2026
Malatempora is a sonic rite that brings together the poetry of Giorgiomaria Cornelio and the sound worlds of Roberto Paci Dalò. Unrolling traditions, bestiaries, and future Middle Ages, Malatempora constructs a reflection on those periods of human history considered dark and “unworthy”, which instead allow us today to reflect, in an untimely way, on the contemporary. St Elmo’s fires, technologies of re-enchantment, “otherworlds”, verses and sounds as archaeologies of the possible. “Because a new world / is not necessarily another world, / but this one here, a moment after / its eclipse. / With the end in the middle.”
Giorgiomaria Cornelio / Roberto Paci Dalò – Malatempora teaser (2026)
Credits
Malatempora
breath, writing and sound
Roberto Paci Dalò e Giorgiomaria Cornelio
costumes
Born in Berlin, Mavranyma
production
Congerie / Giardini Pensili
2024
Giorgiomaria Cornelio was born in Macerata in 1997. He is a poet, director, performer, and editor of Nazione indiana. With his works he has taken part in festivals and venues such as the La Biennale di Venezia, the Mostra internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, the Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, and the Santarcangelo Festival. He has published La consegna delle braci (Luca Sossella editore, Premio Fondazione Primoli), La specie storta (Tlon edizioni, Premio Montano, Premio Gozzano), the essay Fossili di rivolta. Immaginazione e rinascita, and L’ufficio delle tenebre (Tlon Edizioni). As part of Grandi Magazzini Criminali, he edited the work Ogni creatura è un popolo (Nero editions). The translation by Moira Egan of a selection of his poems won the Raiziss/De Palchi Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets. He collaborates, among others, with Il Tascabile Treccani, The Italian Review, and L’Indiscreto. He curates the project Edizioni volatili and is the artistic director of the festival I fumi della fornace.
Roberto Paci Dalò is an author, director, composer, perforrmer, visual and sound artist. He presents his works worldwide in biennials, festivals, theatres, museums, radio. John Cage, Robert Ashley, Giya Kancheli, and Aleksandr Sokurov appreciated and supported his work. Co-founder of the performance ensemble and artistic space Giardini Pensili. Recipent of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program and fellow of the Djerassi Foundation (Woodside, CA). Roberto is member of the Internationale Heiner Müller Gesellschaft Berlin and the British Cartographic Society. Recipient of the Premio Napoli for Italian language and culture, Expert of the European Commission for which he wrote and illustrated the book “eBAU. Art Dreams for the New European Bauhaus” (Quodlibet). He has published “Ombre” (Quodlibet), Filmnero (Marsèll), and “Millesuoni. Deleuze, Guattari and electronic music”, with E. Quinz (Cronopio). Founding director of Usmaradio – Research Centre for Radiophonic Studies of UNIRSM where he teaches Exhibit and Interaction Design and directs TACTUS Radio Festival and BIOMA Festival musiche radicali.