FAROUT Live Arts Festival Eléctrico 28 — Walking Definitions

performance

How do you rewrite a dictionary made of new definitions?

Imagine a live ephemeral dictionary where the world is summarized in a set of definitions that make you smile, think, doubt, question, love, move, and change perspective. Eléctrico 28 brings us a walking pop-up observatory run by 3 characters in love with everyday life. If you meet them, don’t miss the chance to hear their particular version of the world around us.

Walking Definitions is a stage intervention that fuses the universe of definitions with the ever-changing reality of everyday urban life. Eléctrico 28’s new performance embraces the strangeness of everyday life, the unpredictable, and relates to the architecture of places: it needs a lively place like a plaza, where a team of “dictionaries” describe things that happen with the power of observation, their bodies, words, and a microphone. Their language is unique and radical: they exclusively use the form of definition to signify the elements, materials, incidents and activities around them. The intervention is constructed by capturing the present moment of a place and is fueled by whoever happens to wander nearby. In conclusion, it is an attempt to perform a dictionary, connected in an unpredictable but controlled way of experiencing the poetics of evidence.

Bio

Eléctrico 28 is a collective that nurtures the ecosystem of everyday human (and animal) life represented in immersive outdoor street performances made with heart and humor. Eléctrico 28 imbues it with small actions ranging from the everyday to the fantastic, challenging preconceptions and conventions of theater and public space. Since 2013 they have created site-specific performances that have traveled throughout Europe.

Credits

original idea and direction: Eléctrico 28

text: Daniela Poch, Clàudia Mirambell, Alina Stockinger

With the support of Eléctrico 28

Performer: Stefano Iagulli, Serena Ferraiuolo, Clàudia Mirambell, Alina Stockinger
Music: Jakob Rüdisser e altri

Eléctrico 28 è un partner associato di IN SITU, the European platform for artistic creation in public space, co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe program.

Walking Definitions is presented in collaboration with Periferico Festival, with the support of Acción Cultural Española (AC/E).

This event is part of CAVALCAVIA, the diffuse festival realised by BASE Milano with the neighbourhoods of Barona, Giambellino and San Siro thanks to the support of the Municipality of Milan in the context of Milano è Viva

  • Duration 30'

    • This performance: is itinerant in the public space, actively involves the audience, is in Italian, does not include LIS translation or over-translation, and does not include poetic audio description.
    We will be happy to answer all your questions, write to us at farout@base.milano.it

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