Cipollino

Performance by Niels Poiz and Bianca Millan.

The performative project takes Gianni Rodari’s classic children’s book The Adventures of Cipollino (1951) as its point of departure, while deliberately avoiding adaptation. Instead, the narrative gradually dissolves into images, voices, memories and gestures.

In a darkened room, the audience moves over the course of two hours through shifting moments of video projection, sound, darkness and live performance. Three video works by Paulo Wirz frame the performances by Niels Poiz and Bianca Millan, whose flashlight gradually reveals the space and its presences, including Bert McLean’s painting Potato Painting.

The result is an atmospheric environment that asks what remains of a story once its plot disappears.

Supported by the Instituto Italiano di Cultura.