Prelude to an Institute of Rest(s) in Bologna weaves its mis-doings and attempts into the tentacles of Palazzo Vizzani. a leakage of Institute of Rest(s), a non-eventful research project that unfolds under the foliage of many (supporting, haunting) voices. What corpo-realities, what movement sensibilities, what discursive practices, what (hi)stories, what (meta)physics, what forms of assembly do we need to rehearse in the societies of control and self(ie)-performance we live in? How to rehearse forms of disengagement from everything that, in our daily forms of living and relating, working and instituting, continues to reinstate cycles of violence, oppression, exhaustion?
Institute of Rest (s) intends to interrogate and complicate notions of rest as they are practiced, re-imagined, narrated, allowed or disavowed, alongside a choreographic practice of collective study, where 'rest' figures both as as a mode of inquiry and a methodological stance, rather than as an object of study.
Jason, Paula, Hugo, Mark, Raimundas, Marco, Alix (& many others) invite you to (deeply) hang out in their company on the weekend of the 3-4 December. Also invited: a book called Noa & Snow, a dance called BRUNO, an installation called They lifted me into the sun again and packed my skull with cinnamon, a film called Mute Poem.
In the rooms of the Palace that was a historic residence, Alix Eynaudi will extend her practice of implementing social experiments based on art, poetry and everyday life to the other invited artists, interpreting her work as a choreographer as a creation and combination of the infrastructures that can make them possible.
Guests : Jason Dodge, Marco Mazzoni, Raimundas Malasauskas, Mark Lorimer, Hugo Le Brigand, Paula Caspao, An Breugelmans.An event presented by Xing in collaboration with Alchemilla
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