Filippo Andreatta
Artist and curator. He has founded OHT to create works that disrupt the hierarchy of vision and listening. He realises music theatre shows, performances and installations in urban and non-urban contexts. He’s reached the 79th parallel north in the Svalbard archipelago to read Frankenstein around a bonfire, created Little Fun Palace a parasitic roulotte that has travelled in Europe and North America, curated the feminist futures programme for Centrale Fies and founded the Nomadic School that moves between mountains, swamps and other rural areas contaminating art with natural and social sciences.
At the heart of Frankenstein by Mary W. Shelley lies the encounter between Frankenstein and his creature: on Mont Blanc, in front of a small fire, the creature steps forward, takes the floor, and recounts its long process of learning language, the world, and itself. It is a narrative in which the voice, in its singularity, and the word, in its relational dimension, reveal aspects of the text that are often overlooked in its many adaptations.
The reading session is one of the forms through which Filippo Andreatta conducts its performative investigation into Shelley’s literary material. Collective reading aloud activates the book as a space of encounter and generates an informal setting in which to share passages often excluded from the common imagination, alongside traces of OHT’s ongoing research.
Frankenstein Reading session was part of the Public Programme 2024, the cycle of public events of the Nomadic School, and took place at Ütia de Pütia, Passo delle Erbe / Würzjoch – Val Badia (BZ).
