Antonio Irre

Antonio Irre (1980) Artist, independent researcher and cultural designer. He specializes in site-specific and audience-specific art practices. He is a performer and an author of performances, visual works, poems, short stories, and theater. As a cultural designer, he works on Public Art and Relational Art projects. As a researcher, his current focus is a project between Art and Science on plants and human-plant communication. His works have been presented at the Venice Biennale (2022), Campo Base Milan (2022), Supermarket Art Fair Stockholm (2021, 2019), MACRO Rome (2019). With specific independent training in Third Theater and Interactive Media (Master’s degree in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), his educational background includes a Bachelor’s degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, a Master’s degree in Bioethics, and a Minor in Art Enterprise Management.

Website: https://antonioirre.com

Title: YOU ARE NOT UNIQUE

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Second video-performance of the artist, in which he explores identity and actions. Are our actions unique? Multiple possibilities are in front of us, everyday. At the same time, we

explore only one world at a time. We commit to have an original point of view, yet ideas, inventions, thoughts can emerge at the same time in very different persons. Are we unique?

Or should we have a clearer view of the world?

In a snowfall

each flake is unique

yet

it is still snow

Each of us

is different and unique

yet

we are just humankind

Into the mud

life spreads all over

Through the air, into our head

Ideas pop up like mushrooms

here and there

we were taught that we are

unique

instead of teaching us how to clean

our glasses