Francesca Sproccati works as an artist in the field of the performing arts. She is based in Lugano (Switzerland). In 2017 she starts her personal artistic research, creating in 2018 the performance/installation of long duration based on the action of jumping EXP: je voudrais commencer par sauter. In 2019 she co-creates with Alan Alpenfelt Mein Vater Erzählt Mir Jeden Sonntag Unsere Neun Planeten, a 24-hours sound and performance installation inspired by Space. In 2021 she creates Out of Me, Inside You (semifinalist at PREMIO Schweiz 2020), a live set celebrating the state of melancholy and emptiness that includes the listening of the vinyl Out of Me, Inside You. Il tempo di rivoluzione è un giro attorno al sole (2022), an original sound work.
Her works have in common a dimension of listening that can embrace the unexpected by staging a fragile, unsolved space that is left to the audience to be completed.
She has been nominated for the Swiss Performance Art Award 2022 with the performance Out of Me, Inside You.
Francesca is co-creator of the movement TIB - Ticino is Burning (Swiss Performing Arts Awards 2022) and she has co-curating as member of TIB and Associazione Idra the performing arts programming of La Straordinaria. The members of TIB put into practice an exercise of horizontal co-creation with the intention of shaping and providing space for opportunities, encounter and exchange besides action and critical reflection.
