Breathing Staircases
BREATHING STAIRCASES, 2022-2023
with the One&Seven artist collective
Installation views
MEET Digital Culture Center, Milan
BREATHING STAIRCASES, 2022-2023
with the One&Seven artist collective
Installation views
MEET Digital Culture Center, Milan
BREATHING STAIRCASES, 2022-2023
with the One&Seven artist collective
Installation views
MEET Digital Culture Center, Milan
BREATHING STAIRCASES, 2022-2023
with the One&Seven artist collective
Installation views
MEET Digital Culture Center, Milan
BREATHING STAIRCASES, 2022-2023
with the One&Seven artist collective
Installation views
MEET Digital Culture Center, Milan
BREATHING STAIRCASES, 2022-2023
with the One&Seven artist collective
Installation views
MEET Digital Culture Center, Milan
BREATHING STAIRCASES, 2022-2023
with the One&Seven artist collective
Installation views
MEET Digital Culture Center, Milan
BREATHING STAIRCASES, 2022-2023
with the One&Seven artist collective
Installation views
MEET Digital Culture Center, Milan
BREATHING STAIRCASES, 2022-2023
with the One&Seven artist collective
Installation views
MEET Digital Culture Center, Milan
BREATHING STAIRCASES, 2022-2023
with the One&Seven artist collective
Installation views
MEET Digital Culture Center, Milan
BREATHING STAIRCASES, 2022-2023
with the One&Seven artist collective
Installation views
MEET Digital Culture Center, Milan
BREATHING STAIRCASES, 2022-2023
with the One&Seven artist collective
Installation views
MEET Digital Culture Center, Milan
ABOUT THIS WORK
Conceived with the collective One&Seven, the Breathing Staircases is the first site-specific installation created for MEET Digital Culture Center’s Living Staircases.
An immersive video and audio intervention across the multistorey surfaces of this particular architectural space of the building, it was on view from October 12, 2022-Jan 8, 2023. It has been re-actualized for MuseoCity, Milano, March 3-5, 2023.
Designed by architect Carlo Ratti to “explore the meaning of physical space in a digital world”, the stairs are a vibrant vertical core connecting exhibition and office spaces. Through a simultaneous 7-channel multi-projection with audio, they are transformed into a pulsating body through the layering of images conditioned and animated by the sound of voices and breath of the artists.
This architectural space is seen as a multi-sensory and dynamic living organism, intimate and personal: the place of participatory response to a collective exchange reflecting art, poetry and life. Visitors experience the meditative fruition of the primordial condition of breath through their personal and emotional involvement in an immersive place of vision and listening through an ever-changing and inclusive movement: the expression of the “Singular and Collective Universe” of which all who access it become an active and conscious part.
One&Seven collective includes: multimedia artists Silvio Wolf and Lisa di Donato, photographer James Weber, sculptor Leah Poller, artists Farah Marie Velten and Judith Lipton, and photographer / social activist Rick Raymond
The installation has been achieved through the generous support of MEET Digital Culture Center, in partnership with IED Milano and School of Visual Arts, New York.
With the collaboration of:
– Davide Sgalippa: Co-Chair with Rossella Bertolazzi of the School of Visual Arts at IED Milan; Professor at IED Milan and the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo; exhibition and multimedia Media designer at TheBuss team
– Marco Ferrari: Digital Designer; video and audio designer at IED Milan
– Solian Clerici: Exhibition and Light Designer at IED Milan and TheBuss team
– Epson: Technical Sponsor
Concepita con il collettivo One&Seven, Breathing Staircases è la prima opera site-specific realizzata per la Living Staircases di MEET Digital Culture Center.
L’installazione video e audio immersiva si sviluppa su tutti i piani e le superfici di questo particolare spazio architettonico dell’edificio: il vibrante nucleo di comunicazione fisica che collega gli spazi espositivi, di servizio e gli uffici della “piazza verticale” progettata dall’architetto Carlo Ratti per “esplorare il significato dello spazio fisico in un mondo digitale”.
Lo spazio architettonico è intenso come un organismo vivente multi-sensoriale e dinamico, intimo e personale: un luogo di risposta partecipativa a un respiro collettivo che riflette arte, filosofia, poesia e vita.
Attraverso la multi-proiezione simultanea a 7 canali, con una stratificazione di immagini animate dal suono delle voci e il respiro degli artisti, Silvio Wolf assieme a One&Seven trasforma l’avveniristica scala in un corpo pulsante, ponendosi in una relazione fisica e simbolica con tutti coloro che l’utilizzano durante la vita quotidiana del Centro.
I visitatori godono d’una fruizione esperienziale e meditativa della condizione primordiale del respiro attraverso il loro coinvolgimento personale, fisico ed emozionale, immersi in uno straordinario luogo di visione e d’ascolto.
Breathing Staircases offre uno spazio d’esperienza orizzontale e verticale attraverso un movimento fluido e inclusivo: espressione dell’Universo Singolare e Collettivo del quale tutti coloro che vi accedono, divengono parte attiva e consapevole.
Il collettivo One&Seven è composto da: gli artisti multimediali Silvio Wolf e Lisa di Donato, il fotografo James Weber, lo scultore Leah Poller, gli artisti Farah Marie Velten e Judith Lipton e il fotografo/ attivista Rick Raymond
L’opera è stata realizzata con il generoso contributo di: MEET Digital Cuture Center,School of Visual Arts (SVA – New York City), Istituto Europeo di Design (IED – Milano).
Con la collaborazione di:
– Davide Sgalippa: Direttore con Rossella Bertolazzi della Scuola di Arti Visive IED Milano; docente presso IED Milano e l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo; exhibition e multimedia designer del gruppo TheBuss
– Marco Ferrari: Digital Designer; progettista video e audio presso IED Milano
– Solian Clerici: Exhibition and Light Designer presso IED Milano e TheBuss
– Epson: partner tecnico
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