Wednesday 15 May at 7pm CEST Lorenzo Vitturi, Italian photographer and artist, and Theresa Wong, American cellist, will be at Fabrica for a lecture and concert open to the public.
Lorenzo and Theresa both began their professional careers at Fabrica in 2005 and 2001 respectively.
Lorenzo Vitturi, born in 1980 in Venice, works in photography, sculpture, installation and performance. Following his experience as a cinema set painter, Vitturi builds temporary sets and ephemeral sculptures, in studio and on location, using both organic and fabricated materials. Starting from specific geographical locations and encounters with local communities, his work explores informal economies and the merging of different cultures, focusing on the movement of objects and people.
Theresa Wong is a composer, cellist, and vocalist active at the intersection of composition, improvisation, and the synergy of multiple disciplines. Her works include Fluency of Trees for solo cello and voice, premiered at the Other Minds Festival in 2022, She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees, commissioned by pianist Sarah Cahill, and Harbors, co-composed with Long String Instrument inventor Ellen Fullman and chosen as one of Wire’s top 50 releases of 2020. Recent commissions include works for San Francisco Girls Chorus, NakedEye Ensemble, Long Beach Opera, Del Sol Quartet and Splinter Reeds. She has shared her work internationally at venues including Cafe Oto and Barbican Centre in London, Fabbrica Europa Festival in Florence, Sydney Festival, and The Stone in New York City. Wong is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Theresa Wong’s concert, entitled Practicing Sands is a collection of pieces bwhich draws inspiration from the sounds of the natural world and sensations of Wong’s sonic genetic memory. With alternate tunings and extended techniques, Wong has forged a timbral merging of cello and voice into a totally unique synthesis. Combining improvisation and composition, these works stem from Wong’s ongoing question: “how can I rediscover the core of the cello as wood and string and hair, or even simply as a tree?” Utilizing amplification to magnify the vast terrain of her instruments, she invites the listener into an embodied experience of her music as haptic vibrational sculptures. Practicing Sands was released in 2022 on Wong’s imprint, fo’c’sle.
Lorenzo Vitturi’s conference and Theresa Wong’s concert are part of the “Kinship” residency program curated by Carlos Casas. Lorenzo and Theresa also held two workshops for the young residents of Fabrica.
