Screening, Reading & Listening by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti and Barbara Casavecchia

A collaboration between Istituto Svizzero and Mousse

For the second year, Istituto Svizzero and Mousse are collaborating on a project for Milano Art Week, interweaving curatorial and editorial practices. The title is taken from a text David Wojnarowicz wrote in 1987 for an AIDS benefit by John Giorno Poetry Systems. It is an invitation to welcome shared gestures, to build safe spaces, to listen in order to weave new forms of collective memory.

Videos by:

Alexandra Bachzetsis, Shu Lea Cheang, Giulia Essyad, Kilian Feusi/Jessica Meier/Sujanth Ravichandran, John Giorno, Vincent Grange, Tarek Lakhrissi, Ursulina de Lombardia, Lovett/Codagnone.

Words by:

Michele Bertolino, Sandra Cane, Zeyn Joukhadar

Programme:

H18:00-19:00 / Welcome to The House of Dorothy

Each and every gesture will be preceded, at H18:00, by a visit to the exhibition The House of Dorothy with artist Vincent Grange in dialogue with Head Curator Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti.

H19:00

John Giorno, Eating the Sky, 1978, audio piece, 13’45”

Ursulina de Lombardia in collaboration with Mayara Yamada, Marara Kelly Art Show: I came all the way here now you have to dance, 2023, 16′

H20:00 Drinks and Nibbles

In collaboration with Mathe Organics and Via Stampa

H20:30-22:00

John Giorno, I Resigned Myself To Being Here, 1980, audio piece, 9’48”

Poetry Reading by Michele Bertolino & Sandra Cane, Zeyn Joukhadar

Lovett / Codagnone, Driven by Love, 2000, 5′

Shu Lea Cheang, Virus Becoming, 2022, 6’30”

Vincent Grange, La Voisine qui en savait trop, A performance by Princesse GenderFuck inside The House of Dorothy, 2024, 7′

Tarek Lakhrissi, Bright Heart, 2023, 14′

Giulia Essyad, Cornstar, 2024, 7’06”

Alexandra Bachzetsis, Take on Gold, 2023, 12′

Kilian Feusi, Jessica Meier, Sujanth Ravichandran, PIPES, 2022, 4′

Drinks di Mathe Organics

Nibbles di Via Stampa

With the support of the Consulate General of Switzerland.