Danilo Bastione

Short Circuits

SHORT CIRCUITS
with Jayi Kim

Cement, plaster, cables, hydro-dipping.
Variable dimensions, 2025

Text : Romana Stehling
Fotos : Ruth Krayer, Danilo Bastione
Dancer : Anton Scholz

Exploring fractures, disruptions and resistant moments, the exhibition unfolds as a space of testing between order and chaos, ritual and disruption, irony and the search for new perspectives on coexistence.

With sculpture, installation, sound and performance, Danilo Bastione create a constellation of elements that collide and overlap. Fragile everyday materials encounter concrete and plaster, noise and acoustic sound intermingle with motion, and ritual acts open up a visual and sensory archive of resilience.

Short Circuits sheds light on moments of confusion and disruption within established systems. These systems are found not only in technology, but also in our ways of thinking and in cultural norms, where the boundaries of interpretation and knowledge point toward these very “short circuits.”

A powerful performance, where music and movement unfold as living “short circuits.” The set combined songs in English and Neapolitan with electronic interludes, weaving themes of cultural and historical fractures, individual emotions, conflict and poetic tension.
One dancer whose performance add a striking intensity to the room and heightened the tension during the electronic passages. This interplay of voice, sound and gesture capture the essence of Short Circuits, showing how contradictions can open onto something unexpected and resonant.