A Certain Value

A Certain Value is a multi-disciplinary project conceived by the artist Anna Rispoli and the curator Martina Angelottiof which the result is a participative reading-performance.

A series of residences were held in several European cities where Anna and Martina have met different communities. Through workshops, they have questionned citizens about the ambivalent association of value and values. Their intent was to challenge the participants’ know-how about sharing and mutualization as much as their experiences of “de-evaluation” and “re-evaluation” of an individual towards the group.

Based on the material collected during this research, they have created a reading-performance composed of many voices, a staged conversation between different communities about the possibility of sharing value today.

It is possible to take part in this performance as a reader or as an observer.

Credits

A Certain Value is presented in the frame of the Urban Academy on 24 and 26 September.

A Certain Value is presented in the frame of the IN SITU ACT Days organized by the IN SITU network on the 2nd and 3rd October 2020 in Brussels and online.

By Anna Rispoli and Martina Angelotti

With the testimonies of the inhabitants of e⋅s of the Squat 59 Saint Just, the Common Wallet, the inmates of the Penitentiary Centre for Women in Rennes, the Comunità Italiana in Genk, pupils of the Primary School °°° and the Mars Program Private Learning Group in Budapest.

Script and dramaturgy - Céline Estenne

Decoration - Canedicoda

Graphic design - AUT Design Collective

Artistic consultancy - Claire Astier

Executive production - Cifas

Residencies - C-TAKT Dommelhof/Genk, Public Places/Marseille, Les Tombées de la Nuit/Rennes, Cifas/Brussels, PLACC/Budapest

A Certain Value, an IN SITU Pilot project, has received a creation aid by the ACT project, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. The co-producers are Atelier 231 (FR), Festival di Terni (IT), Freedom Festival (UK), La Strada Graz (AT), Lieux publics (FR), Norfolk & Norwich Festival (UK), Østfold Internasjonale Teater (NO), Oerol Festival (NL), Theater op de Markt (BE), UZ Arts (UK).

Anna Rispoli

Anna Rispoli is an Italian artist living in Brussels. She works on the border between artistic creation and activism, to explore in a performative way the triangulation between humans-cities-identities.

Martina Angelotti

Martina Angelotti is a curator and art writer. She works on exhibition projects related to the disciplines of public and participatory art, moving image and performance art, in Italy and throughout Europe.