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PPP ParoleParoleParole

Context
ParoleParoleParole is a public art intervention created by the DMAV Collective in collaboration with START Cultura to commemorate the centenary of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s birth. The project stems from the idea of creating a journey, both poetic and physical, connecting Casarsa, Codroipo, and Valvasone as stops along an ideal Pasolinian geography.

Intervention
ParoleParoleParole originates from a reflection on the relationship between Pasolini’s poetics and the places that shaped his physical and inner landscape during his youth. The use of the Friulian language in the creation of three neon light installations addresses fundamental themes that have marked the poet’s work over time. These three neon installations, placed on the building of the Pasolini Study Center in Casarsa, at the Irma Wheel in Valvasone, and in front of the church of Goricizza in Codroipo, echo Pasolini’s handwriting and highlight his relationship with amorous passion (Brusâ d’amôr, burning with love), the nourishment of water (L’aghe e cor, the water flows), and the irradiation of light (Lûs tra i morârs, light among the trees). By connecting these centers of poetic intensity, DMAV aimed to create a visual play of suggestions that delineate an ideal Pasolinian geography, centered on a common theme: the relationship with time as a dimension that is both historical and archetypal. To unify these elements, a large text art intervention, Pardilàdaidís (beyond the days), was created on one of the roads Pasolini used to cycle on, near the Prâts di Lorêt along the Tagliamento river, evoking his presence. Completing the cycle of works, a poetic documentation video was produced, in which Pasolini’s spirit comes to life to inhabit his beloved places like a benevolent ghost on a bicycle. Additionally, an audio installation curated by Antonio Della Marina, which combines fragments of Pasolini’s voice with diverse musical tracks, evokes the sacredness of sound and musical vibration in Pasolini’s cinematic work

Side notes
The inauguration of the project provided the opportunity to organize a very special public event: a bicycle journey, open to the public, that traveled through Friuli following the path of the installations. It was an occasion to combine artistic research with the idea that it is possible to rethink the relationship with the territory through public art interventions.

Partnership
ParoleParoleParole is created by the DMAV Social Art Collective and promoted by START Cultural Association, with the support of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region and in collaboration with the Municipality of Codroipo, the Municipality of Valvasone Arzene, the Municipality of Casarsa, the Pier Paolo Pasolini Study Center of Casarsa, and the Casali Foundation.

Luce nera

Context
Luce nera is a permanent and very slowly developing photographic research project that we carry forward through the meetings we have along the path of DMAV. These are portraits dedicated to people who, in very different ways, have stimulated, impressed, inspired and provoked us.

Intervento
In this path we use a logic of “wrong” portraits, far from the canons of classic portraits, in which we work with an excess or a defect of exposure, often altering the composition through Wood’s light, thus bringing out the hidden qualities of the image and the atmosphere of the meeting.

The concept of Black Light has a plural value, an interest in every form of light other than sunlight and white light, every form of light that reveals intrinsic properties but not entirely visible in normal conditions such as Wood’s light or the light that arises from reverse bounce phenomena such as that of the ashy light in which we observe the “earth light” on the moon.

The project seeks to create connections with experiences that have a strong social value, a research far from mainstream trends or taste, a form of militancy and integrity linked to a concept, a vision, a dimension of critical thinking, of taste aesthetic and civil and environmental responsibility.

Side notes
Among the first portraits of Luce Nera, we worked with the philosopher Pier Aldo Rovatti, the artist and activist Alfredo Meschi and the Burlesque dancer Mizy Mia Grand Ame.

Black light aims to be a deviant and deviant lighting project. Do not bring light to the margins, but encounter practices of resistance to accept the challenge of opacity. Show without showing. A refuge light, an altered light, an imperfect light. Black spots, dark side of the moon, dark star. The wave pattern from the pulsating CP 1919 on the cover of Unknown Pleasures.

Babatwoosh

Context
Within the Minimalia project DMAV created a series of performances involving Babatwoosh, the digital visionary from Iceland. The meeting with Babatwoosh, who for many years has been carrying out practices that combine the reactivation of forms of contact with the sacred typical of oriental rituals with specific attention paid to digital experiments, was an opportunity for DMAV to generate further level of comparison with the social space.

Intervention
The performance created within Minimalia re-enacts the Hindu experience of Darshan, the meeting with the guru, through an experiment that works on the border between spiritual research, collective rituality and the mind control techniques that pervade communication Contemporary. Halfway between artistic performance, collective hypnosis operation and reflection on the contemporary sacred, Babatwoosh offers those who come into contact with her a moment of awareness and activation of a paradoxical contemporary sacred. By creating a dimension of collective ritual, the actions carried out by DMAV together with Babatwoosh are the opportunity to reinvent a space of meditation, adoration and healing.

Side notes
In one of the most intense encounters of the performance, the letter to Babatwoosh by Alessandro Mezzena Lona, journalist and writer from Trieste, takes shape. (Link to text).

An intense meeting with the guru also happened in Bologna at Cambiamenti festival.