Made in Ilva – the Contemporary Hermit: the fable of obsessive work in Instabili Vaganti’s performance
[…] After collecting a lot of awards for civil commitment and for innovation, the fable of brutalizing and alienating work arrives in Turin, a fable in which the worker is forced to operate in a metal foresta as the iron plant. The dramaturgy combines some depositions of workers of Taranto’s Ilva, some parts of Luigi di Riscio’s poems and original music and songs.
The performer Nicola Pianzola, through meticulous actions and gestures and obsessive words, expresses the brutalizing continuity of work, the obession of production, the underrated dangers, the superficiality that provokes the fatal tragedy of death at work, topic of the last part of performance. The meticulousness of gestures, the infinitive musicality of obsessive actions, the homogeneous harmony of between music and body are extraordinary […].
A dense and intense performance, with a prickly, rude, strong damaturgy. A naïve spectator can perhaps consider this dramaturgy sometime a bit cryptic, but a dramaturgy like that is necessary to create a “two-speed binary” in the performance: the first part of performance is obsessive and compulsive, the second has the suspended rhythm of accomplished tragedy. Made in Ilva is a moving experience.
