heterotopia
artistic research: photography, video, installation
Heterotopias are “counter-sites, outside of all places although located in reality”1. In Foucault’s socio-urbanistic theories, the cemetery is the alter-space par excellence, of which he recounts the history up to its establishment as ‘the other city’: “As an example I shall take the strange heterotopia of the cemetery. [...] The cemeteries then came to constitute, no longer the sacred and immortal heart of the city, but ‘the other city,’ where each family possesses its dark resting place.”2
Heterotopia inlcudes three parts: a 12 minute film, a photography series and an artistic installation in the arcades of the city of Bologna. The arcades are archetypical modules repeating indefinetly through the public space of the city and the cemetery.
The single-channel video poses two first-person surreal-like labyrinth sequences created with fragments from the arcades of the city and the cemetery; the city of the living and the city of the death.
The atmoshperes are guided with the composition of Olvier Messiaen’s “Quatuor pour la fin du temps” (1940). The Installation’s propose is to generate an intime heterotopical space for the spectators to experience the shortfilm. On the outside the installation interrupts a segment of the Arcades of Bologna and confronts the spectators with a virtual continuation of the path while inviting to interact with an alien body.
On the inside the visitor experiences at first the entrance hall; a dark room where people decide if they get into the next room to watch the film or to continue without interrupting the experience of other spectators.
1./2. M. FOUCAULT, Of Other Spaces, in Diactritics, Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring 1986, p. 24-25
status: competition, Roberto Daolio Preis / Mention of Honor
year: 2018
location: Bologna, IT
team: Nicolás Gómez Herrera
heterotopia
artistic research: photography, video, installation
Heterotopias are “counter-sites, outside of all places although located in reality”1. In Foucault’s socio-urbanistic theories, the cemetery is the alter-space par excellence, of which he recounts the history up to its establishment as ‘the other city’: “As an example I shall take the strange heterotopia of the cemetery. [...] The cemeteries then came to constitute, no longer the sacred and immortal heart of the city, but ‘the other city,’ where each family possesses its dark resting place.”2
Heterotopia inlcudes three parts: a 12 minute film, a photography series and an artistic installation in the arcades of the city of Bologna. The arcades are archetypical modules repeating indefinetly through the public space of the city and the cemetery.
The single-channel video poses two first-person surreal-like labyrinth sequences created with fragments from the arcades of the city and the cemetery; the city of the living and the city of the death.
The atmoshperes are guided with the composition of Olvier Messiaen’s “Quatuor pour la fin du temps” (1940). The Installation’s propose is to generate an intime heterotopical space for the spectators to experience the shortfilm. On the outside the installation interrupts a segment of the Arcades of Bologna and confronts the spectators with a virtual continuation of the path while inviting to interact with an alien body.
On the inside the visitor experiences at first the entrance hall; a dark room where people decide if they get into the next room to watch the film or to continue without interrupting the experience of other spectators.
1./2. M. FOUCAULT, Of Other Spaces, in Diactritics, Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring 1986, p. 24-25
Heterotopia inlcudes three parts: a 12 minute film, a photography series and an artistic installation in the arcades of the city of Bologna. The arcades are archetypical modules repeating indefinetly through the public space of the city and the cemetery.
The single-channel video poses two first-person surreal-like labyrinth sequences created with fragments from the arcades of the city and the cemetery; the city of the living and the city of the death.
The atmoshperes are guided with the composition of Olvier Messiaen’s “Quatuor pour la fin du temps” (1940). The Installation’s propose is to generate an intime heterotopical space for the spectators to experience the shortfilm. On the outside the installation interrupts a segment of the Arcades of Bologna and confronts the spectators with a virtual continuation of the path while inviting to interact with an alien body.
On the inside the visitor experiences at first the entrance hall; a dark room where people decide if they get into the next room to watch the film or to continue without interrupting the experience of other spectators.
1./2. M. FOUCAULT, Of Other Spaces, in Diactritics, Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring 1986, p. 24-25
status: competition, Roberto Daolio Preis / Mention of Honor
year: 2018
location: Bologna, IT
team: Nicolás Gómez Herrera