The program Better than Gold offers a free immersion in contemporary art for children, teenagers and the general public, in a unique setting outside the walls of the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève and in collaboration with the Fondation Convergences. This innovative program, hosted by the Maison de l’Enfance et de l’Adolescence (MEA) of HUG, combines creativity and transmission. An inaugural weekend of the program will take place on March 14 and 15, 2025 at the Maison de l’Enfance et de l’Adolescence (MEA). The event will feature a series of meetings, screenings and artistic workshops, including a performance entitled “Autoritratto in 3 atti” by artist Diana Anselmo.

Autoritratto in 3 atti  is a lecture-performance where the body and gaze become sites of both intimate and political struggle. Blending video, personal narrative, and social analysis, this hybrid work explores the perception of disabled bodies through three acts:

🔹 Act I: The internal gaze – what does it mean to inhabit a disabled body?
🔹 Act II: The imposed gaze – the intrusion of external gazes and the burden placed on marginalized individuals.
🔹 Act III: The reclaimed gaze – a collective and political vision, embodied by the video manifesto of Al.Di.Qua., the first European association led by disabled artists.

Through this performance, Diana Anselmo deconstructs the mechanisms of ableism and asserts a new way of seeing and being seen.

Diana Anselmo (1997, Palermo) is a deaf visual and performance artist, activist and improvised human being. Bilingual LIS and Italianx, iel debuted with her first performance “Autoritratto in 3 atti” (2021), still presented in various Italian and foreign festivals. Abroad, he made his Berlin debut with Xavier Le Roy’s “Le Sacre du Printemps (2022)”. In the visual arts, he exhibited “Je Vous Aime” for the first time at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. Diana is one of the founders of Al.Di.Qua. Artists, the first professional association of disabled artists in Europe.

The lecture-performance will be in English, subtitled in French, and French Sign Language (LSF) interpretation.