ROMA – THE ROAD TO CONTEMPORARY ART
Sound Project
Special project by RAM, curated by Federica Bueti
Stand 06
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
2-5 April 2009
from 12 to 9 pm
The special project set up to coincide with participation in the Rome Contemporary Art Fair – The Road to Contemporary Art – follows the aim, promoted by RAM radioartemobile, to give space to and stimulate artistic experimentation in sound.
The project investigates acoustic space which, by definition, is immaterial yet which, with its presence, transcends the confines of the visible. The performative nature of sound is in fact a process in which the user activates perceptive phenomena through the act of moving within the space and throughout the duration of the event.
The RAM stand at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni has been transformed into a sound expansion suite which welcomes the spectator into a dark and entirely empty environment in which the spatial coordinates appear to have been nullified and only to be rebuilt thanks to a continuous sonar flux.
21 artists from the world of visual art as well as that of musical experimentation have been invited to produce an aural track lasting 2 minutes and conceived especially for the occasion. The result, consistent with the differences in generation and research, shows a multiplicity of points of view, of attitudes, which open an infinite series of vanishing points converging in the physical experience of the user.
With these sonar interventions, attention is focused on the dimension of listening, on the potential sound has to generate multiple perceptive modalities. Sound dilates the physical space of the Fair leaving its mark in the memory.
The sonar event, indeed, is not exhausted in its temporary and fleeting nature. It becomes an intense and, at times, casual exchange with the user. The architecture of the RAM space at the Rome Contemporary Art Fair thus becomes an expanded instrument (Max Neuhaus) for the production of new sensorial experiences, while the different aural tracks that it is composed of are none other than fragments of narration which are defined by an intense relationship based on exchange.
During the days of the Fair, the RAM house/stand will host Teatr’Arteria by Carlo Quartucci and Carla Tatò who will present the “Prologue” of their new 2009 Project: “Scenic Structure with Happy Tragedy in four acts” in the shadow of the myth of Don Quixote, a production in which RAM is proud to have collaborated.
