On Decay and Rebirth
from h. 16
23 March 2024
Turin
from h. 16
at Castello di Rivoli museo d'arte contemporanea
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Full Program
Programme of the day
During the week of the spring equinox, Castello di Rivoli hosts On Decay and Rebirth, a day dedicated to celebrating the generative power of art and nature. The Museum’s galleries, the theater, and the eighteenth-century atrium will come alive with contemporary artists and writers through screenings, performances, and readings focusing on metamorphosis, coexistence, and rebirth.
Theatre, from h. 16
Jardin Bois de Rose (16m 4s), 2022, and Terre Rouge (19m 31s), 2022 screening of Tabita Rezaire’s videos
Having moved from Paris to French Guiana to study agriculture and land cultivation according to ancient traditions, Tabita Rezaire is an artist, healer, and yoga teacher whose work explores how the earth, societies, and people come together and intersect through agriculture. On the occasion of Vibrant Natures. On Decay and Rebirth, the theater of the Museum hosts the screening of two videos by the artist addressing the meaning of traditional agriculture and ancient practices. Jardin Bois de Rose (Rosewood Garden), 2022, tells the story of a garden in French Guiana where various species of traditional medicinal and ornamental plants are grown. With this work, Rezaire opens a window into the local pharmacopeia. Terre Rouge (Red Earth), 2022, explores possible ways in which individuals can reconnect with the earth and ancestral practices related to traditional indigenous agriculture.
Museum Atrium and First Floor, from h. 4.45
TANGO!, 2024 performance by Benni Bosetto
Benni Bosetto’s artistic practice has always focused on the transformation and deconstruction of the body. For the occasion of On Decay and Rebirth, the artist presents TANGO!, 2024, an unprecedented performance that unfolds in the exhibition spaces of the collection in three moments: from the melancholy of a solitary heart, an interspecies tango will invade different rooms of the Museum, culminating in a cathartic living carillon. The work aims to initiate a reflection on infatuation as a process of intoxication and on the corporeality of feelings, playing with clichés and archetypes associated with love.
Second Floor, Gallery 22, h. 18
Lingua Ignota (Timeo, 2023) reading by Huw Lemmey
A religious figure, writer, mystic, and theologian from 12th-century Germany, Hildegard of Bingen wrote treatises on medicine and botany regarding the medicinal use of herbs. Among her works is Lingua Ignota per simplicem hominem Hildegardem prolata, a text written in a language she invented for mystical purposes. Writer and critic Huw Lemmey interprets Hildegard’s vision in his text Lingua Ignota, addressing the themes of apocalypse, epidemic, and the regenerative power of mystical practices. For On Decay and Rebirth, Lemmey reads excerpts from his book, followed by a collective reading of the text published in Italian in 2023 by Timeo.
Project Room, h. 15
MERCURY + RED + MATRILINEAL , 2024 performative reading by Antonia Brown
Visual artist Antonia Brown resides between Cape Town and Brussels. Her artistic practice extends through sculpture, writing, and performance, she posits how materials participate in the ongoing formation of bodies. Through a performative reading containing contributions by British author Kate Briggs, Brown meanders through the history of red, drawing on its particular relation to extraction and toxicity. MERCURY + RED + MATRILINEAL, 2024, investigates how color has been submerged in the politics of the body since antiquity to the present day: from Carmine, drawn from female parasitic Cochineal insects of the Nopal cactus in Mexico, to vermillion and its noxious entanglement with Mercury, to blood red. Brown thus evokes mercurial qualities to symbolise the stories and transmission of lineages of the feminine.
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Biographies
The project is realized by Almanac Inn, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, and Orti Generali.
Vibrant Natures is realized with the support of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, Fondazione CRT and Regione Piemonte.
Programme of the day
During the week of the spring equinox, Castello di Rivoli hosts On Decay and Rebirth, a day dedicated to celebrating the generative power of art and nature. The Museum’s galleries, the theater, and the eighteenth-century atrium will come alive with contemporary artists and writers through screenings, performances, and readings focusing on metamorphosis, coexistence, and rebirth.
Theatre, from h. 16
Jardin Bois de Rose (16m 4s), 2022, and Terre Rouge (19m 31s), 2022 screening of Tabita Rezaire’s videos
Having moved from Paris to French Guiana to study agriculture and land cultivation according to ancient traditions, Tabita Rezaire is an artist, healer, and yoga teacher whose work explores how the earth, societies, and people come together and intersect through agriculture. On the occasion of Vibrant Natures. On Decay and Rebirth, the theater of the Museum hosts the screening of two videos by the artist addressing the meaning of traditional agriculture and ancient practices. Jardin Bois de Rose (Rosewood Garden), 2022, tells the story of a garden in French Guiana where various species of traditional medicinal and ornamental plants are grown. With this work, Rezaire opens a window into the local pharmacopeia. Terre Rouge (Red Earth), 2022, explores possible ways in which individuals can reconnect with the earth and ancestral practices related to traditional indigenous agriculture.
Museum Atrium and First Floor, from h. 4.45
TANGO!, 2024 performance by Benni Bosetto
Benni Bosetto’s artistic practice has always focused on the transformation and deconstruction of the body. For the occasion of On Decay and Rebirth, the artist presents TANGO!, 2024, an unprecedented performance that unfolds in the exhibition spaces of the collection in three moments: from the melancholy of a solitary heart, an interspecies tango will invade different rooms of the Museum, culminating in a cathartic living carillon. The work aims to initiate a reflection on infatuation as a process of intoxication and on the corporeality of feelings, playing with clichés and archetypes associated with love.
Second Floor, Gallery 22, h. 18
Lingua Ignota (Timeo, 2023) reading by Huw Lemmey
A religious figure, writer, mystic, and theologian from 12th-century Germany, Hildegard of Bingen wrote treatises on medicine and botany regarding the medicinal use of herbs. Among her works is Lingua Ignota per simplicem hominem Hildegardem prolata, a text written in a language she invented for mystical purposes. Writer and critic Huw Lemmey interprets Hildegard’s vision in his text Lingua Ignota, addressing the themes of apocalypse, epidemic, and the regenerative power of mystical practices. For On Decay and Rebirth, Lemmey reads excerpts from his book, followed by a collective reading of the text published in Italian in 2023 by Timeo.
Project Room, h. 15
MERCURY + RED + MATRILINEAL , 2024 performative reading by Antonia Brown
Visual artist Antonia Brown resides between Cape Town and Brussels. Her artistic practice extends through sculpture, writing, and performance, she posits how materials participate in the ongoing formation of bodies. Through a performative reading containing contributions by British author Kate Briggs, Brown meanders through the history of red, drawing on its particular relation to extraction and toxicity. MERCURY + RED + MATRILINEAL, 2024, investigates how color has been submerged in the politics of the body since antiquity to the present day: from Carmine, drawn from female parasitic Cochineal insects of the Nopal cactus in Mexico, to vermillion and its noxious entanglement with Mercury, to blood red. Brown thus evokes mercurial qualities to symbolise the stories and transmission of lineages of the feminine.
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Biographies
Tabita Rezaire (France, 1989),
artist, devotee, yoga teacher, doula and farmer.
Benni Bosetto (Italy, 1987),
artist.
Huw Lemmey (England, 1986),
writer, artist and critic.
Antonia Brown (South Africa, 1989),
artist.
The project is realized by Almanac Inn, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, and Orti Generali.
Vibrant Natures is realized with the support of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, Fondazione CRT and Regione Piemonte.