How do conflicts and harmonies shape identity and influence individual and collective memories?
What is our positioning in the world amid tensions derived from socio-political and environmental issues, migration, and the blurring of lines between real and fake news?
Now Here | Nowhere focuses on the fusion of words and sounds performed in dialogue with curated visuals. Through unique sound and music textures created and performed by sound artist and percussionist Renzo Spiteri and guitarist Fabrizio Fedele, spoken word by Erica Muscat, and Giulia Privitelli’s poetic writings and their particular transparency and resonance, Now Here | Nowhere focuses on daily experiences and reflections, and the socio-cultural realities of contemporary society.
What is our positioning in the world amid tensions derived from socio-political and environmental issues, migration, and the blurring of lines between real and fake news?
Now Here | Nowhere focuses on the fusion of words and sounds performed in dialogue with curated visuals. Through unique sound and music textures created and performed by sound artist and percussionist Renzo Spiteri and guitarist Fabrizio Fedele, spoken word by Erica Muscat, and Giulia Privitelli’s poetic writings and their particular transparency and resonance, Now Here | Nowhere focuses on daily experiences and reflections, and the socio-cultural realities of contemporary society.
Erica MuscatAn award-winning, classically trained stage and screen actor, Erica Muscat has collaborated with Renzo, Lucía Piquero and #EngageCREATIVES in the creation of Terra Verunt, commissioned by the Malta International Arts Festival 2017. She holds credit for various roles in theatre and film including Lady Macbeth in Clive Judd’s Macbeth and Daniela in the World Premiere of Brad Birch’s Game, and NBC’s You, Me and the Apocalypse starring Rob Lowe.
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Renzo SpiteriRenzo Spiteri is a sound artist and percussionist who specialises in improvisation, field recording, sound collection, composition and sound design, and their application in installations, live performances, contemporary dance and sonic material for film/moving image that he creates. Through his work, Renzo brings about a deeper sensorial engagement between listeners and his sonic creations, be it in public spaces, performance venues, film and art galleries.
Photo: George Scintilla |
Fabrizio Fedele
Guitarist Fabrizio Fedele has collaborated with numerous artists and performed in live settings and in recording studio settings. To date he has recorded 10 albums and also writes music for theatrical performances and for short movies for Universal, Media Aetas, Controteatro, Sine Lex.
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Giulia Privitelli
Giulia Privitelli is the author of Walking in Circles, an illustrated collection of fifty-two poetic reflections that explores the common terrain of the human and natural world, of memory, time, truth, beauty, and life-death cycles. 'Walking in Circles' is supported by the Malta Arts Fund.
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Sounds, percussion, visuals & light design: Renzo Spiteri
Guitar: Fabrizio Fedele
Spoken word: Erica Muscat
Text: Giulia Privitelli from Walking in Circles
Guitar: Fabrizio Fedele
Spoken word: Erica Muscat
Text: Giulia Privitelli from Walking in Circles
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Premiere performance: May 2019, Valletta (Malta), supported by Arts Council Malta - Multi-Annual Support Grant (Malta Arts Fund).
Concept, artistic direction and creative production by Renzo Spiteri. Managed by #EngageCREATIVES. |
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