Sense of Place

2015
Single-channel Video | Live A/V | Multi-channel Video Installation

The term “sense of place” may describe both an arrangement of features that makes a place unique and the sensation and perception of place as experienced by the living bodies that belong to it.
The body is our general medium for having a world and our relationship to space is inevitably connected with culture and shaped by the kind of bodies we have.

Sense of Place is one of the chapters of DROP.

A work by APOTROPIA
Dance: Antonella Mignone
Music: Cristiano Panepuccia

TRAILER

During the A/V Performance, video frames of city sequences are arranged in random order through the use of a software. Then, two different randomized flows are merged in order to create semi-abstract digitized architectures.
The randomization process occurs in real time, creating each time new and unique architectures that cannot be repeated.
Consequently, fragments of the digitized cities are mixed with a human body, which is involved in a process of digital dissolution.

"The body is our general medium for having a world” (M. Merleau-Ponty)

LIVE A/V PERFORMANCE EXCERPTS


SCREENINGS:

2018
- Bienal de Arte Digital, Rio de Janeiro - Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- International Competition for Intermedia Artwork, Kraków, Poland

2017
- The Digital Aesthetic in Utopia of Access: GradCAM@Research Pavilion - 57a Biennale di Venezia, The Inaugural Autonomous Biennale, Research Pavilion, Venice, Italy (Sense of Place: TOKYO)
- Blue Magpie Experimental Film Series, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
- flEXiff 2002-2022 The First and The Last Experimental International Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
- Images Contre Nature International festival of experimental video, Marseille, France
- Festival Internacional de Cine de Cali, Muestra de Muestras curated by Intermediaciones - Muestra de Videoarte y Video Experimental, Santiago de Cali, Colombia
- Filmideo, Index Art Center, Newark, New Jersey, USA
- Bugarte Festival de Cine y Artes Visuales, Guadalajara de Buga, Colombia
- Ferfilm International Film Festival, Ferizaj, Kosovo (Sense of Place: TOKYO)
- Athens Video Dance Project, Athens, Greece
- Noisefloor Festival, Staffordshire University, Stoke On Trent, UK

2016
- Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Manizales, Colombia
- C.A.R. Contemporary Art Ruhr / Media Art Fair, C.A.R. Video Lounge curated by Directors Lounge, World Heritage Site Zollverein, Essen, Germany
- 29th Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille, France
- Videoformes Festival International d’Arts Numériques, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- 29th Festival Les Instants Vidéo Global Opening curated by Marc Mercier, [.BOX], Milan, Italy
- Network C.A.R. V curated by Julia Murakami, GalleryJinsun, Seoul, South Korea
- Le Regole del Corpo. Norma e arbitrio curated by Piero Deggiovanni, Valeria Roncuzzi, Camilla Roversi Monaco, Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna, Italy
- InShadow - International Festival of Video, Performance and Technologies, Lisbon, Portugal
- Façade Video Festival, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
- Intermediaciones Videoarte y Video Experimental, Medellín, Colombia
- 48 Stunden Neukölln - Directors Lounge à la carte, Hi-ReS! Berlin, Germany
- Urban View, Poznań, Poland (Sense of Place: TOKYO)
- Bideodromo International Experimental Film and Video Festival, BilbaoArte Foundation, Bilbao, Spain
- Cineautopsia Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, Bogotá, Colombia
- Festival Video Arte nodoCCS, Caracas, Venezuela
- Cinetekton! Festival Internacional de Cine y Arquitectura, Puebla, Mexico (Sense of Place: TOKYO)
- Muestra CÓDEC / Festival de Vídeo y Creaciones Sonoras, Mexico City, Mexico

2015
- Art Fair Paratissima #11, Paravideo curated by Francesca Canfora & Cristina Marinelli, Torino Esposizioni, Turin, Italy
- FIVA Festival Internacional de Videoarte, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Prix du Carnet de Voyage Numérique, Clermont-Ferrand, France (Sense of Place: TOKYO)
- ER...VA 31 Artes performativas, Barcelona, Spain (A/V Performance)
- META-CINEMA curated by Piero Deggiovanni, Bologna, Italy
- PLAY Semana de Videoarte, Corrientes, Argentina
- CÓDEC Festival de Vídeo y Creaciones Sonoras, Mexico City, Mexico
- Interference Festival | Freedom of Form Audience Prize, Gdańsk, Poland
- LPM Live Performers Meeting, Rome, Italy (A/V Performance)
- Multiple Visions. One City, SET Spazio Eventi Tirso, Rome, Italy (First Study of Sense of Place: ROME)


AWARDS / HONORS:

2015 | Coup de Coeur - Prix du Carnet de Voyage Numérique, Clermont-Ferrand, France (Sense of Place: TOKYO)


APOTROPIA (Antonella Mignone + Cristiano Panepuccia) 2021