Both a sensitive portrait, a sensory immersion, and a tribute to the workers of the Italsider factory in Genoa, La Fabbrica Illuminata is a piece for soprano and electronics composed by Luigi Nono in 1964. It allows us to feel the machines, the body-tools, and the disembodied bodies belonging to this Fabbrica dei Morti (literally, “Factory of the Dead”). The electronic soundscape of the piece has the power to transport the audience into the belly of the beast, to the very heart of the factory, where the voice becomes a cry of pain, loneliness, and despair, but also a symbol of resurrection.

As part of the Gier event, Clémence Martel offers an infinitely contemporary reinterpretation of the work through a staging that, within a closed space of body/showcase/ropes, reveals the dark side of the postmodern economy. The showcase becomes a symbolic site of the body’s dispossession and objectification, while the rope embodies the metaphor of its mechanization and alienation to the market.

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Performance presented:

-Stuttgart as part of the Gier event in February and September 2021 at Haus der Geschichte – Baden Württemberg.

–Trieste – Teatri del suono, festival On the edge / Sala Luttazzi . Magazzino 26  / 02.2024 /

 -Wien – Echoraum – /03. 2024/