Love Pong unfolds as an autoteatro encounter—an intimate duel between two unwitting players, held within the charged gaze of an audience that cannot remain neutral for long. The work reflects on conflict and dialogue, on the quiet courage required to step forward, to take part, and to resist injustice rather than observe it from the safety of the sidelines.

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Without warning or prior knowledge, two audience members are drawn into the spotlight. Before them stands a Ping Pong table. Between them, no physical ball—only a virtual presence governed by a sequence of pre-recorded instructions. The match becomes a carefully constructed choreography. They rally, obey, hesitate, comply, caught in a game that is at once playful and profoundly unsettling.

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Table tennis emerges as a metaphor for life itself: a negotiation of opposing roles, a fragile balance perpetually tipping from harmony into disorder. As the rally stretches on, the match grows increasingly uneven, its rhythm distorted. The audience begins to shift, discomfort mounting as imbalance crystallizes into injustice. Silence becomes complicity—until a choice is demanded: to continue watching, or to take a side.

The performance was developed over a three-month period through conversations with adolescents in Brescia. All sounds were recorded at the Bovisa Table Tennis Club with two professional athletes from the Aquila Club. The musical score is composed exclusively from the sounds of the match itself—ping pong balls, movement, impact—transformed into rhythm and resonance.