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Blue Tired Heroes

The aim of this project is to experiment with the portrayal of the heroic character of Superman by a large important number of old-aged performers in a public space. One of the characteristics and aims of this project is for those who portray the hero to be ordinary individuals with nothing heroic about them. This performance focuses on over-costumed performers appearing in the urban space and vanishing into the landscape, thereby exploring the limits between the visible and the invisible.The project is simultaneously extremely burlesque and profoundly humane.

Exhibiting artists / ateliers

• Massimo Furlan


Additional information: Numero23Prod. Massimo Furlan often works from his childhood memories, as an Italian child born in Switzerland in the 1960s. He reaches out to the collective psyche, the memory of a whole generation, by combining images and performance, burlesque and philosophy, poetics and popular esthetics. He recalls models, dreams, and anecdotes from his childhood and adolescence and develops a language that addresses the question of memory, through popular culture.