CORPUS:
vasto mondo
../Related Objects
KEYWORD:
#interactive installation
CULTURAL DEFINITION:
../Edition: 2
../Co-authors:
recipient.cc
TECHNICAL DATA:
../Object:
reactivable
../Matter and technique: Architectural structure, slides, lenses, magnetostrictive audio system, digital interaction system, light system. The original installation created for the exhibition at the Luigi Pecci Center was made of Nidoboard® honeycomb cardboard. The reactivatable architectural version is made of plywood.
../Measures: 3660x6220x5500mm
DESCRIPTION: Vast World, a work created for The End of the World (Centro Luigi
Pecci - Prato), is a hybrid contraption that works as an optical instrument and
sound reproduction device at the same time, a “live” environment within which the
viewer perceives and is perceived.
The artist, building on studies of the precursors of film - the Magic Lantern, the
New World, the Kaiserpanorama, the Renaissance darkroom - combines projection
mechanisms with the structure of the camera, creating a multiple representation
device activated by external ambient light.
Inside the Nidoboard® honeycomb cardboard architecture, original monochromatic
glass slides hand-painted with watercolors, dating back to the beginning of the
last century, are seamlessly projected inside the structure, creating a panoramic
scenario in which the viewer is immersed.
The audio composition, the result of a collaboration with the production house
Recipient.cc, reworks Steve Reich’s Piano Phase (1967), experimenting with the
phasing technique and alternated with a poetic text composed of a repertoire of
botanical terminology recited in four different languages.
The title of the work takes its cue from a Baroque historical moment in which a
new garden concept emerged, the idea of the 'vast world'. A kind of garden in
which the whole world is enclosed in a small fence: species and varieties from all
over the world and of all sizes, shapes and colors grow mixed together in an almost
undisciplined way. A conscious image that migrates from people to people.
The perceptual disorientation caused by the sound is amplified by its circular
diffusion inside the space and by the architectural structure itself, which transforms
into a vibrating sound source.
Thus an experiential space out of time comes to life, dominated by a dreamlike
narrative, devoid of organized and rational structures, a mise-en-scène of an
ideal and preternatural world in which observers are invited to lose themselves.
THEMES:
../#body:
interaction
../#imagination:
political_act
../#identity:
technology
SOURCES AND DOCUMENTS:
../Images: https://photos.app.goo.gl/BZPTvEtRALDzFgR78
../Videos: https://youtu.be/IYhqBE3ZqFc
../Information card [pdf]: Vasto Mondo.pdf
../Bibliography:
La fine del mondo, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato. Silvana Editoriale 2016.
../Exhibition:
La fine del mondo, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato. 2016
../Collection: artist archive
