Pas Moi is Diana Anselmo's new lecture-performance, the final chapter in a documentary and emotional research project that explores the web of power and domination woven into traditional historiography. 

While his previous performance Je Vous Aime – which later became a solo exhibition at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin – highlighted the re-educational implications of the first projections of moving images, Pas Moi follows a parallel path and, from a Deaf and signing perspective, explores the genesis of the first instruments for recording, transmitting and reproducing sound, showing how the celebrated devices at the origin of the future music industry were conceived with the audist intention of “curing” deafness. 

A disease to be eradicated or made to disappear into the fabric of the hearing world, rather than an identity, a culture with its own language and community.
Pas Moi imagines where one can go if another is the starting point — beyond the “lack of hearing,” further ahead.


In collaboration with Teatro Ca' Foscari a Santa Marta

INFO
17/03/2026, 7 pm
Teatro Ca' Foscari a Santa Marta, Dorsoduro 2137
Free entry. More info: [email protected] 

CREDITS
Ideazione, performance, visuals: Diana Anselmo
Performers: Diana Anselmo, Daniel Bongioanni, Antonio Dominelli
Realizzato con: Santarcangelo Festival
Produttore esecutivo: Chiasma
Coprodotto da: Scuola Piccola Zattere, TheaterFormen Festival, Gessnerallee Zürich, Fuorimargine Centro di Produzione di Danza e Arti Performative della Sardegna

Diana Anselmo is a Deaf native signer and Queer visual artist and performer. Bilingual in ITA/LIS, he made his debut in 2021 with Autoritratto in 3 atti (Self-Portrait in 3 Acts) and abroad with Le Sacre du Printemps (2022) by Xavier Le Roy. His research on Deaf History led him to the performances Je Vous Aime (2023) and Pas Moi (2025), which later became exhibitions at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin) and Scuola Piccola Zattere (Venice). Since 2024, he has been collaborating with Cristina Kristal Rizzo, with whom he co-authored Monumentum DA.
Since 2025, he has been the artistic director of the Repubblica Sorda performing arts festival, which will see its second edition in 2026.