LOSE VOICE TOOLKIT: ADELE DIPASQUALE
Cinematic Re-enchanting Rituals
Cinematic Re-enchanting Rituals. Confabulations with Adele Dipasquale from a Film, was a free event open to all ages. This public program consisted of a magical and sensorial experience where, through cinema and immersion, children and enchanted sounds explored new languages and forms of coexistence. The two-part event was an invitation to imagine other possible worlds through film, silence, and deep listening.
In an undefinable place and time we see a group of children who don’t use words anymore. They might have lost them due to powerful voice-stealing magnets, or dissolved by lose-voice candies. The words seem to be lost, forgotten somewhere. So, they start to transform and develop a new system of communicating made of aerial forms, sharp gazes or shared thoughts. Looking at them, one would think that they would speak with their noses, their elbows, their pupils.
The film is the result of a one-year workshop and collective research with the children of Farfallopoli (1B IC Gino Strada, Torino) about the languages of childhood, the power of silence and other forms of non-verbal communication used as gestures of refusal and ways to build spaces of autonomy against the communicative canons dictated by the world of adults. The content, the script, the costume and so on are the result of this process. The work was produced by Cripta747 (Torino), in the context of the Research Fellowship and Residency Programme 2022.
INSTALLATION AT IPS
The event was part of Alice Labor's research project "Ecologie rituali / Ritual Ecologies," winner of the Italian Council program (13th edition, 2024).
CREDITS
- PARTNERS / SUPPORTED BY
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Embassy of the Netherlands in SpainItalian Council
- PHOTOS
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COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
GENERAL INFO
- LOCATION
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Institute for Postnatural Studies, Madrid
- DATE
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May 30th 2025
- ARTIST
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Adele Dispaquale
- Curated by
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Alice Labor
