Santarcangelo Festival: Walking as Art with Chironi and DOM-
During the 46th Santarcangelo Festival Internazionale del Teatro in Piazza, under the direction of Silvia Bottiroli, who will be succeeded by Eva Neklyaeva for the years 2017–2019, Cristian Chironi showcased Audio Guide. This interactive experience allows attendees to navigate the historic center of Santarcangelo with a numbered map and audio guide, where audio tracks align with market stall numbers, providing descriptions and live recordings. Additionally, DOM-, established by Leonardo Delogu and Valerio Sirna in 2014, presented L'uomo che cammina, a nearly four-hour silent journey led by actor-guide Maurizio Lupinelli. Both performances illustrate a transformation in contemporary arts, merging contrasts and resonating with themes from Dante's Commedia and Yoko Ono's 1961 Painting to let the evening light go through.
Key facts
- 46th edition of Santarcangelo Festival Internazionale del Teatro in Piazza
- Festival directed by Silvia Bottiroli, to be succeeded by Eva Neklyaeva for 2017–2019
- Cristian Chironi presented Audio Guide, previously staged in Nice and Cuneo
- Audio Guide uses numbered map and audio guide with market stall numbers
- Audio tracks include descriptions, short stories, and live recordings by Chironi
- DOM- founded in 2014 by Leonardo Delogu and Valerio Sirna
- L'uomo che cammina is a nearly four-hour walk from Rimini train station
- Walk passes through residential areas, beaches, riverbed, abandoned buildings, shipyard, fields, quarry
- Actor-guide Maurizio Lupinelli leads the walk
- Instructions for walk written on a wall
- Work evokes Dante's Commedia
- Both works reflect shift from object to dematerialized structures, from spiritual to worldly aesthetics, from definition to indeterminacy, from closed to open structures
- Reference to Yoko Ono's 1961 Painting to let the evening light go through
Entities
Artists
- Cristian Chironi
- Leonardo Delogu
- Valerio Sirna
- Maurizio Lupinelli
- Gino De Dominicis
- Yoko Ono
- Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
- Umberto Eco
- Michele Pascarella
Institutions
- Festival Internazionale del Teatro in Piazza di Santarcangelo di Romagna
- DOM-
- Artribune
Locations
- Santarcangelo di Romagna
- Italy
- Rimini
- Nice
- France
- Cuneo