Alessandro Veneruso
Dirty Art Department
Biography
Across film, installation, tattoo, performance and curation, Alessandro Veneruso imagines fictions connected to the magical and occult laws that form the undercurrent of life. Shaped by the underground musical and multicultural scene of MACAO, a former Milanese squat, his works contain collages, alter-egos, soundtracks, children’s tales, waste, social sculptures and living archives as odes to chaos, fragility, togetherness and rebellion.

The Restless Theatre presents “Dream Yourself Awake"
The Restless Theatre presents “Dream Yourself Awake" (Site specific installation: Cardboard maquettes, paper collages, plastic tape, found furniture, found t-shirts and customized prints, tv screens display, C5H11ONO, monster truck toy with camera, slime, saliva, sound system, projector, voice transformer / Durational performance / Movie set / Variable duration and dimensions) The Restless Theatre presents “Dream Yourself Awake" is an hypnagogic tale of tales consisting of a scattered multimedia installation and a three-day-long collective deconstructed musical that combines durational performances, live music, DIY merch and mobile scenographies. The Restless Theatre is a temporary collective opera, a grotesque assemblage of characters: "A Restless Dreamer, a Speechless Fool and a Wacky Wolf... and other likely encounters". With head torches ablaze, together, we will illuminate the blind spots and raise the voices of the outcasts. Blurred memories of horror B-movies and catchy dreamy litanies will conjure your most lucid dreams or nightmares...We invite you to play with us and to Dream Yourself Awake! The Restless Theatre presents “Dream Yourself Awake" featuring elements from three bodies of work developed over the past three years: The Speechless Foolies, Anonymous Dreamers Hiding in Disguise and Nightmaredam. Each consists of a series of happenings and publications that show how underground cultures, outsiders and temporary self-organized collectives use the power of imagination and play to reject normativity and resist the power structures that suffocate artistic freedom and basic human rights.