Something where there should be nothing, and nothing where there should be something.
— The Weird and the Eerie, Mark Fisher

This is a research on contemporary horror cinema, investigated through the lens of a lecture performance.
Horror is an unsettling creature—while self-replicating, it undergoes a violent awakening to its own saturated nature. The study explores horror as a dismembered body, engaging with the concept of genre as a fragmented entity.
Horror is also a discursive technology, an affective, political, and sensory apparatus that reacts to the present, destabilizes certainties, and—with subversive force—transforms reality. The dismembered body becomes a landscape: no longer an “organic whole” but a mass of debris. A destabilized territory—alluring, predictable, offensive—creating a space where desires and ambivalences can be incorporated. Fears and pressures emerge and take shape.
Like litmus paper, it always reacts to the present—its fears, morals, and politics—and through regeneration and betrayal of form, expresses its vital force: the capacity to articulate untamed negativity.

Bio 

Teodora Grano is an author, performer, and researcher based in Italy.
She has worked without fixed residency in theater, circus, performance, and dance across orthodox and unorthodox formats, training and working in Wrocław, Athens, Berlin, Brussels, and Rome.
She founded the collective ALIX MAUTNER and works regularly with CollettivO CineticO. Supported by the SupportER-network Anticorpi 2022-2024.
Her research centers on a future literature where the relationship between writing and body prioritizes reading. Using portraiture and genealogical inquiry, she mines personal experience for historical and social data.
She belongs to the subset of humans for whom writing is a sensory organ.
50% punk, 30% ironic, 20% deadly serious.

Credits

Concept, assemblages, body: Teodora Grano
Material stuff dramaturg & punk solutions: B.Bordoni
Creative technologist: Simone Arganini
Artistic collaboration: Michela Depetris, Angelo Pedroni
Includes the works:

“…leaky 4 Mother Rage (working title)” by Michela Depetris

“Tartar Tremor” by B.Bordoni
With support from: Collettivo Cinetico
Project realized with contributions from:
ResiDance – places and projects for choreographic residencies (an initiative of the Rete Anticorpi XL Network)
Supported by: Lavanderia a Vapore, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, and Centro di Residenza della Toscana (Fondazione Armunia Castiglioncello – CapoTrave/Kilowatt Sansepolcro)

Duration

60′

Language/Subtitles

Italian

Tickets

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Performance presented as part of E’BAL – palcoscenici per la danza contemporanea in Emilia Romagna