Anecdotes constitute the verbal form of an experience that we have desired to fix because it contains the potential of a concept that does not yet exist. 

I wrote some anecdotes about a “new citizen”, to open a space where to question the actual citizenship and to imagine/construct a future one. The anecdotes imagine a citizen beyond the concept of national identity, that probably lives in a time with an European passport and an European vat, when the newcomers are really accepted for what they are. 

This audio piece was a soundtrack of the collective exhibition "Re-imagining Citizenship" curated by by the Politicized Practice/Anarchist/Theatre and Performance Research Groups at Radar Gallery, Loughborough University (UK).

Alessio Mazzaro

A new citizen (2018)

Yvonne

Daniel

Anna

Andrea

Cristina

a short excerpt of ‘OoooO-Oooooo Medvedkine’ from a live, freely improvised sonic performance and discussion – Rhodiacéta (Re-)Response – of the Alchemy/Schmalchemy (A/S).

The  Alchemy/Schmalchemy ( Gillian Whiteley , Geoff Bright and Walt Shaw)gave this audio to the European Edinost as a response to the journal call for new partisans chants.

generated on 17 October 2018 at Loughborough University in the UK.

OoooO - Oooooo Medvedkine

Starting from the experience of living in Praca do Patriarca where silence does not exist, the need for it brought me in a search for silence, white noise and silent spaces in Sao Paulo.

2019, FAAP artistic residency

No Se Hace Silencio.  Part1

"here when there is a problem people speak and go to the streets".

composed with my recording of protest songs, fanfares and political discourse happened during the protest marches for the pension plan and the indigenous right in Sao Paulo, February - April 2019.

No Se Hace Silencio. Part 2

The audio piece results from the material collected during my staying in Sao Paulo, where I interviewed students of Architecture from Faap, but also some students from Escola da Cidade and people I met around. I asked them to share how they picture the future of the city, also physically, and what they want for it. My two research questions were “what would you like to change of Sao Paulo?” and “how do you picture Sao Paulo in the future?”

The sound piece investigates on one side dreams and utopias about Sao Paulo, and on the other, the agency of the citizens and a bit of chaos theories, in a mix between journalistic enquiry, anthropological research and dreams, visions outside of the ordinary. The power to imagine and go beyond, between utopia and concrete local needs. I call this Imaginary Urbanism: to give the citizens the possibility to dream and propose scenarios that prompt never thought solutions and perceptions of a city.

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