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JULY 12-13, FROM 7 PM TILL 1 AM

MILANO RE-MAPPED SUMMER FESTIVAL

Program curated by ZONA K, spazioSERRA, Fritto FM

Milano Re-Mapped Summer Festival is a multidisciplinary festival devoted to performing arts, music, video, poetry, and other art forms, held in the outdoor spaces and in some of the indoor spaces of the institution.

For this second edition, the program is curated by ZONA K, spazioSERRA, and Fritto FM, three curatorial and production groups working in Milan, selected and invited by Pirelli HangarBicocca for their ability to combine meticulous research with a constant interaction with spaces and places that are not typically devoted to culture and art. With their activities, ZONA K, spazioSERRA and Fritto FM have generated new forms of cultural production and consumption within the city, contributing to the creation of interdisciplinary scenarios that overcome urban geographies and reshape the relationship between the centre and the periphery.

The 2023 edition is supported by Regione Lombardia with the project Together and by Fondazione Cariplo.
The festival is part of the Milano Re-Mapped project, supported by Fondazione Cariplo and conceived by Pirelli Hangarbicocca in collaboration with Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca; the project also includes a survey on the independent art system in Milan.

The program unfolds over two evenings with an intense schedule featuring Italian and international artists. The two dates alternate moments of performance and dance with live concerts, readings, video projections, video installations and DJ sets.

Media partner: Zero.

Free admission. Reservations are recommended and guarantee immediate access. Gates open at 6.30 PM.

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PROGRAM

12 July 7 PM – 11 PM
Program curated by ZONA K

7 PM: Moni Wespi | Slowed Landscapes (The Courage to Stand Still)

7.40 PM: Akira Yoshida | Oroimen

8.10 PM: Francesco Venturi | Urvoice

9 PM: Akira Yoshida | Home

9.40 PM: Salvo Lombardo | Outdoor Dance Floor

7PM-11PM (reading room): Moni Wespi | Moving Portraits | Liquefy - Human Nature

13 July 7 PM – 11 PM
Program curated by spazioSERRA

7 PM: Mulieris Magazine | The degrees between us

7.35 PM: Sara Leghissa | MUSCLES

8.15 PM: Selin Davasse | She-Pigeon

9.00 PM: GianMarco Porru | Medea

9.50 PM: La Trape | Senza voce and Sara Leghissa | MUSCLES

13 July 10.40 PM – 1 AM
Program curated by Fritto FM

10.40 PM: Rainy Miller | live set

11.30 PM: Train to Eltanin con Giovanni Palmisano | live set

12.20 AM: Shannen SP | DJ set

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Choreographies that interact with the architecture, bodies that blend into their setting, voices that emerge from the depths and form a soundscape. For Milano Re-Mapped Summer Festival ZONA K has come up with an artistic program that illustrates the close ties it has built with the city in its ten years of activity. Artistic performances bring to life the Reading Room and the external spaces of Pirelli HangarBicocca by virtuously playing with the various languages of contemporary urban cultures. In a balanced mix of performance, dance, music, and visual art, a selection of artists brings together scenic creations and fragments of reality, questioning the interaction between humans and the city, and the future of their coexistence.

ZONA K

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.

7 PM - Moni Wespi

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.

7 PM - 11 PM (reading room) - Moni Wespi

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.

7.40 PM and 9 PM - Akira Yoshida

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.

8.10 PM - Francesco Venturi

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).

9.40 PM - Salvo Lombardo

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.

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Moni Wespi | Slowed Landscapes

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Akira Yoshida | Oroimen

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Francesco Venturi | Urvoice

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Akira Yoshida | Home

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Salvo Lombardo | Outdoor Dance Floor

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spazioSERRA reflects on the concept of the body politic – the representation and interpretation of political power and social mechanisms by means of the human body. Through various forms of physical expression, the body becomes a vehicle for investigating authoritarian trends as well as developments in the community that permeate the contemporary world. Body language is thus a communication tool that, through its existence in space, transcends words and questions the community.

spazioSERRA

spazioSERRA is a public art project led by a curatorial collective. It was founded in Milan in 2017 with the aim of adding value to the Milan area through the work of emerging artists. The collective consists of workers in the fields of the arts, communication and management and it has always had a deep bond with the space from which it takes its name. spazioSERRA is an exhibition space at the Lancetti station of the crossrail system, a metropolitan and suburban location that is a far removed from the places typically devoted and delegated to art. Each year, spazioSERRA presents a season of thematic exhibitions, involving both Italian and international artists in site-specific projects. This principal activity is accompanied by various partnerships with international institutions and collectives.

7 PM - Mulieris Magazine

Mulieris Magazine

7 PM The degrees between us
Reading
Founder & editor: Greta Futura
Co-founder & creative director: Sara Lorusso
Art director & graphic designer: Chiara Cognigni
Contributor: Roberta Zedda

Mulieris presents “The degrees between us,” its fifth issue focusing on human interactions and community. Starting from the theory of 6 degrees of separation, the artists in this issue analyse love, crews, social groups, families, and any kind of human connection in 240 pages featuring over 70 creatives from more than 10 countries.

Mulieris Magazine is an independent magazine based in Italy, a platform, a safe place, a community, a source for art and events created by women but that aims to speak to everyone regardless of their gender or sex. It aims to create an open dialogue on gender equality through art made by women.

7.35 PM and 9.50 PM - Sara Leghissa

Sara Leghissa

7.35 PM and 9.50 PM MUSCLES
Performance
Graphic design: Marzia Dalfini

Sara Leghissa rearranges an extract from Kathy Acker’s essay Against Ordinary Language: The Language of the Body. While some words flow, others detach from the text, trying to suspend and stretch time. In this repetitive action the performing body encounters the text, in resonance with variable meanings and positionings.

Sara Leghissa (b. 1984, Milan) focuses her practice on public space, in line with a principle of ecology of resources which mostly relies on what is already available. She creates systems and devices that try to blend in and become as one with the setting, in order to convey images and content. The aim is to address and reach out to different audiences by using accessible, everyday technologies. She co-founded the art project Strasse and has shown her works in many festivals of performing arts, art galleries, and public spaces. For the Italian scene she co-organises Nobodys Indiscipline, NESSUNO, and Una Sauna, which are spaces for gathering, partying, community building and exchanging interdisciplinary practices.

8.15 PM - Selin Davasse

Selin Davasse

8.15 PM She-Pigeon
Performance

She-Pigeon is a musically-accompanied monologue in the voice of a feminine pigeon, originally domesticated by humans but now associated with dirt, disease, and the invasion of public space. Contemplating the politics of disgust, exclusion and pollutability, Selin Davasse confronts the human audience with the dignity and complexity of Milan’s most underappreciated city-dweller.

Selin Davasse (b. 1992, Ankara) lives and works in Berlin. In her research-based performance practice she repurposes disparate literary and performative techniques to envision and enact the ethics of alternative presents. Her work condenses systems of thought into intimate feminine expressions and presents them in song or speech, often with playful and participatory layers that form hospitable relations with the audience. Recent performance contexts include Art Encounters Biennial, Timișoara; Radicants, Paris; Hacer Noche, Oaxaca; Kunsthalle Bratislava; Centrale Fies, Dro; BJCEM, Procida; Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana; Wiener Festwochen, Vienna; MEDITERRANEA19 Young Artists Biennale, San Marino; Volksbühne, Berlin; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.

9.00 PM - GianMarco Porru

GianMarco Porru

9.00 PM Medea
Performance
Text: Il Colorificio
Performer: Mariasilvia Greco, Chiara Serafini
Sound design: D_mode
Made with the support of: Museo MA*GA (VA), Il Colorificio, Regione Lombardia, Anci Lombardia, R-Evolution project

Medea builds on reinterpretations of the Euripidean myth by the Calabrian poet, writer and playwright Corrado Alvaro and the German writer Christa Wolf. Medea is a cunning but, above all, foreign witch. Considerations concerning her foreign identity come together in the main element of the performance: a huge flag waved by Mariasilvia Greco, outlining its forms in a choreography of gestures. The flag, an exclusive symbol of identity and a manifestation of geographical and national belonging, becomes a documentary testimony — a canvas and scroll on which Medea’s emotional geographies are inscribed. These range from the royal palace of Colchis to the firmament of stars and the lunar phases, symbolizing the journey completed, to the Palace of Corinth enveloped in flames, in a metaphor for the destruction of power.

GianMarco Porru (b. 1989, Oristano) is a visual artist based in Milan. He works with various media, including performance, video, and photography, and his artistic research is linked to cultural narratives, which he creates and conveys orally. His work with visual, sound, and textual materials brings both known and unpublished mythological tales into the contemporary world. His work has been shown in various foundations, museums, and festivals, including Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene; Piccolo Teatro – Teatro D’ Europa, Milan; MAO, Turin; PhotoVogue, Milan; MilanoOltre, Milan; Museo MA*GA, Gallarate; Museo Nivola, Orani; PAV, Turin; Museo del 900, Milan; Museo MAN, Nuoro; Teatro San Martin, Buenos Aires.

9.50 PM - La Trape

La Trape

9.50 PM Senza voce
Performance
Performer: Medusa, Jupiter, Emma Doppel, T'AI
Dress/Set design: Trysha

Senza voce — literally “voiceless” — explores the non-traditional methods of communication used by the queer, drag, and trans community — a community that has no voice. La Trape uses lip sync as a way of reappropriating the meaning and language of those who have the privilege by those who do not. As the performance unfolds, it brings to light other performers who, through two categories of the ballroom scene, hands performance and sex siren, use their hands and their bodies to tell stories, claim a space, express a need for a community that is voiceless.

La Trape (b. 1993, Ferrara) works on performance research that draws on a mutant, mutable queer body that lives in a limbo of uncertainties, in the face of a society that imposes rigid categories. In 2014 she began performing in drag, merging her artistic work into the world of clubs, in Italy and in international festivals such as the Bushwig in Berlin and New York. In 2021 she worked with the artist Daniele Costa on Trapezia, a video artwork, which won the Fondazione Lazzaretto’s Lydia! award. The work was shown at PAC, Milan, and for the occasion La Trape put on two new performances. In 2022 she took part in the Lago Film Fest with a new performance set inside the lake, at night.

Fritto FM curates the closing sets of the two days of Milano Re-Mapped Summer Festival, translating the ongoing investigation in the subcultural landscapes and contemporary underrepresented music phenomena through the engagement with artists belonging to Fritto FM’s roster and international guests whose vision and artistic practice reflects its mission.

Fritto FM

Fritto FM is a community radio born in 2015, and relaunched in 2020 amidst the pandemic, with the aim to create a radio station that finds its resources in a network of people, creating an open dialogue space with artists, art curators, photographers, designers, record labels, and anyone who is a thread of the community radio’s social fabric. Its daily showcase of upcoming and underrepresented talents aims to renew the music industry, taking distances from algorithm-driven dynamics, motivated to prime a local and pan-European scene united by a common vision. “FM stands for FAM”.

10.40 PM - Rainy Miller

Rainy Miller

10.40 PM live set

In his sets Rainy Miller blends rap and deconstructed drill with an introspective ambience, punctuated by intimate and mournful auto-tuned vocals. Miller sees music and art as means to expel inner trauma, and he overturnes his struggles and worries into a medium for a deeper connection with his creative process and ultimately with the music.

Rainy Miller (known to his mother as Jack Bowes) was born and raised in Longridge, Preston, a typically unremarkable northern market town. Things began getting remarkable once the nascent grime scene started spilling over from its London birthplace and took root in disparate places around 2006. An explosion of youthful expression, grime provided a template and voice to young people in towns such as Preston, blossoming into an energetic city-wide scene that Miller was a part of. He has co-produced Blackhaine’s And Salford Falls Apart (2021 via HEAD II) and Armour II (2022 via Fixed Abode) to critical acclaim, and tours as part of the Blackhaine live band.

11.30 PM - Train to Eltanin con Giovanni Palmisano

Train to Eltanin con Giovanni Palmisano

11.30 PM live set

Train to Eltanin’s live dismantles rave and hardcore continuum paradigms by returning them in obscure patterns of drones, dungeon synths, and sub-frequencies, originating a misfit performance too far-sighted for the clubs and too harsh for the art environments.

Train to Eltanin manifests in Leo and Eltanin’s collision, a duo growing spontaneously in the shade of dismissed buildings in the suburbs of Milan. The act incorporates the ever-evolving spectrum of contemporary electronic panorama in a psychotic dialogue that blurs the boundaries between rave, contemporary classical, and sonic explorations. Disillusioned by the music industry, without recognition from the institutionalized music scene, the duo gained the acclaim of the most influential and respected underground authorities, playing throughout Italy and beyond thanks to their unpredictable sets that define an out-of-time zeitgeist in the post-avant-garde music scenario.

12.20 AM - Shannen SP

Shannen SP

12.20 AM DJ set

Shannen SP’s dedication towards sub-cultures and underrepresented cultural phenomena results in an ever-changing DJ-set, that explores the relentless proliferation of black diasporic music sub-genres and its echoes in the contemporary global club context.

Shannen SP is a London based DJ and multidisciplinary artist. Her DJ sets and curatorial practice in both music and the arts explore the spectrum of the global underground, and find a platform in her event series and forthcoming label E.B.N.X.

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Sara Leghissa | MUSCLES

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Selin Davasse | She-Pigeon

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GianMarco Porru | Medea

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La Trape | Senza Voce

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Rainy Miller | Live set

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Train to Eltanin with Giovanni Palmisano | Live set

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MILANO RE-MAPPED SUMMER FESTIVAL

PROGRAM

12 July 7 PM – 11 PM Program curated by ZONA K

13 July 7 PM – 11 PM Program curated by spazioSERRA

13 July 10.40 PM – 1 AM Program curated by Fritto FM

12 JULY- DETAILED PROGRAM

Moni Wespi | Slowed Landscapes

Akira Yoshida | Oroimen

Francesco Venturi | Urvoice

Akira Yoshida | Home

Salvo Lombardo | Outdoor Dance Floor

13 JULY - DETAILED PROGRAM

Sara Leghissa | MUSCLES

Selin Davasse | She-Pigeon

GianMarco Porru | Medea

La Trape | Senza Voce

Rainy Miller | Live set

Train to Eltanin with Giovanni Palmisano | Live set

Shannen SP | DJ set

12 July 7 PM – 11 PM
Program curated by ZONA K

13 July 7 PM – 11 PM
Program curated by spazioSERRA

13 July 10.40 PM – 1 AM
Program curated by Fritto FM