Minimalia

Context
The project was born for the second year in collaboration with the University of Udine, within the Festival di conoscenza in Festa. Our research deals with the minimal signals of human communication in a digital acceleration scenario. Faced with the proliferation of digital signals and the acceleration of relationship time, it seems that there are no longer any opportunities to stop and observe what is happening around us. The space of the relationship, stretched like a rubber band by our need to always be present, always available, always callable, is occupied by notifications, send keys, overloaded information.

Intervention 
DMAV, with Minimalia, a widespread and modular exhibition, explores the complexity of this scenario by mixing games of perception, obsessive rituals, digital mysticism, moments of enchanted contemplation.

There are two languages ​​of this intervention:

#MINIMALIA_LITTLE TOWN exhibition at MAKE Exhibition Space.

Minimalia_Little Town presents a series of photographic dioramas in which the play between proportions, enlargement, miniature, outsized objects, creates an effect of visual disorientation. What is the correct observation point in these out-of-scale landscapes? The environments of Little Town undoubtedly resemble places of affective and perceptive crossing, in which the inhabitants, intent on unclear activities and absorbed in vaguely neurotic rituals, enter into resonance with enormous screens on which images of a mysterious nature appear: they are projections of desires, hallucinations, lysergic visions? Perhaps the tiny inhabitants of Little Town want to send us a message, pushing us to identify with them starting from the influence exerted by the large images and the experience they are living. At the center of the dioramas, objects that resemble idols or relics of mysterious civilizations create a further element of emotional resonance, making us think that each image is nothing more than the missing piece of a mosaic which, if recomposed, would tell us something surprising about the inhabitants of this miniature city.

#MINIMALIA_TEXTURE Total Room in via delle Pelliccerie in Udine, immersive room.

Minimalia _Texture is an intervention of variable dimensions in which the space of the work becomes the place of apparitions readable on multiple levels. A background printed with natural motifs – which suggest a sensation of exoticism and contemplative calm – hosts the luminous apparition of a sort of pop skull. A skull immersed in a mysterious calculation: perhaps it is a countdown, or a body count of war victims destined to rise inexorably. The digital traces create a short circuit between full and empty, while the different forms that the texture can take – large installation, underground meditation space, room for full sensorial immersion – are so many declinations of a paradoxical experience of the contemporary sacred.

Side notes
This research on the theme of digital mysticism is the opportunity for the meeting between the Collective and Babatwoosh, an Icelandic digital mystic who will accept the invitation to perform for two DMAV performances in Italy.