This new collaboration with Danza Urbana in Bologna is part of a larger series entitled Abstract Nationalism & National Abstraction (2001-present). Previous interventions have occurred at The Phillips Collection in Washington (2014) and the 56th Venice Biennale (2015), including video installations, flag displays, and musical performances where flags are fused with each other and national anthems are reassembled, sung in unexpected languages. Developed with Social Practice Lab students, dancers, musicians, and untrained participants, the Bologna performances will engage with key public sites in the city.

Our productions will include closed-door video recordings, scattered displays, and a large public performance that will morph from an audio installation and music recital at the Ex Ospedale Bastardini to a dance event and street parade on Via Zamboni, all of it ending at the iconic Piazza Verdi.

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Authors:

Pedro Lasch, Bologna Social Practice Lab (with Cristina Rizzo)