The awards ceremony Saturday 11th October, marked the conclusion of the fourth edition of the International Prize for Performance organized by the Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea of Trento, in collaboration with Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara.
Taking place on the evenings of Friday 10th and Saturday 11th October, the event saw the presence of an audience from different European regions which brought the spaces of the Teatro Sociale of Trento to life into the late evening, during the wait for the final verdict, watching a show marked by creativity, reflection and emotion.
Given the absence of Carlos Amorales, the jury was presided by the artist and artistic director of the Teatro Stabile dell'Innovazione of Pescara Gian Marco Montesano and made up by Carlo Antonelli (music critic, director of Rolling Stone Italy), Helena Kontova (co-director of Flash Art), Catherine Wood (performance and contemporary art curator at the London Tate Modern), Franco Oss Noser (director of Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara of Trento) and Fabio Cavallucci (artistic director of the Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea of Trento).
The first prize of 5,000 euros went to the Italian group L'epimeteide, made up by Angelo Airò Farulla and Elena Fatichenti, for their Nabucco, marzo 1842. The artistic duo won over the jury which awarded them the prize for their ability through the use of the entire architectural space of the theatre and its mechanisms of attention to activate a collective feeling with a clever time machine. L'epimeteide presented an all-consuming and melancholy performance in which after the sounds of an orchestra tuning-up have been heard coming from behind the curtain, the pall opened onto an empty stage and the music of Nabucco began, while from the gods and the boxes a myriad of green, white and red pieces of paper rained down to the cry of Viva l'Italia.
The jury then decided to assign a second prize of 500 euros to three different artists, in doing so highlighting the characteristic of high quality and of well-structured ideas which have featured in all of the projects in general.
Feiko Beckers (The Netherlands, 1983) was awarded for A farewell forever to people Ive just met. The silent farewells to people he got to know during his stay in Trento come about in a minimal and sober action, set in dynamic scenery moved simply by the artist's hand. Beckers was awarded the second prize for the silence and the lack of spectacularity which allow for an extraordinary gesture of affection.
Another second prize went to the Italian Filippo Berta (1977) for Dejà vu. Rapid art work, incisive and estranging, in which pairs of twins, competing in a tug-of-war, reflect the precariousness and difficulty of an understanding, a balance between two identical elements derived from the same matrix. The selection by the critical experts was dictated by the evaluation of a skilful re-interpretation of the idea of the double.
In the end, a further second prize was awarded to Alicia Frankovich (New Zealand, 1980) for To Dwell is the Drink Coca-Cola of Urbanism in which an architectural scenery creation is destroyed through the impact of the artist's body. The jury members described the performance as an interesting sculpture activated through a skilful use of the stage space.
Among the participating artists the Columbian Francisco Camacho, who usually aims in his performances at establishing new Guinness World Records, in homage to the local tradition produced the biggest dumpling in the world, with the relative recognition from a Guinness official.
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