| Performance: LOVE TEST: Cruising for a Bruising 19.9, 8:30pm – 9:30pm Sandlersalen, Sveavägen 41, Stockholm Book your ticket here Exhibition: LOVE TEST: P.O.V. 19.9 – 27.10, 2024 Mint, Sveavägen 41, Stockholm Opening 19.9, 5:00pm – 8:00pm LOVE TEST: Cruising for a Bruising is a collaboration between artist Rosa Aiello and actor Dylan Aiello. Building on a lifelong creative collaboration, the siblings stitch together film and live performance to stage the slippery dynamics of testing love, attention-seeking, and pushing past thresholds of social comfort—power plays in search of meaningful connection. This piece is made up of short comic routines, or “Lazzi”, performance units from Commedia dell’Arte theatre used to construct, break into, and unravel plots. Here they serve to destabilise the roles we take on as friends, family, professionals, lovers. LOVE TEST: Cruising for a Bruising puts a spotlight on the urge to act, to control, to make something happen: it is a variety show, an ecstatic conversation, a road trip, a succession of interruptions, asking “Who is in charge?” The one behind the camera, in front of the audience, the one driving, the one watching? In the main space of Mint, Rosa Aiello and Dylan Aiello will be mounting a solo exhibition of new video works, LOVE TEST: P.O.V. The stage is a skull. The camera is a hole. The body has at least nine holes. This show is a series of experiments in communicating and embodying point of view. The central video work “Povera Noi,” was shot this April with their family and community in Lamezia Terme, Calabria, using three police-style body cams worn by five neighbours. Sounds come through the wall, introducing the knowledge that something is going on over there, the picture changes when you stand in a different place. The performance and opening of LOVE TEST is organized in conjunction with September Sessions – A Contemporary Art Festival in Stockholm. A four-day programme spread across various art organizations in the city as well as public spaces in Stockholm. The festival hosts exhibitions, performances, concerts, film screenings, IASPIS Open Studios, and a bar. The original performance piece was commissioned by Anorak e.V, and premiered at their location in the Green House, Berlin in May 2023. In collaboration with ABF Stockholm. |