FLUXUS MARY
an install’Action with a kind of “talk“ in the middle(hommage to Mary Bauermeister) Mary Bauermeister has often been called the grandma of FLUXUS, though she was never a fluxus artist ‘en titre‘. With her anarchic spirit, she was always between and beyond categories… Neo-Dadaism from a cosmic perspective: Mary Bauermeister was not just a visionary […]
LITURGIA BEUYS
sonic flux totalsystemic ecopoetic Joseph Beuys has never been in Armenia…So we thought to invite him. Felt and fat, stones nourished by olive oil, a honey pump…Every wound is a wonder. Art as healing process.“Follow your bliss!”, Joseph Campbell said.The planet warms up and the Being cools down:homo digitans vs. homo demens.“Metallic Time“, B&B aesthetics, […]
install’Azione PHÓLEOS ONEIROS [caverna sogno] / [the cave of the dream]
A sound space for dreaming, wandering, sleeping conception and direction: Leopoldo Siano & Shushan Hyusnunts [sotto il testo in italiano] With this install’Action, inspired by ancient incubation rituals, the theatrum phonosophicum creates a space in which to dream, to wander and to sleep: through the sound. The space is accessible at a time for only […]
BRUCKNERIANUM | MUSICA E SOPHIA
WORKSHOP OF DEEP LISTENING / WORKSHOP DI ASCOLTO PROFONDO E CONSAPEVOLE [sotto testo in italiano!] The great conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler once said that Anton Bruckner is not a composer, but rather a mystic in the tradition of Meister Eckhart and Jakob Böhme: his art is directed towards the super-temporal. Bruckner is a cosmogonic composer par […]
MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MEN. Hommage to Mary Bauermeister
[sotto testo in italiano!] Not least James Hillman taught us that it is the daimon that moves the threads of our path. Depending on how much one is willing to listen to him or not, the encounters one makes also depend on him. In any case, without the encounters with some ‘extraordinary men’, as the […]
WEEKLY COURSE OF THEATRUM PHONOSOPHICUM
Open Call for the Course of theatrum phonosophicum (academical year 2024-2025) Weekly sessions for the preparation of multisensorial performative events [testo italiano sotto!] A weekly meeting for the collective development of multisensorial events in concomitance with the solstices and equinoxes, in which traditional knowledge intersects with experimental practices. The theatrum phonosophicum is an experiential field, […]
SOUND AND SOPHIA / Workshop for creative listening and sound actionism
There is a substantial difference between “hearing“ and “listening“. Listening is actually an authentic art, that, if regularly practiced, can greatly enrich our being in the world, anchoring ourself in the here and now, feeling really alive. With this workshop we want to encourage a deep and creative attitude of listening, a mindful and meditative […]
L’EBBREZZA DELL’ESSERE (THE INEBRIATION OF BEING)
THE INEBRIATION OF BEING residential workshop inspired by the three books of the “Feasts” and the “Monastic Rules” by Hermann Nitsch heald by theatrum phonosophicum (Leopoldo Siano & Shushan Hyusnunts) 5th-8th September 2024, Nitsch Museum, Naples [sotto testo in italiano!] Harmating, Asolo and Cuma, written in the 1970s and courageously published (in German) by Peppe […]
Festival PHONOSOPHIA 21-23 June 2024, Attigliano
[Vedi sotto testo in italiano] “Theatrum Phonosophicum”, in cooperation with the Simmetria Institute / Lanzi Foundation (Attigliano, Italy: https://www.simmetriainstitute.com/en/), presents the PHONOSOPHIA Festival, dedicated to the “Knowledge through the Sound”. With a cosmopolitan élan, this Festival intends to promote a renewed culture of sound and silence (“total listening”), by creating synesthetic immersive spaces where ancient […]
AKRÓASIS | FROM THE CICADA TO MARIA CALLAS… (HOMAGE TO MARIUS SCHNEIDER)
A lecture-performance in four parts: 17.00 part 1 (WATER) 18.00 part 2 (FIRE) 19.00 part 3 (EARTH) 20.00 part 4 (AIR) “Akróasis” is the pendant of “aisthesis“ (the Greek word from which “aesthetics“ comes): it means “perception“, in the specific sense of aural perception. In this lecture-performance in four parts, we will pay a tribute […]