Collagene | Seconda parte

From Friday 20 February to Friday 22 May 2026, DAS – Dispositivo Arti Sperimentali in Bologna hosts the second part of Collagene.

First evening – 20 February

• The Swamp of Secrets | Federico Rizzo / Salicornia Studio
  An immersive and participatory performance inviting the audience to internalize a fundamental question: how often have we taken for granted the water that nourishes the earth? In the darkness of a nocturnal environment, permeated by a watery soundscape, human traces emerge suspended in a liminal and imaginative space. Visitors are invited to entrust a secret to the swamp, allowing a part of themselves to transform into an element of the landscape. In exchange, a taste of spirulina ice cream: a tangible and edible trace of the habitat, turning the experience into a ritual of exchange, where the private becomes collective, words become matter, and the environment becomes a living archive of what remains hidden.
• Perimeter | Pierpaolo Ovarini and Yuna Leonis
  A multichannel sound installation immersed in darkness. Sound artists and researchers Pierpaolo Ovarini and Yuna Leonis offer the audience an immersive, sensory experience that reverses perceptual perspective. Through a spatialized sound system, the room ceases to be a neutral container and becomes instead a sensitive field, an active structure and a perceptual “agent,” overturning the usual frontal and purely aesthetic experience of art.
• For a Fire Constellation | Chiara Antonelli
  An exhibition project shaped as a digital geophysical archive, a cartography of the uses of fire in global protest movements. The artist reads contemporary revolt as a constellation: not a linear process, but a sequence of discontinuous sparks. The project searches for recurring patterns among scattered uprisings, identifying fire as a key and ambivalent element: destruction and purification, dissent and self-assertion, a signal of political, social and economic tensions. Data and images return in successive exhibition “explosions,” reactivating these trajectories of resistance.

Second evening – 13 March

• Live performance | OUU!D
  OUU!D is an experimental trio founded in 2022 within the scene of young bands connected to Club Dänemark. Their deliberately unusual line-up—trumpet, bass clarinet and electric guitar—produces amplified music blending fragments of club culture and noise tension, resulting in a paradoxical sound: edgy yet physical, “strangely” danceable. As they state, “OUU!D sounds like a machine that jams and recomposes genres, transforming them into rhythmic energy.”
• “permatourism (常在旅行者)” | QUIE7QUI77ERS
  An imaginary soundtrack narrating the paradox of the global traveler: always moving, always connected, constantly suspended between leisure and work. Across six compositions, the duo traverses airport lounges, rented coworking spaces and “Instagrammable” sunsets, revealing a life shaped by scrolling, check-ins, constant presence and emotional distance. Vaporwave aesthetics intertwine with contemporary unease, exposing the solitude behind the polished image of freedom. The music is accompanied by visual research drawing on vaporwave codes, vintage video games, early 3D graphics and meta-advertising of the new century: an unstable balance between nostalgia and hypermodernity.

Third evening – 27 March

• BIG – Bologna Improvisation Group | Sound Chamber – live soundtracking of a walkable space
  A journey through gesture, electronics and collective process exploring the extreme possibilities of listening. BIG – Bologna Improvisation Group, a “variable-geometry ensemble” born within the Electronic Music School of the Bologna Conservatory and composed of Maru Barucco, Francesco Giomi, Ludovica Manzo, Caterina Miglietta and Milena Punzi, proposes an intense and intimate perceptual experience in which each sound is generated live within the shared space.
• Raffaella Menchetti, Giselda Ranieri | CatCareCalling
  How can a harassing gesture be transformed into an act of care? This performance rewrites the energy of violence as transformative force and possibility of redemption. Inspired by Bruno Munari’s gestural vocabulary and based on a series of video interviews collected by Raffaella Menchetti, the work investigates the embodied dimension of catcalling and its transformation. Through mimetic choreographic practice, dynamics of participation and responsibility are questioned, while Giselda Ranieri’s body becomes a living archive of embodied gestures.

Fourth evening – 10 April

• Chella ca guarda n'terra | Brunella Sabatino
  A choreographic solo interrogating and reformulating the concept of vulgarity in relation to female bodies. Combining movement, sound, voice and spoons, the work creates an aesthetic universe inhabited by a feminist figure inspired by the mask of Pulcinella. Power, irony, vulnerability and sensuality animate a dance that becomes both desecration and reclamation, asserting an untamed feminist aesthetic.
• À la Recherche du temps perdu | Est Roman Coulon
  Beginning with the daily handwritten transcription of a fragment from Marcel Proust’s novel of the same title, an intimate ritual emerges, activating affective and bodily memory through repetition, time and the materiality of writing. An exercise “without purpose” becomes a work conceived for a single spectator, while the transcribed pages turn into unusual tarot cards that reveal through association and signs.
• Signs of Consumption | Matilde Baldassari
  An ongoing sculptural series (2023–) composed of decommissioned road signs reworked into new visual symbols. Through acts of appropriation and subtraction, the artist strips these objects of their prescriptive function, transforming them into traces of the conflictual relationship between individuals and institutions, everyday urban experience and languages of control.

Fifth evening – 24 April

• Used to Play Alone | Michelle Scappa
  A contemporary dance piece for five performers investigating childhood experiences shaped by gender binarism and solitude. The body becomes archive and research tool, transforming marginalization into empowerment. Gesture becomes language, seeking belonging through movement and relational space.
• Raiva | Mistura Queer
  “Raiva” (Portuguese for “anger”) is a transatlantic sound project in the form of a playlist composed of tracks by trans people and cisgender, racialized and Indigenous Brazilian women. Rooted in an anticolonial and trans-centered perspective, the project explores anger as vital and political force capable of generating transformation, care and collective imagination.
• Bingo! | Giulia Fortuna
  An exhibition project investigating the complex relationship between player and addiction. After working in an Italian bingo hall, the artist collected and enlarged discarded bingo cards, transforming repetitive gestures into ritual and identity markers, reflecting on addiction as a socially accepted and institutionally legalized practice.

Sixth evening – 8 May

• Pas de deux | Tetracab
  A performative device where concert and sculpture coincide. Musicians interact with a sculpture conceived as a three-dimensional score, each perceiving and interpreting a different fragment. Sound becomes a physical, mobile body shaping space and collective form.
• As if Everything Were One | Feda
  An evolving ceramic work conceived as an open, modular structure in dialogue with DAS spaces. Through processes of emptying, fragmentation and recomposition, clay becomes metaphor for transformation, memory and regeneration.

Seventh evening – 22 May

• Tupilani | Chiara Boitani, Dipartimento Devozioni
  A lecture-performance traversing the fragmented archive of Valentina Fortunato, a vanished actress and ghost of a theater that no longer exists. Two contemporary performers channel an absent presence, questioning memory, identity and the continuity of the body over time.
• MEDUSA | Fabritia D'Intino and Federico Scettri
  A site-specific performance working within immersive darkness, exploring invisibility. The audience glimpses the performer in fragments, while a live sound set transforms the space, guiding perception and imagination in a shared experience of disappearance.

The evenings begin at 7:00 pm. The schedule of individual performances will be announced closer to each date.

Free admission with ARCI membership card (available on site).