Now Here | Nowhere
A cross-artistic project that amalgamates sounds, spoken word and visuals, centring around the common terrain of the human and natural world, memory, time, love and lie/truth cycles.
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"A performance from the heart "The performance was beautiful, touching and so inspiring." - Lisa A., audience member |
Now Here | Nowhere is a spoken word and music performance that takes on the shape of a personal journey, performed by three artists, three separate worlds that open up to each other to create emotional and artistic overlaps that centre around the common terrain of the human and natural world, memory, time, love and lie/truth cycles. These overlaps have served as the catalyst for the texture of Now Here | Nowhere.
Now Here | Nowhere is a product of reflections and resonances that stem and vibrate from the words of poet Giulia Privitelli. Renzo Spiteri, the project’s creator, placed himself in between the poet’s poignant, powerful words and his personal interpretation of being lost in a ‘homeland’ that is no longer recognisable. Giulia writes that ‘words collide and break into letters, lines and dots, grains that ebb away’. So, beyond words, what are we left with? Through Now Here | Nowhere, Renzo sought to create a sonic world of spoken words and sounds to draw imagined places that exist in between light and darkness, in between life and death, in between hope and fear, in between sea and land.
Now Here | Nowhere is a product of reflections and resonances that stem and vibrate from the words of poet Giulia Privitelli. Renzo Spiteri, the project’s creator, placed himself in between the poet’s poignant, powerful words and his personal interpretation of being lost in a ‘homeland’ that is no longer recognisable. Giulia writes that ‘words collide and break into letters, lines and dots, grains that ebb away’. So, beyond words, what are we left with? Through Now Here | Nowhere, Renzo sought to create a sonic world of spoken words and sounds to draw imagined places that exist in between light and darkness, in between life and death, in between hope and fear, in between sea and land.
Audience feedback
"I saw your concert yesterday or I should rather say I experienced it. I just want to thank you for it. It was amazing! As a dancer and choreographer automatically I imagine movement to your piece and I am absolutely inspired by your work."
“A huge well done once again to everyone... the performance was beautiful, touching and so
inspiring.”
“Renzo with your experience and sensitivity I believe that your work can surely capture any one and take them into deeper realms; it took me to similar places yesterday but on a lighter level ... but still managed to capture me and show me certain truths and realities ... good or bad that is not the matter.”
“Experiencing you play has always been like watching an alchemist do his magic.”
Performance clips
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Photo gallery
Performance photos by Lisa Attard
The Collaborators
Renzo SpiteriRenzo Spiteri is a sound artist and percussionist who specialises in improvisation, field recording, sound collection, composition and sound design, and their application in installations, live performances, contemporary dance and sonic material for film/moving image that he creates. Through his work, Renzo brings about a deeper sensorial engagement between listeners and his sonic creations, be it in public spaces, performance venues, film and art galleries.
Photo: George Scintilla |
Erica MuscatAn award-winning, classically trained stage and screen actor, Erica Muscat has collaborated with Renzo, Lucía Piquero and #EngageCREATIVES in the creation of Terra Verunt, commissioned by the Malta International Arts Festival 2017. She holds credit for various roles in theatre and film including Lady Macbeth in Clive Judd’s Macbeth and Daniela in the World Premiere of Brad Birch’s Game, and NBC’s You, Me and the Apocalypse starring Rob Lowe.
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Giulia PrivitelliGiulia Privitelli is the author of Walking in Circles, an illustrated collection of fifty-two poetic reflections that explores the common terrain of the human and natural world, of memory, time, truth, beauty, and life-death cycles. 'Walking in Circles' is supported by the Malta Arts Fund.
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Fabrizio FedeleGuitarist Fabrizio Fedele has collaborated with numerous artists and performed in live settings and in recording studio settings. To date he has recorded 10 albums and also writes music for theatrical performances and for short movies for Universal, Media Aetas, Controteatro, Sine Lex.
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Sounds and percussion: Renzo Spiteri
Guitar: Fabrizio Fedele
Spoken word: Erica Muscat
Text: Giulia Privitelli from Walking in Circles
Visuals & light design: Renzo Spiteri
Concept, artistic direction and creative production by Renzo Spiteri.
Managed by Gaby Giacchino.
Guitar: Fabrizio Fedele
Spoken word: Erica Muscat
Text: Giulia Privitelli from Walking in Circles
Visuals & light design: Renzo Spiteri
Concept, artistic direction and creative production by Renzo Spiteri.
Managed by Gaby Giacchino.
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Premiere performance: May 2019, Vallletta Campus Theatre, Valletta (Malta). The creation and launch of Now Here | Nowhere was supported by Arts Council Malta - Multi-Annual Support Grant (Malta Arts Fund).
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