Make war not love

Artists Jacopo Benassi and Michele Lombardelli have been collaborating for years to explore the relationship between sound, image, and audience. In their performance, a camera becomes an instrument, pieces of a drum kit don’t keep time, and the guitar produces irregular, almost broken sounds. The result is a “non-concert,” where sound happens by accident and the audience becomes an active part of the event. There are no scores, no rules—everything is open to unpredictability. If it turns out perfectly, it’s a failure.