Performance

☝️ Marina Abramović Institute @ Theater Neumarkt Zürich | 10.-12. January 2025 ☝️

Theater Neumarkt and MAl present a weekend dedicated to long durational performance. The theater will host all aspects of the institute: exercises of the Abramović method, live long durational performances, an artist workshop and screenings about performance art. All spaces of the theater will be activated, and the audience is invited to move freely in the space.

Featuring durational performances by: Sonam Dolma Brauen, Sandra Johnston, Alastair MacLennan, Francesco Marzano and Yiannis Pappas.

Tickets & Info 👉 HERE.
In cooperation with MAl – Marina Abramovic Institute and Kunsthaus Zürich.

About my performance:

Emergency Solos
by Christina Kubisch (1975)
reenacted and expanded by Francesco Marzano (2025)

In 1975 the artist Christina Kubisch conceived and performed for the first time the Emergency Solos, a series of pieces in which she reflected through her body and her instrument – the flute, which is used both musically and “sculpturally” – on topics such as personal and artistic liberation from the conventions, her role as a (female) artist in the (male-dominated) cultural enterprise, expectations and strict categorisations of the society – from which she proposed a kind of emergency exit, starting with these solos.

Exactly 50 years later I’m reenacting, with her permission, most of her pieces and putting them side by side with new Emergency Solos conceived by me.

A lot has changed in the society and in the cultural life since then, but some battles and struggles are always actual and relevant.

Emergency Solos 2025 are pieces about identity torn between personal vocation and social impositions, about limits in communication, about the abuse of power by institutions that still decide what is art and who is allowed to do it, about the paradox between the intimacy of the relationship with one’s instrument and the unavoidable public dimension of art. They are a quest for an authentical voice, for alternative paths and narrations, for sounds, images, connections, extremes.