PARINI SECONDO

Winner of KreativCampus.Rhur 2020

It’s not my responsibility to get famous is a dance production about memes and how they spread as replicating ideas within a community. Parini Secondo (Italy) and Magdalena Öttl (Germany) transfer the meme’s characteristics into choreography, copying its way of transmitting content intertextually and hypermedially. Inspired by Richard Dawkins’ studies (The selfish gene, 1976) the artists are investigating the relationship between replication and cultural identity. 

Through the collaboration with Alberto Ricca/Bienoise (music) and Daniel Gugitsch (visual design), the work is aiming to unwrap the significance of memes in our culture and to program new codes of interdisciplinary art for a broad audience, supporting the open source and internet aesthetics.

The project is winner of KreativCampus.Rhur call 2020 by ecce – european centre for creative economy (DE) and will be on residency from november 2020 aroud Essen (Kunsthaus, Kunsthallen, Maschinenhaus).

The first research carried out by Parini Secondo is PARSEC, a study on the concept of absurdity applied to improvisation that seeks a synthesis between movement and physical and philosophical theoretical studies. Each PARSEC episode is different and it is strictly related to the space in which it happens. The word parsec is an astronomical unit of measure that was used before the light-year: with PARSEC, Parini measures itself with the spaces he crosses, building habitats through movement, objects and sound and creating absurd relationships with the performative place.

EPISODES

• PARSEC|PARSEC for BIM! Microfestival for Children by Katriém Ass. Cult., Santarcangelo di Romagna (IT)
• PARSEC for MAIONESE, homemade vernissage, Bologna (IT)
• PARSEC|What happened to Old McDonald? for OPUS 1 10th International Competition for Young Choreographers, Celje (Slovenia) and Front+a Festival, Murska Sobota (Slovenia)
• PARSEC|2001 for U.F.O. Take Off Party by Mastronauta and Migma Collective, Omegna (IT)
• PARSEC|Ibiza for ArtistInCasa Festival, Republic of San Marino (in collaboration with We Reading)
• PARSEC for U.F.O. Art and sound festival, Omegna (IT) with the video installation BARBARA & friends
• PARSEC for IndiePride, Bologna (IT) in collaboraction with We Reading

ROCCO_rOmegna Mia

ROCCO is an online artistic research. It’s born from the stratification of information on the web, from the continuous overlapping of research windows, capable of connecting the most disparate contexts. It’s what remains of the journey through the connections between materials on the net. Connections are provided by links that lead to the extremes of a web of relationships, expanding it and finding increasingly absurd links. It is the testimony of an individualistic yet hyper-connected generation. Everyone can create new relationships and everyone possesses those already present, as a tradition.

ROCCO chooses to stage the group dances as a bridge between the tradition of the Italian region of Romagna and that of the Internet, using choreographed forms copied from YouTube tutorials. The dance is a loop, in which each participant has the freedom to open a window and follow its own drift, creating new relationships and expanding the web. The dance is not demanding, it is part of a collective consciousness that belongs ab origine (by tradition) to each participant. It is a dance of the crowd and the crowd is what qualifies it, making it a language.

ROCCO does not have an author: whoever participates, owns the dance.

Tour

• ROCCO for rOmegna Mia, Mastronauta (Omegna, IT, 2018-2019);
• the WorkRoom (Milan, IT, 2019);
• Performact (Torres Vedras, PT, 2019) as a workshop;
• Multiplicidade (Santa Cruz, PT, 2019); -IndiePride (Bologna, IT, 2019).