BLOW OUT- CONCERT FOR ANGER
interactive performance – photo – video
performer Tiziana Contino
performer /musicians/composers/songwriter Arch quartet (vers. 2010), Sabina Caruso (vers. 2011, 2012, 2013) , Marta Coletti (vers. 2012), Laura Masotto (vers. 2013), Carlo Tuzza (vers. 2015)
2013 PREMIO ARTE LAGUNA | finalist in performing art Arsenale, Venezia (I), curators Igor Zanti, giuria Umberto Angelini, Gabriella Belli, Adam Budak, Cecilia Freschini, Mario Gerosa, Lina Lazaar, Kanchi Mehta, Sabine Schaschl, Felix Schöber, Claudia Zanfi
2012 AAM Auditorium Sole24ore, Milano (I) curator Chiara Canali
2011 RELOAD: SO EXOTIC! Exhibition Performance Series, Officine Rosati, Roma (I) curator Chiara Vigliotti and Francesco Lucifora
2011 In Corpo video, BT’F gallery, Bologna (I) curator Emanuele Beluffi
2010 Premio Celeste finalist, selected by Antonio Arévalo, Laura Barreca, Cathryn Drake, Manuela Annibali, Fondazione Brodbeck, Catania (I) curator Julia Draganovic and Gabi Scardi
Basics
An audio-visual and tactile interactive form of concert, performed by the users (public) led by myself and a string quartet/musicians. The idea comes from the absolute and widespread lack of tender-ness and confidence in contemporary society .There is a fear rooted to ‘the other by itself’, ‘the unknown ‘. This project aims to wipe out the distance and distrust we find in our daily life and in relationships with others. The performance ‘BLOW OUT – Concert for anger’ is a work of audio-visual interaction between the audience, the orchestra and performers.
Development
At the entrance hall, the audience was invited to ‘blow out their anger ‘in a yellow balloon place on its chair together with a black marker with which ‘give a name to their anger’. The quartet/musicans have scanned the intervention of the public with ascending tones. The performer was dressed in black latex (seductive and horrifying) similarly to the figure of Medusa in Greek mythology, the mask of performer will offer opportunity for the public to express themselves freely in their anger, because not recognize a specific individual in your interlocutor, helps psychological opening. Once inflated and written to the yellow balloons audience exploded by row in row with a rate given by the performer vocally and by the quartet/musicians.
The result was a mix of music produced by the explosion of balloons and sounds produced by the quartet/musicians and the performer; an interactive dialogue, a growing feeling that finds its climax. A kind of therapy where the energy is transformed into a regenerative process, an alchemical flow in which a feeling energy like anger is purified by the expulsion and its transformation into energy of emotional impulse for a new and revitalization of the human being, who becomes music, clear sound.
BLOW OUT – concert for anger, 2013, photo, lambda print on aluminium and plexiglas, video, interactive performance site specific.
PREMIO ARTE LAGUNA | finalist in performing art, Arsenale, Venezia (I), curators Igor Zanti, giuria Umberto Angelini, Gabriella Belli, Adam Budak, Cecilia Freschini, Mario Gerosa, Lina Lazaar, Kanchi Mehta, Sabine Schaschl, Felix Schöber, Claudia Zanfi
BLOW OUT – concert for anger, 2010, photo, lambda print on aluminium and plexiglas, video, interactive performance site specific.
2010 Premio Celeste, finalist, selected by Antonio Arévalo, Laura Barreca, Cathryn Drake, Manuela Annibali Fondazione Brodbeck, Catania (I) curators Julia Draganovic and Gabi Scardi.
Ph. Caterina Palermo