Gaia Ginevra Giorgi

Fin che ci trema il cuore is a multiformat performative dispositif created within the spaces of Ex Ansaldo, a historic electromechanical plant located in the heart of Milan’s zona Tortona, now regenerated under the name BASE. Here, the performance took the form of a staged journey that, by invoking the negative heritage, the ghosts of the building’s industrial past, traversed and interrogated the spaces of contemporary creative labor. At BASE, Fin che ci trema il cuore consisted of an immersive sound installation, a visual poetry exhibition, a historical-documentary-style lecture-performance, and a collective speech workshop.

From the underground to the everyday workspaces, the artists re-enchant the spaces of BASE, creating temporal short circuits, participatory and dissident devices to “re-situate” bodies in the spaces they traverse, rethinking the toxic and oppressive dynamics of precarious labor in the creative sector, and initiating a transformative action on the fabric of reality.

The performance exists on the boundary between documentary and artistic action. 

A small group of spectators moves through the former factory, accompanied by a performer/guide who orients their steps and trains their gaze towards overflow and tenderness. Unexpected visual and sound appearances, enunciations of engagement rules, and practices of resistance rewrite the dramaturgy of everyday workspaces.

Fin che ci trema il cuore, a diffused, expanded, and invasive intervention, performs a cutting across multiple levels— poetic, political, and historical—acting in close relation to the social and economic layers that shape the identity of the space that hosts it: minor, embodied, opaque histories, a plurality of voices, past and present, echoing through the walls of the building to reverse meaning and “remember the future,” to re-launch, in a projective nostalgia, another way of building community and making the world.