2015 – video for installation/performance projection
An ideal space on the frontier is a topology of events and media realized for Stazione di Topolò, July 2015. A maya + rouvelle collaboration with artist James Rouvelle. The work includes an installation/performance with mezzo-soprano Carlotta Buiatti, a musical composition, handmade musical instruments, materials found on site, drawings and video.
Inspired by the location and its history on the Italian and Slovenian border, Stazione di Topolò was an ideal space for us to continue to explore with sound, light and movement the qualities of suspension that take place on the frontier; where the essential in-betweenness of all things is evoked, with its ever present shifting perspectives, dualities and parallels.
This video was developed on site and includes footage captured in Topolò as well as unpublished material from earlier maya.rouvelle projects whose content foreshadowed this work. The visual echoes between the Topolò footage and the previous work footage form an isorhythm across time and space, another frontier. As a part of the installation/performance the video was projected onto drawings positioned over found objects.
The musical composition is a cross-synthesis of different musics from different times and media organized around the theme of the project.
These drawings belong to a series created for and included in the installation/performance. Their process was analogous to the process for creating the musical composition in that both explored the border as a site of hybridity and assemblage. The drawings are presented here as they were photographed in a neighboring site illuminated by the Friulian sun, thus extending the work into yet another neighboring frontier.
full project documentation:
installation/performance photo documentation
video documentation of the installation
video for installation/performance projection
