Your browser does not support the video tag.
Your browser does not support the video tag.
Marco Cadioli - The Whirlpool
  • © ARSHAKE | ISSN 2283-3676
  • CONTACT
  • Login
Arshake
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT US
    • PROJECT
    • MEDIA/PARTNERSHIPS
    • CONTACT US
  • FOCUS
    • All
    • Focus
    • From the Past
    • Interview
    Experimental Fellowship at Bauhaus Earth

    Experimental Fellowship at Bauhaus Earth

    Open call – Schermo dell’Arte

    Open call – Schermo dell’Arte

    Open Call: State of the ART(ist)

    Open Call: State of the ART(ist)

    Interview | Liu Jiayu

    Interview | Liu Jiayu

    Theatre of Proof at PAV

    Theatre of Proof at PAV

    Wetland Role-Playing Game

    Wetland Role-Playing Game

    Wetland Role-Playing Game

    DAN Galeria: Geometria como impulso poético

    UNCENSORED at nome gallery

    UNCENSORED at nome gallery

    Budding Men

    Budding Men

  • FRAME
    FRAME > Shining Hat

    FRAME > Shining Hat

    FRAME > To Breathe

    FRAME > To Breathe

    FRAME >  The fairies will find us if we leave a trail

    FRAME > The fairies will find us if we leave a trail

    FRAME > Hundred Changes in Life

    FRAME > Hundred Changes in Life

    FRAME >  Large Resemblagé

    FRAME > Large Resemblagé

    FRAME > Rubber Pencil Devil

    FRAME > Rubber Pencil Devil

    FRAME > ARC 2000

    FRAME > ARC 2000

    FRAME > Seeders and Leechers

    FRAME > Seeders and Leechers

    FRAME > Spiral of Time

    FRAME > Spiral of Time

  • VIDEO POST
    VIDEO POST > Anthofluid

    VIDEO POST > Anthofluid

    VIDEO POST > Isoscope

    VIDEO POST > Isoscope

    VIDEO POST > Kihikihi

    VIDEO POST > Kihikihi

    VIDEO POST > Triosophia

    VIDEO POST > Triosophia

    VIDEO POST > Kosei Komatsu

    VIDEO POST > Kosei Komatsu

    VIDEO POST > STRATACUT

    VIDEO POST > STRATACUT

    VIDEO POST > File Tabs no. 1

    VIDEO POST > File Tabs no. 1

    VIDEO POST > The Recap

    VIDEO POST > The Recap

    VIDEO POST > Slow Room

    VIDEO POST > Slow Room

  • SPECIAL PROJECT
    • ARSHAKE’S BANNER
    • CRITICAL GROUNDS
    • YOUNG ITALIAN ARTISTS
    • GAME OVER
    • GAME OVER • Loading
    • EXTERNAL PROJECTS
      • BACKSTAGE | ONSTAGE
      • PERCORSI • 6 years of the Terna Prize
      • TEMPO IMPERFETTO
  • RESOURCES
    • ARCHIVE
    • CALLS
    • ONLINE RESOUCES
  • it IT
  • en English
No Result
View All Result
Arshake
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT US
    • PROJECT
    • MEDIA/PARTNERSHIPS
    • CONTACT US
  • FOCUS
    • All
    • Focus
    • From the Past
    • Interview
    Experimental Fellowship at Bauhaus Earth

    Experimental Fellowship at Bauhaus Earth

    Open call – Schermo dell’Arte

    Open call – Schermo dell’Arte

    Open Call: State of the ART(ist)

    Open Call: State of the ART(ist)

    Interview | Liu Jiayu

    Interview | Liu Jiayu

    Theatre of Proof at PAV

    Theatre of Proof at PAV

    Wetland Role-Playing Game

    Wetland Role-Playing Game

    Wetland Role-Playing Game

    DAN Galeria: Geometria como impulso poético

    UNCENSORED at nome gallery

    UNCENSORED at nome gallery

    Budding Men

    Budding Men

  • FRAME
    FRAME > Shining Hat

    FRAME > Shining Hat

    FRAME > To Breathe

    FRAME > To Breathe

    FRAME >  The fairies will find us if we leave a trail

    FRAME > The fairies will find us if we leave a trail

    FRAME > Hundred Changes in Life

    FRAME > Hundred Changes in Life

    FRAME >  Large Resemblagé

    FRAME > Large Resemblagé

    FRAME > Rubber Pencil Devil

    FRAME > Rubber Pencil Devil

    FRAME > ARC 2000

    FRAME > ARC 2000

    FRAME > Seeders and Leechers

    FRAME > Seeders and Leechers

    FRAME > Spiral of Time

    FRAME > Spiral of Time

  • VIDEO POST
    VIDEO POST > Anthofluid

    VIDEO POST > Anthofluid

    VIDEO POST > Isoscope

    VIDEO POST > Isoscope

    VIDEO POST > Kihikihi

    VIDEO POST > Kihikihi

    VIDEO POST > Triosophia

    VIDEO POST > Triosophia

    VIDEO POST > Kosei Komatsu

    VIDEO POST > Kosei Komatsu

    VIDEO POST > STRATACUT

    VIDEO POST > STRATACUT

    VIDEO POST > File Tabs no. 1

    VIDEO POST > File Tabs no. 1

    VIDEO POST > The Recap

    VIDEO POST > The Recap

    VIDEO POST > Slow Room

    VIDEO POST > Slow Room

  • SPECIAL PROJECT
    • ARSHAKE’S BANNER
    • CRITICAL GROUNDS
    • YOUNG ITALIAN ARTISTS
    • GAME OVER
    • GAME OVER • Loading
    • EXTERNAL PROJECTS
      • BACKSTAGE | ONSTAGE
      • PERCORSI • 6 years of the Terna Prize
      • TEMPO IMPERFETTO
  • RESOURCES
    • ARCHIVE
    • CALLS
    • ONLINE RESOUCES
No Result
View All Result
Arshake
No Result
View All Result
Home Festivals

Mara Oscar Cassiani at Residenze Digitali

The new chapter of I Am Dancing in a Room_La Fauna 2k21 by the wi-fi perfomer Cassiani, inspired to the internet solitude realised for Residenze Digitali

Arshake by Arshake
30/12/2021
in Festivals, Focus
Mara Oscar Cassiani at Residenze Digitali

Residenze Digitali has created a window of experimental opportunity for artists, who have extended their experiences in theatre, dance, cinema and animation to digital space. Mara Oscar Cassiani has experienced this from her field of activities, the web, which she has been investigating for years, focusing on the way it manifests itself and takes shape in digital folklore, lying where the physical and the virtual cross-contaminate each other.

Her project follows on from La Fauna, presented in studio form in Berlin, and the subsequent La Fauna 2k20, Roses and La Fauna 2k2, I am dancing in a Room performed at Romaeuropa Festival’s Digitalive (2020, 2021)  in a completely physical communion expressed through a music and dance ritual transmitted on the web in a visual flow accompanied by alien aquatic landscapes, floating stickers and renders. For the new version created for Residenze Digitali, the performance was entirely reabsorbed into digital space from which it opened up to different locations, cultures and lives at the same time around the world.

This version of La Fauna is also inspired to “ the loneliness of the Internet, the continuous scroll down or surfing of social networks between users in front of their screens”, as Mara Oscar Cassiani says in the interview she gave to Pickwick before the event was streamed.

In keeping with how the social network TikTok is used where it is possible to enter many rooms by scrolling down, the public was able to look into the “rooms” of a series of artists who opened a window onto their lives in real time. We had to scroll through a web page before arriving at the live performance, a preparatory gesture to get into the mood of this fast, voyeuristic and vertical culture.

On 28 November 2021 at 6pm we were all online, ready to enter the live performance that would last about an hour. We scrolled down a Tumbrl’s page through a series of post before reaching the performance live, a ritual gesture that attuned us to the mood of this visual vertical language.

A first window opens in Taipei. It is one o’clock in the morning. The webcam captures Tseng Chih Wei walking with a friend in the red zone of the eastern part of the city. They talk about this district, which is very special for Taiwan because of the many clubbing and the free style and queer life that characterise its nightlife.

At the same time, still in Taipei, Huang Ding Yun addresses us on the concept of culture starting from  Chinese language while preparing a hot pot gazpacho.

We move to New York where it is still Sunday morning. Eugene Poogene, after a night out, tells his story while getting dressed before going out for an appointment.

It follows Eric Tsai, back again in Taipei at night. In the middle of an internet party he talks about the importance of the physical condition of sound in the communication among bodies, and about how the physical component can move beyond any border.

We arrive in Italy where we meet Diana Anselmo who connects at six o’clock in the afternoon. By communicating with writing and the sign language in the loud frame of sounds and merging with the gestures of Eric and MOC, he addresses us toward new frontiers of communication.

At seven o’clock in the evening Roland in Johannesburg plays the piano. We are witnessing all this in real time.

Geographical distance, but also cultural distance come together in a temporal simultaneity that also becomes proximity, doing so through a ritual finely guided by the wi-fi performer, as the artist likes to define herself.

Elevated above all (traditional) geographical boundaries, the performers are also able to contact each other through their windows, or so it seemed to us from the choreography that Cassiani orchestrates with great awareness in streaming the event alternating and juxtaposing one window with another in front of our voyeuristic gaze.

This voyeuristic aspect recalls those who – particularly in the years from 2005 to 2007, when YouTube was born and began to spread – surfed the web to snoop through the backgrounds of amateur videos shot in people’s homes, often in their own rooms, even in their bathrooms. Valentina Tanni (art critic and author of Memestetica)brought this up in a conversation between herself, the artist, Kamilia Kard (artist and professor) and Professor Stefano Brilli, which took place before the performance with participants wearing pyjamas in their rooms and broadcast in the evening, from room to room, again creating a common space with users who felt part of the conversation in the same room, even when watching the conversation later on on youtube.

Through a ritual Mara Oscar Cassiani has opened her room to ours, from which she transports us to faraway places – from room to room, from intimacy to intimacy, from culture to culture. In a series of simultaneous events, the artist places us on the threshold of several spaces, dimensions and moods caught in their very essence.

Mara Oscar Cassiani, «I Am Dancing in a Room_La Fauna 2k21», Residenze Digitali, 28.11.2021
 Project by and with  Mara Oscar Cassiani, Diana Anselmo, Eric Tsai, Eugene Poogene, Huang Ding Yun, Tseng Chih Wei, Roland Gunst | opening track Santo, Arturo Camerlengo | supoorted by mpa Marche Spettacolo, Fusolab 2.0, Super Bubble, Romaeuropa Festival

images: (All) Mara Oscar Cassiani, «I Am Dancing in a Room_La Fauna 2k21», Residenze Digitali, 28.11.2021, snap shot from the live performance

This is one of seven ‘returns’ of works presented by Residenze Digitali and part of a Media Partnership between Arshake and Residenze Digitali. The texts are short memoirs of the experiments of contamination and entanglement between the performing arts and the digital environment, which were ‘staged’ live for the online audience from 22 to 28 November 2021.
Residenze Digitali is promoted by the Tuscany Centre of Residency (Armunia – Capo Trave/Kilowatt) and developed in partnership with the Associazione Marchigiana Attività Teatrali AMAT, the Cooperative Anghiari Dance Hub, ATCL – Circuito multidisciplinare del Lazio per Spazio Rossellini, the Emilia – Romagna Centre of Residencies (Arboreto di Mondaino and Corte Ospitale di Rubiera), the Fondazione Luzzati Teatro della Tosse in Genoa and Zona K in Milan. Project tutors – scholars Laura Gemini, Anna Maria Monteverdi and Federica Patti. Residenze Digitali was opened to the public online from November 22 unto November 28, 2021.
Previous articles:
Interview | Luca Ricci, Arshake 19.11.2021
Dealing with Absence, Arshake 25.11.2021
Whatever Happens in a Screen Stays in a Screen, Arshake 02.12.2021
Fuse* | Sal Rite, Arshake 11.12.2021
Residenze Digitali. The Fake Grandmother, Arshake 16.12.2021
Olga Reads the Critters, Arshake, 29.12.2021
Residenze Digitali. WOE – Wastage of Event, Arshake, 30.12.2021

 

 

 

 

 

Tags: arsartista wi-ficulturedigital folkloreinternet culturelanguageMara Oscar Cassianimedia partnershipresidenze digitaliritualroomssocial mediaTik Tok
ShareTweetShareSend
Previous Post

Residenze Digitali. WOE – Wastage of Event.

Next Post

VIDEO POST > STAR / KL

Arshake

Arshake

Related Posts

Experimental Fellowship at Bauhaus Earth
Calls

Experimental Fellowship at Bauhaus Earth

by Arshake
14/05/2025
Open call – Schermo dell’Arte
Calls

Open call – Schermo dell’Arte

by Arshake
07/05/2025

CALLS

Experimental Fellowship at Bauhaus Earth
Calls

Experimental Fellowship at Bauhaus Earth

14/05/2025
Open call – Schermo dell’Arte
Calls

Open call – Schermo dell’Arte

07/05/2025
Open Call: State of the ART(ist)
Calls

Open Call: State of the ART(ist)

05/05/2025
RE:HUMANISM Art Prize 4
Calls

RE:HUMANISM Art Prize 4

18/03/2025
https://www.arshake.com/special-project-banner/young-italian-artists/
Facebook Twitter Instagram

Arshake is a collaborative artistic project, blurring the borders between art, science and technology, information and production.

  • Focus
  • Video post
  • Frame
  • Special Project
  • Interview
  • Calls
  • Exhibitions

One more step - Check your email and click the confirmation link

© 2024 – ARSHAKE

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
Gestisci Consenso Cookie
Per fornire le migliori esperienze, utilizziamo tecnologie come i cookie per memorizzare e/o accedere alle informazioni del dispositivo. Il consenso a queste tecnologie ci permetterà di elaborare dati come il comportamento di navigazione o ID unici su questo sito. Non acconsentire o ritirare il consenso può influire negativamente su alcune caratteristiche e funzioni.
Funzionale Always active
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso sono strettamente necessari al fine legittimo di consentire l'uso di un servizio specifico esplicitamente richiesto dall'abbonato o dall'utente, o al solo scopo di effettuare la trasmissione di una comunicazione su una rete di comunicazione elettronica.
Preferenze
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso sono necessari per lo scopo legittimo di memorizzare le preferenze che non sono richieste dall'abbonato o dall'utente.
Statistiche
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso che viene utilizzato esclusivamente per scopi statistici. L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso che viene utilizzato esclusivamente per scopi statistici anonimi. Senza un mandato di comparizione, una conformità volontaria da parte del vostro Fornitore di Servizi Internet, o ulteriori registrazioni da parte di terzi, le informazioni memorizzate o recuperate per questo scopo da sole non possono di solito essere utilizzate per l'identificazione.
Marketing
L'archiviazione tecnica o l'accesso sono necessari per creare profili di utenti per inviare pubblicità, o per tracciare l'utente su un sito web o su diversi siti web per scopi di marketing simili.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
Visualizza le preferenze
{title} {title} {title}
No Result
View All Result
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT US
    • PROJECT
    • MEDIA/PARTNERSHIPS
    • CONTACT US
  • FOCUS
  • FRAME
  • VIDEO POST
  • SPECIAL PROJECT
    • ARSHAKE’S BANNER
    • CRITICAL GROUNDS
    • YOUNG ITALIAN ARTISTS
    • GAME OVER
    • GAME OVER • Loading
    • EXTERNAL PROJECTS
      • BACKSTAGE | ONSTAGE
      • PERCORSI • 6 years of the Terna Prize
      • TEMPO IMPERFETTO
  • RESOURCES
    • ARCHIVE
    • CALLS
    • ONLINE RESOUCES

© 2024 – ARSHAKE

This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.