Alix Eynaudi & guests – Institute of Rest(s) : (Im)mobility salon #4 @ Raum Bologna at the invitation of Xing.
Saturday 7th of December, 2024

At the invitation of Xing, Institute of Rest(s) imagines an evening in Bologna with sound designer Paul Kotal (AT), curator & writer Anne Faucheret (AT), artists Zoe Francia Lamattina (IT) & Ida Malfatti (IT), artist & dancer Cécile Tonizzo (FR), and researcher Daniela Crocetti (IT/US).

(Im)mobility Salon #4 is not an event, it is an evening program that weaves together a landscape of dances, sounds and words : fibers of poems as spells, desires and practices that are messy and diverse, as well as joyful, occult and celebratory. (Im)mobility Salon #4 longs to turn a choreographic inquiry into dreams of open-ended rehearsals of suspensions, of resting together. Fomenting little cracks and openings, the (Im)mobility Salon series aspires to happen there where the implicit summons wordings, there where it doesn’t go without saying.

At times concert, at times litany, at time lecture, at times dance composition, (Im)mobility Salon #4 becomes a place to rest, with many, in and with the crowds, among the choir that precedes and follows us.

Program

a dance duet by Cécile and Alix, a haunted nap with Cécile, Anne & Alix,  LETTURE DISTESE #4 by Zoe & Ida, a concert by Paul and a meditation on Intersex Reproductive Journeys by Daniela.

Institute of Rest(s) is funded by La Manufacture, Haute école des arts de la scène – HES-SO in Lausanne & supported by Tanzquartier Wien, La Grange Center /Arts et Sciences / UNIL Lausanne, Xing Bologna, le far° fabrique des arts vivants Nyon, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Volkskundemuseum Vienna and ImpulsTanz Vienna, Xing, Bologna. This project was made possible by the Arbeitstipendium from the MA7 Wien that Alix received in 2023.
supported by BMKOES / Federal Ministry for Art, Culture, Public Service and Sport

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Daniela Crocetti is an Italian-American researcher working at the intersections of the history of medicine and anthropology. Their research focuses on the social history of the gendered body and rights mobilization in medical contexts, with particular attention to intersex rights and the experiences of individuals with variations of sex characteristics (VSC). Currently a Research Fellow in medical anthropology at Bar-Ilan University on the project Intersex Reproductive Journeys, Daniela has previously held positions at the University of Bologna, Ca’ Foscari University, and the University of Huddersfield. Their publications include L’invisibile intersex. Storie di corpi medicalizzati (ETS, 2013) and recent articles in Social Science & Medicine and Rivista Illuminazioni on intersex rights and medical decision-making in Italy.

Anne Faucheret is an art historian and curator. She has been working for the Kunsthalle Wien since 2014, where she has organized several exhibitions and public programs, among others Hysterical Mining (with Vanessa J. Müller), Work it, feel it! (with Eva Meran), or The Promise of Total Automation. She also works in collective constellations where she tests new forms of research, togetherness and sharing. Her interests lie at the intersection between art, politics, technology and all that lives.

Paul Kotal (1992) lives and works in Vienna. He is a sound artist whose works are based in theatre, both contemporary and popular music as well as live sound. He is currently involved in stage projects with Alix Eynaudi (FR/AT), Ulduz Ahmadzadeh (IR/AT), Samuel Feldhandler (FR/AT) Christoph Schiele (GER) and Anne Juren (FR/AT). Kotal co- founded Zonkey Studios in Vienna, a production studio and home to a collective of musicians. In 2023, he founded the duo turf + surf together with pianist Han-Gyeol Lie. They place themselves beyond the traditional division of composition and interpretation, creating musical blueprints by accumulating material from different historical and aesthetical point of views, driven by the desire to exploit and redistribute them, thereby channelling new ways of musical representation.

Strasbourg based artist Cécile Tonizzo was first trained as a gymnast, she then studied visual and performing arts. She builds multidisciplinary works that are based on societal matters. Creating assemblages where manual techniques such as drawing, embroidery, textile and sound editing are mixed, she seeks ways to question our relationship to the notion of good taste, modes of consumption, the artisan gesture, with particular attention to the notions of discretion and polyvocality. She worked with various theatre directors and choreographers and develops solid collaborations today with choreographer Alix Eynaudi, playwright Clémence Weill. She teaches at Haute école des Arts du Rhin/ CFPI and at Social and Cultural Center/Port du Rhin in Strasbourg.

Zoe Francia Lamattina is a performer and researcher in the fields of performing arts and body practices. She works in the conjuncture between speculative feminisms, experiential anatomy and choreographic research. She is the author of pubblicità//, a site-specific performance created in alliance with Ida Malfatti, and archivia, a choreographic project that tampers with the patriarchal mechanism of memory and inheritance by rewriting the repertoire of choreographer Monica Francia. She develops methodologies for the transmission of practices, both in curating and conducting. Since 2023, she curates LAVA, cycle of experimental performance practices workshops for teenagers and works alongside composer Nina Baietta in wordless singing group, vocal research laboratory.

Ida Malfatti is a researcher, performer and dramaturg. She trains at the intersection of materialist political philosophy, feminisms and bodily practices. She is co-author of site-specific performative projects: pubblicità//, a research investigating the scenic exposure of everyday actions in non-theatrical contexts realized in alliance with Zoe Francia Lamattina, and love after life, an urban micro-subversion action around issues of memory, mourning and representation imagined together with Sebastiano Lorenza Pala. She writes the performance project infesta, an investigation of names, lists and falls. She is performer and dramaturg in elettrica and ccc by Francesca Dibiase. Since 2021 she is involved in Zoe Francia Lamattina’s research archivia and in divinatory rewriting of CorpoGiochi® method materials.