Roberto Cuoghi participates in the collaborative project This is life (2026), initiated by Karma Culture Brothers, alongside Gelitin, Luigi Ontani, and Paola Pivi. The event will be held on Monday, May 4, 2026 at the historic Teatro Goldoni in Venice on the occasion of the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.

The project was initiated by Karma Culture Brothers to create a unique, unpublished performance specifically conceived to respond to his 2020 song This is life for the official music video. The artists each worked independently of the others, unaware of the others’ ideas, and were able to create with complete freedom of expression towards their performances. The four performances exist simultaneously as individual artworks and as movements within a larger whole. Each are complete and self-contained, yet in conversation with one another through the music video that weaves them together.

Roberto Cuoghi invited young children to play happily in a field with a huge colored crocheted ball functioning as a legal funerary urn at the Idroscalo Park in Milan. The urn evolves from a static container into a versatile toy for everyone. Gelitin’s performance brought them to their native Austrian countryside, where sugar turned to glue, blossoms turned to skin, and bodies turned into living sculptures. Like decorator crabs wearing the landscape—reaching for paidia (free, unruly play), mimicry, and feeling alive. Luigi Ontani donned his own mask artwork, ArTemadeAsia (2001), transforming him into the Ephesian Artemis inside the Tempio di Diana at Villa Borghese in Rome. And Paola Pivi created a star from black garbage bags on the floor of an empty space, asking a group of girls and women to run in a circle, jumping over the bags in an enduring loop.

Each of the four performances was filmed by Hugo Glendinning, and the song This is life features additional compositions by Mattheu Grange (harmonica) and Nicolò Arioli (electric guitar).

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