Manifattura Tabacchi living room goes virtual and doesn't just talk about art

Living Room, the living room of Manifattura Tabacchi becomes virtual: a space for research and experimentation with new and original content, where we dialogue about culture and contemporary art.

Waiting to return to live discussions with creatives, curators, artists and experts, Living Room transfers its program of talks and meetings to the web, offering a platform for analysis and reflection on reality.

From Monday, April 27, six interdisciplinary columns will address six different themes: space, nature, time, body, identity, community. Art will play a central role, but cinema and documentaries, books and poetry, publishing and architecture, science and fashion will also be discussed. Living Room programming will be enriched by the collaboration of outstanding partners in their fields of activity.
Each theme will be addressed and re-interpreted in different forms over the course of the six weeks, with interviews, artistic interventions, films, lectures, podcasts and video performances.

In addition, Living Room presents Entrevue, a dialogue space involving six influential voices in the fields of art, architecture, fashion and sustainability. Each of them will address a programming theme according to their experience and expertise, offering moments of education and insight.

“What would happen if the world woke up one day in a different place than it used to?” six artists (Laura Besançon, Alessio De Girolamo, Dori Deng, Sabrina Melis, Alessandro Cicoria, David Hartono) ask themselves. Their space of expression will be If I woke up one day, a fantasy “metaluogo” in which time, space, human relationships, and nature have changed shape and the virtual has become real. The six artists imagine what happens beyond the wall, freely experimenting with space and how the latter relates to the concept of limit in a dystopian universe.

The meditations on art take sonic form thanks to the column Lieviti, a six-episode podcast series curated by Radio Papesse, an archive dedicated to documenting and investigating the visual arts.

The Festival dei Popoli, long engaged in the promotion and dissemination of documentary cinema, in collaboration with CG Entertainment, will then provide its ’room with a view’ in the large virtual house built together withManifattura Tabacchi: a Popoli Streaming Room in which a selection of documentaries from the Festival dei Popoli archive will be accessible.

It’s not over. The performance artist collective Fumofonico has created Document: a column consisting of previously unseen virtual video performances, where the verses of Amelia Rosselli, among the most important poets of 20th century Europe, gain new voice through readings by members of the collective and other exponents of the Italian oral and performance poetry scene with the sound contribution of a team of exceptional musicians.

The Librarti column, on the other hand, discusses artists’ books, as works of art in the form of volumes, curated by Centro Di, a publishing house specializing in the publication of art books.

All the columns of the multidisciplinary format will be launched through daily appointments on Manifattura’s social channels Facebook and Instagram and will be collected on Manifattura Tabacchi’s blog.

Pictured, Manifattura Tabacchi, Living Room - Entrevue

Manifattura Tabacchi living room goes virtual and doesn't just talk about art

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