July 2022
July 2022
Bräuhausgasse 40, 1050 Vienna
Performative actions in public space
BOUNCING JUMPING is a performative action that celebrates the absurdity of the pursuit of happiness and questions its dictatorship by taking the common saying literally:
“jumping for joy” and pushing it to exhaustion. In a society where we are not supposed to be unhappy, we take the liberty to fail with ease at the dogma
of happiness. BOUNCING JUMPING has already been shown at Kultursommer 2021 and is the first part of Luigi Guerrieri’s new work. During his residency in July 2022 to the 2nd part GROUNDING, Luigi Guerrieri will practice regularly on the LANDBAHN BOUNCING JUMPING.
Pedestrians and neighbors are invited to watch, listen from the window, or even jump along.
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Luigi Guerrieri (IT/AT) is a performance artist with a background in anthropology based in Vienna. His work focuses on the meeting point between movement, improvisation, and storytelling, combining academic, artistic and physical research. Luigi often questions strong enfleshed cultural concepts such as hegemonic masculinity or the dictatorship of well-being in FLOWERS. He loves to obsessively repeat common sayings like “son of a bitch” in DEINE MUTTER and to literally apply daily expressions like “to jump for joy” in BOUNCING JUMPING. Guerrieri’s ‘autoethnographic’ monologue POOR GUY humorously and light-heartedly performs the double-edged nature of self-discovery and self-promotion – ‘a narcissistic project that beats a narcissistic world at its own game.’ His works have been presented in venues as WUK Performing Arts, Theater am Werk or Schauspielhaus Wien/Impulstanz. Luigi takes care of his kids, sometimes writes a Blog, from time to time publishes short video-performances on Instagram and TikTok and occasionally works as a cook. www.luigiguerrieri.com