Rome, at the Slaughterhouse new appearances of ‘Re-Creatures, the luminous rabbits of Parer arrive

From 20 July to 6 August new “apparitions” return to inhabit the spaces outside the Pelanda, in the continuation of Re-Creatures, the summer program curated by Ilaria Mancia, inaugurated last June 24 and inspired by a visionary return of animals to the slaughterhouse. An imaginary redemption, a crepuscular and fantastic occupation, in which animal creatures – domesticated, wild or chimerical – evoke, through the artistic process and the intensity of the performative moment, an alterity necessary to rethink the relationship with nature. “The apparitions that make up the Re-Creatures program are placed in opposition to every appearance with the awareness that it is precisely the intertwining between appearance and appearance that determines the dream drift in which the logic of human thought opens up, perhaps only for a moment and thanks to artistic creation, to the perception of other habitats ”, writes the curator. The Slaughterhouse confirms its vocation as a meeting place dedicated to the multidisciplinary confrontation between the arts with an intense program that intertwines video-installations, environmental installations, live performances, meetings and moments of in-depth analysis. From 20 July to 6 August the population of Intrude of Parer Studio will occupy the external spaces of the slaughterhouse, returned to the public for this occasion. Alluding to an out-of-scale animality, the large luminous rabbits will be playful yet disturbing presences, in which the environmental theme is superimposed on the fairy-tale iconography. “In Australia” explains Amanda Parer artist and founder of the homonymous Studio “the rabbit represents simultaneously the sweet and caressing animal of childhood and the one known to have been the cause of the destruction of the delicate ecosystem of the island”. The oversizing ironically alludes to the extent of man’s impact on nature and to the ease with which the problem is ignored.On the evening of 20 July at 7.30 pm Lisa Gilardino – curator and founder of Samara Editions – and Sara De Simone – literary critic – will talk of publishing and artistic practice, presenting the Protoplasmic Flow project by Jenna Sutela that will bring the performative dimension to touch even the most intimate and domestic sphere. The Finnish artist, with Samara Editions, proposes, in fact, a box to be purchased with everything necessary for a private performance, which every spectator can activate when they want. For this special project produced in collaboration with Mattatoio and Azienda Speciale Palaexpo for Re-Creatures, the connection with the animal world will involve a small being, the Physarum polycephalum, considered a sort of natural computer. From care to growth to get to interaction, the action redesigns – from observation to individual commitment – the possibilities of a new relationship with nature.On 20 and 21 July at 9.30 pm the hidden stage will unveil the show of Antonia Baehr presenting, for the first time in Italy, Abecedarium Bestiarium. Starting from an invitation to some friends to write sequences for her, and built like an alphabet in which each letter corresponds to the initial of an extinct animal, the work of Baehr – artist and choreographer based in Berlin – is based on the concept of affinity, on poetic imitation, on a continuous game of metaphors. Thus, a universe of reflections and deviations is composed, a detached cosmos, governed by erotic bonds that cross space, time and body, between humor and desire. On July 21st the Playgirls From Caracas djset will follow from 11.00 pm On July 22nd at 9.30 pm Temple du presént will be screened. Solo for an octopus by Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll) with Judith Zagury and Nathalie Küttel, made in collaboration with the Shanjulab collective. By superimposing the theatrical, musical and cinematographic structure of the documentary, the project explores the relationship with an octopus, an animal endowed with a mysterious, ancestral intelligence and empathy, to the point of surprisingly overturning the point of view between the observer and the observer. The screening will be followed by an in-depth meeting in which Nathalie Küttel will dialogue with Ilaria Mancia, answering questions and curiosities from the public. On 23 July at 9.30 pm Emilio will be staged, directed by Alexia Sarantopoulou with Ondina Quadri and the original music by Yorgia Karidi, also protagonist of the DJ set that will follow at 11.00 pm. Inspired by the famous treatise of the same name on Rousseau’s education, Emilio developed within the Prender-si cura residences in 2020 and 2021, within the same slaughterhouse where it is now presented. The performance will come to life through the creation and destruction of tableaux vivants, playing with the distinction between organic and inorganic, dead and alive, organism and machine, body and object. The stage is a constantly changing picture. Images form and crumble: a still life becomes an experimental laboratory, atelier, clinic, landscape. On 24 July at 9.30 pm Marco Torrice – choreographer and performer – will present Melting Pot. Inspired by a constantly evolving dance practice, which makes it a meeting place, an immersive and hybrid device that combines different performance practices – from the show to the jam session street, from happening to participatory dance – the project is articulated through improvisation scores, both individual and group. The dance forms present in the work will be born and developed as a result of an experience of sharing the action, rather than being imposed by the choreographer. From 20 to 23 July, as part of Traiettorie, Torrice will hold a free workshop aimed at adults, to investigate rhythm as a means of interpersonal connections and to stimulate different movement patterns, compared to the more familiar ones. July at 8.30pm Simone Aughterlony – internationally renowned choreographer and artist, for the first time in Rome – will lead the audience into an unusual love story among many, in an unexpected clearing in the wilderness, with a close-up on human and non-human assemblages and their affects. Biofiction, staged with Hahn Rowe, creates a new horizontal terrain that presents a plurality of entities without an ontological hierarchy. Aughterlony will stage the narration of a sexuality that does not yet exist – intriguing and challenging conventions or identifications – which makes this choreographic work a constant practice of making a world that generates queer consciousness. On July 26, from 9.30 pm Simone Aughterlony will talk with Ilenia Caleo, performer, activist and independent researcher, talking, starting from Biofiction, about the activation of experiences and imaginations, of corporeality and acting materials, in complicity with the traces opened by transfeminist thought , neo-materialist, from Barad to Bennett. On July 27 at 9.30 pm the central stage will host Nada, accompanied by guitarist Andrea Mucciarelli. Resuming the concert of the Nada Trio, a project born in 1994 with the collaboration of Fausto Mesolella and Ferruccio Spinetti, guitar and double bass of Avion Travel, the show will include songs such as Il porto di Livorno, the popular Ma che colso fa, great hits like Amore desperate, up to today’s songs in which in addition to being an interpreter Nada is also the author of music and words: Look into my eyes, Full Moon and Without a Why, soundtrack of The Young Pope.