05/06 — 07/06/2025
Il Fantasma di Pepper
Edoardo Lazzari
07/06/2025
AGANIS
Chiara Cecconello
07/06/2025
Performance
AGANIS is an immersive quadraphonic performance for two voices and live electronics. It originates from the study of folktales from the Venetian Prealps, which speak of caves inhabited by the anguane—monstrous figures from local mythology.
Folk tradition describes them as protean beings linked to water springs: sometimes benevolent, sometimes malevolent, they are known for emitting cries considered unbearable to the human ear.
AGANIS connects with the undecipherability of their vocal outcry, attuning itself to the unheard and the unhearable—where the ignored and the imagined intertwine and collide.
By rubbing against these sticky thresholds—like the walls of karstic caves—an acoustic imaginary is activated, composed of damp sound textures and mineral reverberations, gathered through environmental sound sampling.
The analogy between the oral cavity and rocky hollows becomes the site of emergence for these more-than-human presences.
The spectator’s skin becomes a membrane of transference, allowing the ungraspable voices of the anguane to surface.
Info:
Duration 45’
a project by Chiara Cecconello
voices Nina Baietta, Chiara Cecconello, Margherita D'Adamo
light design and technical direction Rachele Cominella, Elisa Bortolussi
outfits Isabella Marsella
with the support of Live Arts Cultures, SPORE – Dislocated Research Residencies
special thanks to Argo16, C32 Live Arts Cultures
BIO
Chiara Cecconello is a sound artist and performer. Her practice weaves together body, voice, and listening to investigate the relationships between sound and space, activating polyphonic environments in which the audible and the inaudible mutually transform one another. Through performances, installations, and workshops, she explores orality as a form of shared imagination. She studied at IUAV University of Venice and the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen, combining musical, theoretical, and performative approaches. In 2021, she took part in the Course on Dramatic Rhythm led by Socìetas. She collaborates with Italian and international artists, including Ari Benjamin Meyers, Isabel Lewis, Josephine Baan, and Monica Francia/ARCHIVIA. Her work has been presented in contexts such as Short Theatre, Ocean Space, Errant Sound, BASE Milano, Festival Catalysi, Radio That Matters, Venere In Teatro, and Musik Installationen Nürnberg.
