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Saturday 12 September 2026 - Sunday 13 September 2026

PERFORMATIVE 06video works, photographs and musical scores

MAXXI L’Aquila
free admittance
your ticket becomes a wristband valid for all three days of PERFORMATIVE 06 on first entry: you’ll be able to access the various events on the programme without needing a new booking for each performance or day, subject to availability.

On Saturday and Sunday, PERFORMATIVE 06 also becomes an exhibition venue.

It’s not just performances that await you at the Museum during the Festival weekend. On Saturday and Sunday, the spaces of Palazzo Ardinghelli will host unmissable works.

All you have to do is choose – or experience it all.

THE PROGRAMME

MEZZANINE
Saturday 3 pm > 9 pm
Sunday 10 am > 6 pm
Vladimir Nikolić
800m
A work that reflects on the contemporary perception of space and time, in which a single swimmer – the artist himself – is filmed from above as he swims, lap after lap.

DURHAM HALL
Saturday 3 pm > 9 pm
Sunday 10 am > 6 pm
Jimmie Durham
A Proposal for a New International Genuflexion in Promotion of World Peace
The video shows the artist performing a symbolic genuflection, accompanied by a kiss and a bow, representing a universal gesture of peace that transcends geographical and ethnic boundaries.

ZIAD ANTAR HALLS
Saturday 3 pm > 9 pm
Sunday 10 am > 6 pm
Ziad Antar
Wa, Tambourro, Marche Turque, The little boat (Il était un…), Metronome
On display are five works by the artist, who explores photography as a language beyond its documentary function, through ironic and critical images that reflect on the ephemeral nature of visual creation.

METRONOMES HALL
Saturday 3 pm/4 pm/5 pm/6 pm/7 pm/8 pm
Sunday 10 am/11 am/12 noon/2 pm/3 pm/4 pm/5 pm
György Ligeti
Symphonic Poem for 100 Metronomes
One hundred mechanical metronomes bring to life a composition in which time and sound naturally come to an end when the last metronome stops.

LIVING THEATRE HALL
Saturday 3 pm > 9 pm
Sunday 10 am > 6 pm
Photographs from the Living Theatre archive
A visual chronicle of the company, founded in New York in 1947 by Judith Malina and Julian Beck, tracing its artistic exploration and progressive overcoming of traditional forms of theatre.

CORRIDOR
Saturday 3 pm > 9 pm
Sunday 10 am > 6 pm
Scores by Daniele Lombardi
Constellations
On display are some of the most interesting visual-musical scores by Daniele Lombardi, a central figure in the rediscovery and dissemination of early-20th-century avant-garde movements, particularly Italian and Russian Futurist music.