01/12/2023
DESIRELESS
a performance and solo exhibition by Nicola Genovese
🎭 PREMIERE on 02. december 2023 🎭
In a post-capitalist and perhaps post-war Europe, the CEO of an unnamed corporation presents a new product. It is called Warp, a digital service that enables manipulation of the space-time continuum and access to a new Lebensform. It promises to dissolve nostalgia and the ambiguous passions that tinge the future into the fold of an endless present.
Part speculative science-fiction and part Commedia dell'arte, Desireless takes the viewer into the depths of this temporal dimension. Through a blend of monologues, choreography, and live music, the performance by Nicola Genovese, curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, exposes the masks, codes, and feelings of a semi-privileged humanity, torn between the remnants of a late-imperial world, the bo***ge of a technocratic hell, and the fantasy of a biomedical Nirvana.
The work itself is conceived as a machine of doubt and indistinction. In creating Desireless, Nicola Genovese has collaborated with artists Dustin Kenel, Patricia Meier, Daeun Park, Maria Sabato, Thembeka Sincuba, the goth rock band They Die, and various artificial intelligence apps. The stage/exhibition space thus coincides with the action field of a collective mind that extends beyond the individual identity of the artist. Video installations and sculptures become props and vice versa, depending on how they are activated. They transcend the boundaries between theatre and visual arts.
🌀Where? Toxi offspace, Zimmerlistrasse 4, 8004 Zürich
🌀When? 02.12. - 09.12.2023
🌀Tickets? via Seetickets
➡️ https://www.seetickets.com/ch/tour/nicola-genovese
🌀or via 📧 [email protected]
