10 November 2008
17 November 2006
Aliki 2006 -LED light sensorial light installation -Take it or leave it -
Today the senses are weakened and lacerated because technology and progress make all processes dramatically explicit.Senses are neutralized and lose their capacity to discriminate.We need to reflect on that…and maybe work on ourselves!
This interactive polisensorial installation was set in a church. Upon entering the church, you are immersed immediately and find yourself viewing a court metrage by Ruben Garbellini called Breve Sogno projected onto the Choir. The reason why I decided to project the film on the crucifix,was because I meant to involve "Christ" in our worldly tormented life as well as in the life of the protagonists in the film. I specifically chose John Adams'“The Grand Pianola Music” as the background soundtrack, with its syncopated rhythm to emphasise the dramatic context of our lives today, and that of the film's protagonists, in particular. I purposely added a pink filter on the film projection in order to focus on life's duality "la vie en rose" on the one hand, and the contrasting theme of the plot which is sad. My intention was to emphasise that, despite life’s solicitation, every individual can dream of some "vie en rose"! With the film's soundtrack muted, the spectator is directly exposed to the feature film's dramatic tone which is distinctly attenuated by the pink filter representing “la vie en rose”.
Another visual impact comes immediately from the soft white wall that surrounds the choir thus creating an added sense of privacy and at the same time records the idea of the confessional zone. I wanted to draw attention on that instant of expectation, meditation that precedes confession. A momentous" alone with oneself and one’s thoughts". The intention was to provoke moments of reflection on the part of the visitor without any kind of technological interference.
The atmosphere of the church left semi-dark with dimmed LED lights. The visitor proceeds to find out what is behind the white (RGB LED lit) wall. There behind that wall an experience awaits to be lived. The moment the visitor sets foot on the orange-color resin platform, the LED lights embedded in the platform light up and trigger a dialogue on the provided headphones.
In this dialogue a man and a woman simulate intimacy. At the end of their three-minute conversation we find out that they have met each other only twenty minutes ago… –
Every time a new participant steps on that platform, all the senses awaken: from the visual (dimmed LED-lights), olfactory (real clover scent diffused through a remote controlled compressed air system), to the tactile and auditory.In this sensorium- - the consumed senses-represented by five straps of skin textured and pigmented silicon—mask partially the view of the real world of relationships, that of the protagonists in the film of which the spectator hears the authentic dialogue this time while watching the same extracts privately within the soft wall confessional, and so it goes…
LED light sensoria installations-Aliki
Here is an event which ties in with my last projects “Zafferano o spezie…” Saffron or spices…at the Castello di Rivoli, Forte Wohlgemuth and equally “Take it or leave it” at the Chiesa of San Pietro in Archivolto, Piazza Duomo in Verona- all directly in conjunction with the various senses : olfactory, visual, auditory, tactile…
October 12-December 31, 2006
Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art: Part I
Massachussets Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
This two-part exhibition (Part 2: Feb 8-April 8, 2007), organized by the MIT List Visual Arts Center (LVAC), explores the various ways in which artists address technology that influences the senses. The impact of new technology has reshuffled the established hierarchy of the senses and radically changed people's lives, and artists are responding to this epochal shift. The LVAC staff has collaborated with an international team of curators and advisors to develop the exhibition and related publication. The exhibition will include several large commissions. The artists include Mathieu Briand, Janet Cardiff/George Bures Miller, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Ryoji Ikeda, Christian Jankowski, Bruce Nauman, Francois Roche, Anri Sala, and Sissel Tolaas. Curators: Bill Arning, Jane Farver, Yuko Hasegawa, Marjory Jacobson.
5 November 2006
Installazione LED - esperienza polisensoriale
Oggi vorremmo sempre ottenere soddisfazione subito, nell’immediatezza, cosa talora impossibile. I sensi sono violentati e soffrono, sono a pezzi, non sappiamo più distinguere, discernere, discriminare, darci il tempo di scegliere, accettare o anche rifiutare. La forza della rinuncia svanisce e questo ci indebolisce.Ecco perché Aliki ci invita a prenderci qualche minuto e a vivere, da soli, nel silenzio della chiesa, un’esperienza che si accende a partire dai piedi nudi per raggiungere naso, occhi (le immagini sono tratte da un cortometraggio tutto da scoprire), orecchie e infine il cuore.
Immagini e parole, in scena i sentimenti
L’evento e cosi concepito: gli spettatori-attori sono condotti ad una piattaforma situata al centro della chiesa, dove ascoltono un dialogo tra un attore e un attrice, mentre sull’abside verranno proiettate delle immagini. In sincronia con queste azioni, musica e profumi completano un’atmosfera che vorrebbe coinvolgere i sensi nella loro totalita. Ogni intervento si concludera con un dialogo tra l’artista e il suo pubblico. La prima serata e stata presentata dal poeta Marco Ongaro, che per l’occasione ha scritto i testi di presentatione.