Elisabetta Consonni is joining FAROUT Live Arts Festival in Milano with her project How to Become a Platypus on Sunday, 13 October. The performance will take place during three time slots:

• 11:00–13:00
• 15:00–17:00
• 19:00–21:00

Scientists at first became convinced that the bizarre set of physical features of the platypus must be a fake, produced by some embalming process. Instead, it was the platypus. (Wikipedia)

How to Become a Platypus is a constellation of practices and exercises in which the audience is invited to participate, following a different path for each person. The various stations encourage a departure from logic, offering delightful, impossible missions designed to intercept personal aspects of knowledge that evade functionality. Join us for an experience where attention is unsettled and surprised, allowing one’s own knowledge to lose its balance, making way for insights or understandings not previously considered.

The environment created resembles a gym for liberating a part of one’s knowledge from the need to serve a purpose, disrupting the criteria that place one kind of knowledge at the center and others on the periphery. In this way, even an unlikely assembly of information becomes possible—just like the platypus.

Credits
A project by Elisabetta Consonni
In collaboration with: Alessandro Tollari and Barbara Stimoli
With the participation of: Francesco Dalmasso and Elisa D’Amico
Dramaturgical accompaniment: Silvia Bottiroli
Research support by: Lavanderia a Vapore through the European project OnMobilisation
A production of BASE Milano, Fattoria Vittadini, and Le Alleanze dei Corpi

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