In 1994, a flood drowned a radio archive, corrupting the magnetic traces of a voice. The voice disappears from the damaged tapes, bearing witness to the fragility of memory and the precariousness of its archives.
Gaia Ginevra Giorgi found the reels, many of which were irreparably deteriorated, and chose haunting as her point of access—not to restore or reintegrate the archive, but to evoke its desiring and spectral reappearance.
Haunted is a dramaturgy of memory that travels through analog circuits with field recordings, recorded letters, inscribed dreams, voices, and sonic fragments.
The performance situates itself between necromancy, hauntology, and active listening, transforming loss into a threshold.

Info: 
Duration: 40 minutes
Please be advised that the performance includes the use of strobe lights and a significant amount of stage smoke.

a project by and with Gaia Ginevra Giorgi
dramaturgical dialogue Giada Cipollone
sound design Glauco Salvo
lighting design and technical direction Andrea Sanson
technical collaboration Emanuele Pontecorvo
costume creation Giuditta Tanzi / Garbage Core
ephemera curated by Vittoria Assembri

a production by INDEX
in collaboration with Extragarbo
production, organization, administration Valentina Bertolino, Silvia Parlani, Martina Merico
communications Francesco Di Stefano

co-production Snaporazverein (Samedan, CH)
with the support of Ravenna Teatro, Segni-Residenze Franche, C.U.R.A. Centro Umbro di Residenze Artistiche, C32 Live Arts Cultures, Malagola, Superbudda

BIO
Gaia Ginevra Giorgi is an artist and researcher active in the fields of performing arts and sound art. Her practice weaves together voice, writing, sound, and performative devices as tools of evocation and counter-narrative, shaping ephemeral habitats and sensitive thresholds between archive, landscape, and collective memory. Rooted in a feminist, ecological, and situated approach, she investigates the political potential of vocality and performative listening.
She is the author, dramaturg, and performer of several projects presented at festivals, institutions, and independent contexts in Italy and abroad, including Santarcangelo Festival, Romaeuropa Festival, TBA21–Academy, Schirn Kunsthalle, and Das Weisse Haus.
She curates the radio program Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears for Fango Radio and is an artist-in-residence at Radio Raheem.
In 2024, she received the Premio Vienna (Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna / Angewandte Performance Laboratory – APL).
Her research is documented in academic publications and anthologies dedicated to voice, sound, and performative writing.