«Pas Moi», Diana Anselmo's new dialogic lecture-performance, is the concluding chapter of a documentary and affective research that unravels the web of power and domination woven into the major historiography. If «Je Vous Aime» - which later became a solo exhibition at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo - showed the re-educational implications of the first moving images, «Pas Moi» follows a parallel path and, from a Deaf and signing perspective, explores the genesis of the first instruments of sound recording, transmission and reproduction.

Through minor archives, anti-histories and situated knowledge, transmitted body-to-body, the celebrated devices at the origin of the future film and music industry are revealed to be instruments conceived with an audist and phonocentric intent: to «heal» deafness. A disease to be eradicated or disappeared in the meshes of the hearing world, rather than an identity, a culture with its own language and community.
«Pas Moi» tries to imagine where one can go if another is the starting point. Beyond «the lack of hearing», further ahead.

Information on accessibility and language

• The performance takes place in LIS (Italian sign language) and with surtitles in English and German as a relaxed performance.

• The performances will be interpreted into Swiss German Sign Language.

• The surtitles will be sent directly from the stage by a performer.
  Reading skills are required.

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