Fabrizio Ajello/Christian Costa - Spazi docili: Uncharted territories
Spazi Docili [Docile Spaces] is the answer, in a form of public art project, to the disconcerting and exemplary situation of Florence, undisputed capital of Italian difficulties in understanding and dealing with "the contemporary" and its relation with the past.
The name, clearly after Michel Foucault, postulates the existence of spaces 'docile' to the Power in which the incompetence of the Italian political-bureaucratic-administrative class takes a touchable, concrete form. The areas we deal with look actually more like "ideologic concretions" than like buildings. It's interesting to observe how in these places contemporary politics, visual arts, left wing crisis, collapse of any idea of 'public', predominance of the economic prospective in every field, artsystem, inability to 'read' spaces, etc tangle all together in an almost inextricable way.
The project, conceived and curated by Christian Costa and Fabrizio Ajello, started in 2008. In these two years it produced field surveys and drifts/dérives (focused mainly on the former Mechano-textile complex, on the Sant'Orsola - Saint Ursula - former Monastery, on the Osmannoro area and on various other parts of the city of Florence), workshops, exhibitions, talks. As a matter of fact we are not interested simply in the production of "oeuvres" to put in the art market but rather in turning on participative and involving processes able to shape a living and exciting bond between public and artistic practices.
An area inaccessible to the public: the Military Geographic Institute (Istituto Geografico Militare) in Florence.
A discipline of the Power: to map the existent.
The docile machines which make that activity possible.
As part of the Florens 2010 - Deep in Florens: I luoghi del silenzio festival, Fabrizio Ajello and Christian Costa will present the video installation Spazi Docili [Docile Spaces]: Uncharted territories.
A multi-projection on three screens focused on the corporeal function of sight, pivotal in cartographers' work as in understanding of urban and not urban spaces. Video sequences with a very slow, almost telluric, pace, which will compose together different visions of spaces, machines and maps, inaccessible until now, of the Military Geographic Institute (Istituto Geografico Militare) in Florence.
The map as skin, flesh, body of a territory. The eye catalogues the real, dissects it, comprehends it. Ultimately any map is the story of a look and every act of seeing produces, implicitly, a map of what was observed.
The aesthetic languages to create an echo between places and objects the public will see at last and their multiple possible interpretations.
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