AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME
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Facsimile: "we need not destroy the past—it is gone" This quote is from John Cage, who was the inspiration of the Nuova Consonanza Festival 2012. As it penetrates the walls of Villa Aurelia, Facsimile aims to echo his vision. It explores the porosity of opulent spatiality as it is "caged" in timelessness. The thermal paper of a facsimile penetrates windows and walls to occupy the moment, marking noise, silence and harmony within. Space and time are stretched, as if questioning our grasp of the space-time continuum itself.
"Because I know that time is always time
And place is always and only place
And what is actual is actual only for one time"
by T.S. Eliot are words that more specifically express the creative intent of this piece as they remind us that the fax stands for the futile attempt to overcome the obsolescence of the moment, and its thoughts.
Facsimile: "we need not destroy the past—it is gone" This quote is from John Cage, who was the inspiration of the Nuova Consonanza Festival 2012. As it penetrates the walls of Villa Aurelia, Facsimile aims to echo his vision. It explores the porosity of opulent spatiality as it is "caged" in timelessness. The thermal paper of a facsimile penetrates windows and walls to occupy the moment, marking noise, silence and harmony within. Space and time are stretched, as if questioning our grasp of the space-time continuum itself.
"Because I know that time is always time
And place is always and only place
And what is actual is actual only for one time"
by T.S. Eliot are words that more specifically express the creative intent of this piece as they remind us that the fax stands for the futile attempt to overcome the obsolescence of the moment, and its thoughts.
SimagePorticus(w/Jesse Jones, composer) is a site-specific installation conceived for the American Academy in Rome that mixes the typologies of Roman Arches and portraits. It appears in the form of 300 images projected over the bricks of Cryptoporticus in a 520sec loop. The sound includes image-related quotes. This piece explores today's “augmented” relationships between the physical world and a constant deluge of images spontaneously sprawling within, atop and around everything.
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ScalaCupola: ascend sacred descend stairway by Erik Adigard + Jesse Jones (music), for the Cinque Mostre exhibit at the America Academy in Rome, is a site specific media installation that explores the possibility of "sacred spaces". To do so we have brought together the Sistine Chapel and a profane space (a staircase of the American Academy in Rome) together they aim to suggest that a staircase may be seen as a motion toward the heavens.
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ScalaCupola and SimagePorticus are part of the larger project SIMAGE, which is an exploration of image when seen as typologies and aggregates. The neologism ‘simage’ stands for the plural of ‘image’ with the letter ‘s’ moved from last to first letter while also referring to ‘similar’. It combines archetypal, indexing and relational aspects. It stands for the merger of many images into a singular typology or paradigm, e.g. Roman arches, or paintings depicting people.
»VIDEO
ScalaCupola: ascend sacred descend stairway by Erik Adigard + Jesse Jones (music), for the Cinque Mostre exhibit at the America Academy in Rome, is a site specific media installation that explores the possibility of "sacred spaces". To do so we have brought together the Sistine Chapel and a profane space (a staircase of the American Academy in Rome) together they aim to suggest that a staircase may be seen as a motion toward the heavens.
»VIDEO
ScalaCupola and SimagePorticus are part of the larger project SIMAGE, which is an exploration of image when seen as typologies and aggregates. The neologism ‘simage’ stands for the plural of ‘image’ with the letter ‘s’ moved from last to first letter while also referring to ‘similar’. It combines archetypal, indexing and relational aspects. It stands for the merger of many images into a singular typology or paradigm, e.g. Roman arches, or paintings depicting people.