[ÒDIO] will be based on interviews with very young people who, having experienced violence, end up directing it towards their own bodies and peers.

We felt the need to address this generation because, in a way, the creature (who has no age) goes through a “growth” process in complete solitude until the moment it finds the diary of the “father figure” who assembled it. Feeling rejected, it starts developing a vengeful attitude towards society and the absent familial institution, which is typical of the developmental age. The creature quickly switches from a tender (and obsessive) love for Dr. Frankenstein to an inextinguishable hatred. Perceiving its own monstrosity and inadequacy, it gets lost in a universe of conflicting feelings that often cause it to lose control, something that resembles the emotional chaos many adolescents experience nowadays. In our country, episodes of violence and bullying among teenagers are multiplying at a rate and with an intensity never seen before. Every day, the news is filled with increasingly cruel episodes of hatred and vandalism. As we often do in our practice, we want to investigate and try to understand why.

(Daniela Nicolò and Enrico Casagrande)

[ÒDIO] will therefore deal with that terrible click that turns love into hate, benevolence into violence, that disruption of the loving mechanism that causes a reversal with irreversible consequences.

With this work, and the parallel theatrical performance, we will delve into these dark territories, trying to put a finger on the wound to trace back to the origin of certain aggressive and excluding dynamics, by listening to the inner paths that generate them.

[ÒDIO] will try to dismantle the stereotypes about youth and violence that are being widely discussed these days…
When we talk about hatred, it is necessary to ask the question: Who hates, and why do they hate? What power and domination dynamics are found in these people? If the state’s instruments do not promise us a society of “RADICAL TENDERNESS,” where bodies can meet with trust… perseverance is needed to create these spaces (which already exist in interstitial places)… and to do so, hatred is also necessary; it can help us not to turn away, not to seek refuge in indifference, not to let the world and ourselves with it, be simply consumed…
From “Odio” by SEYDA KURT, a writer of Kurdish origins, who guides and orients us in the search.