Barokthegreat Victory Smoke
Victor Smoke is the new work by Barokthegreat that revolves around the image of Victory. Traversed in the history of Western art by the iconographic, sculptural and pictorial sign of Triumph, it has assumed in our own day the tormenting form of the result attained through any means, of efficacy as existential practice, of subjugation to the constraint of performance assumed as model of relational behaviour. The driving force behind this new performative work is the tension toward a 'victory smoke', which means discerning the threshold that lies before and after the completion of an act, leaving the field of vision imbued with the smoke of victory. The dramatic action basic to this performance is the idea of hunting. Poachers or bounty hunters? Gold hunters, elephant hunters, pheasant hunters? All of these, and none. Here it is a question of circumnavigating the image of the capture without the catch. While its identity remains unknown, the focus is now on the hunting tactics, now on the exaltation felt at the capture, but excluding the vanquished. After having inhabited the immersive, nocturnal dimension of Indigenous, in Victory Smoke Barokthegreat opens out to compositional ideas based on the implementation of a different interaction among bodies, designing forms of transient community around a blind spot.
concept, set and costumes Barokthegreat
with Dafne Boggeri, Francesco Fuzz Brasini, Sonia Brunelli, Marzia Dalfini, Leila Gharib, Alessio Mazzaro, Livia Rossi
coreography Sonia Brunelli
original live music Leila Gharib, Francesco Fuzz Brasini
performers Alessio Mazzaro, Livia Rossi, Marzia Dalfini, Sonia Brunelli
lighting design and mobile device Dafne Boggeri
costumes production House Of Spectra
scenic element production Plastikart
theoretic collaboration Piersandra Di Matteo
production Xing/Live Arts Week (Bologna)
co-production steirisches herbst festival (Graz), Far° Festival (Nyon)
production residencies Santarcangelo 12 • 13 • 14 Festival Internazionale del Teatro in Piazza, Interzona (Verona)
wednesday 9 april > 10 pm > MAMbo
performance, première, production Xing/Live Arts Week
Victor Smoke is the new work by Barokthegreat that revolves around the image of Victory. Traversed in the history of Western art by the iconographic, sculptural and pictorial sign of Triumph, it has assumed in our own day the tormenting form of the result attained through any means, of efficacy as existential practice, of subjugation to the constraint of performance assumed as model of relational behaviour. The driving force behind this new performative work is the tension toward a 'victory smoke', which means discerning the threshold that lies before and after the completion of an act, leaving the field of vision imbued with the smoke of victory. The dramatic action basic to this performance is the idea of hunting. Poachers or bounty hunters? Gold hunters, elephant hunters, pheasant hunters? All of these, and none. Here it is a question of circumnavigating the image of the capture without the catch. While its identity remains unknown, the focus is now on the hunting tactics, now on the exaltation felt at the capture, but excluding the vanquished. After having inhabited the immersive, nocturnal dimension of Indigenous, in Victory Smoke Barokthegreat opens out to compositional ideas based on the implementation of a different interaction among bodies, designing forms of transient community around a blind spot.
concept, set and costumes Barokthegreat
with Dafne Boggeri, Francesco Fuzz Brasini, Sonia Brunelli, Marzia Dalfini, Leila Gharib, Alessio Mazzaro, Livia Rossi
coreography Sonia Brunelli
original live music Leila Gharib, Francesco Fuzz Brasini
performers Alessio Mazzaro, Livia Rossi, Marzia Dalfini, Sonia Brunelli
lighting design and mobile device Dafne Boggeri
costumes production House Of Spectra
scenic element production Plastikart
theoretic collaboration Piersandra Di Matteo
production Xing/Live Arts Week (Bologna)
co-production steirisches herbst festival (Graz), Far° Festival (Nyon)
production residencies Santarcangelo 12 • 13 • 14 Festival Internazionale del Teatro in Piazza, Interzona (Verona)
wednesday 9 april > 10 pm > MAMbo