FAROUT Live Arts Festival Elisabetta Consonni — HOW TO BECOME A PLATYPUS

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Scientists at first became convinced that that at first glance bizarre set of physical features must be a fake, produced by some embalming process. Instead, it was the platypus. (Wikipedia)

How to become a Platypus is a constellation of practices/exercises to which the audience is invited to participate, following a different path for each person. The various stations encourage a departure from logic; delightful impossible missions designed to intercept some personal aspects of knowledge that evade functionality.

Attention is unsettled and surprised; one’s own knowledge loses its balance, making way for insights or understandings that were not previously considered as such. The created environment resembles a gym for liberating a part of one’s knowledge from the need to serve a purpose, thus disrupting the criteria that place one kind of knowledge at the center and others on the periphery. In this way, even an unlikely assembly of information becomes possible: just like the platypus.

Bio

Elisabetta Consonni choreographs everything either human or non-human beings, movable or immovable objects, maps, games and space shuttle tours to built a net of relations, subtle and strong as sugar glass . Her research aims to expand choreographic practice to the point of being a tool for making shifts of attention happen, to observing relational dynamics, to overturning narratives and critically re-reading contexts. She keeps on creating new formats that are participatory in different ways. Her works have been presented in various contexts in Europe and Canada. Since 2024, she has been the artistic director of Festival ORLANDO in Bergamo.

Credits

A project by Elisabetta Consonni  

In collaboration with: Alessandro Tollari and Barbara Stimoli 

With the participation of: Francesco Dalmasso e Elisa D’Amico  

Dramaturgical accompaniment: Silvia Bottiroli 

Research Support by: Lavanderia a Vapore through the European project On Mobilization. 

A production of BASE Milano, Fattoria Vittadini, and Le Alleanze dei Corpi 

  • Duration 120'

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