© Silvia Gelli
Show
Reality
Deflorian/Tagliarini
October 10 – 11, 2019
Duration: 55'
The mundane everyday, anonymous yet unique, in this second appointment of the retrospective that Triennale Milano dedicates to Daria Deflorian and Antonio Tagliarini. A human life’s acts and gestures told through data, as in the diaries by the Polish housewife Janina Turek, meticulously updated for over fifty years: 38.196 phone calls; 23.397 accidental encounters; 1.922 meetings; 5.817 gifts given. Reality intervenes in the way in which collective memory is produced. Superbly performed (Deflorian won the 2012 Ubu prize as best actress), this intriguing yet minimalist piece interrogates the connection between life’s seriousness and its triviality.
Daria Deflorian and Antonio Tagliarini are authors, directors and performers. In 2008 they created Rewind – Omaggio a Cafè Müller by Pina Bausch, followed in 2009 by a work inspired by Andy Warhol’s philosophy, from a to d and back again. Between 2010 and 2011 they realised “Reality Project”, which, starting from the diaries of a housewife from Krakow, led to the installation czeczy/cose (2011) and the performance Reality (2012), for which Deflorian was awarded the 2012 Ubu Prize as best leading actress. Ce ne andiamo per non darvi altre preoccupazioni, presented in 2013 at Romaeuropa Festival, won a Ubu prize in 2014 and the critics’ prize in Quebec, Canada, in 2016. Il cielo non è un fondale premiered in 2016 in Lausanne. In 2017 they began working on the “Antonioni/Red Desert Project, which led to the production of Scavi and of the piece Quasi Niente, which premiered in Lugano in 2018.
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Credits
Based on: Mariusz Szczygieł's reportage Reality
Translated by: Marzena Borejczuk, Nottetempo 2011
Concept and performance: Daria Deflorian, Antonio Tagliarini
Lighting design by: Gianni Staropoli
Polish language consultans: Stefano Deflorian, Marzena Borejczuk, Agnieszka Kurzeya
Project collaboration: Marzena Borejczuk
Management: Giulia Galzigni-Officina
Production, international support: Francesca Corona
Technical direction: Giulia Pastore
Produced: A.D., Festival Inequilibrio | Armunia, ZTL Pro
With the support of: Provincia di Roma - Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali
In collaboration with: Romaeuropa Festival, Teatro di Roma
Artistic residencies: Festival Inequilibrio | Armunia, Ruota Libera | Centrale Preneste Teatro, Dom Kultury Podgórze
Under the patronage of the: Polish Institute in Rome
With the support of: Nottetempo, Kataklisma, Nuovo Critico, Istituto Italiano di Cultura a Cracovia, Dom Kultury Podgórze
Special thanks to: Ewa Janeczek
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