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Stendalì - suonano ancora | una sagra contemporanea
curated by Ilaria Leonetti and Rosita Ronzini 
April 28 - 29, 2023

Ph. Francesco Enriquez
Two days dedicated to the investigation of new ritual recordings between contemporary folklore and tradition.

Through movement, sound, theatricality, the repetitiveness of gestures; magical and ritual techniques release the person's existential dramas and repressions before the eyes of the community. In a form of shared exorcism, body and spirit are at the centre of a performative act in a circumscribed time and space.

Stendalì - suonano ancora | una sagra contemporanea (Stendalì - play again | a contemporary festival), together with partners from the fields of music, art and architecture, aims to investigate different audiences for contemporary arts through a revival of the collective and shared moment of the festival.

The artists involved are: Giuseppe Di Liberto, Gaia Ginevra Giorgi and Vittoria Assembri, Alice Minervini and Ricardo Guimarães, Agostino Quaranta.

A project in collaboration with OPERA Festival, curated by Ilaria Leonetti and Rosita Ronzini.


Alla romana
by Panopticon

April 29  

Alla romana is a lunch shared between creative minds, where the table and food provide a useful moment to exchange new ideas, make new friends and generate new stimuli. It was an opportunity for exchange between the artists involved for Stendalì - suonano ancora | una sagra contemporanea festival and friends of viaraffineria.

For Stendalì - suonano ancora, Panopticon in collaboration with the graphic designer and researcher Michelangelo Greco produced a publishing project with the curatorial and critical contributions of the curators and artists involved on the project concept together with a photographic documentation of the interventions and performances by the photographer Enriquez. The publication will be presented in May 2025.





Ph. Francesco Enriquez



Stendalì - suonano ancora | una sagra contemporanea’s programme


Friday 28 April 2023 
Raccontare L'Isola, 5.30 p.m
Round table + bookshopFocus on Sicilian publishing with Istituto Sicilia, Lettera22, Panteon and Suq moderated by viaraffineria in cooperation with :AFTER Diffuse festival of architecture in Sicily at Piccolo Teatro, Complesso Fieristico Le Ciminiere

This Could Be a Spell,
7.00 pm
Performance
Alice Minervini + Ricardo Guimarães

Con una dolce melodia all’orecchio mi accingevo a discendere il cielo,
8.00 pm 
Activation of the installation 
Giuseppe Di Liberto

Inforestarsi,
8.30 pm 
Dispositivo part 1
Gaia Ginevra Giorgi and Vittoria Assembri

TurboSud, Tecnopizzica | hosted by Opera Festival,
9.00 pm
performance and installation

Ssiege | hosted by Opera Festival,
10.30 pm 
set

After party by BLISS
at MONO Centromulticulturale, (Via Gornalunga, 12/18)


Sabato 29 aprile 2023
This Could Be a Spell
, 5.00 pm 
Performance
Alice Minervini + Ricardo Guimarães

Inforestarsi, 5.45 pm
Dispositivo part 2
Gaia Ginevra Giorgi and Vittoria Assembri

Suonano ancora, 6.30 pm
Talk, conversation with the artists moderated by the curators around the role of rituality, magic and folklore in contemporary arts

Con una dolce melodia all’orecchio mi accingevo a discendere il cielo, 7.30 pm
Activation of the installation
Giuseppe Di Liberto

Azu Tiwaline | hosted by Opera Festival, 10.00 pm 
sound performance

Cheval | hosted by Opera Festival, 11.00 pm
sound performance

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