc. – manifesting itself in different forms, ready to overturn one into the other.
MERENDE hosted, among the others: Moor Mother, Jack Halberstam, Lina Pallotta, Front De Cadeaux, Eva Geist, BNSSR, Steve Pepe, Yva &Toy George, Deux Control, OpaOpa aka Invasioni Balcaniche, Hugo Sanchez, Salvo Lombardo, Matteo Islandezu, JA, TOMBOYS DON’T CRY, Baby Dee, Lady Maru, Capibara, Karima 2G, Bosco Marino, Qursarina, Tropicantesimo, Luwei, Laura Marongiu, La Diferencia, Sandra Mason, Mary Gehnyei, ecc.
Angela Balzano is a researcher and lecturer at the Università degli Studi di Torino – Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società and an eco/cyborg/transfeminist activist determined to keep her hands in the compost at least as long as she sits in front of her laptop. Among others, she edited the translations of Materialismo radicale (2019) by Rosi Braidotti and Le promesse dei mostri (2019) by Donna Haraway. For Meltemi she has already written Per farla finita con la famiglia (2021).
ph. Jasmine Odongo
