FESTIVAL CULTURE GIOVANI LIVE CITY SECTION 1968
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Sharing journey, relations, interactions, re-appropriation, strength of the
imagination, participation, physicality, criticism and dialectics, research into
personal and collection happiness through the political action. The
action/expression of Archabout at Salerno from the title “the journey” aims to
extrapolate those values which are deprived of those connotations that are
closely linked to that historical period in a cathartic process to being lowered
at the current time with a renewed positive and pro-positive worth aimed at the
construction of the spaces of the new Polis.
“Cross history as you cross the city...” M.Locci
Contents of the artistic and technical proposal
A suspended procession: an account made up of static and dynamic images, lights
and procession sounds of 1968, which develops along the roads of the historical
centre. The narration, which is divided into three episodes, accompanied the
traveller in a continual exchange of time and space, a river that now flows
above our heads, now under our feels or to the side.
First episode: electronic procession
The facade of Palazzo Genovese in Piazza Sedile del Campo becomes a real
interface for an electronic procession. The installation plays with the
dematerialised physical space and the memory: through video projections and
lights and the use of surround sound, it wants to affirm that the territory,
city and more generally living spaces are not perceived as physical spaces, but
rather as places of relation and mental and emotive interaction.
Second episode: VIrtual Room
An immersive environment created inside the courtyard of Palazzo Genovese,
consisting in a Virtual Room that interacts with the visitors who can access the
platform for Second Life virtual world through PC connected to the Internet. The
Avatars live virtually in 1968 and visit an exhibition with thematic stages on
2008.
By turning time upside-down, it means that this exhibition theme does not
commemorate the past, but seems the future from 1968, emphasising some
similarities and differences.: WIP
Third episode: WIP
Creative actions of material production shared, which have public relations as
the construction method that sees the involvement of those observing in an
active experience: “WIP web important person_ web photo-transport experiments”
In a sort of explicit voyeurism, parody of the news right and denouncement of
media sensationalism that makes up the truth, an invasive and grotesque eyed has
photo-transported images of the disseminated event along the roads in the
changing world of the web (the most free form is uncontrollable).
Two performers
move around the place where the event takes place, capturing images, then other
performers process these images a little later on the PCs in real time to set
them in context in an ironic and provocative way on the existing web pages (or
plausible), projecting them on the screen…existing web pages (or
plausible), projecting them on the screen…
“Architectural Mandala”
The work is a trace that documents one relationship, one path, one cognitive
experience and there is no form of fetishism in the construction of an object
(De Cecco E., 1995:129). Electronic Mandala: the Tibetan Mandalas are
psychocosmograms: geometric designs that study the analogies between the cosmos
of the mind and that of the universe. They are made from coloured sand by able
and patient hands, but once they are made, they are blown away and lost forever
as a word to the wise on the brevity of life and the futility of being attaching
to earthly things. Our Mandala will be drawn by many hands on transparent
cellophane and on bytes. Both supports – even more volatile than sand – will
then be destroyed forever: the cellophane will be ripped up and the hard disk
destroyed. Global capitalism promotes the expansion of a consumer-based culture,
which turns into goods just like any other aspect of life.