workshop result

The First Breath on Earth and Its Subsequent Sublime Collapse is a performance emerging from a dramaturgical workshop exploring the liminal zones of digital space, where collective listening, dispersed memory and virtual archives converge. The work engages with a question posed by philosopher Federico Campagna: what will remain of the memory of the Digital Age when, after climate collapse, our electronic devices survive only as mute monuments?

Royal Divorce approaches this question through an act of emotional archaeology, attempting to recover fragments of the present from the immeasurable archive of the web. Participants assume the role of contemporary rhapsodes, giving voice to experiences left by users in the comment sections of music videos on YouTube—traces of everyday life destined to disappear within the endless flows of the internet.

Bio

Royal Divorce is a collective born in 2023, oriented towards research and creation between performative practices and visual arts. Royal Divorce moves within the systemic crisis of representation, in the clash between the historical archive and the digital one, unleashing landscapes that live on the edge between visual installation and performance.

Credits

conceived and designed by Royal Divorce
production/Administration Giusy Guadagno – Associazione Culturale Extragarbo
theoretical support Edoardo Lazzari

Duration 

50′

Language/Subtitles

english /subtitled in english

Tickets

free event with riservation

Location with limited accessibility.

Please note that this performance contains sensitive themes (such as drugs, suicide, grief, conflict).