Human specific performance of conversation and micro-readings
for one guest at a time.
“The important thing is not to have everything in mind, but knowing where to find it” (Juan Villoro, El Libre Selvaje).
From this assumption, La Lettrice Vis-à-Vis chooses and catalogues, with her original methodology, the meaningful pages of contemporary literature, then she welcomes her guests in her travelling living room and listens, chats, tries to find the right page for everyone, in the space of a few minutes.
Ringing a bell, stepping on a carpet, sitting on the stool next to the bike and the cart / library full of mysterious volumes, everyone will find an unexpected point of view, a small push to tip an equilibrium, some lines to change a state of mind, a perspective, an idea, eye-to-eye with La Lettrice Vis à Vis. Something really personal.
CHIARA TREVISAN
Shaped by micro-shows and puppetry, she explores the potential of the relationship vis-à-vis and of the artistic languages connected to it. Her projects are strongly oriented towards the search for oroginal solution to question taken up by the comunity.
Trained at the GRM Drama School in Turin (Italy) and graduated at the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, with a dissertation on puppet theatre, she taken advantage of the language of puppet theatre to provide an alternative approach to tour, show and teach.
She approached for the first time the technical of theatre in a box (action box / cajas de accion) studying with her mentor, the argentinian astronomer, playwright and puppet master Horacio Tignanelli.
Her solo debut, Valentino’s Flea Circus (2002), a micro-show in a box for one person at a time, was first presented at the International Puppet Festival Arrivano dal Mare! in Cervia (Italy), and still rolling in national and international stages.
With this show, was selected by the Piedmont Region to be part of the project “ARTINSTRADA Il Piemonte dal Vivo” at the Festival Chalon dans la Rue 2008 and “ETRE MARIONNETTE Piemonte dal Vivo” at the Festival of Charleville Mezieres 2009.
In 2009, she wrote and produce the show Piantalalà, a speechless double performance, with objects and a mime (Chiara Vallini), about the double meanings of sounds and the gap between perception and interpretation.
With “Lunargentina” (2010) she used storytelling with animated figures, playing in dialogues with childrens to explore the theme of loneliness and the harshness of the trip in relation to the other.
The Safety box (2011 Porta Nuova Garibaldi construction site, Milan) is another micro-performance with objects in a box, on the topic of safety at work, for adults or young adultus, workers and public. It was supported by IN SITU (European Network for artistic creation in public space), Associazione C’era l’acca, and produced by a private investor: GAE Engineering.
The IN-SICUREZZA project continues, changing area, with the blog vis-à-vis.name guarda mentre attraversa (look while crossing), a written gallery of real life images of encounters on pedestrian crossings. A laboratory about the relationships between users in urban spaces.
Since 2011, and steadily since 2013, with La Lettrice vis-à-vis (participatory performance of micro-conversations and reading, in public and private space, with catalogs ad hoc) she has shifted the balance between performance and relationship. The first has become functional at the second.
With the Associazione Culturale C’era l’acca and Network Su Misura she was involved with her artistic and organizational skills in support of festivals and events in La Reggia di Venaria Reale (Turin)
From 2011 she is artis member of IN SITU, European network for artistic creation in public space.
Since 2013 she works as a street artist in free form, to complement the structured professional form with the research and the constant dialoguig with the public space in its immediacy.
