Memetica has extensive and international expertise in delivering captivating roving shows featuring giant puppets, designed to entertain and astonish audiences of diverse cultures. It also specializes in community-based workshops, offering immersive experiences for all generations or specifically tailored for children, that foster their creative and performative abilities.
The impact of the Memetica’s experience extends beyond the public presentation of the artwork created during the workshops, and leaves a lasting social and cultural resonance within the community.
The memetic’s process of culture making through replication, inheritance, and variation, inspires Memetica accessible approach to art for all. Memetica’s community projects actively promote and encourage spontaneity, even among those unfamiliar with art production, facilitatiing intentional expressivity reagrdless of levels of experience in creating. Through this approach, the ordinary is transformed into evocative and impactful artwork.
:: Street Roving and Performance Training ::
Memetica’s roving street performances bring surrealism and unexpected laughter to outdoor events, entertaining and amazing people of all ages. With mischievous Wild Birds and snooping Street Skeeters, these performances offer a delightful experience. Festivals and events can also opt for training workshops, providing a life-changing opportunity for their audience and community. Memetica can conduct training sessions for individuals selected by the festival, teaching them how to operate its giant creatures. These trainees will then enjoy the thrilling experience to perform in roving gigs at the festival.
Such experience is also available for manual wheelchair users with the uniquely designed Street Skeeters, and for children 9yo+ with the inflatable puppet Reeflings.
:: Wild Birds
:: The Reeflings
The Reeflings emerge as a mutated species, originating from reefs across the world’s oceans. Among them are those who are newly acquainted with land, while others are born here, carrying on their legacy in the wake of the reefs’ decline. These resilient creatures embody optimism as they navigate a life devoid of a familiar home or seek refuge from their original habitats. Their ultimate quest is to find a place to call home, establish thriving communities, and coexist harmoniously with other living organisms. Their narrative weaves a tale of escape, survival, arrival, transformation, joy, hope, and the remarkable ability to adapt to new environments.
:: The Reeflings Explorations!
Children can now enjoy the excitement of performing in public spaces with the Reeflings puppets. Under Memetica’s guidance, they can train for one hour, don the costumes, and mingle among the festival crowd, bringing joy to the the onlooking audience and more importantly to the young first time performers of giant puppets.
Age 9-12 years old
An abstract installation that transformed the iconic Edinburgh Garden Rotunda into an immersive, kaleidoscopic experience. Visitors can enter the installation and experience it from within.
The Tendon is made with camping tent discarded at music festival and collected by Daniele to repurpose them into art projects.