do-around-the-world

Idea Parini Second
with Sissj Bassani, Martina Piazzi
field recordings and electronic sound Glauco Salvo
video and editing Pier Paolo Zimmermann
organization Margherita Alpini

Production Parini Secondo, Nexus Factory
with the contribution of the Ministry of Culture, Emilia-Romagna Region, Municipality of Bologna
with the support of parsec Bologna, ORA-Orobie artistic residencies (SO), ERASMUS +, Network Anticorpi XL, MarcRope Milano

duration: 20 minutes

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Through the activity of rope skipping, Parini Secondo together with Glauco Salvo and Pier Paolo Zimmermann creates a performative action and archival practice that ignites places by their inherent and veiled acoustic characteristics.

The instrument of skipping rope is used as an activator of acoustic events specific to places selected for their resonant power. So the video-tutorial, usually intended to emphasize the activity of the jumping subject, is instead used as an event that illuminates the environment, the frame in which the jumping is embedded. The gymnastic activity becomes an acoustic and visual meditative pretext, supported and conducted by Glauco Salvo’s subtle electronic interventions – lyrical and illusory glimpses provoked to hijack perception.

The group, following a few site surveys, selects spaces that have an interesting acoustic response toward rope skipping. After a few days of studying and observing the urban sound and light environment, they make a descriptive video fragment that will add to the ongoing collection that the artists have been carrying on since January 2023: an archive that narrates the technical progress in Parini Secondo’s skipping activity and recounts the geography of his research journey through Pier Paolo’s wide, static and sensitive shots and Glauco’s delicately altered field recordings and alienating perspectives.

At the conclusion of the days of research and study, they open to the public the performative device designed to bring live what happens in the archive by sensitizing perception to what the spaces and environments already offer.

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