Valentina Bosio

Valentina Bosio is a performer, artivist and community activator. Her authorial research focuses particularly on themes such as body-scape, borders, archive and memory, moving freely between the re-mediation and proposition of a language that intersects the codes of theatre, dance and new media.

Her multidisciplinary background began with a two-year intensive program in physical theatre and performing arts at Philip Radice’s Atelier Teatro Fisico in Turin. In 2019/20 she took part in Daniele Ninarello’s permanent research and composition laboratory Il Corpo Intuitivo. In 2020 she obtained an Executive Master’s degree, with a final project on the valorisation of the landscape and cultural heritage of Alpine cross-border territories through Social and Community Theatre Methodology—a project that led her to explore the mountain territories between France and Italy for two years. She graduated from the University of Turin in DAMS (Disciplines of Art, Music and Performance) with a research thesis on dance and educational innovation, examining the decolonial practice of artist and choreographer Salvo Lombardo (2023). Significant were her encounters and collaborations with artists such as Virgilio Sieni, Daniele Ninarello, Silvia Gribaudi, Sara Leghissa, Giulia Rae and Davide Enia. Between 2018 and 2020 she was part of the young theatre formation Nouvelle Plague, resident company at the Torino Fringe Festival 2019 with La Semimbecille e altre storie, a work on female hysteria and its interpretation within 19th-century psychology, set against the stigma surrounding people labelled as psychiatrically ill today. In 2021 she founded the trans-media collective Volpi Metropolitane, experimenting with video and digital language, the notion of tiers paysage by Clément, and the body as landscape in the project erbacce perenni. In 2023 she first joined the international projects of Ponte tra Culture soc.coop. Italia, beginning to collaborate with Gianluca Barbadori and Simona Sala.

She currently works on the Alpine border between Italy and France with the actress and visual artist Simona Sala, with whom she founded the collective BANDITE in 2023. BANDITE aims to transcend purely performative language, developing a fusion of diverse codes and forms of expression that reclaim theatre as a collective space and a privileged observatory for engaging with and comprehending the contemporary. Their latest projects explore memory, witnessing and cross-border migratory movements, culminating in site-specific works on the territory between Italy and France. Their work involves numerous collaborations, especially with the community and local realities, and partnerships with entities including Ponte tra Culture soc.coop. Italia, the Grotowski Institute in Wrocław, Université Grenoble Alpes and the Pacte social science laboratory in Grenoble.