Volcanic Attitude Festival
2024 Edition
Naples and Vulcano (Aeolian Islands)
Italy
Volcanic Attitude is a contemporary culture festival that hosts artists and researchers in a program of explorations, conferences, and performances between Naples and Vulcano (Aeolian Islands). Volcanic Attitude connects the research of artists and experts from various scientific disciplines with volcanic territories and the primary forces of nature, to investigate the ways in which we act and think, and how these change in relation to the place and the tools we use.
As Up as Down or High Deep is the third edition of Volcanic Attitude on the Aeolian Islands. The festival takes us from the depths of the sea to stellar constellations in the sky. It offers a visionary journey from submarine volcanoes and studies on oceans and their role in climate change to the depths of 'lost skies' and ancient stars. The trembling of the volcanic earth beneath our steps guides us on the way. The performative works and installations by Italian and international artists will be in dialogue with the contributions of researchers from the National Institute of Volcanology and the Marine Biology Institute.
IN NAPLES
Rituals of Resonance
Lecture Performance, NGV – Osservatorio Vesuviano Napels,
18.06.2024, 3pm
Mariella Greil and Peter Kozek are presenting their artistic practices and research questions applied within the currently running research project “Shaken Grounds. Seismography of Precarious Presences,” in collaboration with Nikolaus Gansterer and Lucie Strecker. The project is funded by the Austrian Science Fund and is affiliated with the University of Applied Arts Vienna at the Angewandte Performance Lab, aiming to explore and extend basic research in the arts.
In this 30-minute performance lecture, Mariella Greil and Peter Kozek engage in somatic scores, documentary material, and speech acts, reflecting on the relationship between volcanism, climate change, and eruption politics. Thereby, they reimagine artists as seismographs, adept at detecting and expressing the intricate relationship between humanity and an evolving, technologically influenced geological environment.
A specific module of the research project will be exhibited as part of “IMAGINE CLIMATE DIGNITY,” hosted by the Austrian Ministry of European and International Affairs and the Austrian Cultural Forum in Rome. The showcase will feature Nikolaus Gansterer (AT), Mariella Greil (AT), Peter Kozek (AT), and Lucie Strecker (DE/AT) in collaboration with Nicola Fornoni (IT), Helga Franza (IT), Andrea Pages (IT), and Verena Stenke (DE) as VestAndPage.
IN VULCANO
Trembling Teorema
A live re-enactment of Pasolini’s final scene from the 1968 film
Vulcano Island, Crater La Fossa 20.06.2024, 6pm – 9pm
In the final scene of Pasolini’s Teorema, the protagonist stumbles trembling down the slopes of a black volcano. He screams into the camera, seeking freedom from an inescapable capitalist realm. This urge finds its stage on the primordially seething landscape. 56 years later, a group of performers, choreographers, directors, camera men and costume makers will include an audience in a live re-enactment of trembling, falling, urging for a world untethered from historical constraints, flourishing despite its perceived desolation, all while integrating tension and trauma releasing exercises and neurogenic trembling into the performance.
This scenario is part of the ongoing FWF PEEK research project Shaken Grounds. Seismography of Precarious Presences, conducted by Nikolaus Gansterer, Mariella Greil, Peter Kozek and Lucie Strecker.
