Nuvolario

contenuto

nuvolario is a project that looks upwards, an observation of the transformative power of clouds in the most illusory mechanisms; seeing what is not there. Relegated to the domain of vagueness by their tendency to conceal celestial references, clouds have long been perceived as the enemy of clear thinking, the nemesis of philosophers and scientists.
Yet they have always deciphered reality by revealing the deceptive transparency of the air and signalling other atmospheric phenomena; an aspect that, combined with their shape-shifting nature, has made them the obsession of painters, photographers, meteorologists and the military.
OHT explores the elusive vertigo of celestial landscapes and their precipitate into our present. Visible only from afar, clouds are the rare moment when the atmosphere materialises, a taxonomy of sky forms getting through the stage and its celestial artifices.
Evanescent as a cloud, the project constantly changes shape while remaining unchanged in its name: nuvolario.

"Cognitive scientists claim that people place gods in the blue sky because looking up causes a dopamine rush in the brain. But clouds do much more than draw the eye upwards. They invent our imagination." Anne Carson

Clouds are one of the few suspended states of water visible to the naked eye, as water vapour diffused in the atmosphere usually remains invisible. They are air and water - the space in which living things unfold condensed into impure particles that scatter and refract sunlight. With clouds, the sky changes colour.

In a space screened by a cloudy sky and traversed by the song The Pure and the Damned by Oneothrix Point Never, OHT creates evanescent atmospheres, combining light in an empty scene; an overlook to the sky.

The Pure and the Damned
musica e testo Oneothrix Point Never, voce Iggy Pop
Love, make me clean
Love, touch me, cure me
The pure always act from love
The damned always act from love
Every day I think about untwisting and untangling these strings I’m in
And to lead a pure life I look ahead at a clear sky
Ain’t gonna get there
But it’s a nice dream, it’s a nice dream
Death, make me brave
Death, leave me swinging
The pure always act from love
The damned always act from love
The truth is an act of love
Some day, I swear, we’re gonna go to a place where we can do everything we want to
And we can pet the crocodiles
Love
The pure always act from love
The damned always act from love
That’s love
The pure always act from love
That’s love
The pure and the damned
The pure and the damned
Love
The damned

year

2024

running time

0:12:00.0

genre

installation

press

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credits

NUVOLARIO
installation
by Office for a Human Theatre

> directing and set Filippo Andreatta
> song “The Pure and the Damned” by Oneothrix Point Never, Iggy Pop
> sound Francesco D’Abbraccio (Lorem)
> assistent directing Sara Thaiz Bozano
> dramaturgy collaboration Veronica Franchi
> stage manager Cosimo Ferrigolo
> light Filippo Andreatta, Bianca Peruzzi
> music advice Davide Tomat
> animal spirit yún (云)

> development and communication Anna Benazzoli
> photo Giacomo Bianco
> creative producer Chiara Boitani
> administrator Lucrezia Stenico
> international development Job Rietvelt

> production Office for a Human Theatre
> co-production Fondazione I Teatri / Festival Aperto Reggio Emilia, Romaeuropa festival, Sagra Musicale Malatestiana
> artistic residency Centrale Fies, teatro alla Cartiera Rovereto
> supported by MiC, Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Fondazione Caritro di Trento e Rovereto

production history

19-21.IX.24 > Centrale Fies

nuvolario