15 JUNE  h 10.00 pm

GIARDINI DUE TORRI

MICHELE SAMBIN

IL TEMPO CONSUMA 1978/2023

voice, cello, video performance Michele Sambin
voice Ludovica Manzo
audio/video direction Alessandro Fiordelmondo 

In 1978 Michele Sambin elaborates the performance Il tempo consuma: the artist sits in front of a monitor, filmed frontally by a camera. His torso begins to sway as he speaks the words: "Time consumes images, time consumes sounds." The event is recorded and after a short time lag its reproduction appears on the monitor behind the performer. The viewer is faced with a real action and its recording on the screen. The process repeats itself and the system continues to autonomously generate the same process, which doesn't need human action anymore. The tape continues to be recursively written by the real-time recording and overwritten by the out-of-phase recording, producing a stratification of images and sounds that gradually degrade due to an inevitable effect in the analog chain.
In 2022, in collaboration with the Center for Computational Sonology, the video loop system has been updated from analog to digital. This operation allows the artist to bring the historical performance back to life and each new presentation opens up further possibilities for poetic technical research.

Michele Sambin director, musician and painter conducts a research that has as its theme the relationship between image and sound. In the 1970s, his works were presented in the Bologna Gallery of Modern Art; in Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti; at the Venice Biennale; in Milan, Palazzo Reale and in London, Vancouver, Geneva. In 1980 he founded Tam Teatromusica and became its artistic director. With Tam he creates more than 80 multimedia shows with which he participates in numerous events and festivals in Italy and abroad. His works have been presented in various museums: Maxxi and Macro, Rome; Gam, Turin; Martin, Trent. In 2019 it has been produced a film, titled Più de la vita, directed by Raffaella Rivi, which tells Sambin's path between art and life.

duration  50‘

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FESTIVAL OPERA PRIMA - XIX EDITION