"Every authentic image has a shadow that constitues its double (Antonin
Artaud, Theatre and its Double)"

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http://www.areacom.it/remoterisonanze

THE TELEMATIC EVENT WILL HAPPEN ON THE 4TH OCTOBER 1997 FROM 6 P. M. TO
8 P.M. (MIDDLE EUROPE TIME ZONE)

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

The telematic event REMOTE RISONANZE is a project that is specific to a
local section of "Arte all'Arte," an exhibition born by an idea of
Luciano Pistoi. This exhibition is conceived like an interaction moment
between the main figures of contemporary art and some of the most
interesting natural and architectural places of the involved italian
countries.

REMOTE RISONANZE event is linked to the workshop of foam rubber
sculpture conduct by Piero Gilardi, guest artist in Alba. It is also
connected to the opening of the Social Theatre of Alba, a XIXth century
building that has been restored and expanded on the base of an
interesting and very innovative project of double mirror-like stage.

During the development of REMOTE RISONANZE Piero Gilardi, Gianni Corino
and Elisa Giaccardi worked on the idea of joining in a kind of resonance
the digital dimension of cyberspace and the spatial dimension of the
Social Theatre. The creations made during the workshop of Piero Gilardi
had to be the medium.

As is written in the dictionary ("resonance is the sound which is
produced in one object by sound waves coming from another object") our
intention is to "make vibrate" the substanceless body of Internet in the
historical space of Theatre, creating a bridge made of voices and words.

On Internet we have shaped a VR world which represents some places of
the Social Theatre, using the plans and diagrams that the architects who
had restorated the Theatre gave us. So what we shaped is a kind of
virtual "double" of the Social Theatre!

In this virtual space that you can explore, you will find some
anthropomorphic figures, the "characters" made during the workshop of
Piero Gilardi and now suspended in waiting bubbles. Moving yourself in
the virtual space in search of these phantasmagorical characters, you
can give voice to them with a simple click. In this way you will
activate the "voice" of great masters of the theatre (Brecht, Artaud,
Copeau…), and their voices will be heard in the Social Theatre too, in
a random combination of remote impulses. Unknown surfers of Internet
will start these readings which people of the theatrical world have
prepared. They are readings about the importance of opening new theatres
and new social places devoted to culture.

The bridge between the inside and the outside, the on-line and the
off-line, is pure orality, we have transitory voices that from the
virtual double of the Theatre come back to the real Theatre in Alba and
to their visitors. This passage happens thanks to the action, the
unconscious ambient direction, of unknown remote visitors or cyberspace
body.

REMOTE RISONANZE is the first event of RR PROJECT that is research and
experimentation of new theatrical and dramaturgical possibilities linked
to a complex and hybrid real-virtual dimension. The creation of a
virtual double or third stage want to continue the projectual line of
the restoration and expansion of the Social Theatre of Alba followed by
the architects.

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