IMAF 2023 - AnimaeNoctis - "Deconstructing Mussolini"

About IMAF festival: International Multimedial Art Festival – IMAF is an annual event dedicated to performance art. International Festival of Multimedial Arts – IMAF has created a context in which different artists of various nationalities and age come together and, through their individual work, create a variety of research and suggestions on the medium of body and performance. As such, IMAF is not merely a festival, but a place where new ideas and conditions of performance, in the broader sense of art, become evolutionarily classified and researched. This makes it progressive and proactive, a space focused solely on developing new thoughts and ideas.More of the festival: www.imaf-festival.weebly.com About artist: BIO AnimaeNoctis (www.animaenoctis.com) is the synergy and the goal of Silvia Marcantoni Taddei (1994) & Massimo Sannelli (1973). Both of them disavowed their personal/academic education to foster a dual multimedia vision. They chose to be called AnimaeNoctis because they escaped the pervasive night of toxic social/personal lifestyles. For the same reason they work and live nomadicly. The wide set of AnimaeNoctis activity is a polymorphous performance made of dozens of performances and art practices (photography, music, sculpture, dance, filmmaking, publishing, activism). CV Since 2019 AnimaeNoctis has worked as a musical entity (5 albums released), a cinematic duo (2 feature films and about 40 videos), an art bi-author (exhibitions in Munich, Shrewsbury, Rome, Brighton, Atlanta), a publishing house releasing e-books and the e-magazine NINABYRON, a performing knot (shows in Odžaci-Novi Sad, Prague, New York, Bristol, Brussels, Dublin, Kassel, plus videoperformances in several festivals). About performance: Deconstructing Mussolini is the wild destruction of a little black sculpture: Mussolini's head.Silvia & Massimo are in front of a little lake in Southern Europe and shatter the artwork. Both the performers are naked and use a traditional tool: Silvia has an old iron, Massimo has a hammer.The soundtrack contains the original voice of the dictator: the War Declaration of June 10th, 1940.Silvia & Massimo are like 2 primitive persons and nature reminds everybody that there's no space in it for dictators.