Veni, Vidi, So – il Borgo Forte | JULY 26TH
“VENI, VIDI, SO – IL BORGO FORTE”
Do we truly see when we see?
And what happens when the gaze, instead of possessing the world, accepts getting lost?
VENI, VIDI, SO—the gaze that knows is born from this simple and dizzying question. Seeing is never merely seeing: every vision carries a shadow with it, every light guards a fragment of night, every gaze needs a veil, an obstacle, a distance to truly learn how to know.
The performance by Compagnia Tecnologia Filosofica invites the audience to enter an experience of mobile, fragile, and continuously transforming perception. Two dancers and a musician inhabit the space like an open question: where does the action happen? From where am I watching it? What changes if the dance appears from the side, from afar, through a gap, behind a threshold, or within a sudden frame? And how does the music change when it does not simply accompany the scene, but breathes together with the place?
For Narrazioni Parallele Festival, VENI, VIDI, SO becomes a site-specific project built upon the locations of the Borgo di Fenestrelle and the Forte di Fenestrelle. It is not a single show repeated in different spaces, but an organism that changes shape according to the landscape that welcomes it. The Village and the Fortress are not backdrops: they are bodies, surfaces, memories, and perspectives—places that look back and ask to be looked at differently.
On July 26th, with VENI, VIDI, SO_Il Borgo Forte, the show focuses on the VILLAGE: here, the gaze becomes wandering, contact, and minute life. The houses, the passageways, the openings, and the everyday distances become points of observation. The audience does not merely watch: they search, peer, move, and construct their own frame. The village becomes a body, a place of relationship, a space where the familiar can suddenly become enigmatic.
VENI, VIDI, SO is an invitation to see with different eyes, to listen with different ears, and to touch with different hands. A performance that interweaves dance, live soundscapes, gesture, matter, and community, reminding us—along with Merleau-Ponty—that we see the world, yet we must learn to see it anew every day.