Cristina Papi has a Bachelor’s Degree in Modern Literature with a specialization in Music and Theatre and a Diploma in Piano from the Conservatory of Florence, Italy under the guidance of Maestro G. Cardini and Musical Education.  She completed her formation in Paris and Edinburgh studying theatre and cinema for several years.  Her activities, primarily of contemporary works, alternate between music and performance/installation.  She participated in the exhibition Sonorous Landscapes in 2001, recording a CD with vocal and instrumental improvisations.  She performed in an exhibition at Le Giubbe Rosse in Florence, Italy with the theatre company Chille della Baldanza, with whom she also collaborated in the show Kamikaze; 11 September 2002.  In 2003 she presented a performance-installation 365 Steps at the Studio-Gallery of Paolo Nitto in Noto, Italy.  In February 2004 she realized the musical performance La Vie en Rose.  She was a selected artist at the Contemporary Arts Event at the Exhibition Fucine Tillanza in Pistoia, Italy in 2004 where she presented her audio installation Je Me Souviens. At the exhibition Ten Artists for Peace in Arezzo she presented a video installation Memoire: aller et retour.  At the festival Scandicci Estate 2004 she presented the video installation Satin and at Networking 2004 she presented the video Luminitza.  She exhibited in a one-woman show at Vera-Pietra-Serena, Florence in 2005, presenting the video installation Le Calle de la Mariposa. At Traccie Fuoricentro 2005 she presented the performance ‘Affera Sospesa…’, and an installation Butterflies’ Room at Di Cocco Festival.  She was a selected artist also for the realization of a performance and a photo exhibition L’Espoir in CreArt Crespina, Pisa. In 2007 with A.Ferrara she presented and performed at the Teatro Studio di Scandicci, Scandicci, for La Scena all’Arte, Ofelie, Living Score Performance. She has exhibited and performed with many artists and theatre companies, including:  l’Argot, la LUT, Bedlam Theatre, LIIT, A. Ferrara, A. Rinaldi.  She lives and works in Florence, Palermo and Paris.
 
 
 
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In the website there are video, works, photos, installatios, compositions, performances achieved between 2000 and 2008.
Some video are documents of performance or installations.
 
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DISTURBED MEMORIES: REMEMBER TO BE My works are a reflection surrounding the human Memory as a part of our internal world, and that also has yet to be explored. The origin and the evolution of a rational thought are tied with the emotional and passionate sphere. I mean the man between sky and earth, between emotion and life, the family as a first stop of a long way, without any possibility to go back. The themes show the evident and repressive obsession, the fear, and the research of balance. The heaviness lining on object, words and places; the possibility to find an empathies using sounds, photo, object without any presumption to explain or describe something. The music, the words as vibrations are meant to be a total part of Cosmo and Nature. I try to be overwhelmed by all life events, whatever they are, with the goal and the strength to refind the way in the labyrinth of the Memory. I always hope that in my works people may discover unexpectedly something of their own and that it will bring back deeply, what belongs to them even if they didn’t remember anymore.