Mediterranean Revelations - interactive installation about the Mancha area in Spain

RIVELAZIONI MEDITERRANEO / MEDITERRANEAN REVELATIONS

posted in sensitive environments

RIVELAZIONI MEDITERRANEO / MEDITERRANEAN REVELATIONS

RIVELAZIONI MEDITERRANEO / MEDITERRANEAN REVELATIONS

Voice reveals time

sensitive environments

Madrid, Italian Cultural Institute, 2014
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This work is a new leg of the Mediterranean project started in 2000, in which Studio Azzurro already took part in 2002 with an installation in Naples, and in 2010 with a work in Genoa. The exhibition includes three sections: a design part, which shows the formation of thought through drawing, and its becoming image through filming and post-production; a section dedicated to the poetic documentation of the artisan gestures that characterize the land of Mancha, in central Spain; and a two-part sensitive environment requesting visitors to interact with it.

The Mancha is a disputed area, which is why we decided to talk about it through an installation where two walls face each other. Apparently inaccessible, these walls are interactive and sensitive to the visitor’s gesture. By touching them, you can find a passage to virtually cross the barrier and enter. The scene now changes, and the exploration goes on in a suspended dimension, as in the memory of a journey: you can see a sea and star map while hearing voices that have intertwined and followed one another over the centuries. These voices tell the same stories in different languages. You see places, landscapes, buildings. Finally, a different scenario appears, with light and wind as protagonists, then a new wall quickly slides, ready to be touched and offer another story.

MEDITERRANEAN MEDITATIONS 2002

MEDITERRANEAN REVELATIONS 2010

2 video programmes
2 video projectors
2 PCs
2 IR systems for sensitive surfaces
3 loudspeakers
light project
2 wooden walls
1 stage tripod

Concept Fabio Cirifino, Paolo Rosa
Art director Fabio Cirifino
Collaboration to the project and direction Laura Marcolini
Photography Fabio Cirifino
Sound and music project Tommaso Leddi
Shooting Riccardo Apuzzo
Sync sound Virginia Sangiorgi
Video editing Riccardo Apuzzo, Marco Carati
Video post-production Mauro Macella
Interactive system Marco Barsottini, Lorenzo Sarti
Technical exhibition stand project Daniele De Palma
Texts Laura Marcolini
General management Carmen Leopardi
Administration Salvatore Agrifoglio

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