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Hello Daniela and welcome to NotRandomArt. The current issue is revolving around the
problem of communication and identity. Is there any particular way you would describe your identity as an artist but also as a human being in dynamically changing, unstable times? In particular, does your cultural substratum/identity form your aesthetics?
I do think that my identity is somehow responsible for the aesthetic choices I made for my work.
I started my path working as an actress for theatre and then for independent cinema in Italy and later in Germany.
When I started to direct my first theatre piece in Berlin I begun exploring ways and methods (if we can call them like that) I wanted to use.
I’m still developing my style year by year, work by work, even if every project is like a new island where (from my point of view) I start from ground zero. I love collaborating with different artists and mixing media and languages.
In my first piece we were two actors, a video artist and a music composer. From the beginning I wanted to collaborate with the video artist and with the musician in two different ways. From one side their individual work was both completely mingled with the piece we were working on, in terms of structure: I mean we were all working on the same page. But from the other side I wanted them free to give a personal contribution and add a personal voice to the work in their specific field - and they did it in a great way. The final work was to me like a carpet made by a complex fusion of wires. There was a common plot but the wires had different colors and for their peculiarity they created a variation in the original structure without compromising the final result, but making it “travelling”, in the sense that you can’t easily classify the work.
As a human being I am the same kind of carpet made from different wires. We are all made from several experiences, we are a result of them: the choices we make, the desires we have, the needs, the way we feel / perceive something is just a result of the reworking of what we experienced before. We also can’t stop moving and changing because this is a necessity of the times. Times are unstable in different ways but this is something that also affected others in the past: this is a part of our condition as humans. The issues change but the change can’t be avoided. Of course this perception has an influence on the way we live and act. As artists we deal with issues that touch us more, that are not just social problems that need to be told. If I talk about a specific issue, I have a strong connection with it in that particular moment, there is a personal link with it and I try to make this link visible in an artistic way, to highlight it, maybe to understand it better.
Would you like to tell us something about your artistic as well as life background? What inspired you to be in this artistic point in your life when you are now?
The way I decided to work, between theatre and film, between dance and performance made me
extremely open and curious and gave me plenty of ideas to realize.
Besides my acting studies (a no-classical but transversal theatre education) I have a degree in Philosophy with an anthropological thesis in contemporary dance. I like to mix things. This mix creates always something new that needs to be explored.
I’m inspired from what I see around me from when I open my eyes to when I close them. Berlin was affecting me so much. It took my barriers off: I still think it does.
I work both in theatre and film: they are a huge source of inspiration for my own work. I can watch the films I love most ten times without getting annoyed: I can always find in them something fresh and new that I didn’t notice the time before.
When I was writing my first theatre piece I was really inspired by film and I think these two worlds need to be more and more mingled in my work.
In my projects I deal also with many difficulties: one of my last project for theatre dance (The Wheel), in collaboration with philosopher Sara Fortuna came to light from the absence of any possible warranty in terms of money, space, schedule.
I discover a new way to face instability: the project was born by a shared necessity to realize it, and thanks to the difficulties we had to finance it, without an institution behind it, it ended up giving birth to three different projects: a trilogy made by three theatre dance chapters for theatre/art galleries and one short film.
I found this solution very funny at the beginning but while I took this choice I realized how much I could explore artistically, how much with zero resources a project can become something beautiful and still has material to be improved.
Could you identify a specific artwork that has influenced your artistic practice or has
impacted the way you think about your identity as a participant of the visual culture?