Since the performer's instrument is the body itself, I primarily aspire to a form of listening and interaction that amplifies the sensory dimension of presence.
The practice of performance languages represents for me a permanent research laboratory that allows me to connect with myself and the audience, as well as with nature and the essence of life.
Silvia Morandi is an Italian performer and choreographer whose research has developed on the border between video, theater, and dance. She studied film acting with Dominique de Fazio while concurrently deepening the study of contemporary dance. Morandi presents her work in the form of live performances and video installations, which have been displayed in international festivals, museums, art spaces, and galleries. In her site-specific projects, Morandi focuses her attention on the physical perception of the place, the objects, and the surrounding elements. The experience overlaps with the emergence of existential themes, literary visions, anthropological references, and sociological issues. Gradually the process unfolds structures and materials of choreographic composition within a non-linear dramaturgy. During the performance the audience is included into the action space and witnesses the vibration of place and bodies. In that instant the boundary between art and life blurs, producing a dynamic of displacement and suspension within a specific space-time. As in a nocturnal scenario of risk and oscillation, the experience opens up to something unknown and unforeseen: layers of being and existence inaccessible to most people in the ordinary flow of daily life emerge on the surface of the skin. Both individual and collective resonance of the event unlocks and connects with the most intimate essence and complexities of human identity, in dialogue with the mystery of place and the secrets of nature. Overall, such processes of disclosure invite us to question representational patterns on different levels and so to rethink fundamental issues of contemporary society and politics.
2010 - present
SELECTED WORK
live performances, exhibitions, artistic residencies
2024
Before, Beyond, a cura di Michele Fucich, in collaborazione con Lasecondaluna, Sala esposizioni Laives (Bz)
2023
Palazzo delle Clarisse, a cura di Pantaleo Musarò, Festival del cibo, ArtsFood Festival, Galatina (Le)
Tree, Tales of Future, LanaLive Festival, a cura di Sofia Margesin e Angela Zittel, LanaLive Festival Lana (Me)
Obscuritas, Solo Exhibition and Live performance, Scope Bln, Berlin
2022
Border, KreativWerkstatt in collaboration with BASIS, Hiddenroom, Silandro (Bz)
Charta, Ortstermin Festival 22 in Kollaboration with Galerie du Nord, Scope BLN and Errante, StadtSchloss Moabit Berlin
Selected as Artist in residence by SCOPE BLN, Berlin
2021
Metafore, solo live performance for vernissage of Pavel Korbička's exhibition, Metafore, curated by Miroslava Hajek Sordevolo (BI)
2020
Carta bianca, solo live performance, MiniMu Trieste
Il tempo del fiume, live performance, Topolò, (Ud)
Fieri, solo live performance for the finissage of the Exhibition Munari in movimento, curated by Miroslava Hajek and Manuel Fanni Canelles, Centro Trevi, Bolzano
2019
To leave a trace, live performance, directed by Manuel Fanni Canelles, MacroAsilo, Roma
Assenza, live performance, MacroAsilo, Roma
Incontroluce, residency program in collaboration with Mamadou Dioume and Manuel Fanni Canelles, Ronzone (Tn)
Materia, solo live performance, PAN, Napoli, Artperforming Festival
Dinner, solo live performance, Officine Forte Marghera (Ve) Artperformingfestival, curated by Gianni Nappa
Presenza Action 1 Municipal Museum, Action 2 Lido, Action 3 Vintler Gallery Shop Window, choreography, Tiefkollektiv/Profondo Collettivo Festival, in collaboration with Hidden Rooms, Errante, Bolzano
2018
Before I was born, choreography and live performance, T.R.A.M. , Company Blu, Teatro della Limonaia Sesto Fiorentino (FI)
Before I was born, choreography and live performance, AlpsMove Festival Bolzano
Absorption, solo live performance, Artperforming Festival, Contemporary Art Museum Matino (Le)
Mirror(s), choreography by Gabriella Maiorino, Errante/La FuNdiciOn, Bilbao, Spagna
L'ospite (the Guest), solo live performance, TiefKollektiv/ProfondoCollettivo 1 Festival Glorenza (Bz)
2017
Restricted Spaces, solo live performance, MonAlissa Foundry, Marlengo, (Bz)
Diversi Due, direction and drama for Gabriella Maiorino, AlpsMove Festival /Errante, Bolzano
Modus Operandi, solo live performance, curated by Hannes Egger, Hotel Schwarzschmied Lana (Bz)
Mirror(s), choreography by Gabriella Maiorino, AlpsMove Festival, Lana (Bz)
2015
Notte, solo live performance, curated by Roberta Semeraro, Gondolas4all, Mestre (Ve)
Glass, solo live performance, Weishstation for Culture, Bolzano
2014
FM, choreography by Gabriella Maiorino, AlpsMove Festival, Merano (BZ)
Vicino Lontano, direction and live performance, Progetto Intermittenze, Officina delle Zattere, Venice.
Intermittenze, choreography and live performance, Danz'è, “Oriente Occidente” Festival,, Rovereto (TN), Errante
2013
Bogotà schliesst, performance, Progetto Intermittenze and Annalisa Maggiani for Hotel Bogota, Berlin
Intermittenze, direction and live performance, Errante for Kunsthalle Eurocenter Lana / Oriente Occidente Festival Rovereto
2012
Ek-stasis to dress the time, live performance, Merano A, Merano (Bz)
2011
Corpus fragmenta Nassiriya live performance, Museo Riva del Garda (Tn)
2009
Domani Morgen Tomorrow, live performance, Mostra Interregionale Fortezza (Bz)
video performance, photographic projects
2023
Modus Operandi, Pebbles Underground film and video art festival Toronto (Canada); semi-finalist
Modus Operandi, Buzz Vicious International Film Festival Boa Vista, Brazil
White 0, the rustle of nothing, Solo Exhibition Obscuritas, Scope BLN
2022
Modus Operandi, Short Invictus Festival, Porto, Portugal; winner
2021
Spielen, video installation, International Art Film Festival London (UK)
Spielen, video installation, International Art Film Festival, Birmingham (England)
Anima Condivisa, photography exhibition, curated by Miroslava Hajek, Photos by Alexandra Kaufmann, Palais Mamming, Merano (Bz)
Modus Operandi, video installation, semifinalist at Meraki Film Festival, Berlin
2020
Spielen, Modus Operandi, video installations, Video Art Film Festival Miden, Kelemata, Greece
White Zero, the rustle of nothing, Solo live Performance (streaming), curated by Kyrahm Kessa and Gianni Nappa, Free Performance Art Rome Artperforming Festival Napoli
2019
Modus operandi, video installation, Xworld Short Film Festival IMDb, Roma
Modus operandi, Spielen, video installation, Festival de Cine Under, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Spielen, video installation, GENE/ Macro Asilo, benemalen film, Macro MuseumRome
Spielen, video performance, The Magikal Charm Experimental Video and Film Fest, New York
Modus Operandi, video Installation, LanaLive Festival, Lana (Bz)
2018
Follia del corpo video installation, Undarkfest, Ekaterinburg, (Russia)
cinema
2020
Al dio ignoto, Direction by Rodolfo Bisatti, Kineo Film, Trieste
2014
Mute - Direction by Johanna Thalman Prod. Tobias Pollock, Monaco
Das Finstere Tal, Direction by Andreas Prochaska, Allegro Film/X Filme Creative Pool
2009
Vincere, Direction by Marco Bellocchio, Rai Cinema, Offside, Celluloid DreamsProduction
