MILANO RE-MAPPED SUMMER FESTIVAL

ZONA K is an innovative, hybrid group that explores the exchanges between artistic and cultural disciplines. Since 2013 it has put on theatre, dance, cinema, and musical performances, establishing itself on the cultural scene for its rigorous programming and its openness to the European avant-garde. ZONA K collaborates with artists who look at the present, inhabit the urban area and think up new ways of experiencing art, activating relations with the city as well as educational trainings, intercultural artistic research, artistic residencies, and productions and co-productions with international artists. Over the years, the group has worked with numerous organizations, from independent associations to more institutional ones, both at a city and international level.

Moni Wespi

7 PM Slowed Landscapes (The Courage to Stand Still)
Visual choreographic installation in three outdoor spaces of Pirelli HangarBicocca
Installation and costumes: Moni Wespi
Performers: a cast from Milan

Moni Wespi is sharing a work in progress of her new project Slowed Landscapes, that investigates the power of slowness and camouflage. In the ever-increasing speed of our daily lives, the work confronts the passer-by with the effect of slowing down in public space, placing the human in a less dominant position to the environment and questioning the hierarchy that has been imposed over centuries. The human body is merged in its environment thanks to the artist’s work of textile printing. Slowed Landscapes is a live Moving Portrait and shall be conceived as a sort of artistic meditation or silent call for awareness.

Moni Wespi (CH/BE) is a choreographer, visual artist, and designer based in Switzerland and Belgium. She questions movement and identity through a multidisciplinary approach and radical scenographic choices. In 2007 she founded the Loutop Company with which she was awarded with the Grant award of Zürich 2010. In 2011 she joined Asphalt Piloten, an open artistic cell and award-winning collective focused on public space.

Moni Wespi

7 PM-11 PM Moving Portraits | Liquefy – Human Nature
Video exhibition -5 video portraits
Artistic direction: Moni Wespi
Camera: Francois de Saint Georges/ Lucia Gerhardt
Production: Plusieurs

Moving Portraits is a choreographic, plastic, and multimedia project that portrays individuals who have been guided through the exploration of diverse identities and the invention of possible alternate realities. For Milano Re-Mapped Summer Festival Moni Wespi selected her latest work Liquefy – Human Nature, curated by Maelle Delaplanche, commissioned for Qartier in the Bourse metro station of Brussels. In a world where everything seems to accelerate, Wespi attempts to slow down and wonders about how to reintroduce humans back into the environment. She proposes to change the model of world representation and reverse the roles: humans no longer interfere with nature, but nature interferes with humans until they merge.

Moni Wespi (CH/BE) is a choreographer, visual artist, and designer based in Switzerland and Belgium. She questions movement and identity through a multidisciplinary approach and radical scenographic choices. In 2007 she founded the Loutop Company with which she was awarded with the Grant award of Zürich 2010. In 2011 she joined Asphalt Piloten, an open artistic cell and award-winning collective focused on public space.

Akira Yoshida

7.40 PM Oroimen
Dance solo
Choreography and performance: Akira Yoshida
External eye: Rafael Arenas
Music: Donald Beteille
Collaborators: Culture House of Etxarri Aranatz, Government of Navarre, DNA Navarre

A lonely person on a journey through actions lived by the hands: touch, youth, love, life, and death.

9 PM Home
Dance solo
Choreography and performance: Akira Yoshida

Home is a journey triggered by desire. A journey to something that maybe should not be desired. A person leaving something behind and reaching a wish, and that wish hitting back. A journey back home. Or maybe not. We often seek after things that might empower us. These things give us a direction, a purpose, but this can be mistaken, and we can damage ourselves. We leave simple things behind, feeling them valueless, and we look for new things that can make us stronger. We forget the simple to find the complex, but fake power is fake power, and in the end, we only create an illusion.

Akira Yoshida (ES) started experimenting with break dance to then move to contemporary dance and performing arts. He received the Main Artistic Grant of Navarre and studied at SEAD (AU). He has worked with Peeping Tom, Lali Ayguadé Company, Yoann Bourgeois, Hungry Sharks, Physical Momentum, Roberto Oliván Performing Arts, Ceren Orán, QuieroTeatro. He created his own solos and co-created different award-winning duets with Lali Ayguadé and Chey Jurado. Yoshida choreographed for Cobosmika and assisted Lali Ayguadé (with the Korean National Company and the Verve Company). Currently, the artist combines touring his own work with that of other companies with workshops all around the world.

Francesco Venturi

8.10 PM Urvoice
Solo performance for voice and multi-channel sound system
Voice, composition, sound design: Francesco Venturi
Physical Dramaturgy: Camilla Crispino
Sound direction: Jacopo Cenni
Performance developed at Kingston University, London; Malagola School, Ravenna; and Mirmica Association, Milan; Listening Academy; Berlin

Urvoice is a solo for voice and electronics. A somatic journey made by a roving voice whose wide interpretative range morphs into a song. The polyphonic amalgam of glossolalia, onomatopoeias, pulse phonations, bodily noises and layered material voices is not a mother tongue to surrender to, but a material to be traversed, in search of asymmetries, geometries, and anatomies. Voicings that hypnotically unite into an archetypal “ur-voice”, transforming the organic and the inanimate into a soundscape. A song that sounds ultra-human and less-than-human, intertwined with a sonic poetry that metamorphoses the song into a concert and the concert into a somatic experience, both for the performer and the audience.

Francesco Venturi (IT) is a musician, researcher, producer, and author. His work explores the transformative power of vocality and takes the form of performances, compositions, shows, collaborations, publications, radio programs, and educational projects. He has scored award-winning productions across cinema, theatre, dance, and visual arts, and has performed in various vocal and instrumental ensembles, in Italy and Europe, since 1999. In 2018 he is one of the founders of Spettro in Brescia. His vocal research explores the intersection of extended vocal techniques and operatic singing, in search of a somatic common ground, and is the subject of a practice-based PhD at Kingston University in London. He is the editor of Creak: Theories and Practices of Pulse Phonation (2023).

Salvo Lombardo

9.40 PM Outdoor Dance Floor
Performance + DJ/VJ set
Ideation, choreography, and direction: Salvo Lombardo
Performance: Daria Greco, Salvo Lombardo
VJ set: Daniele Spanò
Dj set: Bunny Dakota (aka Martina Ruggeri\Industria Indipendente)
Production: Chiasma, Rome
With the support of the Italian Ministry of Culture (MiC)
In collaboration with the Fondazione Romaeuropa

An open-air music club where you can liberate yourself from social and gender conventions. Daria Greco and Salvo Lombardo form a close bond with the musical, sound, and visual throb of a multimedia live set, where rougher sounds with an industrial sheen encounter techno, synth pop, tropical, R&B landscapes, and symphonic inserts. They gradually yield to the rhythm and, freeing themselves from their cumbersome nineteenth-century attire, they become champions of a spontaneous, free form of dance made of simple gestures and imitable sequences. After their choreographic performance, the audience is invited to join the flow of the action and dance with them. Outdoor Dance Floor embodies an act of pure participation, sociality, and an aggregation of bodies.

Salvo Lombardo (IT) is a performer, choreographer, multimedia artist and curator. He has worked on his projects with festivals, theatres, museums, and independent spaces in Italy and abroad. He is currently an associate artist at the MilanOltre Festival and Lavanderia a Vapore. He was the co-curator of the Resurface Festival Rome. In 2020 he became one of the founding members of Ostudio Roma. Since 2021, Lombardo has been the artistic director of Interazioni Festival Roma. In 2016 he became the artistic director of Compagnia Chiasma, which is recognised and financed by the MiC as a dance production body and operates in the field of contemporary visual and performing arts through national and international events.