Fabrizio Saiu Intermission

FAROUT
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Intermission is a collective performance and a multitude in movement, which interwines urban space, body and sound.

It’s A Secret is a chain of one-to-one verbal stories that only the participants can experience.  

The stories exist in each of the participants and will become different in every instance, due to context, memory, language, imagination and time.  

Our temptation is to want to know how the story has changed, what the “new” story is. But is this ever really possible? Will it change once it is in us anyway? Do we ever hear the same thing as others? Is a common understanding what holds our social fabric together? 

It’s A Secret plays with fiction and truth, secrecy and sharing, gifting and holding back, memory and invention. It invites us to consider the responsibility we have to tell each other stories. It invites us to think of the archive as a trace, not a monument. In a world where fake news proliferates at a much higher rate than truth, what do we choose to tell others?  

We will publish a digital trace of the geographic journey of each story. But not the story.   

During Farout Festival, a single performer will tell each original story to multiple people per day. Each time the performer tells a story, they will also give a tablet of instructions to the person they are telling the story to. The instructions tell the audience member that they need to find someone to tell the story to and pass the instructions on to, and so on.  

If they choose not to pass the story on then they have custody of the tablet, so there is a physical reminder that they are custodian of the story. They have to make a choice to pass the story and tablet on, or they might decide to destroy or dispose of the tablet, or it just hangs around in their possession, creating a weight of responsibility. 

Bio

Kaleider is producers Katie Keeler, Jocelyn Mills and Irene Urrutia, manager Peter Vanderford and artist Seth Honnor. We are also all the freelancers who make up our production teams, and the partnerships that help our work meet audiences. We combine installation, live performance and digital in our artworks, which are conceived and directed by Seth, almost always in collaboration. 

We tour to cities, festivals, venues and public spaces all over the world. In the last 5 years we have performed 274 gigs in 12 countries on 4 continents to more than 120,000 people.  

Kaleider Studios is in Exeter, UK and is where we make our work and run projects. 

We share our space with other creative organisations and individuals, many of whom we collaborate with and who collaborate with each other. 

Kaleider is an IN SITU artist 2020 – 2024 (UN) COMMON SPACES. IN SITU is the European platform for artistic creation in public space. 

Credits

BASE, In Situ

  • Duration 90'
  • Doors opening at L'appuntamento è a 15' dall'inizio
  • The performance is interactive. Dress code: comfy clothes!

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