Celebrating the 2024/25 nominees of Premio Vienna – The Italien Performance Art Award
Welcoming Gaia Ginevra Giorgi and Francesco Corsi
The Angewandte Performance
Laboratory (APL) and the the Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna extend an invitation to an event celebrating the winners
of the PREMIO VIENNA – PERFORMANCE ART AWARD. The evening will feature Gaia Ginevra Giorgi and Francesco Corsi. Premio Vienna
is a collaborative project between the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna, and the University
of Applied Arts Vienna to foster exchange between Italy and Austria within the European performance art scene. During the
course of the event, Gaia and Francesco will introduce themselves and their artistic works to a broader audience.
Gaia Ginevra Giorgi is inviting us to a listening session to encounter her artistic practice
of writing, sound composition and performance, which oscillates between autobiography, archaeology and imagination. During
her residency in Vienna, Gaia will engage with vocal archives, investigating psychoacoustic and mediumistic phenomena. Through
techniques of embodiment and self-induced trance states, she will explore glossolalia and otherworldly voices vocally and
corporeally.
Francesco Corsi, who works between choreography, performance and visual art, will introduce his new
research, inspired by Adriana Cavarero's Critique of Rectitude. During his residency in Vienna, he will compose a cartography
of postures, focusing on its ethical inscriptions on the flesh, departing from the deconstruction of a vertical body and its
claim to an autonomous subjectivity – incarnated in the figure of the soldier.
