NITTYGRITTY - The Queerness of a Club
2014 - 2015
Venice
public art project
Concept: Simone Basani
In collaboration with: Giorgia Carraro, Corrado Chiatti, Filippo Colombo, Bianca Fasiolo, Arianna Marcolini, Ross Paparone, Alessandra Perlaviola Povelato, William Bottin, Norma e i singers del Fava Choir, Alessia Pugliatti & Teti Cortese, B.E.A. & Chironomia, Umlaut
Nitty Gritty has been an itinerant queer night club created collectively with and for Venice.
Nitty Gritty club team was made of local residents, university colleagues, LQBTQ activists, the hidden Venetian Filipino community, curators and cultural workers. The performers, both professional and non professional, appropriated the stereotypical form of the strip-tease. Its dramaturgy has been used to question the process of building the representation of our subjectivities in front of an audience.
Nitty Gritty locations have been offices and bars belonging the old Italian Communist Party which doesn't exit anymore; they have been partially re-set up for the events but traces of the recent past were left visible.
Concept: Simone Basani
Production: Fabio Bozzato
Organisation: Alice Ciresola
Display: Simone Basani, Alice Ciresola, Bianca Fasiolo
Graphics: Marta Muschietti
Photo documentation: Giulia Gattere, Valentina Merzi, Fabio Valerio Tibollo
Video documentation: Emanuele Basso, Valentina Tiziani
Production: Ottava Traversa, Osservatorio Queer Venezia
Supported by Senato degli Studenti Università Iuav Venezia, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa
In collaboration with Iuav/Laboratorio di Arti Visive, AplusA Centro Espositivo Sloveno
And with: Circolo culturale Santa Margherita, Circolo 3 agosto Castello
Partners: Avogaria B&B, Fujiyama Tea Room, Iguana, Trash&Chic
Thanks also to Alberto Cancian, Doris Cavar, Corrado Chiatti, Francesca Furlanis, Melania Fusco, Giulia Khimati Mukindia, Stefano Marri, Neshell &Lex, Paolo Peroni, Elena Piaggi, Claudio Piscopo, Claudia Rossini, Linda Vigiani.