FESTIVAL CULTURE GIOVANI
LIVE CITY SECTION
1968: 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: 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: 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.
Third episode: 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….
“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.
Authors: Amicuzi Tiziana, Bonella Emanuela, Crocco Maurizio, Iacovitti Angelo, Leante Mario, Moneta Andrea, Moneta Lorenzo
