ADIEU - ERASING THE ALPS
Performance | Mixed media | Video, 2014
project realized at Villa Ruffiex artist residency and Foundation Chateau Mercier
supported by Viafarini and ECAV of Sierre in Swiss, with the support of Pro Helvetia
How is it possible to change the collective perception of the surroundings? The paysage is just a background on which to erect buildings, have fun, cultivate food or to find inspiration? Could it be also intended as a digested idea of itself, of a national identity? The Nature and the landscape can be used transformed, eaten without physical interventions, without touching its integrity?
Nico Angiuli's Adieu uses a system named recadrage du reel, used in Switzerland to create the paradigma of the rural culture (by Ecole de Saviese for instance), during the industrialization period and re-used in the tourism field, in the politics, for propagandistic aims against immigrants, nowadays also.
Adieu replies to the same mechanism using a portion of reality to imagine a new one. Erasing the Alps becomes possible.
Performance | Mixed media | Video, 2014
project realized at Villa Ruffiex artist residency and Foundation Chateau Mercier
supported by Viafarini and ECAV of Sierre in Swiss, with the support of Pro Helvetia
How is it possible to change the collective perception of the surroundings? The paysage is just a background on which to erect buildings, have fun, cultivate food or to find inspiration? Could it be also intended as a digested idea of itself, of a national identity? The Nature and the landscape can be used transformed, eaten without physical interventions, without touching its integrity?
Nico Angiuli's Adieu uses a system named recadrage du reel, used in Switzerland to create the paradigma of the rural culture (by Ecole de Saviese for instance), during the industrialization period and re-used in the tourism field, in the politics, for propagandistic aims against immigrants, nowadays also.
Adieu replies to the same mechanism using a portion of reality to imagine a new one. Erasing the Alps becomes possible.