Performance 2024

The Special Performance Program Returns to Roma Arte in Nuvola 2024

The special project dedicated to performance art returns to Roma Arte in Nuvola 2024, curated by Daniela Cotimbo and Adriana Polveroni.

The program featured four powerful performances, exploring themes related to social relationships, feminism, ecology, urban memory, and the revival of subcultures.

The Performances

Francesco Fonassi – Dream Klub Remix
The program opened with Francesco Fonassi, an artist from Brescia, who transformed La Nuvola with a live tape collage, the result of his residency in Belgrade, where he set up a temporary radio and music production studio in the former Akademija club—a legendary venue in the international underground music scene.

Iginio De Luca – Tevere Expo, scarti sonori
Over the following two days, Iginio De Luca presented Tevere Expo, scarti sonori, an audio-poetic intervention that aimed to reveal the unseen and forgotten. Throughout the fair, De Luca extracted sounds from debris recovered from the Tiber River—urban relics that had resurfaced from the depths, remnants of long-forgotten industrial products.

LU.PA – D’altro canto cade
On Saturday, November 23, the stage belonged to LU.PA, an artistic duo founded by Lulù Nuti and Pamela Pintus. Their performance, D’altro canto cade, featured five opera singers performing reinterpretations of folk songs, with the fate of each piece determined by the flip of a coin, creating a pure moment of chance and unpredictability.

Francesca Cornacchini – Blue Horizon
Closing the series on Sunday, November 24, Francesca Cornacchini presented Blue Horizon, continuing her research into subversive gestures as an aesthetic language. Her performance, centered on repeatedly kicking a wall, transformed a feeling of dissatisfaction with contemporary conditions into a formal and pictorial expression.

Final Talks

The day concluded with two discussions at 4:00 PM:

• A talk by art historian and researcher Caterina Tomeo, focusing on sound and voice in contemporary art.
• A second talk featuring the performers, offering insights into their creative processes.

The Artists

• Francesco Fonassi (1986, Brescia) – 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) – A musician and visual artist, working with video, installation, and performance. His recent work focuses on video production, photography, and urban/environmental art interventions he calls “blitz” actions.
• LU.PA – Founded in Cosenza in 2017 by Lulù Nuti and Pamela Pintus, LU.PA explores the relationship with the “other” through performative action, investigating the dynamics, languages, and systems of contemporary society.
• Francesca Cornacchini (1991, Rome) – A multimedia artist whose work is shaped by Romanticism, heroism, underground culture, and technological revolution. Her research examines violence and fragility as contrasting dimensions, expressed through performance actions and material artworks.