8 April 2025
Sapienza University of Rome
Ex Vetrerie Sciarra – Aula B
Via dei Volsci 122, Rome
A day of sharing about performing art, acoustic experimentation and accessibility at the end of the EU project Radio That Matters
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Roberta Scaglione – Master in Economics, Organization, Cultural Planning of Performing Arts and Events
Noemi Massari – Master in Economics, Organization, Cultural Planning of Performing Arts and Events
Maria Grazia Berlangieri – RTDB in Performing Arts, Digital Technologies and New Media at Sapienza University of Rome
Short Theatre, Parallèle, Baltic Circle, PAV, Errant Sound – RTM’s partners
Alessandro Bosetti, Mia Takula & Ellen Virman, Maud Blandel – RTM’s artists
The journey of Radio That Matters, the European project that has been investigating since 2022 around the practices, knowledge and accessibility possibilities that audio formats open up in their relationship with the performing arts, comes to a close.
A journey that has focused on how to make the processes of creating and enjoying performance works accessible for the benefit of communities of people who are blind or visually impaired. Articulating in a first phase of monitoring and research, training sessions and self-training, RTM finally led to the creation of three artistic works, born from the collaboration between artists and blind and visually impaired communities, which traveled between different European cities.
Thanks to the construction of local networks in the host countries – Italy, France, Finland – Radio That Matters allowed the elaboration of a model of creation that sees native accessibility as a fundamental element, alongside those of artistic and technical quality, while also experimenting with the possibility that an artistic work is generated from sharing, as a collective authorial gesture.
The description of this model, the presentation of the associations involved, the account of the works that have come out of it as well as the journey made together by the partners: these are the contents at the center of the project’s concluding conference, held in collaboration with PAV and the Master’s degree program in “Economics, Organization, Design of Live Entertainment and Events” at La Sapienza University of Rome, in which the future of the project, its new edition, the capacity it will have to dissolve some of the critical issues that have emerged and to deepen the tools and knowledge explored will also be relaunched.
Alongside the project partners, Roberta Scaglione and Noemi Massari, adjunct professors of the Master in Economics, Organization, Cultural Planning of Performing Arts and Events at La Sapienza, will introduce the session, and Maria Grazia Berlangieri (RTDB researcher in Performing Arts, Digital Technologies and New Media at La Sapienza in Rome) will speak, dialoguing on the issues of accessibility of the performing arts.