Spazio Taverna streams all-night performance during Rome curfew

Rome's newly opened Spazio Taverna, now inaccessible due to lockdown, presents a seven-hour streaming event titled "Casella Vuota 22.00 – 05.00" on November 16, from 10 pm to 5 am, coinciding with the city's curfew hours. The performance features three participants in three adjacent rooms: curators and critics Angel Moya Garcia and Ilaria Mancia, along with playwright and sound designer Riccardo Fazi. They will share soundscapes, texts, and voices while physically separated. Angel Moya Garcia, head of programming and cultural events at Mattatoio di Roma, conceived the event to address the challenge of intervening in a historically charged space without nostalgia. He involved Ilaria Mancia, director of Pelanda, to emphasize the Mattatoio's identity transferring to another location. The title "Casella Vuota" (Empty Box) references a concept from structuralist philosophy by Gilles Deleuze, underscoring that absences are as important as presences. The event is streamed via Spazio Taverna's website.