Archivi tag: Jennifer Scappettone

X Locus: Cryptoporticus (Abluvion)-final / Jennifer Scappettone et alii. 2011

>> X Locus: Cryptoporticus (Abluvion)-final <<

First installed inside the tract of Trajan’s aqueduct that passes below the cryptoporticus or basement of the American Academy in Rome in May 2011, this sound poem draws excerpts of visual/textual scores by Jennifer Scappettone performed live by the Difforme Ensemble (Marco Ariano (percussion and electronics), Renato Ciunfrini (sampler, contrabass clarinet, voice) and Roberto Fega (electronics), and vocals by Jennifer Scappettone, Ersela Kripa, and Karen Yasinsky) together with field recordings in Roman aqueducts (the Acqua Traiana, Acqua Marcia, and Acqua Claudia), discussions with community members about the vagaries of monumental Roman waterworks, readings from outmoded chronicles of Roman history, and decodings of the inscriptions to the underworld hovering in the courtyard above the Academy basement so as to plunge sonically into the infrastructure of empire and collapse.

“X Locus: Cryptoporticus (Abluvion)” animates the hollows beneath our feet. Choral utterances emerge from a blighted underground—montages of voices salvaged from the community and from pastoral poetry, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Lewis Carroll’s Alice—to sound the metamorphosing role of now-defunct aqueducts in feeding the city, spurring deviant behaviors and sieges of empire.

In the May 2011 installation, environmental media projections by Stephen Mueller and Ersela Kripa (AGENCY Architecture) and a conversant sculpted soundtrack of fountains and birdsong by Paul Rudy reliquefied the corridor that hosts a tract of the 1,902-year-old aqueduct while from a hole in the floor—opening onto the lit-up channel itself—Scappettone’s poem drew listeners into cycles of use, abuse, and disuse of infrastructure for the public good, portents for our postpastoral and near-apocalyptic moment.

Jennifer Scappettone would like to thank the artists, scholars, and staff of the American Academy in Rome for their voices in the work. Special thanks to Mona Talbott and the Rome Sustainable Food Project, Gianni Ponti and Roma Sotterranea, Ted and Michael O’Neill, Andrew Riggsby, and Lila Yawn.

http://soundcloud.com/jenscappettone/x-locus/s-LPyMD

Roma, AAR, 28-29 Aprile: XLOCUS

Installazioni Collaborative

Ersela Kripa + Stephen Mueller
Environmental Media

Paul Rudy
Sound

Jennifer Scappettone
Lyrics

28-29 Aprile 2011, ore 20.00-22.00

Inaugurazione 28 Aprile, ore 20.00

American Academy in Rome
Via Angelo Masina, 5 Roma

On Thursday, April 28 at 8 PM in the cortile of the McKim, Mead and White Building at the American Academy in Rome there will be an opening reception for a collaborative installation entitled X LOCUS, featuring environmental media by Founders Rome Prize winners in Architecture Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller, sound by Elliott Carter Rome Prize winner in Musical Composition Paul Rudy, and lyrics by Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Rome Prize winner in Modern Italian Studies Jennifer Scappettone. X LOCUS explores senses of dislocation and repatriation in the communities of the Academy, Rome, and the respective backgrounds of those who pass through here via traversals of sound, text, and visual projections onto the introverted cortile space. The installation raises issues of crisis, placelessness  and loss which cannot be represented as visual images; the organizers write, “Through a subversive use of the two-dimensional image in these shared spaces, we mean to generate experiences of reorientation.” X LOCUS will be on display Thursday, April 28 and Friday, April 29 from 8 to 10 PM.

Jennifer Scappettone all’American Academy di Roma (21 e 28-29 aprile)

Nelle prossime due settimane Jennifer Scappettone presenterà il suo lavoro, sia ‘scientifico’ che ‘poetico,’
all’Accademia Americana di Roma (Via Angelo Masina 5)

Over the next two weeks Jennifer Scappettone will be presenting critical and creative work
at the American Academy in Rome (Via Angelo Masina 5)

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Giovedì 21 aprile, h. 18:30
Stanza as Prison, Homicile, Cube, Sphere: Emilio Villa, Amelia Rosselli, and the Spaces of Post-Fascist Ytalyan Poetry
lecture room all’Accademia Americana (criptoportico)

Giovedì 28 aprile, h. 20:00
Vernissage di un’installazione collaborativa di AGENCY Architecture, Paul Rudy e Jennifer Scappettone
cortile dell’Accademia Americana

(L’installazione sarà visibile anche il 29 aprile alle 20)

domenica 13, al Circolo delle Quinte: J. Scappettone e M. Giovenale

a Roma, domenica 13 marzo, alle ore 21:00

presso il Circolo delle Quinte, viale Trenta Aprile 4

(a Monteverde)

per il ciclo Italianamerica – Doppia esposizione / Double Exposure
a cura di Maria Teresa Carbone e Franca Rovigatti
— in collaborazione con Monteverdelegge

reading di

Jennifer Scappettone
e
Marco Giovenale

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2 libri:
JS _ http://www.litmuspress.org/fromdamequickly.html
MG _ http://lelettere.it/site/e_Product.asp?IdCategoria&TS02_ID=1312

su facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=188942221140852

la lettura:
http://slowforward.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/domenica-13-al-circolo-delle-quinte-j-scappettone-e-m-giovenale/
http://mvl-monteverdelegge.blogspot.com/

biobiblio:
http://slowforward.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/2biogr.pdf

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(Circolo delle Quinte, viale Trenta Aprile 4, Roma)

[ cfr. inoltre: http://www.absolutepoetry.org/LA-DIGNITA-DELLE-DONNE-LA-DIGNITA ]

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