Audiobus

Terminal is a festival created by a group of artists: Circo all’inCirca and Zeroidee are in fact two collectives that work in two very different fields of research. Their main activity is not the organization of the festival. Circus artists on one side, visual artists on the other. The meeting point is Terminal, which defines itself as an artistic project before a festival. What the two groups have in common is the idea of ​​an art capable of offering a different point of view on reality, taking the spectator far from his usual schematized perception of the city. It is with this intent that “Audiobus” was born within Terminal, a traveling performance produced by the artists Giovanni Chiarot and Renato Rinaldi in collaboration with the Circo all’inCirca company, the actress Natalie Norma Fella and Autoservizi FVG S.p.A. SAF. Audiobus is a multidisciplinary performance, a literary journey, an unexpected path, crowded with visual and sound suggestions, acrobatics, stories. Everything happens simultaneously, inside and outside the bus, where what happens in reality instantly becomes the plot of the story. At the start, spectators receive a pair of headphones and a narrator accompanies them, guides them, frees their imagination. The voices and sounds narrate what the audience sitting on the bus sees or thinks they see by looking out the window and inside, on the bus. Acrobats and actors generate a new reality and the question that the spectator soon asks himself is how much of it is real, where the fiction begins. Of course that couple of passers-by who are doing a hand-to-hand on the wall of the roundabout is not real, but what about the girl in the red dress who is handing out pastries, or the passenger who has just got on without a ticket? Yes, because the audiobus is a normal bus, where normal passengers can also get on, who in this way unknowingly take part in the performance. Behind the bus, the direction, positioned on a van that follows the bus, sends sound suggestions to the headphones of the spectators sitting in the cabin and suddenly reality distorts. Now you can see what you have always looked at distractedly while driving through the city on that same bus. The space around comes alive, becomes populated, deformed. “Life pulsates in the city. But what is life in a city?!”. Audiobus is a tribute to Georges Perec. In fact, it recalls in a certain sense the hypernovel described by Italo Calvino, because it has the ability to intertwine infinite universes of meaning at the same time, at least as many as the spectators who are wearing headphones at that moment. A frame of meaning contains and multiplies the narratives, Audiobus has left and the eyes of the spectators are focused on their city, a city they have never seen before.