a network for one-on-one creations
blOOm originated from the shared desire of Armunia Teatro, Primavera dei Teatri, Santarcangelo Festival, Sardegna Teatro and Triennale Teatro Milano to create a project that transforms the relationship between the audience and artistic creations. Conceived to support one-on-one productions, blOOm creates intimate and personal experiences, favouring a direct exchange between companies and spectators. The three-year-long project shifts the perspective of artistic creation, promoting an intimate dimension instead of large-scale productions and deconstructing the traditional dynamics of the Italian theatre scene. The keywords of the project are: closeness, depth and dedication. Each year, the network will support an Italian company in creating one-to-one work
s that will then be programmed by the network partners. The only rule: one person at a time. The first artist invited by the blOOm network is Muna Mussie.
Cinema Impero
Muna Mussie
di Muna Mussie
filmmaker / editing video Luca Mattei,
ant(i)ropologo africanista Simao Amista,
curatrice d’arte contemporanea Martina Angelotti,
musica Matteo Nobile,
sound designer Simon Luca Laitempergher
traduzioni Susan Zuckerman
grazie a Filmon Yemane per la condivisione della tecnologia di intelligenza artificiale dedicata a persone cieche e ipovedenti
sostenuto da Passage Festival, IIC Strasburgo coprodotto da Museo delle Civiltà di Roma
progetto sostenuto da blOOm network per creazioni one-on-one sviluppato da Fondazione Armunia, Primavera dei Teatri, Santarcangelo Festival, Sardegna Teatro, Triennale Milano Teatro, all’interno di LANDING, progetto sostenuto dal Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale realizzato da Santarcangelo Festival
“Cinema Impero” is named after a cinema built in the centre of Asmara in 1937 during the fascist regime. As a language, cinema has always had the power to create imaginaries and, at the same time, to shape and construct narratives, especially when used as propaganda by authoritarian regimes. The new languages of present-day artificial intelligences also attempt at once to surprise and distort reality. “Cinema Impero” is a meta-narrative that brings together multiple space-time layers and different linguistic elements: video material from the Istituto Luce historical archive and the artist’s private archive, narrated and executed by two voices and two intelligences, an artificial one and an emotional one. “Cinema Impero” is a black box that encompasses the language of film, theatre and the algorithms of artificial intelligence. Within this multi-sensory device, designed for one spectator at a time, the person is placed at the centre of the macro-narratives and invited to flow towards proximity, a space of intimate otherness, between narrator and listener.
BIO
Muna Mussie’s work moves between gesture, vision and word, investigating performance and visual art languages to shape the tension arising between di erent expressive poles. Muna Mussie’s work moves between gesture, vision and word, investigating performance and visual art languages to shape the tension arising between di erent expressive poles. Her projects have been presented at numerous festivals and institutions including Art Fall / PAC in Ferrara, Live Arts Week in Bologna, Mantica in Cesena, Ipercorpo in Forlì, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Museo Marino Marini in Florence, Workspace Brussels, MAMbo in Bologna-ItalianCouncil2022, Museion in Bolzano, Rued’ Alger / Manifesta 2020 in Marseille, SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin, ArteFiera in Bologna, HangarBicocca in Milan, Mattatoio in Rome, Villa Romana in Florence, Mucem in Marseille, MAXXI L’Aquila, La Virreina Centre de la Imatge / IT Out OFF / Manifesta 2024 in Barcelona, 24th International Exhibition of Triennale Milano.
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