From November 13 to 16, the Fondazione Antico Ospedale Santa Maria della Scala in Siena presents the second edition of XENOS. Festival di Performance, conceived by Cristiano Leone and with artistic direction by Anna Lea Antolini.

On November 14, in the Italo Calvino hall, qwatz presents IPERCONNESSE, a performance by LUPA.

LUPA stages the constant tension of being hyper-connected in contemporary society, where the boundary between private life and work performance is increasingly thin and fragile. On a 90×90 cm pedestal, two performers share the task of balancing a gym ball between their foreheads, while managing phone calls, messages, and emails from three different smartphones in real time. Siri and Google Assistant support them. A fourth protagonist is the audience: through a phone number that is made public, anyone can intervene, modify, or disturb. LUPA makes visible and tangible the state of perpetual alert in which we live, where every interaction is an interruption and every gesture requires precision, concentration, and control. A physical and conceptual investigation into the difficulty of remaining present while everything, inside and outside, continues to move.

Sala Italo Calvino – Level VII

at 6:15 p.m. and repeated at 7:15 p.m.

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LUPA was founded in Cosenza in 2017 by Lulù Nuti and Pamela Pintus. The duo explores the relationship with the ‘other’ and the dynamics of the contemporary world through performative and ritualistic actions that involve the audience. Their work has been presented in institutions such as Musée Zadkine, GAM Rome, and Palazzo Farnese, as well as in independent spaces and international festivals. In 2022, they are fellows of the MAP_PA Master’s program, while in 2023 they will produce a commemorative box set with Giordano Boetti Editions. They currently live and work in Rome.