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Saturday 7 July, h. 16.30
Sunday 8 July, h. 17.00
Urban Spray Lexicon
by and with: Fiorenza Menni e Andrea Mochi Sismondi
guitar: Mauro Somavilla
@Altofest 2018, Autorimessa Cava di Tufo, Vico Tronari, Napoli

Urban Spray Lexicon is a theatre performance born out of anthropological research on the writings that appear and disappear from city walls. It is a new dramaturgy where the collected writings are stored in poems: a way of preserving the ephemeral. It is an artistic operation where visual signs are transformed into performative gestures, where theatrical language operates in close contact with visual and sound arts and where the dynamics of an urban landscape become scenic material. The focus is on the thin bright line which divides and connects the public and private spheres, or rather, on those who live and struggle in this border area. There are products intended to preserve of the walls, which function by forming a protective film over the area of application, so that when a new graffiti appears, it’s enough to rinse it with water. Behind the writing life: small acts of heroism without result, as Céline once wrote, perhaps, or another poet of assault. During Ateliersi’s artistic residency at the Altofest 2018, Ateliersi will collect and explore the writing on the walls of the city of Naples as an integral part of the performance, as it proposes, on this special occasion, a Neapolitan chapter of Urban Spray Lexicon.

Saturday 7 July, h. 16.30
Sunday 8 July, h. 17.00
Urban Spray Lexicon
by and with: Fiorenza Menni e Andrea Mochi Sismondi
guitar: Mauro Somavilla
@Altofest 2018, Autorimessa Cava di Tufo, Vico Tronari, Napoli

Urban Spray Lexicon is a theatre performance born out of anthropological research on the writings that appear and disappear from city walls. It is a new dramaturgy where the collected writings are stored in poems: a way of preserving the ephemeral. It is an artistic operation where visual signs are transformed into performative gestures, where theatrical language operates in close contact with visual and sound arts and where the dynamics of an urban landscape become scenic material. The focus is on the thin bright line which divides and connects the public and private spheres, or rather, on those who live and struggle in this border area. There are products intended to preserve of the walls, which function by forming a protective film over the area of application, so that when a new graffiti appears, it’s enough to rinse it with water. Behind the writing life: small acts of heroism without result, as Céline once wrote, perhaps, or another poet of assault. During Ateliersi’s artistic residency at the Altofest 2018, Ateliersi will collect and explore the writing on the walls of the city of Naples as an integral part of the performance, as it proposes, on this special occasion, a Neapolitan chapter of Urban Spray Lexicon.