August 8–10, 2025
Dro 38074
Italy
“I know you want to free Palestine, you want to free Congo, you want to free Sudan, you want to free Iran...a new one every week...Free Europe! Free Europe from right-wing extremism. Free Europe from fascism. Free Europe from racism. Free Europe from imperiality. When you do this job...as soon as you do this job: Gaza will be free, Congo will be free, Sudan will be free, Iran will be free. Forget about us...don't worry about...Free Europe.” —Seun Kuti, Glastonbury, 2025
Gods and stars, animals and kids, experts and lovers, young and old: dancing in a circle, spinning in the dark. From the eyes, seeds take root—tears, commas, full stops. We tend wounds with crooked words, with songs dense as stones.
At this refuge for bodies and souls, poems curl into fists to endure and defy. Language is a blunted knife—it whirls but cannot cut. Whisper of a love that slips away, that lurks behind empty houses. Choreia: linking arms and twirling—we dance of war and peace—perhaps love was never ours—we conjure it from dust.
“We would have loved you”
Bowing to the rising sun, we murmur our goodbyes. While the morning mist retreats, the day dances to the rhythm of our time. Dissonant notes for fallen friends, oblivion has a core, a spiral pulling us silently inward—yet: the beat persists, we resist, and never quite let go. Free Europe.
Friday, August 8
Echo Guo: How do we meet on the edge? / Mia Tamme: How did I end up becoming you? / Öykü Özgencil: Can I allow it to pass through me? / Lisa Vlamings: What cannot be felt? / Ariell Zéphyr: Do you want to see my parents dance? / Bel McLaughlin: How do fantasies mobilize? / Tereza Darmovzalová: What kind of seeds grow desire? / Ivčo Ružić: are you close?
Saturday, August 9
Alva Roselius: Can we fake it? / Sam Mountford: What haven’t we tried yet? / Sara Alberani: What flows beneath, unseen, undercurrent? / Nada Gambier: With what do we see? / Maria Miguel Pratas: Bucolic mannerisms or the aftermath of affection? / Foad Alijani: What is filum? / Davide La Montagna: If this is just a dream, can you feel it? If pierced, does it bleed? / Christelle Makris: What is fun?
Sunday, August 10
Annette Rodriguez Fiorillo: If the river suena, what does it carry? / Eszter Dobos: Can you meet me halfway? / Anna Buyvid: Can You Think With Your Mouth Shut? / Qiaoling Cai: I know I said this, but what do I mean? / Helena Estrela: Are you an artist, a performer, a fly or moo? / Tuba Kılıç: Would you chant with me? / Clara Rudin Smith: Will you wait? / Alkmini Gkousiari: Are there enough holes to fill everyone’s pleasures?
Respondents Barby Asante, Sandi Hilal and Zairong Xiang will, in one way or another, mesh with the questions. Welcome to 24 conversations-in-a-form.
Curator: Elisa Giuliano / Convener: Gabriëlle Schleijpen (DAI) / Hosts: Barbara Boninsegna and Dino Sommadossi (Centrale Fies) Production: Peter Sattler & the dream-teams of DAI and Centrale Fies.
Free entrance.
