The experience unfolds through walking, intuitive writing and bodily attention, in a process that invites participants to observe the river as a presence in transformation and to come into contact with its physical and perceptive qualities.
The flood becomes an image that allows us to read the relationship between body and landscape and to encounter water as an element with which to establish a direct relation.
Through hydromancy, water finds a voice and opens new possibilities of dialogue with the world around us.
Francesca Grilli e Azzurra D'Agostino THE FLOOD / LA PIENA
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The Flood / La Piena is a workshop that connects body, water and river environment through the practice of hydromancy, understood as a way of listening to the river.
Bio
Francesca Grilli develops a multidisciplinary language that moves across performance, installation and video, creating direct audience involvement through bodies and symbolic metamorphoses. Her work combines a strong political dimension with poetic language, questioning power structures and social norms. She has presented her work at MAXXI (Rome), Kaaitheater (Brussels), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven) and the Italian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale.
Azzurra D’Agostino is a poet and theatre writer. She has published several poetry collections — winning the Premio Carducci and Premio Ciampi Valigie Rosse — and writes for theatre, collaborating among others with Daria Deflorian and Teatro dei Venti, with whom she won the Premio Speciale UBU 2025. She collaborates with Francesca Grilli in a dialogic creative process including the projects Sparks, Record and Rays.
Credits
Workshop by: Francesca Grilli and Azzurra D’Agostino.
Special thanks to: Benno Steinegger, Morena Poltronieri, associazione culturale Corpo Celeste, Chiara Fava, Elena Regazzoni.
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