PATHS

2009

format #1:
artist's book
book (18 x 18 x 1.6 cm, 132 pages) with cd-audio (41 min 53 sec), packed in wooden box (23 x 23 x 9 cm)

format #2:
artist's book
book (18 x 18 x 1 cm, 112 pages) with cd-audio (41 min 53 sec)

format #3:
8mm film transferred on dvd-video, color, 3 channel sound
8 min 59 sec

On a cd player I played back some musical pieces I love in places that have marked my life. I then recorded the dialogue that was created between the pieces themselves and the environmental sounds: a way to reactivate and actualise my memories, facing and dealing with the concept of "active memory".

The project is comprised of two distinct formats.

Artist's book
The publication collects: the recordings of six different musical pieces (by Steve Roden, William Basinski, Akira Rabelais, Christina Kubisch, Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, Nuno Canavarro) captured in six different places; images from the six places and texts.

Audio-visual installation
The installation combines audio recordings of a piece by Steve Roden made in three different places, with images from the places themselves, shot on 8mm film.
The film, through its characteristic technical/stylistic features (the change in the brightness of the image due to the unstable intensity of the projector lamp, the skips of the image caused by irregular tracking, the appearance and movement of scratches and impurities), makes the flowing of time – that is the leitmotif of the project – visible and palpable.