EPISODE 3 – 2026AC
On March 12, FOROF hosts an interactive performance by MASBEDO.

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Within the spaces of Foro Traiano 1, which preserve the only remaining marble fragments of the Basilica Ulpia, the site-specific installation INFRASUPRA by Alicja Kwade will be activated on March 12 through a performative intervention created by the artistic duo MASBEDO. Nicolò Massazza and Iacopo Bedogni will present an interactive work titled 2026AC: five performers inhabit the space, transforming it into a sensitive landscape where memory and the present intertwine without hierarchies.

“Bodies wear sound and image, configuring themselves as living archives: surfaces of inscription crossed by the noise of the contemporary and the persistence of history. The performance places material ruin and media flow, monumentality and contemporaneity in tension, constructing a field of friction between what remains and what erupts,” explain MASBEDO.

The device, previously activated in the town of Granollers (Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana) in relation to the memory of the bombings and local history, is reconfigured here in dialogue with the Forum of Trajan, taking the site not as a backdrop but as an active material of confrontation, where time stratifies and becomes perceptible.

The two artists employ a variety of artistic languages in their work, ranging from video to installation, from cinema to performance, theatre and sound design, with the ultimate aim of exploring the depths of human relationships and the complex subjectivity of the contemporary individual. In the relationship between cinema and art they have identified a field of investigation that they approach with a gaze attentive both to socio-anthropological elements and to more intimate and poetic dimensions.

The performance 2026AC represents another compelling episode in the cultural and artistic program of Foro Traiano 1, continuing under the sign of ARTFLIX, the neologism coined by Giovanna Caruso Fendi to summarize the methodological framework that connects Seasons and Episodes.

Episode 3 will conclude with a sensory tasting experience curated by Rimessa Roscioli.

Thanks to Galleria Continua, Accademia Tedesca Roma Villa Massimo and the Polish Institute in Rome.

In partnership with Rimessa Roscioli.

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