Ascesa & Caduta

project and realization Kinkaleri / Massimo Conti, Marco Mazzoni | with Marco Mazzoni | production Festival Lunatica – Provincia di Massa Carrara, Castello in Movimento – Castello Malaspina di Fosdinovo, OAC – Osservatorio per le arti contemporanee Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze | with the support of Xing | Kinkaleri’s subsidized by MiBAC, Regione Toscana | special thanks to Maria Luisa Pacelli | PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea di Ferrara

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny is the masterpiece connecting the theatrical author Bertolt Brecht to the musician Kurt Weil at the end of the twenties. The real grandeur of the piece doesn’t reside just in its ability of anticipating the forthcoming scenarios: of describing the anarchy of consumerism, the falseness and weakness of capitalism, but of its representation too. Kinkaleri now try to give word to one Brecht who, as a revolutionary, is well worth being a footage author. Now, right now we are in the fall and no ascent at sight, to think of saying certain words seems an indecency, for how they look frayed, moralistic, embarrassing, out of time. A performance that takes charge of its existential condition, the show, properly a one-man-show that develops on a table’s surface as a whole world, simple and complex in the relations of force.