27 Oct Roma Arte in Nuvola: a program full of artistic performances
The special project dedicated to performance art returns to Roma Arte in Nuvola 2024, curated by Daniela Cotimbo and Adriana Polveroni.
Four powerful performances will animate the program, exploring themes related to social relationships, feminism, ecology, urban memory, and the recovery of subcultures.
The series opens on Thursday, November 21, with Francesco Fonassi, an artist from Brescia, who will present Dream Klub Remix, a live tape collage that will bring La Nuvola to life. This project stems from his residency in Belgrade, where he set up a temporary radio and music production studio in the very spaces occupied fifteen years ago by the historic club Akademija, an international underground music landmark.
Starting on Friday, November 22, and running for the following two days, the public will experience the performance Tevere Expo, scarti sonori by Iginio De Luca, an artist from Rome. This audio-poetic action serves as a form of denunciation, uncovering the hidden and forgotten. Throughout the fair, the artist will extract sounds from debris he has retrieved from the Tiber River over the past months—urban relics resurfacing from the depths, remnants of once-industrial products.
On Saturday, November 23, the stage belongs to LU.PA, an artistic duo founded by Lulù Nuti and Pamela Pintus. Their performance, D’altro canto cade, features five opera singers performing reinterpretations of folk music. The audience, actively involved in the performance, will witness pure randomness, as the fate of each piece is determined by the flip of a coin.
Closing the performance series on Sunday, November 24, is Francesca Cornacchini, a Roman artist, who presents Blue Horizon—an exploration of the subversive gesture as a visual aesthetic vocabulary. In this performance, the act of repeatedly kicking a wall transforms a feeling of dissatisfaction with the contemporary condition into a formal and pictorial language.
At the end of the day, starting at 4:00 PM, two events will take place:
- A talk by art historian and researcher Caterina Tomeo, focusing on her recent research into sound and voice in contemporary art.
- A second talk featuring the performers, providing insights into their artistic processes.
The Artists
- Francesco Fonassi (1986, Brescia) is a sound artist, independent researcher, musician, and sound designer/producer, working in sound-based performance, transmedia art, and experimental music.
- Iginio De Luca (1966, Formia) is a musician and visual artist working with video, installation, and performance art. In recent years, his artistic practice has focused on video production, photography, and what he calls “blitzes”—interventions that straddle urban and environmental art.
- LU.PA was founded in Cosenza in 2017 by artists Lulù Nuti and Pamela Pintus. Their project explores the relationship with the “other” through performative action, investigating the dynamics, languages, and tools of the contemporary world, as well as the systems governing modern relationships.
- Francesca Cornacchini (1991, Rome) is a multimedia artist. Her work draws from Romanticism, heroism, underground culture, and technological revolution. Violence and fragility are the contrasting dimensions of her research, which manifests in performance actions and material artworks.