In re-construction

Now truly, I'm working to organise my last projects and actualise the blog. Soon, I'll have a web page too.

Estoy actualizando el blog y trabajando sobre la construcción de una página web.

Je travaille sur l'actualisation du blog, et la construction du site.

Sto lavorando sopra la attualizazione del blog e costruzione del web.

 

FRAC video/installation

"As the water falls..." is a project made for the FRAC space (Fondo Regionale di Arte Contemporanea), inspired in the specificity of Biella, its abandoned factories and the proximity of the river.

The exhibition was opened in September and stayed in the space till 29th of December 2011.

Italy, Biella, via Seralunga 27, Fondazione Pistoletto.

"As the water falls..." consisted in the video installation: the video conceived in the exhibition space, and wooden tube that contained the monitor where the video was shown.

Inside of the wooden tube you could see the film, 6h long, that would repeat in loop. Here, it's the mini-short-compressed version of it.

In-between... the final presentation of Unidee in Progress.

One of the main part of the "In-between" project was constructing a corridor, 35m long, as a place where the roles between the performer and the spectator get confused and/or exchanged. 

The corridor structure is built of wood and covered with space blanket (mylar blanket). It is filled with rope structures and lightened from inside. The corridor is a way that shapes the body of the person that gets in - obliged to bend or jump over and under the rope constructions. 

The inside part of the space blanket is silver, the way that the passing person can see merely their own reflection. The difference of the light condition (outside it's dark, inside is lightened) makes it possible, for the person being outside, to see perfectly what is happening inside, while the one that is passing through doesn't see anything except their own reflection.

The travellers, in the corridor become dancers. 

The situation converts everyone into performers and spectators, depending only on the fact if they decide to get in the corridor or stay outside.

My special thanks for help and moral support to Marco :) Sei il meglio di tutti :)

This are a different stages of my work on the installation that will be shown and used this evening at the Unidee in Progress.  

IN RE-CONSTRUCTION

I'm renovating a bit this blog. So don't be surprised if you see some incoherences and problems of visual composition :)

Presentation of my installation / video

22nd of July I spend 11 hours closed in the empty space of FRAC (Regional Found of Contemporary Art), experiencing space and omnipresent sound of the river. I documented as much as I could - technically many times I wouldn't change the tape when it was finished, immersed in the experience.

You can see the compressed result of this exercise inside of the installation I built those days, thinking of the way of making you experience some of this immersion.

This evening, from 19h to 21h we're opening the FRAC space. And my work is there waiting for you to taste it while you're having a glass of wine :)

RESIDENTI UNIDEE 2011

Cittadellarte - FONDAZIONE PISTOLETTO

in collaborazione con:

Accademia Perosi onlus

Collettivo MDM

Groove aps

Oasi WWF Giardino Botanico di Oropa

MAIN PARTNERS:

Comune di Biella - Assessorato alle Politiche Giovanili

Stalker Teatro - Spazio Spalancato

PROGRAMMA

- Ore 17.00 – 19.30 negli spazi dei Giardini:

WORKSHOP sulle tecniche di tintura naturale delle stoffe

a cura di Ibada Wadud 

- Ore 17.00 – 19.30 negli spazi dei Giardini:

WORKSHOP per la creazione di una scultura verde

con il coordinamento di Olga Karyakina

e la collaborazione dell'Oasi WWF Giardino Botanico di Oropa

- Ore 18.00 – 19.00 negli spazi del Chiostro:

PRESENTAZIONE di un progetto, tra musica e botanica

a cura dell’Accademia Perosi 

- Ore 18.30 – 19.00 negli spazi della Caffetteria:

arrivo dei partecipanti al BIKE TOUR a cura di Raphael Franco

con proiezione della documentazione e tè per tutti

- Ore 19.00 – 20.00 negli spazi del Chiostro:

PRESENTAZIONE del workshop "Open Mic Lab"

a cura di Groove aps.

- Ore 21.00 nello Spazio Performance – Stalker Teatro:

PERFORMANCE di KAROLINA RYCHLIK, nel collaborazione con le signore di Biella (parte del projetto Biel.lana) 

- Ore 22.00 negli spazi dei Giardini:

PROIEZIONE ed ARTIST TALK a cura di Elmas Deniz 

- Ore 22.30 – 23.00 negli spazi dei Giardini:

JAM SESSION del Collettivo MDM

e PROIEZIONE LASER interattiva

Per info:

ufficiostampa@cittadellarte.it

http://unidee2011.wordpress.com/

Biel.lana...

The thread is an element strongly related to Biella’s history of the textile and wool production. As an object it has also a lot of different connotations, such as “thread of life”, “Ariadna’s thread”… A thread is very easy to convert in a geometrical line, or a time line, knotted it can serve of support and create textures.

After that comes knitting. It’s an activity that has a long history and tradition, that demands patience and time, and can give a very practical or poetic result. It’s an activity that many times was and still is making people gather, laugh, talk about life, dreams, past, present and future. A sweater, sock, scarf made knitting contains the time and personal story of a person who did it. It “remembers” the process, thoughts and ideas that were conceived meantime. It’s like an insect "frozen" in amber, a piece of somebody’s lifetime included in the wool structure. For me it’s the point where the connection between the thread and life happens, both supported by the time.

Two of my projects are related to this idea, and in both I decided to use a woollen thread. First project is related to my personal story, me being the one who makes a cloth and me doing a solo in it in the streets of Biella. My story "in-between" other Biella's stories. The second one works more with the idea of tradition, of the group creativity, and co-existence in the time.

Note from the continuation of the project - a video from the knitting action in the gardens of the centre of the city.