sunday 20 > thursday 24 june
Muna Mussie
Bientôt l’été
The wagon wheel is held back by an obstacle, while a fox gets its tail wet but manages to cross the great river. The carriage has no curtain and the princess shows herself fearlessly to whoever is plugging the holes in her boat; in the autumn an ox is sacrificed but the great success is in the spring.
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A swampy river flows into the bowels of the mountain; in this way the soil becomes fertile. When three people walk together there are jealousies and arguments so someone has to move away. Only those who travel alone can make new acquaintances; a person brings many turtle shells as a gift. New friendships are made, not a family.
Muna Mussie, Eritrean artist based in Bologna, investigates the performing arts and the scenic languages to give shape to the tension that arises between different expressive poles, through gesture, vision and word. She began her artistic career in 1998, as actress/performer with Teatrino Clandestino and Teatro Valdoca. From 2001 to 2005 she was an active part in the research collective Open, the project that marked her desire to investigate her own ways of being on stage. From 2006 she became the author of all aspects of her works, which she conceived, staged and interpreted. Recent productions, including the performances Oasi (2018), Curva (2019), Curva Cieca (2021) and PF DJ (2021), investigate ghostly apparitions and minor history. Recent installations and object interventions: Punteggiatura (2018), a project based on the practice of sewing, which sees language as a political-affective space, and the solo exhibition Bologna St. 173 (2021) at Archive Site Milan, on the concept of home, citadel, fortress and freedom. www.munamussie.com
g. olmo stuppia is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice revolves around sculpture, video, expanded film, poetic gesture and other time-based practices. His training takes place in an international context between Carrara, Bologna, Barcelona, Palermo, Paris and Venice where he graduated from the IUAV in Visual Arts. In 2015 he was psychogeographic assistant for the project Coronation Park by Raqs Media Collective at the Venice Biennial All the World Features. In 2017 he founded the platform Cassata Drone Expanded Archive that observes the militarization of the starry sky in his homeland, Sicily, creating critical-poetic syntheses between exhibitions, walks, actions. Ranging from writing, to performance, to sculptural environments, g. olmo stuppia’s research takes shape in the creation of works and projects capable of condensing time in a critical, iconic, cathartic form, through a practice imbued with a fascination for the archaeological fragment and the classical legacy reinterpreted in the light of contemporary references. www.golmostuppia.it
concept and performance Muna Mussie
with the participation of Olmo Stuppia
production Xing/Live Arts Week