From April 30 to May 4, Supernova returns to Rimini for its third edition, a showcase of performative arts organized in collaboration with the Santarcangelo dei Teatri Association and the Municipality of Rimini, and with the support of the Emilia-Romagna Region.

The performative arts project, curated by Daniela Nicolò and Enrico Casagrande (Motus) with Paola Granato, returns to explore expansive and deeply significant locations within the imagination of the citizens of Rimini. This year, Supernova’s focus begins with an exploration of current events, our socio-political present, the fragility that overwhelms us, and the strange and unsettling landscapes we observe from this standpoint.

The 2025 edition of Supernova takes on the voice of this “weird and eerie” perspective, dear to philosopher Mark Fisher, in order to weave the dramaturgical threads that unite all the works, fluidly and continuously seeking a blend of languages. The program is characterized by many debuts and site-specific projects, created specifically for the third edition of the festival, which casts salt on the wounds of this dark historical moment.

We have imagined, starting from the classic tales of Lovecraft, where “the Other” comes from the South, from the darkness, where marginalized bodies are aligned with the strange, the bizarre, the exotic. To dismantle these Eurocentric stereotypes and celebrate the inherent strangeness and beauty in every social (and artistic) construct, it is necessary to “give new names to what we are experiencing, to recognize the transformations as they occur” (Elvia Wilk) and not to be afraid of them. If the undefinable, the weird, is the experience of change, we must document the change as it unfolds and make it shine in the darkness, making it so dazzling and uncomfortable that it forces the war-mongering oligarchs in power back into their anechoic hideouts, where we watch them dematerialize, disappear. To overturn the vision and adopt the bat’s point of view.