Gibellina Ground
local situation sculpture
tree sets of 60 cm high steel trunk and two solar panels, audio players and loudspeakers. Technical designer Gregoire Rousseau.
I asked the local people of Gibellina to tell or sing the oldest verses they remember. I recorded and transfered them for the audio players, which were dug under the ground. When the sun shined the constructions became activated and the recordings started to play.
These audio constructions symbolize the relation between the people and the ground in Gibellina. The ground has effected lives of everybody. The old verses rise from the ground like the seeds from the ground of Gibellina.
Shown in next project:
GROWING A LANGUAGE – residency, exhibition and events
July 7 – September 2 2018
Opening on Friday, July 6 at 18:30
Fondazione Orestiadi, Baglio Di Stefano, Contrada Salinella, 91024 Gibellina TP.
Collective Intelligence works in residency at Fondazione Orestiadi between May 21 – July 21. Growing a Language is a trans-disciplinary project conceived by Collective Intelligence for the Orestiadi Foundation and La Lunga Notte del Contemporaneo. It includes an artistic residency leading up to an exhibition in Il Museo Delle Trame Mediterranee and a series of performances in Gibellina and its surrounding regions.
http://www.fondazioneorestiadi.it/residenze-darte-di-collective-intelligence-growing-a-language/