Fade out: Between Cinema and performing arts

Italian experimental stagecraft is faced with a model which is strongly tied to an artisan dimension, in some cases for aesthetic reasons, in others for necessity due to the shortage of funds avail- able for the production of projects. The tension between these two poles, handmade artistic ability and drive towards technological innovation has produced a series of results of great interest from an aesthetic point of view. In this essay we would like to highlight two specific case studies which have adopted these approaches: the Tam Teatromusica and the art- ist Giacomo Verde. The essay attempts to make a thorough study of the two respective poetic veins and reconstruct the performance environment created together: Lupus et Agnus (1988). What emerges in analysing both the single experience and the collaboration between them is a field of crossbreeding between styles, forms and techniques with the common aim of overturning the logics that govern both the artistic activity and the gaze on it.