Bauci ENG

DIRECTOR’S NOTES

Modern cities mirror our past and stand as a warning for our future. They are lands of contradictions, frontier spaces, places of shattered visions and projections lacking courage. If we hear echoed Italo Calvino’s words, describing a world covered by “cities that weigh upon the earth and upon people, crammed with riches and traffic jams, overloaded with ornaments and obligations, complicated by mechanisms and hierarchies, swollen, tense, heavy,” then we can only aspire to a revolution, to a radical and generative transformation.
It is through transformation that the demands for change in the lives we lead can be fulfilled, and it is within collectivity that the force capable of making metamorphosis possible takes shape. For this reason, it becomes urgent to create opportunities for participation, forms of community and togetherness – even if fleeting, transitional, magmatic – that allow us to recognize ourselves as part of a shared sensibility.
This habit can also be cultivated through small occasions which, however marginal, can momentarily disrupt passive dynamics or the seductions of isolation. From this impulse arises the desire to build an interactive contemporary circus show inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities.