Atlas of Emotion Stream
video-sound installation
by Roberto Paci Dalò
The work is inspired by the book "Atlas of Emotion" by Giuliana Bruno published by Verso, New York, in 2002.
The installation a large black and white video projection in 16:9 format. The sound is immersive also using the subwoofer for particularly low frequencies reproduction. That puts the visitor/traveler in the center of the perception field. Sounds are made from field recordings (voices and soundscapes recorded using binaural microphones) and electronic sounds.
Emotional geography. The city as a filmic essence emerges from its porous geology. The images are sometimes slowed down and linked by a glimmering black-and-white cinematography. An inner “volcanic” journey that starts from the surface of an almost anonymous place: a coffee bar.
The coffee bar is the place of well-being; the place where quickness (the espresso) and the ordinariness of the coffee routine cohabit. A ritual. The bar is a gathering of sounds, an overlapping of acoustical stream. In Naples the coffee cups are scorching hot, due to the constant immersion in boiling water.
Then the bar with its own chemistry becomes an entrance to the underground world of collisions. Motion vs. Emotion, the cinema is a means of transport. It's a domestic, corporal, mortuary, olfactory, acoustical place. A crater leading to the city itself, to its grid references. The city is a skin-like porous substance. It's a map of moving places that changed ourselves.
“Atlas of Emotion Stream” is the natural development of a work about Napoli, started in 1993 with the sound and mixed-media installation “Napoli”. The work was based on the city soundscapes, and it was presented during the “Les Allumées” festival in Nantes. Here's what “Napoli” was:
“The acoustical secrets of the city at various moments of day and night. The sound landscape is collected through a gradual and progressive approach. A drift into the memory of the city like an acoustical film without images. Steps, screams, songs and invocations, printing-machines, musical instruments. Celebrations at the Vesuvio volcano. Stratifications of sounds and images continuously changing. The gradual changes are transversed by the lightning of an acoustical storm which modifies the perception of the original sources. The microphone is also used as a lens to enlarge details, acoustical fragments otherwise almost inaudible. Microlistening and macrolistening are both present keeping their specificities. Not fusion but reciprocal relation between materials. The listener can immerse in the sound territory of the city where acoustical daily life is so important. Not a picture of Napoli but its absence creates a longed for bewilderment. An immersion in the city through the mystery of hearing. (1993).”
With “Atlas of Emotion Stream” the city shows its filmic body. An emotional cartography of the lived spaces and life trajectories. With this work i'm drawing my own map.
As Giuliana Bruno writes:
" Rather than the description of an elsewhere, mapping turns out to be a domestic enterprise. The cartographer travels domestic, so t speak, as she maps her own territory. Cartography, a public form of knowledge, is actually a private journey, mapping of one's own–a drawing of one's own home. No wonder only one map was drawn in a lifetime. Perhaps, in the end, one can aspire only to chart a single graphic design and expect to spend a lifetime drawing it: the one imaginative map, the map of one's home. "
© 2009 Roberto Paci Dalò
ATLAS OF EMOTION STREAM
video-sound installation
concept, images, music Roberto Paci Dalò
editor Davide Montecchi
production manager Ambra Galassi
video and sound post-production at Giardini Pensili
artistical consulting Julia Draganovic'
co-production Fondazione SDN and PAN Palazzo delle Arti Napoli
in collaboration with Fondazione Morra, Giardini Pensili, Velvet Factory
Acnkowledegements Giuliana Bruno, Maria Nadotti, Cinzia Infantino, Giacomo De Luca, Gabriele Frasca, Perditempo.
This work has been created on occasion of the project Il sabato delle idee promoted by Fondazione SDN, PAN, Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa.
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Roberto Paci Dalò is artistic director of Giardini Pensili and Velvet Factory (Rimini). His work have won him international admiration and support from among others John Cage and Aleksandr Sokurov. Member of the Internationale Heiner Müller Gesellschaft Berlin, recipient in 1993 of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD award. His work – drawing, installations, music, film, theatre, performance – has been presented throughout North and South America, Russia, Middle East, and Europe, in such spaces as Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna Opera House, The Western Front Vancouver, Museo Nitsch Napoli, Ars Electronica Linz, Fundaciò Joan Mirò Barcelona, Biennale di Venezia, Locarno Film Festival, Charlottenborg Copenhagen, ZKM Karlsruhe, Budapest Autumn Festival, SKIF Saint-Petersburg, MaerzMusik/Berliner Festspiele. He is working in Naples on the project “Quartiere dell'Arte” together with the Fondazione Morra. Roberto Paci Dalò was born in Rimini in and spent his childhood on the Lake Garda. He lived in Napoli and Rome with residencies in Vancouver B.C. He currently lives and works in Berlin and Rimini.
Roberto Paci Dalò is artistic director of Giardini Pensili and Velvet Factory (Rimini). His work have won him international admiration and support from among others John Cage and Aleksandr Sokurov. Member of the Internationale Heiner Müller Gesellschaft Berlin, recipient in 1993 of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD award. His work – drawing, installations, music, film, theatre, performance – has been presented throughout North and South America, Russia, Middle East, and Europe, in such spaces as Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna Opera House, The Western Front Vancouver, Museo Nitsch Napoli, Ars Electronica Linz, Fundaciò Joan Mirò Barcelona, Biennale di Venezia, Locarno Film Festival, Charlottenborg Copenhagen, ZKM Karlsruhe, Budapest Autumn Festival, SKIF Saint-Petersburg, MaerzMusik/Berliner Festspiele. He is working in Naples on the project “Quartiere dell'Arte” together with the Fondazione Morra. Roberto Paci Dalò was born in Rimini in 1962 and spent his childhood on the Lake Garda. He lived in Berlin and Rome. He currently lives and works in Rimini and Napoli with residencies in Vancouver.
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