THE PARTY WALL | Corinne Mazzoli

The Party Wall is a participatory performance by artist Corinne Mazzoli that reflects on the containment and restrictive measures of the social and private body and its relations within the urban space.  “Urban fencification” describes all the practices of movement limitation, militarization of security, multiplication of surveillance cameras, construction of physical and architectural barriers that protect private property and the individual. Corinne Mazzoli, with The Party Wall, unhinges the concept of wall and of fence by creating one with a fluid, colorful and mobile shape, which creeps into the urban space and acts on defined breaking points in the fabric of the city. The performers who animate the wall move in unison but at a syncopated rhythm, act on the city routine as a colored barrier that triggers a reflection on the freedom of movement and the reappropriation of urban social life through dance, color and movement.

“The Party Wall”, performance, Rio de Janeiro, 2018, presented for CASA RIO, ph. Brenno Erick, Courtesy Corinne Mazzoli

Staged for the first time in Rio De Janeiro in September 2018, The Party Wall uses flamboyant stage costumes for the performers, who disguise themselves as colorful and mobile street furniture objects that do not respect the rules of forced separation.

The performance was then presented in numerous Italian public spaces including in May 2018 as a collateral project of Cassata Drone in Sigonella (Sicily) and subsequently the stage costumes served as a stimulus to reactivate positive systems of relations between the students of a middle school in Arenella, a district of Palermo with micro-crime problems.

“The Party Wall”, performance, Venice, 2019, presented for the show Handle With Care, ph. Luca Pili, Courtesy Corinne Mazzoli

Cover image: Corinne Mazzoli, The Party Wall, 2018
performance, Sigonella, presented for Cassata Drone Expanded Archive,
Courtesy Corinne Mazzoli
05/05/2021