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Masseria Torre Coccaro > 28th May 2011

Il colore del melograno (The Color of Pomegranates), La conferenza degli uccelli (The conference of the birds) and Ordan Karmir - Roberto Paci Dalò

For his intervention at Masseria Torre Coccaro, Roberto Paci Dalò decided to work  on the architectural structure of the ancient pigeon towers. By opening some split on the stone walls of the towers, drawing powerful light and shadows contrasts, he created spaces full of suggestive contemplative moods.  

The title Il colore del melograno (The Color of Pomegranates) is from a film recorderd by Sergej Paradjanov on1968, devoted to the life of the Armenian poet Sayat Nova, who lived in the Eighteenth century, La conferenza degli uccelli (The conference of the birds) is inspired by the title of the book written on 1177 by the mystic Iranian poet Farid al-Din Attar, where it tells the trip of the soul through the metaphor of the flight of a bird.

Ordan Karmir, the armenian word for the purplish-red pigment used for their fine textiles, is the title of the architectural, audio and video performance ideated by Roberto Paci Dalò for the opening of his two apulian installations: a large-scale video projection enveloping the entire fortified façade of  Masseria Torre Coccaro.

The everyday images of the place and  those of moving exotic  animals filmed at the Zoo of the nearby town, Fasano, had been overlapping and  melting on the XVII century building, while the sampled voice  of the turkish theologian and philosopher Boghos Levon Zekiyan reading armenian poems spread around, animating the night with its echoes, as well as the notes of the clarinet played live by Roberto Paci Dalò himselfs.

Ordan Karmir is a co-production of  Masseria Torre Coccaro and Giardini Pensili, in collaboration with Zoosafari /Fasano.


Roberto Paci Dalò births in Rimini, lives and works in Berlin and Vancouver
Composer and visual artist, he's interested in a multimedia approach of the art work, by defining his research as "dramaturgy of the media" and "theatre of the listening", going into the deep since at the beginning on the possibilities of interaction betwenn the digital and the analogue technology. He works as well through the performative arts as meeting point of different languages. Often he develops the same projects in different formats, with the aim t underline the communicative potential and the modalities of perception of different media, his research is internationally appreciated by artists, authors, composers and directors like John Cage and Aleksandr Sokurov. On 1993 he win the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD Prize, from 1985 he is the co-founder and artistic director of Giardini Pensili, the interdisciplinary organization of performative arts and media lab, births from the collaboration among artists, technicians and theoreticians who work on the relations among art, science and nature, and on the relation between body and the architectural elements. From the 2006 is also co-founder and art director of Velvet Factory of Rimini.

http://giardini.sm/rpd

www.velvet.it

download : "Julia Draganovic on Roberto Paci Dalò"

Roberto Paci Dalò ORDAN KARMIR (excerpts) from Giardini Pensili on Vimeo.

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