Alessandro Librio

I am pleased to announce my upcoming project ‘Palermo in Venice’, for the Venice Biennale 2011, presented by EB&Flow Gallery of London and sponserded by BIOFOX Petroli.

The project consists of a sound landscape adorning the city of Venice as if it were a dress that the city wears. The installation will bring to the city the only element that is present in all of the cities of the world except for Venice: traffic.

The soundscape of Palermo, the city with most traffic and sound pollution in Italy will be streamed live onto the streets of Venice, played to the city through a series of speakers distributed over a 24 hour period.

The soundscape will then be mixed with the surrounding sounds of Venice and will be streamed back live to Palermo in the Albergo Delle Povere alongside a video stream of public reactions Venice.
The final outcome will also be simultaneously transmitted live to an exhibition at the EB&Flow gallery in London.

Exhibition dates and times: Saturday 4 June 2011 from 5am for 24 hours

“The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause."
Henri Bergson

A collaborative work conceived by Alice Tatge, 3:00 is a 30 minute site-responsive piece that combines dance, music and video installation. The work investigates the interaction of these three art forms and the points at which they come together into coherent coincidence or else rupture and fragment. The piece engages with different temporalities - loops and traces, past, present and future, forward and in reverse - ultimately building towards a cohesive overarching narrative: a voyage through a series of thought associations, visual imprints, sound and movement traces in an all-immersive environment.

from "Don't Panic" created by Alessandro Librio (violin, viola, videoart) and Angelo Di Mino (cello) with Alice Tatge and Giovanni Giannone

from "Don't Panic" created by Alessandro Librio (violin, viola, videoart) and Angelo Di Mino (cello) with Alice Tatge and Giovanni Giannone

30 September / 1 October - Contemporary Sounds Unity/Andreas Wagner - Köln, Germany.

7 August - 21:30 - "Performance-Installazione" Don't Panic - Librio-Di Mino - Erice vetta; Theater Gebel Hamed; Trapani, Sicily.