Diana Anselmo
Pas Moi
5- 6/07/2025, Santarcangelo Festival
Diana Anselmo
5- 6/07/2025, Santarcangelo Festival
Pas Moi is a lecture performance that analyses the origins of the first technical devices for creating, transmitting, and recording sounds from the perspective of Deaf people. Many of these achievements were developed with audist and eugenic intentions: being Deaf was considered a sickness to be healed – instead of being recognized as a cultural identity. For example, in the 19th century devices for language recording were invented to be used in the context of so-called language therapy as an instrument of an involuntary re-education. Hearing could now be measured and depicted technically, as an object made of data and numbers, from which an ostensible ‘norm’ could be derived. Diana Anselmo illuminates the origin stories of these technologies that are in use even today. What if we would conceive of it from a different starting point? Beyond deficits – further ahead, in another future.
Concept, performance, visuals: Diana Anselmo
Performers: Diana Anselmo, Daniel Bongioanni, Antonio Dominelli
Sound, composition: Antonio Dominelli
Singsong lyrics: Paddy Ladd
Dramaturg: Piersandra di Matteo
Coaching in research and performative material: Saša Asentić
Produced in collaboration with: Santarcangelo Festival
Executive producer: Chiasma
Co-produced by: Scuola Piccola Zattere, TheaterFormen Festival, Gessnerallee Zürich, Fuorimargine – Centro di Produzione di Danza e Arti Performative della Sardegna
Sustained by the network R.O.M (Residencies On the Move) at Reykjavik Dance Festival at the invitation of Santarcangelo Festival. R.O.M is supported by the European Union in the framework of the program Creative Europe, Conseil des arts de Montréal and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Supported by Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Oslo, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Berlino, MIC – Ministero della cultura, DANAE Festival
as part of LANDING, a project backed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and carried out by Santarcangelo Festival.
Duration: 50′
