DATE:
26/03/2026

CORPUS:
hic sunt dracones
../Related Objects

KEYWORD:
#video #para-performance #AI #Motionographic #Drone footage

CULTURAL DEFINITION:
../Edition: 1 / 5
../Site/times: Malta, 2026

../Co-authors:

Head of production | Martino Coffa

Climber | Simone Bianchini

Drone footage and video clips | Michele Caminati

Motionographer Artist | Silvio Mancini

Produced by Recipient.cc

TECHNICAL DATA:
../Object: simple
../Matter and technique: video 1600x1200, Timecode Apple ProRes 422 HQ, Colour profile HD (1-1-1)
../Measures: 5’ 55”
../Weight: 8.38 GB

DESCRIPTION: #REL1=OFF is an intermedial work created specifically for the Malta Biennale. The title refers to a deactivation code that prevents closure and opens up new pathways: #REL1=OFF begins in fact, with an exploration, a climbing action on a section of Maltese cliff, selected by f' in dialogue with Climbing MT (Malta). The intervention involves the setting of a new climbing route, a traverse on the northern Gozo cliffs. The physical action, a #para-performance, is not conceived as a spectacular gesture, but as an act of crossing the landscape in which f' body becomes an instrument for measuring space. During the climb, f' leaves minimal and non-invasive marks on the rock, bronze casts of f' and f' climbing partner's teeth and a cast of a bay leaf, titled Psycopomps and the nymph, traces that evoke a temporary and fragile bodily presence. The action is documented in its entirety by a drone, which follows the movement of the body from the outside, producing the basic visual material for the work. The footage, subsequently reworked, is conceived as a video installation, designed to generate a perceptually alienating experience in which the landscape appears simultaneously stable and in transformation. In #REL1=OFF, the border emerges as an unstable place of tension between body, technology and representation. An audio track, titled Paralipomena of a Leaf, is not embedded in the video but is played as stand alone piece in the same exhibition space. It is accessible to the public through a QR code and unfolds additional interpretive layers of the artwork, linking the climbing exploration to an underlying mythical narrative. This work is dedicated to Daphne Caurana Galizia.

THEMES:
../#specificity: geographical thick_place
../#body: passive para_performance
../#breath: hyperextension
../#imagination: political_act biophilia
../#identity: memory technology

SOURCES AND DOCUMENTS:
../Images: RIM album
../Videos: Vimeo
../Information card [pdf]: #REL1=OFF.pdf

../Exhibition:
Repertoire in intermedial mode, Malta. 2026

../Collection: artist archive