© Giacomo Bianco
Pas moi
Pas Moi is Diana Anselmo’s new lecture-performance, the final chapter of a documentary and affective research that unravels the tapestry of power woven into the dominant historiography. If Je Vous Aime showed the re-educational implication of the first moving images, Pas Moi follows a parallel path and explores the origins of early sound recording, transmitting and reproducing devices from a Deaf and signing perspective. Crossing minor archives, anti-histories and situated knowledge, transmitted body-to-body, the celebrated devices at the root of the future film and music industry turn out to be designed with the audist and phonocentric intent of curing deafness. Rather than an identity and a culture with its own language and community, deafness was perceived as a disease to eliminate or to conceal within the hearing world. Pas Moi tries to imagine where we could get with a different starting point: beyond the lack of hearing and even further ahead.
Credits
Concept, performance, visuals Diana Anselmo
Performers Diana Anselmo, Daniel Bongioanni, Antonio Dominelli
Suono, composizione Antonio Dominelli testo della Singsong Paddy Ladd
Drammaturgia PierSandra di Matteo
Coaching nella ricerca e nel materiale performativo Saša Asentić
Coprodotto da Scuola Piccola Zattere, TheaterFormen Festival, Gessnerallee Zürich, FuoriMargine Centro di Produzione di Danza e Arti Performative della Sardegna, Danae Festival sostenuto dalla rete R.O.M, dal partner Reykjavik Dance Festival su invito di Santarcangelo Festival. R.O.M è sostenuta dall’Unione Europea nell’ambito del programma Europa Creativa, dal Conseil des arts de Montréal e dal Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec con il supporto di Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Oslo, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Berlino produttore esecutivo Chiasma
all'interno di LANDING, progetto sostenuto dal Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale realizzato da Santarcangelo Festival
Diana Anselmo
Diana Anselmo is a Deaf and queer performer and visual artist, activist and improvised human being. He is bilingual in ISL and Italian and debuted in 2021 with the lecture Autoritratto in 3 atti, performing in Italy and abroad. Abroad, Anselmo debuted in Berlin with Le Sacre du Printemps (2022) by Xavier Le Roy. In 2023, he created the lecture Je Vous Aime, which became a solo exhibition at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in 2024. He is currently represented by Galleria Eugenia Delfini. In 2024, he also began a collaboration with dancemaker Cristina Kristal Rizzo, with whom he co-authored the performance Monumentum DA. Diana Anselmo is among the founders of Al.Di.Qua. Artists, the first European Trade association of/for artists with disabilities.