Villa Lontana Records Bookshop Castello di Rivoli
30.06.2023 from 19:00 to 19:45
Villa Lontana Records live performance
Friday June 30, 2023 from 7pm to 7.45pm
In the bookshop a semi-permanent sound Installation by Michele Ferrari (1986)
Villa Lontana Records live performance is part of the interventions conceived by Paint It Black for Castello di Rivoli bookshop with the intention of stimulating new reflections on the possibilities of art publishing.
The live performance on Friday June 30 will include a selection of vinyls from the record label’s archive together with the playing of the Korg Electribe MX.
A semi-permanent sound installation by Michele Ferrari (1986) will also be presented inside the bookshop spaces. An unpublished site-specific audio including field-recordings deriving from a selection of some of the artist’s books of the publishing house Paint It Black. The sound of pages leafed through at varying speeds and intensities is superimposed on electromagnetic sounds recorded across the bookshop and the rooms of the Castello di Rivoli. This original soundscape titled BLCKRVL will activate during opening hours every fifty-nine minutes, for a total duration of approximately one minute.
Villa Lontana Records is an experimental, independent record label based in Rome, directed by Vittoria Bonifati and Michele Ferrari, which focuses on the production of new sounds, from electroacoustics to field-recordings and from electromagnetism to sound poetry. The label responds to Villa Lontana’s curatorial programme which includes exhibitions making, publications and artists’ editions.
Periodikum Magazine Showcase
Curated by Say Say Say, Inc.
Until July 17
The content of Periodikum Magazine, published by Say Say, Inc. is exhibited at the Castello’s bookshop in the showcases on the first floor.
PERIODIKUM is a biennial publication by Say Say Say, Inc. that presents a new reality by exploring wondrous visions of our outer and inner worlds. Because we believe, what we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. (We didn’t say this . . . Plutarch did.) The first issue “Six Poetical and Dialogical Strategies” acts as an invitation to introspection. In the form of “thought images”, it takes readers on a pop-cultural journey into our most hidden spaces. Those are composed as concealed worlds in different layers that deal with the unconscious and the enigmatic.
About Say Say Say, Inc.—Studio for Imagination
Periodikum was founded in Vienna by Say Say Say, Inc. an experimental design laboratory run by Artist Duo Jutta Wacht and René Poell. Say Say Say, Inc. explores unusual aspects of reality, constantly searching for new perspectives on the internal and future nature of objects and images moving between sensuality and logic, aesthetics and technology, pop culture and philosophy.