Monumentum DA is a choreographic work that, through the encounter between movement and Italian Sign Language (LIS) — a human, living, embodied language that doesn’t speak of margins but of new forms — turns diversity into a space of possibility. On stage, LIS and the body of Diana Anselmo, a deaf performer and activist, become “linguistic monuments” in constant transformation, amplifying and giving space to the intrinsic potential of sign language, restoring to it a poetic and political dimension. LIS thus emerges as a territory of expression that dismantles communicative hierarchies, generating new forms of listening, relationship, and connection, an act of resistance against phonocentric marginalization.
Location
Viale Emilio Alemagna 6, 20121 Milano
Offices
+39 02 724341
Tickets
info@triennale.org
Featured Artists
Diana Anselmo are a deaf artist and performer, activist, and self-proclaimed improvised human being. Bilingual in Italian Sign Language (LIS) and Italian, they made their debut with Self-Portrait in 3 Acts (2021), which toured nationally and internationally. Their international debut was in Xavier Le Roy’s Le Sacre du Printemps (2022). They held their first solo exhibition, Je Vous Aime, at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin and are represented by Galleria Eugenia Delfini in Rome, where they exhibited deafnotdead. Since 2023, they have collaborated as a performer with choreographer Cristina Kristal Rizzo. They are also the president of Al.DI.Qua. Artists, the first association in Europe by and for artists with disabilities.
