After the awakening of Spring, the new season heats up and brings us to a boil, preparing the ground for revolt: the solar horizon rises and so bodies and voices soar ever higher to the point of overthrowing the politics of the present.

The symposium encompass different formats, talks, workshops and experiences, offering itself as a training ground for generating change through artistic practices that in their exceptionality are interferences in the political scenario and generators of change.

Over the course of the three days, a short dramaturgical curve unfolds that, from the awakening and re-emergence of the body from the dynamics of control and anesthesia, moves us to the discovery of the dream as a seemingly unproductive zone generating new visions. They sweep away the imagination’s monopoly of the present paradigm as the only possible world. Valuing the radical imagination and its tactics helps us formulate desires for change, causing us to rediscover the collective dimension of action capable of giving substance to the visions that have surfaced.

All events are free and take place at Lavanderia a Vapore
(Corso Pastrengo, 51 10093 – Collegno).
+39 11 0361620 | info@lavanderiaavapore.eu

PROGRAMME

*To participate in one or more events, send an email to info@lavanderiaavapore.eu

DAY 1 :: REST IS RESISTANCE – REST AS A FORM OF RESISTANCE
Wednesday, 29/05/2024, Lavanderia a Vapore  

How many forms of revolt can we imagine? In a world where endurance is often associated with muscular acts and the ability to sustain fatigue to the breakingpoint, we rebel against extractive forms that consume energy and resources, physical and mental, resisting the habit of speed and efficiency. Slowing down, recovering the fullness of energy to open our gaze beyond what we are told is the only possible world. What can we feel and imagine when we are in the fullness of our faculties?

15:00 – 16:30 / Sala Grande  
TIREDNESS ACCEPTANCE WORKSHOP by Elisabetta Consonni

17:00 – 18:30 / Teatro
REST IS RESISTANCE TIREDNESS ACCEPTANCE  
Talk with Virginia Cafaro e Ilenia Caleo

17:00 – 18:30 / Teatro
DO NOTHING CLUB with Alessio Mazzaro and Fiona Winning

DAY 2 :: EPIPHANIES AND VISIONS: IMAGINING THE FUTURE
Thursday, 30/05/2024, Lavanderia a Vapore  

What powers does the loss of control conceal? Embracing rest as a dimension in which we stretch time but also our bodies and desires, we attempt to redefine power not as an exercise of domination but as a magical evocation of possibility: by rediscovering our energies, what other scenarios can we bring to the surface by overcoming capitalist realism? How to give substance to the impossible?

10:00 – 12:00 / Teatro
IL TEMPO DELLE MELE
A project by Lavanderia a Vapore in collaboration with Debora Giordi, Francesca Cola and with RSA S. Anna of Pianezza, RSA Bosco della Stella of Rivoli, RSA Maria Barbero of Collegno, Progetto WellFare-FareBene An.Co.Re., Progetto Energia D’Oro, Orto che Cura of Collegno, Circolo Berlinguer of Collegno live music: Pop Tools

12:00 – 13:00 / Teatro
TAKE-AWAY ARCHIVE: PRACTICE SESSION

15:00  –  17:00 / Teatro
TECHNIQUES FOR BECOMING A PLATYPUS by Elisabetta Consonni
A project by Elisabetta Consonni, constructed in collaboration with Alessandro Tollari and Barbara Stimoli. Dramaturgical accompaniment by Silvia Bottiroli. With the support of Lavanderia a Vapore, within the OnMobilisation international cooperation project funded by the European Commission’s Creative Europe program.

17:30 –  19:00 / Teatro
ALTERED STATES: REMEDYING THE PRESENT
Talk with Marco Baravalle and Bambi van Balen (Tools for actions)

DAY 3:: COLLECTIVE FIGHTS
Friday, 31/05/2024, Lavanderia a Vapore  

On Mobilisation is an attempt to reconfigure the state of the present, to bring out submerged and dormant instances and instincts, and to subvert that which gives no pleasure. The political dimension always implies a zone of collective action: how do we return to chorality as a practice of convergence, as an equitable space capable of accommodating multitudes? Let us experiment with unusual forms of being together, uniting plural bodies in dance, voices in agreement, raising in chorus voices of protest that touch generations and cross-generational instances. What would school look like if teenagers were running it? School of Wish is a workshop journey in which female artists worked with a group of young people to give space to their voices and perceptions, visions and codes. Stimulated to rethink and reincarnate the school of their wishes, the teens invite a group of adults to traverse their new institution, playing at subverting roles and questioning power relations in the school system.

9:00  –  10:00 / Courtyard Lavanderia a Vapore and Parco Della Certosa
WALKING GROUP by Roberta Franzin

10:00 – 12:00 / Teatro
DANCE WELL with Ilaria Bagarolo, Elena Cavallo, Emanuele Enria, Debora Giordi, Gaia Giovine Proietti

13:00 – 17:00 / Sala Grande 
MIND WANDERERS -COLLECTIVE EVASION PRACTICES
Lab.004 with Chiara Gistri – Fourth appointment with the series of monthly meetings curated by B. Bordoni

13:00 – 17:00 / Liceo M. Curie 5 (The meeting point  is in front of the  entrance of M.  Curie High School)
SCHOOL OF WISH –KEEP OUT OF ADULTS’ REACH
Outcome of and with School of Wish teenagers: Beatrice Sunny Brero, Tommaso Giachino, Elisabetta Lava, Alice Mariotti, Gabriele Totaro and Alessandra Vaccina. A project of Lavanderia a Vapore in collaboration with the artistic and research team in the New Generations area: Fabio Castello, Francesca Cinalli, Paolo De Santis, Valentina Roselli, Alessandro Tollari. We thank the Headmaster and the entire IIS Marie Curie of Collegno for the availability of space and support for the project.

15:00 – 19:00 / Stireria
LAB FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION curated by Alessandra Racca

17:00 – 20:00 / Sala Grande 
IL CORPO DOCENTE – SOVVERSIONE
Closing meeting of the course Il Corpo Docente di Lavanderia a Vapore in collaboration with Doriana Crema, Alessandro Tollari and Aldo Torta with the special participation of Silvia Bottiroli.

17:00 /Parco Della Certosa (Meeting point at the Chalet del Parco – Certosa Park)
PRETEND IT’S A TOILET
A project by Sara Leghissa in collaboration with Sandra Cane and Tomas Gonzalez realized in collaboration with Sebastiano Lorenza Pala; choreographic assistant Michele Rizzo; costumes Lucia Gallone; graphic design Marzia Dalfini; production L’Altra Associazione; co-production Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Teatro Prospero / ROM – Residency On the Move, Kunstencentrum Viernulvier, far Nyon. We thank the Chalet del Parco della Certosa di Collegno Association for support

18:30-19:30 / Teatro
WHAT ACTIVISM MEANS?
How many ways exist to do activism? Appropriating and reappropriating spaces is something that has to be as much about the physical as the theoretical. A dialogue with Denise Cappadonia (bookseller at Nora Books), Matilde Sali (publishing at Eris) and Alice Fusaro (BDS – Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) on the subversive practices of creative resistance, activism and transfeminism, questioning the ways of reclaiming spaces for action.

19:30 / Teatro
SILENCE PROTEST
Collective protest in the form of a flashmob is the terrain investigated by artist Daniele Ninarello’s meetings with various local activist groups, including Fridays for Future and Ultima Generazione, exploring the memories and traces left on the body by the culture of control, bullying and toxic masculinity, violence and offense.

20:00 / Teatro
COLLECTIVE POETIC ACTION
The collective action is the outcome of the workshop curated by Alessandra Racca.
The poetic text written together will be performed by a plurality of voices and gestures. A flash mob to listen, watch and take part in.

20:00/ Teatro
APERITIVO AND MUSIC WITH DJ GRISSINO (AKA MR. BREADSTICK)
An Italian DJ and producer who has been active since 2005, he will present the I.A.F.G. (International Artists For Gaza) compilation, a project that brings together music producers, singers, designers and creative people of different nationalities, united for a common cause.