MOMENTO SPENTO
2025 | Soverato
live performance, 1h

A large, unrehearsed procession-spectacle with horses, singers and old FIAT 500s, elements gleaned from the fortunate scribbles of a girl on holiday who almost forgot her dream.

A dream of truly free time, probably sparked by her holiday reading: Bjung Chul-Han, who writes that “Inactivity has a logic of its own, its own language, temporality, architecture, magnificence – even its own magic. It is not a weakness or defect but rather an intensity”.

Working from her notes, and with almost no prior rehearsal, she tries to bring this dream of truly ‘free time’ back to life by assembling its cast from existing communities in Soverato: an audience under a darkening sky, a drummer, a choir, several horses and old Fiat 500s, with their riders and drivers…

CREDITS

Concept, text, direction: Ant Hampton
Feedback and support: Alice De Crais
Performer: Alice De Crais
Percussion / prepared drums: Daniele De Santis
Photography: Angelo Maggio
Videography: Isabella Marino

With the extraordinary participation of the Soverato Choir, Centro Ippico Valle Dei Mulini / Scuderia Cricelli, Auto Club Soverato

With thanks to Ida Raynal, Giulia Cricelli, Chiara Prodi of Habitat.it

MOMENTO SPENTO is produced in the frame of DETOURISTIKI, an ongoing project by Ant Hampton exploring live art in relation to tourism and 'free time', based on research carried out in Palermo (supported by Teatro Bastardo) and Athens (supported by Onassis AiR).

This performance was commissioned by IRA festival 2025, Soverato, Calabria.

Dedicated to the memory of Lynn Hatzius.

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