10 Feb 2016

Anniottanta

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10February

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24February

Orario

17:30

Museo Novecento

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Three meetings to recount the lively cultural climate of the eighties, when Florence established itself as one of the most vital centers of the peninsula. Musicians, directors, writers and protagonists of those years retrace the events of a decade marked by the spread of art in clubs, discos and fashion studios, in unusual hybridizations that intertwine low cultures and sophisticated artistic research.

Wednesday 10 February at 5.30pm  
Giancarlo Cauteruccio e Dario Evola 

Post-avant-garde, new spectacularity: the theatre of post-modernity 

A journey through the aesthetics of an artistic phenomenon that has characterized an entire generation of artists of the contemporary scene. Accompanied by numerous audiovisual materials, Giancarlo Cauteruccio and Dario Evola will immerse themselves in the consistent work of Krypton to tell the creative panorama of the ’80s that saw a real aesthetic revolution in the scenic arts. The meeting will be an opportunity to dwell on the content of some books including Theatres of Light by Giancarlo Cauteruccio, Nero Chiaro curated by Gabriele Frasca, Teatro Studio Krypton/Trent’Anni di solitudine by Simone Nebbia,Epica di un Migrante/ Eneide di Krypton curated by Giuliano Compagno, Samuel Beckett, Nel buio di un teatro blindcante curated by Giancarlo Cauteruccio with essays by Dario Evola.

Director, set designer, author and performer, Giancarlo Cauteruccio is known for his interdisciplinary linguistic particularity. His work is characterized by the exploration of new technologies and the idea of multimedia applied to the arts, since the late 70s. He has produced dozens of theatre productions, video installations, theatre-architecture projects and musical theatre in Italy and abroad. Founder of the company Krypton, artistic director for over twenty years of the Teatro Studio of Scandicci, He is currently a professor of scenic arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia and is artistic director of the experimental laboratory of Theatre/ Architecture of the Department of Architecture of the University of Florence.

Among the leading scholars of the second Italian theatrical avant-garde, Dario Evola is an essayist, curator and professor of Aesthetics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and of History of Contemporary Art at the University “Sapienza” in Rome. 

Wednesday 17 February at 5.30pm  
Bruno Casini dialoga con Nicola Vannini, Antonio Aiazzi e Gianni Maroccolo 

Introduced by Tommaso Sacchi, Department of Culture. 

Walk on the wild Side 

A song by Lou Reed to tell the Florentine atmosphere and the cultural adventures of a decade declaimed, praised and mythologized by many writers and protagonists. We will talk about music and clubbing in Florence during the “Renaissance Rock” or the “postmodern weekend” of Pier Vittorio Tondelli. We will talk about independent labels, concerts, festivals, cultural contaminations, radio, fanzines, spectacular moments in an eclectic and international city. In addition to the vision of materials and testimonies, the conference will be accompanied by the reading of some texts by Dimitri Milopulos on the atmosphere of those years. 

Bruno Casini deals with communication and cultural promotion and specializes in research and studies on youth cultures in Italy. Since the 80s he has participated in theatrical and musical projects and collaborated with radio stations and magazines. He was one of the founders of “Westuff” magazine. For several years he curated the Independent Music Meeting, was part of the artistic direction of the Fabbrica Europa festival and the jury of the Ciampi Prize and directed the On the Road Festival in Pelago. He wrote for the Tuscan cultural pages of “Il Manifesto”. He edited the volume Frequenze Fiorentine (Arcana, 2003) and co-edited the editorial project Anni di Musica (Toscana Musiche and Regione Toscana). For the publishing house Zona has published over the years Banana Moon; Traveling with Litfiba; Happy and Cursed. What happened to Baby Jane? Fashion and clubbing in Florence 80 years; Rebels in space. The Electronic Space in Firenze2 and Sex and the World.Gay travel and rock’n roll. He teaches Communication at the Istituto Arte e Restauro in Florence. Since 2006 he has been co-curator of the Florence Queer Festival.

Gianni Maroccolo was bassist for Litfiba in the 80s. Musician and producer, he was part of the music factory of C.C.C.P., then CSI and finally PGR with Giovanni Lindo Ferretti and others. He has produced Marlene Kuntz, Marco Parente, Andrea Chimenti, Yo Yo Mundi, Ivana Gatti, Mira Spinosa, Ulan Bator, Federico Fiumani. In 2004 he released “Acau” his first solo album with the participation of many artists including Franco Baciato, Piero Pelù, Carmen Consoli, Cristina Donà.

Antonio Aiazzi was keyboardist for Litfiba in the 80s, as well as producer of numerous musical groups. With Maroccolo and Francesco Magnelli he formed Beau Geste, a trio that has signed several soundtracks for the theater. He is also involved in cultural organization, following the projects of Antenna Musicale, Officina Giovani Prato and Festa Della Musica in Tuscany. He currently collaborates on a sound project with Gianni Maroccolo. 

Nicola Vannini was the first singer of Diaframma in the 80’s. In those years he also founded the Rokkoteca Brighton at the Casa Del Popolo in Settignano (Florence) where many bands, including Litfiba, have taken their first steps. For a long time he produced records and made concerts with Soul Hunters, a project that fused dark and psychedelic atmospheres. He is currently a recording artist and one of the founders of the Audioglobe label. 

Dimitri Milopulos is a director, actor, set designer and graphic designer for contemporary theatre. Since 2005 he has directed the theatrical seasons of the Limonaia in Sesto Fiorentino and the Intercity Festival dedicated to international dramaturgy. As a director and actor he has worked on two theatrical performances based on books by Bruno Casini dedicated to the eighties and seventies. 

Wednesday 24 February at 5.30pm  
Daniele Locchi, Bruno Casini, Leonardo Tozzi, Gimmy Tranquillo, Antonio Glessi 

Viva la Notte Viva. Assonances and dissonances of adventurous nights

Among memories, testimonies and scenic readings, the conference will retrace the atmospheres and generations of Tenax, one of the most innovative nightclubbing in Italy. Notes and images selected by Deliri Progressivi, association of Roby Bruno and Annamaria Pecoraro, will accompany the stories of Daniele Locchi artistic director between 81 and 87 of the theater-disco Tenax, Leonardo Tozzi director of the magazine Firenze Spettacolo, Gimmy Quiet editor of Controradio and collaborator of Tenax and Bruno Casini artistic director of the club Manila.

Daniele Locchi deals with music and entertainment. Between ’79 and ’82 he was responsible for the entertainment office and event organization of Controradio and between ’81 and ’87 he was the creator and artistic director of the theater – disco Tenax Florence. He has collaborated in the management and artistic planning of many public spaces in various editions of the Estate Fiorentina. He is an essayist and writer, among his publications: 80.doc / more to the left of the Rolling Stones (2012, Romano Editore), Mezzanotte e Quattro (2013, Iena Reader – Nardini Editore), Generazione Tenax (2014, editions Firenze Spettacolo).

Since 1980 Leonardo Tozzi has been editor of the monthly newspaper Firenze Spettacolo, a guide to the cultural life, entertainment and trends of the city, as well as publisher of current affairs and history essays inspired by Florence and Tuscany. In 2003 he started the publication of the periodical Bologna Spettacolo, which in the Emilian capital proposes the editorial formula of Firenze Spettacolo. 

Gimmy Tranquillo after having actively lived in the 80s of Florence, being part of the group that, from the ashes of the cooperative, founded Controradio s.r.l. and took over the management of Tenax, moved for twenty years to Los Angeles. Back in Florence, he first participates as an architect in the team that realizes the Hard Rock Café in Piazza della Repubblica, then decides to return to the Controradio studios, where he is currently one of the editors. 

In 1984 Antonio Glessi founded with Andrea Zingoni the multimedia group GMM (Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici) that since then continues to stand out for the warm and transgressive use of new technologies in every sector of communication.  

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