Romaeuropa has now reached its 34th edition, always paying attention to the quality of the proposed events and always in step with the times. There are 20 locations hosting this year’s Festival, entitled Landscape, which is scheduled to take place from 17 September to 24 November. “A landscape to discover and to cross“, a geography that extends across several dimensions which can be traversed with style and a proactive attitude turned towards the future.
377 artists from 27 countries are the protagonists of the 126 events staged from 17 September to November in various locations around the capital: from the Auditorium to the Argentina, Olimpico and Vascello Theatres, including the spaces of the Mattatoio which, together with Palazzo Merulana and the Sala Santa Rita.
Romaeuropa Festival 2019 opened its door on September 17, 2019 with Lia Rodrigues, and it continues with a reali tight calendar until the end of November, between exhibitions, installations, performances, dance and theatre.
Within this programming there is Digitalive, the new format curated by Federica Patti launched last year to focus on algorithmic art, extending the attention that the Festival has been dedicating to digital art since the last nice years to its time-based dimension, structured in performances that go on stage in different replicas during the three days festival.
“Digitalive was created to analyse the interrelationship between human bodies, software and machines”, explains the curator Federica Patti. Streaming, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, interactivity and technological acceleration continue to revolutionize the concepts of time and “live performance”, allowing a high level of performativity to emerge – a notion now extended to the entire nature of the media process, whose center has become the widest spectrum of daily, intimate and collective actions. The pervasive ubiquity of the media and the web strongly influences the method and styles in which performativity is both put into practice and enjoyed: “Performativity is posthuman”, as Karen Barad would say”.
“Digitalive was created to analyse the interrelationship between human bodies, software and machines”, explains the curator Federica Patti. Streaming, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, interactivity and technological acceleration continue to revolutionize the concepts of time and “live performance”, allowing a high level of performativity to emerge – a notion now extended to the entire nature of the media process, whose center has become the widest spectrum of daily, intimate and collective actions. The pervasive ubiquity of the media and the web strongly influences the method and styles in which performativity is both put into practice and enjoyed: “Performativity is posthuman”, as Karen Barad would say”.
This year the invitation was extended to the students of RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts – to create an immersive audiovisual installation in order to address to the climate issue with the use of data describing the migratory flows of animals impacted by human expansion.
BACKSTAGE/ONSTAGE, the project that stemmed from the synergetic relationship between the Rome Fine Arts Academy, Romaeuropa Festival and Arshake, is back again to follow closely Digitalive’s events. The time-based feature of the performances will be translated and extended through an online documentation project, a story of the works and artists which is created to leave a trace of significant moments, the ‘energy’ of the performances as well as author profiles. Once again, BACKSTAGE/ONSTAGE puts a group of students from the Academy to the test. They will be given the opportunity to experience a new approach to the creative process, realisation and narrating of the Digitalive installations and performances.
Gyula Várnai and Quiet Ensemble’s site-specific light installations (showing from 24 October to 3 November and 7 to 24 November, respectively), specifically designed with the architecture of the Sala Santa Rita in Rome, are part of the Romaeuropa Festival but they are very much attuned to Digitalive, as much as the gran final event with Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto.
We leave you now to browse the calendar of events of the Romaeuropa Festival that, once again, confirms its extraordinary ability to establish connections between very different institutional realities, at a national and international scale, starting from the city of Rome.
REf19 ~ Digitalive – DIGITALIVE. PAESAGGI VIRTUALI
October 4-6, 2019, Mattatoio, Rome
Artists: Mara Oscar Cassiani, Marco Donnarumma & Margherita Pevere, Maria Di Stefano, Enrico Malatesta plays Eliane Radigue, ZU, Sandra Mason, Studenti del corso Multimedia Rufa, ¡miércoles! aka Nicolas Jaar – Stephanie Janaina, Hiroaki Umeda, Ultravioletto, Franz Rosati, Enrica Beccalli, Roula Gholmieh, a cura di RE:HUMANISM
images: (cover 1) Romaeuropa Festival 2019. Invito (2) Hiroaki Umeda, Median (3) ¡miércoles! aka Nicolás Jaar – Stéphanie Janaina, foto AlbaRuperez, MiraFestival, 2018 (3) Rufa, De_Migration (4) Ultravioletto, Sonic Arms (5) Wainting for Digitalive, The Pills. Disagio è comicità
