DON’T BE FRIGHTENED OF TURNING THE PAGE
by Alessandro Sciarroni

An event by OGR Torino the occasion of CIMAM

Thursday 27 November 2025 | 7 PM
Sala Fucine | OGR Torino

Tickets on sale
Full price - 10€ + d.p.
Reduced - 6€ (Available only at local ticket office – ARCI, FAI, TCI, students under 25, Over 65, Abbonamento Musei and ICOM associates)
The ticket for the performance includes access to the exhibitions ELECTRIC DREAMS. Art & Technology Before the Internet and Laure Prouvost. WE FELT A STAR DYING. For the occasion, exhibitions will stay open until 9 PM.

On the occasion of the 57th CIMAM Annual Conference, the main international gathering dedicated to museums and professionals in modern and contemporary art, scheduled in Turin from 28 to 30 November 2025, OGR Torino presents to the public the restaging of two performances that form part of the official program of the conference: DON’T BE FRIGHTENED OF TURNING THE PAGE by Alessandro Sciarroni, Thursday 27 November 2025 at 7 PM, and the Trio Project by Abdullah Miniawy, Sunday 30 November 2025 at 7 PM.

DON’T BE FRIGHTENED OF TURNING THE PAGE is the concluding performance of the TURNING PROJECT (2014-2017), in which Alessandro Sciarroni explores the concept of turning starting from the migratory cycles of certain animals that return to their place of origin to reproduce and die. On stage, this idea takes shape in the action of a body that rotates continuously around its own axis, transforming repetition into a psychophysical and emotional journey. The performance borrows its title and subtitle from Derek Jarman’s book of colors and from an album by Bright Eyes, the artist’s favorite rock band. Each presentation involves different performers and artists (musicians, visual artists, designers) invited to reinterpret the same score according to their own sensibility. At OGR, DON’T BE FRIGHTENED OF TURNING THE PAGE will be performed by Marco Bertani.

Alessandro Sciarroni
An Italian artist active in the performing arts, with a background in visual arts and theatrical research. His work combines a Duchampian conceptual matrix with practices from dance, circus and sport, exploring through extreme repetition the fragility and obsessions of the performative act. In 2019 he received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Dance, and his works have been presented at international festivals and institutions including the Biennale de la Danse in Lyon, Impulstanz, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Festival d’Automne, the Venice Biennale, Centre Pompidou, Walker Art Center and MAXXI.

La Conferenza Annuale di CIMAM a Torino è sostenuta da Fondazione Arte CRT e Fondazione CRT e co-curata da Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Fondazione Torino Musei (con GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino e MAO Museo d'Arte Orientale), e Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea.