IVETOTELLUSOMETHING

PRESS

(Manuela Vacca – L’Unione Sarda)
A little further back in the dressing room of a luxury clothing store, Giuseppe L. Bonifati kidnaps one up to four viewers at a time, for the performance “ivetotellusomething.” In essence, a fascinating and ever-changing trip.

(Enrico Pau – Nuova Sardegna)
Giuseppe L. Bonifati brings his spectators inside a bathroom, a small temple of a sensual Hello Kitty that forces to the dance, in his pink panties. He brings the spectator into a sensual kitsch that is reflected in the music and through the actor’s voice conveys a visionary and imaginative south from town fair, fairground of other times, the fat lady cave, a place of damnation and salvation. In what it remains of the aesthetics,  as Pasolini said, “shadow of the past” , the place of memory.

(Kristian Husten – Politiken. Ibyen, Denmark)
Crisis Is Good. The chosen performance groups this year at QuongaFest are apparently preoccupied, in different ways, about the present time crisis (…) Only one artist, the italian Giuseppe L. Bonifati, thematises the crisis directly. His toiletperformance „ivesomethingtotellyou“ deals fairy simply about the importance of failing and being in crisis.  Bonifati also comes from Italy- that seems to have reached the ground well and profoundly.

(Af Louis Bull Nivang – Jyllands Posten, Denmark)
This year Quonga Fest, which ended yesterday, gave a particular theater program bringing people into a toilet. The man with the idea of ​​this unconventional stage space is the Italian Giuseppe Bonifati. The performer is currently associated with Odin Teatret in Holstebro. (…) In performances of 5 minutes he invited the audience into the toilet for a short and intimate performance that has break down the traditional boundaries between audience and actor.

(Sara Porskrog – Over Spring.dk )
The queue for the toilet was long and the show popular (…) But in a split second I saw one of audiences were torn into the toilet of a funny guy in a pink tricot. And later I met different people who said that “the performance changed their lives”.

(Richard Petiffer – Theaterstuck)
There will be those who find IVETOTELLUSOMETHING a cruel trick. But if it’s cruel, it’s cruel like life – offering and taking away at the same time, filled with brevity, with transience, and with illusion. At best, though, there is an opportunity here for personal transformation, even a broader change, and a window to a different reality.

(Kaja Kraner – Guestroomaribor)
It is an intimate performance for one to a maximum of two spectators at once based on the performers “abduction” of the selected viewer. An intimate performance takes place in the dark accompanied by a loud music, the entire work is divided into sequences that correspond to the inter-subjective exchange between the artist and the individual spectator. The classic voyeur position of the viewer is twisted, the viewer finds himself in the unpredictable and therefore somewhat uncomfortable situation, and he is “seduced” in artist’s world so the artist can start his own process of self-exploration.

TOUR

Faki Zafaki Festival – Zagreb, Croatia
ITF “Faces Without Masks” Festival – Skopje, Macedonia 
28 Piazza di Pietra Fine Art Gallery – Rome, Italy
Fortælle Galleriet – Holstebro, Denmark
Residenca Maistrova – Maribor, Slovenia
Aaben Stage Godsbanen – Aarhus, Denmark
ART MARKET BUDAPEST – Millenaris Park, Budapest
Casa del Artista – Ministry of Culture – Caracas, Venezuela
FITO _ Festival Internacional Teatro de Oriente – Barcelona de A., Venezuela
Art PLACC Festival – Tihany, Hungary
MUSZI – Budapest, Hungary
4PLAY LOUNGE Striptease Club – Budapest, Hungary
AQB – Art Quarter Budapest – Budapest, Hungary
Nikolaj Kunst Hal Museum – Copenaghen, Denmark
QuongaFest – Aarhus, Denmark
Festival della Creatività 2013 – MACRO, Rome Italy
Ex-Pop Teatro Festival 2.0 – Cagliari, Italy
Festuge – Odin Teatret Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium – Holstebro, Denmark