be me

Inspired by the concept ofmeme, most commonly used as a linguistic sign within online  communities, Parini and  Magdalena Oettl created adevicewhich highlights the self organisational mechanisms of a small community populated by seven performers and witnessed  by an online audience. Throughcopying and imitation, the whole community is the author of the  choreography which becomes solid just in the moment of staging. Silent agreements are floating in  the space, carried by thewindthey spread like a rumor and promote the existence of a temporary  truth.

There’s no wind in the Internet
Just clouds and windows
No wind, no wind, no wind, no wind

There’s no me in the night we met
Where’s the sound in the words that you just said
Be me, be me

by

Parini Secondo & Magdalena Oettl

performance

Sissj Bassani, Lucas Lopes, Camilla Neri, Martina Piazzi, Francesca Pizzagalli, Eliza Trefas

music

Alberto Ricca / Bienoise

visual design

Daniel Gugitsch

technical support

Wolfram Lakaszus

webdesign

Tommaso Gagliardi

Developed between november 2020 – april 2021 in the frame of Kreativcampus.Ruhr Artists in Residence I International Co-Production It’s not my responsibility to get famous, a project by ecce GmbH. Supported by Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia In Cooperation with Kunsthaus Essen, Maschinenhaus Essen, Kunsthallen Bochum Further Support by the city of Essen, city of Bochum, municipality of Savignano Sul Rubicone (IT).

Thanks to Valentina Tanni, Edoardo Sansonne, WerkStadt Takeover Pact Zollverein, Annette Wolter, Matteo Santini, Jana Kerima Stolzer, Philipp Steffens, Cesare Biguzzi/Wereading.

tour

★ We Reading, Podere Bislacco, Savignano sul Rubicone, IT, 2021
★ Maschinenhaus, Essen, DE, 2021
★ Kunsthalle, Bochum, DE, 2021