Appointment of the 17th Lenz Festival Natura Dèi Teatriand part of the project MORFOLOGIE DEL PAESAGGIO _ REIDRATAZIONI DEL PRESENTE URBANOwith which Lenz regenerates the museum heritage of the University of Parma through contemporary visual and artistic language, FÒRO FÒRO is the performance of the Eritrean artist Muna Mussie, invited by Maria Federica Maestri and Francesco Pititto – a work inspired by the hank game analysed by Donna Haraway, who recognises in the ‘figures of thread’ an analogy with processes of thought and creation, pedagogical practices and cosmological performances. Creating thread figures means passing and receiving, choosing threads or letting them go, making and unmaking, tracing and following a plot in the dark, to inscribe other stories.
FÒRO FÒROis the public event that follows the practices acted out in Verso l’immagine, a workshop that puts blind and sighted people in dialogue through Braille and Embroidery, two different languages but united by the imprinting of a surface, revealing a tactile image.
For Lenz, the artist will expose himself in the making and speaking of words, alluding to the interchange between fòro, an ancient place linked to the gathering of the community, trade, politics and justice, and fóro, which refers to a hole to enter and exit through.
After a period of study at the Sala Bottego of the Museum of Natural History of the University of Parma, the artist will conduct his residency at Lenz Teatro (via Pasubio 3/e Parma), where both the performance, at 7 p.m. the 12 and 13 October, both the research seminar DECOLONIZZARE IL MUSEO with free participation), at 4.30 p.m. on 13 October, during which Muna Mussie will dialogue with scholar Sofia Bacchini of the Centro Studi Movimenti di Parma and L’Orientale University of Naples and with the Director of the Museum of Natural History of the University of Parma Davide Persico n how to reconstruct a curation of goods taken from non-Western subjectivities, in an attempt to re-appropriate the Eritrean Bottego zoological collection through a decolonial analysis.
Muna Mussie (Eritrea 1978) began her artistic career in 1998, training and working as an actress and performer with Teatrino Clandestino and Teatro Valdoca. From 2001 to 2005, he was a founding member of the research collective Open.
FÒRO FÒRO is the eighth action of the three-year project 22_24 BESTIARIO | Femminile Animale.
Tickets
12 euro full ticket
8 euro reduced ticket (under 30, students, AUSL employees, Carta DOC)
6 euro students, students and teachers University of Parma
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