The performance Solo Brodo (Boiling) was presented at the Swiss Performance Art Award 2024 in Gasnerallee (Zürich, ch), at Performissima Festival at Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in collaboration with the Centre Culturel Suisse (Paris, ch), at ISO Series (Amsterdam, nl), in Behind The Black Box in De Brakke Grond (Amsterdam, nl) and at Musée des Beaux Arts Le Locle (Le Locle, ch). The work is based on and further develops the origin myth of the character fulmine, the personification of a loud, confounding anti-heroic persona. The myth derives from rumours, misleading assertions, magical thinking, and set pieces from opera and pop culture. Rebecca Solari combines elements of installation, text, sound, and scenic design in an explosive spectacle – as the name of the character implies: “fulmine” is Italian for lightning bolt; in French “fulminer” means as much as exploding, losing one’s composure, or shouting. Iconographic visual elements like a volcano, lightning, chewing gum, a swamp, and the primordial soup that gives the piece its title are fused with a fluid use of language as Solari mixes the dialect of the Ticino (her mother tongue) with French and English.

Images: Karin Salathé, Radiana Basso
Video: Radiana Basso
Outfit: Anna Reutinger

Solo Brodo was presented at Swiss Performance Art Award, Gessnerallee (Zürich, Ch) , and Performissima Festival at Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles with the Centre Culturel Suisse (Paris, Fr)