Rome events
17 November 2009
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After 3 weeks of living in Rome, having already become bored with the monotony of the club scene that entices many international students, my pals and i decided to take in a fashion event presented by AltaRoma. We stayed in an appartement rome centrum. It was to be held at the historic Tempio di Adriano in Piazza di Pietra, an environment that contrasted sharply with the futuristic feel of the event.
AltaRoma, a corporation that provides opportunities and fosters relations among well known Italian designers, encourages the cultivation of young, talent through training,’intended not only as a method of safeguarding the artisan quality but also as the driver of invention, creativity and technology,’ according to the AltaRoma website. Of course, walking into a room filled with some of the most trendy young people in Rome, while brandishing only my tacky beige messenger bag was quite intimidating. we didnot let that get in the way of occupying best seats and grabbing as much promo material as we could get our hands on.
the 1st act was called’Wit Open Shooting Roger Weiss,’ which consisted of folk dressed in colourful cardboard shapes, many of them phallic, dancing around a still model as photographers shot around the stage. The music was set to techno remixes of well-liked Yank hiphop songs, and the lighting pulsed to the beats of the music. This composition led one to a kind of hypnotic trance, which came as a welcome distraction after enduring more than forty-five mins – about forty mins too long in my opinion – of the same. The bored and out-of-sorts expression worn by the model was the mirror image of those worn by the crowd, whose faces and outfits became increasingly more fascinating to watch than what was going down on stage. after the performance was over, I began to wonder if the ambiguity of the act was precisely the point of it. Either way, it was something I’d never before, and might never again, experience.
The second act was a performance art piece by Chicks on Speed. I braced myself for something so foreign and creatively different I wouldnot understand it, as the set started with what only can be described as 2 howling banshees. 2 ladies, wearing matching jumpsuit, used video pictures, as well as simple, everyday , and often female, objects like stilettos, scissors and cloth to make an engaging and forceful performance. The set was an eclectic mixof a rhythmic montage of derriere slapping to a cover of the Beach Boys song’Surfer Girl’, whose lyrics were modified to form the final female anthem [*CO]’super surfer girl in the death defying curl.’ The act finished in a dance party during which fashonistas and common students alike could get up on stage and dance to celebrate fashion, self-expression and life.
I walked out of the show revamped and prepared for the next new and out-of-the- ordinary experience Rome had to throw my way. We went back to appartement centrum rome.
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