Opening hours: from 25th March 2017 to 2nd April 2017; from 9.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. (closed on Tuesdays). Free entry.
Infoline: www.iodeposito.org; www.bsidewar.org
In collaboration with the Gruppo Ermada Flavio Vidonis
and the Castle of Duino, IoDeposito Ngo presents on Saturday
25th March at 11.00 a.m. the sound art installation PANOPTICO
by Greta Lusoli, at the Castello di Duino's Bunker. The event is organized
thanks to the support of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region and the patronage
of UNESCO and it will be available until the 2nd April 2017: from 9:30 a.m.
to 5:30 p.m. (closed on Tuesdays). This new appointment belongs to the third
edition of the diffuse artistic and cultural Festival B#SIDE
WAR, which is promoted by IoDeposito through numerous Italian and
international events such as exhibitions, conferences and research project
(www.bsidewar.org).
One hundred years ago, Europe looked like a big
open-air prison: almost fifteen million people used to be trapped inside
inhuman war jails and even more civilians were trapped between refugee camps
and their own houses, living a life of destruction and deprivation. The sound
art installation PAN-ὀπτικός by Greta Lusoli relates to that
terrible war scenario trying to evoke and reconstruct in the mind of the
listener the archetype prison designed by the philosopher and jurist J. Bentham
at the end of XVIII century. Born with the intent to make the jails more
efficient, less expensive and easier to monitor, the Bentham's structure provided only one warden
who, standing in the centre of the building, was able to guard at the same time
all of the prisoners in their cells developed in a circle around the central
space. In this way the prison cells became transparent: the privacy of the
prisoners and the preservation of their intimacy (so, their inner
identity) completely disappeared, stoking a dangerous process of
objectualization and dehumanization of the prisoner.
PAN-ὀπτικός works through
a stratification of its deepest meanings: there are at least three intrinsic
factors related to this immaterial but complex intervention of public art. The
first analysis is a sensorial one: to evoke the cruel architecture of
Panopticon, Greta Lusoli project into the proxemic space of the listener a
vibrant, deep, screeching and unpleasant sound that resonate inside the chest
and memory of the listener with universal and archetypical echoes of a
primordial energy, reminding to ancestral alert signals. This sound create an emotional
correspondence, as a summa of all the alert signals coming from the
animal world, including the most primitive ones whose have been extinguished. The
second level of interpretation tunes the experience of this 18th-century
architecture with the tragedy of contemporary conflicts. The choice of an
architecture as a symbol of an unseen reality (but too much common in our
contemporaneity) hit the headlines from a mathematics and conceptual proportion
trough that the sound resonate in the space: the minutes within a year are
divided with the numbers of prisoners that every year, today, are victims of
conflicts. In fact, the sound reverberates every 5 minutes and 53 seconds,
underlining the impressive quantity of war prisoners that nowadays still loose
their freedom in conflicts. Finally, a third metaphorical matrix concern
to the dissociation of polarities see-be seen. The vastness of the conflicts
that is gripping the entire world is not read today by our eyes but, thanks to
the sound that powerfully touch the deepest strings of our soul, it can be
clearly perceived in our minds.
An important role is played by the location. The
Castel of Duino, completely destroyed due to its proximity to the front
during the First World War, was under bombardments of the allies on Monfalcone
during the Second World War. Villagers used to seek refuge inside the big
Bunker, venturing into the deep cave and waiting in the dark that the worst was
over. The sound art intervention, installed in the last room of the basement,
take the listener at the same time in one space and in many others, comparing
the “now and here” of the listener physical presence, with the “then and
there” of the victims and prisoners of the conflict. A vibrant and harsh
sound will vibrate inside the bunker of the castle, reflecting an old fear that
can be dissolved only by the light
expectancy coming through a window in front of the sea.
Contacts:
Event's link: http://www.bsidewar.org/en/upcoming/panoptico-sound-art-installation-by-greta-lusoli-4/
Web: www.iodeposito.org; www.bsidewar.org
Direction: info@iodeposito.org
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