RECORD

Francesca Grilli

July 10 – 11, 2024

At 7 and 9 pm
Duration 30'
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Hikikomori is the Japanese term that describes a social pathology that leads some people, especially young people from adolescence onward, to refuse contact with the outside world and thus remain, in their room, within the walls of their home. In the performance RECORD, a choir of young people sings sitting on a ledge, a window, a balcony, a place on the border between the intimate space of a home and public space. The song composition is a text resulting from the exchange, confession, declaration of a hikikomori, with whom the artist has been in touch for more than a year. The atmosphere constantly recalls a possible fall. Indeed, the chorus is in a physical position of disequilibrium, recalling the challenge of those who must define themselves in a society that makes failure one of its biggest taboos.

Francesca Grilli (1978, Italy) is an Italian multidisciplinary artist based in Brussels. She uses a language focused mainly on performance practices, installations and video, with a special attention to sound in all its forms and registers. Grilli has developed several projects around the concept of the resistant body, engaged as a reflection of the resistance to life, to time, to decline, to the concept of being consumed. The study of the other and the relationships between different generations connect to political, social and poetic issues that emerge through choral singing, overlapping voices, and the presence of performers. Her work has been exhibited in many international venues.

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The Italian version of the performance is produced by Triennale Milano Teatro, as part of the project Le età del desiderio, supported by Fondazione Cariplo

Credits

Creation: Francesca Grilli
Words: Azzurra D’Agostino, Piffi
Stuntwoman training: Lisa Patoor
Movements: Benno Steinegger
With: Sofia Bertoncini, Antonio Coccia, Frecia Danniella, Marco Filosa, Sara Kessair, Edoardo Radaelli, Arianna Saita, Alice Toma
Choir director and vocal trainer: Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias
Composer: Christophe Albertijn
Studio assistant/communication: Elena Regazzoni
Rigger: Esteban Vin
Graphic design: Marzia Dalfini
Videographer: Gregor Gobec
Production: Hiros
Coproduction: VIERNULVIER, workspacebrussels, Indisciplinarte Terni, Snaporazverein, Høstscena
Partners: KAAP, Kaaitheater, BASE Milano, Høstscena, Bunker / Mladi Levi festival
With the support of: Corpoceleste, WpZimmer, Vlaamse Gemeenschap, VGC
Special thanks to: Mira De Schepper, Manon Joannoteguy, Marie Maloux, Morgane Wadbled, Antoine Dupuy Larbre, Loïs Heirman, Joanne de Broux, Arnold Tamcho, Sebastián Andrés Requena Do Carmo
This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union