STILL NIGHT

UPCOMING DATES:
Milan - Fondazione Feltrinelli : 8th June 2024 (Italian version)
Bataville - Festival des Antipodes : 23-25 August 2024 (French version)

Still Night was commissioned by Brisbane Festival and the Museum of Modern Art, Kochi, Japan. It takes the form of a lecture in a nonsense language. The subject: the city that hosts it. The room eventually disappears into a dark underworld, created with binaural sound design.

‘How is it that you know of this city? It is only now that I have dreamt of it.’ (Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities)

‘Is Still Night a show, a performance or an interactive event? This work goes far beyond labels and genre, it is an experience that involves the audience 360 degrees. It starts from familiar references - the spaces of one's own city, the sounds of its dialectal language, faces on photographs - but it gently moves towards archetypal and fluctuating scenarios of great emotional impact.’ (Artwave Italia)

’Still Night spins us through a medley of possible meanings of what it might mean to be an audience.’ (Andy Field - Full Article)

Still Night currently exists in English, Italian, Japanese, French and Greek.

PERFORMANCES

Pergine Festival, Italy
Artegna Festival, Italy - Italian Language Premiere
Museum of Art Kochi, Japan
Mayfest, Bristol, UK
Bios Athens, Greece- Greek Language Premiere
TPam, Yokohama Japan - Japanese Language Premiere
Brisbane Festival, Australia
BAC, London, UK - English Language Premiere

Created, directed, designed and performed by Gemma Brockis and Silvia Mercuriali.
Mask: George Tomlinson. 
Voice: S Booth (on original English)
Sound design by Gemma Brockis and Silvia Mercuriali, with composition by Lewis Gibson.