1th SEPTEMBER – preview
in collaboration with Ra-dici35

6 – 14 SEPTEMBER 2024

CONTROTEMPO

The word chosen to entitle the 26th edition of Ammutinamenti Festival reveals the desire to dismantle well-established habits and to be surprised by a new pace. By countering the fast passing timing of the events, we decide to bet more and more on collective processes requiring a longer time to generate new meetings and make a deal of trust: projects that develop throughout the year and redefine the relationships between artistic works, practices, and communities.
In Controtempo, we train the ability to insert pauses and contrasting elements into our regular time, marked by commitments, deadlines, and goals to achieve. We create a space to listen, observe, and overcome regular patterns, thus granting ourselves new chances and generating a new rhythm to enter deeply into our present, into our own bodies, into the others’, and into the places we cross every day, allowing ourselves to be surprised by the power of asynchronies, shifts, harmonies, and counterpoints.
This edition is a path of perceptive revisitation moving between urban explorations in everyday unexplored places, workshops, sharing of artistic practices, performances that merge with the city and a brand-new musical section. It is a resonance of heterogeneous and complementary bodies and voices. It is a stubborn alternative to the time we live in.
Shall we go backbeat embracing all the sensations that come with it?