GianMarco Porru: Performance, Ritual, and the Magic of the Ordinary

Key facts

• GianMarco Porru was born in 1989 in Oristano, Sardinia.
• His work combines dance, theater, and performance arts.
• Key themes include myth, magic, ritual, community practices, and narrative.
• In 2016, he co-founded the Festa del Mare in Oristano with Mimì Enna.
• The Festa del Mare involves carrying seawater from the coast to the city, celebrating it, and entrusting it to a citizen for a year.
• Porru's performance Senza titolo (Ma di una ordinaria magia) features a performer in a starry suit balancing a glass of water on his head.
• Senza titolo (Molto vicino al cielo) references the cyclical time of celestial bodies.
• For Artribune Magazine #47 cover, he created the glove Fare buio.
• He studied at the Paolo Grassi theater school in Milan.
• His creative process starts with collecting found images by unknown authors.
• He is re-reading Konrad Lorenz's The Ring of Solomon.
• He admires the red film stock in Federico Fellini's Juliet of the Spirits.
• He wants to direct Medea by the sea.