«Blue Tired Heroes», Performande von Massimo Furlan im Rahmen von PerformanceProcess in Basel.
Nella continuità di una serie di lavori sperimentati nello spazio pubblico intorno alla figura di Superman (Superman Cosmic Green, Love Story Superman), Blue Tired Heroes mette in discussione la nozione di figura eroica e il fantasma del superuomo accettato nell’immaginario popolare
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Dopo la formazione all’Ecole des Beaux-Arts di Losanna, lo scenografo e artista visivo svizzero Massimo Furlan ha lavorato con diverse compagnie di danza e teatro. Nel 2003 ha fondato la sua compagnia dedicata alle arti dello spettacolo, Numéro23Prod., per interrogare l’atto della rappresentazione al di fuori dei con-fini dei generi. Le sue molteplici performance, essenzialmente articolate intorno all’umorismo e al contrasto, mettono in discussione le manifestazioni popolari e la nozione di squadra, i temi dell’immagine, della durata, dell’infanzia, della memoria e del gioco.
from SHIFT (a 2011 interview to Atsuhiro Ito by Julie Murikawa, http://www.shift.jp.org/en/archives/2011/03/atsuhiro_ito.html):
Atsuhiro Ito “crafted an instrument called the “OPTRON,” which outputs noise from the electrical discharge of a fluorescent light, when he was working on fluorescent light art exhibits in the 90’s. He plays the OPTRON not only as a solo act but also with other musicians both in Japan and overseas”.
An excerpt from the interview:
Why did you want to be an artist? Could you tell us the process of becoming an artist?
This is a problem of wording, but I have never been wanted to become an “artist.” (To me, it is hard to understand what people in this country want to achieve by becoming artists. It almost seems like the word “artist” itself can impress people. I know that it is a very convenient word to explain what people do though.)
In my case, rather than trying to contribute to the world, I’m more interested in creating things with my own hands and playing and listening to sounds. Since I have never stopped doing this, people started to think that this person might be an “artist” and refer to me as such. I have never really added any meaning or social contributions to my art and performances, and will continue to create and perform just because the visual and audible joy and stimulation keep me excited. By the way, my social positions are ‘an art creator and an OPTRON player.’
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If you were not an artist, what would you be instead?
I don’t even know. Maybe a criminal or something. I bet that I’d be making a little better money than my current situation.
Asemic Sound Cycles at Galeri Salihara
April 10, 2022 – April 24, 2022
Asemic Sound Cycles (2022), by Félix-Antoine Morin, is an exhibition specially developed for the Salihara Arts Center (Jakarta, Indonesia). This exhibition consists of a series of graphic scores on polyester film as well as a sound installation in the center of the exhibition space.
Asemic Sound Cycles consists of a series of graphic scores on polyester film as well as a sound installation in the center of the Salihara Gallery.
Félix-Antoine Morin’s graphic scores represent existing musical forms whose basic structures are drawn from his repertoire of compositions. By this process, Morin maps out the metamorphosis of sound phenomena through a rhythmic and poetic graphic expression. He encourages the ambiguity between musical notation and pure pictorial symbolism.
The kinetic sound installation arranged in the center of the space is inspired by the “locked groove” technique, an expression invented by Pierre Schaeffer in the mid 20th century to describe this phenomenon in which the needle of a record player falls indefinitely in the same record groove. In the same way, this sound installation follows a unique circular route. This consists of a microphone that reacts like the needle of a record player on materials and textures arranged throughout the floor.
Asemic Sound Cycles is an exhibition specially developed for the Salihara Arts Center.
Félix-Antoine Morin’s graphic scores represent existing musical forms whose basic structures are drawn from his repertoire of compositions. Through a syncopated visual construction, by which he instinctively creates new connections between signs, he shifts the initial writing toward material abstraction. Preserving traces of the sound origin, the accumulation of elements gradually transforms each composition into an autonomous language that no longer references music.
By this process, Morin maps out the … [click to read more]
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First solo exhibition of Félix-Antoin Morin in Turkey: Asemic Sound Mappings (Feb 19th – Mar 12th, 2022):
[…] The graphic language of the artist does not tend to have a fixed meaning, leaving the interpretation of the works free to the viewer, encouraging the ambiguity between musical notation and pure pictorial poetry. The artworks at the “Asemic Sound Mappings” exhibition display layered elements moving in the void, carrying rhythm to the surface by simultaneously expressing Morin’s musical and pictorial sensibilities […]
Brani della serata del 21 marzo 2022 a Roma dedicata a Carmelo Bene nel ventennale della morte, trasmessi da Rai Radio 3 e introdotti da Francesca Rachele Oppedisano dell’Associazione l’orecchio mancante e Luisa Viglietti. Con le voci di Tommaso Ragno, Enrico Terrinoni, Federica Fracassi, Marco Foschi, Filippo Timi, Silvia Pasello, Iaia Forte, Lino Musella, Paolo Mazzarelli.
link per partecipare, oggi alle 16:30, al viaggio nella Biblioteca Casanatense, con Lucia Marchi,
a cura della Biblioteca Elio Pagliarani e di Cetta Petrollo e Lia Pagliarani: meet.google.com/qfj-tutw-ueq
Lo spettacolo vuole ricordare il tragico episodio di rappresaglia tedesca avvenuto a Calvi dell’Umbria nella primavera del 1944, quando 16 civili furono fucilati nella pubblica piazza perché sospettati di collaborare con i partigiani. Uno degli innumerevoli episodi di vera e propria guerra preventiva nei confronti dei civili, organizzata e voluta con particolare ferocia dal comandante in campo delle forze armate tedesche dislocate in Italia.
ieri pomeriggio a Ostia i familiari di Cristina Annino (scomparsa il 28 gennaio) hanno disperso in mare le sue ceneri.
foto di Pietro Roversi
con alcuni amici, con i quali avevamo assistito alla cerimonia, siamo andati poi alla Casa clandestina, per parlare (anche) di poesie e di scritture. l’ospitalità della Casa e la compagnia di Giuseppe, militante del collettivo Subword, incontrato lì, sono state fondamentali per il momento. lui e io abbiamo poi raggiunto il Parco Pietro Rosa, dietro la Casa, per affiggere una poesia sua e una sigla asemica mia (che sembra iniziare con la “C” di Cristina) sulla stele del parcuino, installata dal collettivo proprio per consentire a tutti di mettere liberamente in comune qualche impressione, visiva o testuale. o qualche silenzio, volendo, quando non è troppo facile parlare.
