DRODESERA is a contemporary art festival currently at its 37th edition This year is taks place from 21st to 29th July at Centrale Fies, Dro (Trento), which has been hosting the festival exclusively for last 17 years. The Art Work Space has opened its doors onto its artistic production, pursuing and fomenting its nature of multiform reality and its mission of presenting artistic and cultural biodiversity.
SUPERCONTINENT is the title chosen for this year’s edition, for a modern Pangaea sewn back together by new technologies and migratory routes, in symbiosis with a constantly mutating land. Tradition and innovation intertwine together in order to generate a balance based upon diversities.
The 5th LIVE WORKS Performance Act Award will launch the Festival this year, with its new productions investigating how art’s political identity is not only present in the critical thinking behind art making, but also applies to the active process itself. The Award, a platform dedicated solely to Performance Art, re-invigorates Centrale Fies with fresh ideas that twist the award system, transforming the selected winners and the panel of judges into an all-round curator panel comprehensive of a network useful to artists.
10 winning projects will be presented from 21s to 23rd July. The selection consists of – Alok Vaid-Menon, Claudia Pagès Rabal, Gaetano Cunsolo, Kent Chan, Lisa Vereetbrugghen, Madison Bycroft, Mercedes Azpilicueta, Mohamed Abdelkarim, Rodrigo Sobarzo de Larraechea, Urok Shirhan – with the presence of guest performers such as Leandro Nerefuh/Ribidjunga Cardoso (“Orphic Exuberance Versus Solar Capitalism” | national premiere), Philipp Gehmacher (“walk+talk no. 22” | national premiere), Sarah Vanhee (“The Making of Justice”) e Mykki Blanco (“Concert”). (Source: Festival Website)
Schedule for Live Works:
Mercedes Azpilicueta AR) / Yuko & Justine
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Urok Shirhan (IQ/NL) / Empty Orchestra
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Gaetano Cunsolo (IT) / Soon as night falls… I’ll start to build
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Madison Bycroft (AUS) / Mollusc theory – soft bodies
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Mykki Blanco (US) / Concert
guest performer
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Leandro Nerefuh/Ribidjunga Cardoso (BR) / Orphic Exuberance Versus Solar Capitalism
prima nazionale/national première
guest performer
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Lisa Vereertbrugghen (BE) / Softcore – a hardcore encounter
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Claudia Pagès Rabal (ES) / Emissions, fools & care
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Alok Vaid-Menon (IN/US) / Watching you / Watch me
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Mohamed Abdelkarim / A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Marvels of Renegades
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Philipp Gehmacher (AT) / walk+talk no. 22
prima nazionale/national première
guest performer
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Rodrigo Sobarzo de Larraechea / es†uar¡no
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Kent Chan (SG) / Floats Like A Magnet
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Sarah Vanhee (BE) / The Making of Justice
guest performer
film
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