Fantasmagorico
2024
Environmental installation to be enjoyed through virtual reality headset
The intervention of the ME(A)LS duo, for the Infiorescienza project financed by the FVG region for scientific dissemination, is composed of a three-seat observation station, located in the first natural-artificial amphitheater after the visitor center of the Doberdó and Pietrarossa Lakes natural reserve.
Through vision in Virtual Reality, Fantasmagorico reflects on the concept of metamorphosis as an experiential enhancement of the human, nature and digital in which everyone's "biodiversity" is in constant movement, error, stratification and evolution.
Fantasmagoric, in fact, intends to rewrite the process of refunctionalization, absorption and personalization of pre-existing models, combining possible scenarios and cosmogonic imaginaries through incursions into dialogue scenes that enhance both the creative and fertile ambiguity of the context and the importance of dialogue human-natural hybrid to restructure visions of reality.
From the surreal to the real, towards the unimaginable.
We inhabit a Universe in which forms densely fill space, continuously exchanging qualities and dimensions and the flow of time is filled by a proliferation of stories and cycles of stories.
The fluidity of the metamorphic universe, in its representation and through its parts, is characterized by the incessant succession of changes and upheavals, capable of breaking every boundary and making every dichotomy regarding the structuring division between the human, natural and digital universe labile.
Starting from Lacan's quote "the real is the impossible", he defines as a static culmination that which already has a defined nature, in opposition to the potential energy of entities in (trans)formation.
The Fantasmagorico installation intends to exploit the intrinsic phenomenon of the permanence of the image on the retina to trace a missed act of existence, from which, through the reflection and active awareness of the user, create arbitrary, eclectic, hybrid, decentralized, fluid, discontinuous visions which continually rewrite the fact, making it unreal and therefore possible.
An iridescent reality, everchanging like the Reserve. A superficial and immersed reality, present and absent, like the Doberdò lake which appears and disappears, silent and disruptive.
Fantasmagorico is a natural and fantastic theater in constant movement, discussion and construction.
The user, therefore, is an active spectator in building new awareness and infinite scenarios: a Man-scientist, that is, a Man-observer and listener, in constant search of the iridescent and the mutable, of the fantastic.
The immersive installation, accessible one person at a time via VR device during the opening day and via personal mobile device for the rest of the exhibition, stands as a parallel in constant evolution and reorganization, changing in time and space.
Phantasmagoric, therefore, superimposes the gazes on the device. The digital medium becomes a third eye, an open potential in which to immerse yourself.
The interaction between individuals and between individuals and machine, provides a vast field of observation and action, only for those who actively suspend the unique to add themselves to the Other.
It is, therefore, through the crossing of glances that both, content and container, subject and object, internal and external, internal and external, word and image, come to life.
The real environment, brought back into the digital vision, becomes an experience capable of generating, through the element of water, complex relational paths, at multiple levels, which intertwine with each other.
The environment and the people who inhabit the space at that precise moment find new meaning in the possibility of being perceived and becoming Other, through the overlap between subject-object, between eye-device, between person-thing.
Through the story.
Listening.
The universe.
The landscape.
The water.
The Other.
Everything appears and disappears.
The image fades.
Subject or object?
Metamorphosis.
Testo critico a cura di Elena Manfrè
2024
Environmental installation to be enjoyed through virtual reality headset
The intervention of the ME(A)LS duo, for the Infiorescienza project financed by the FVG region for scientific dissemination, is composed of a three-seat observation station, located in the first natural-artificial amphitheater after the visitor center of the Doberdó and Pietrarossa Lakes natural reserve.
Through vision in Virtual Reality, Fantasmagorico reflects on the concept of metamorphosis as an experiential enhancement of the human, nature and digital in which everyone's "biodiversity" is in constant movement, error, stratification and evolution.
Fantasmagoric, in fact, intends to rewrite the process of refunctionalization, absorption and personalization of pre-existing models, combining possible scenarios and cosmogonic imaginaries through incursions into dialogue scenes that enhance both the creative and fertile ambiguity of the context and the importance of dialogue human-natural hybrid to restructure visions of reality.
From the surreal to the real, towards the unimaginable.
We inhabit a Universe in which forms densely fill space, continuously exchanging qualities and dimensions and the flow of time is filled by a proliferation of stories and cycles of stories.
The fluidity of the metamorphic universe, in its representation and through its parts, is characterized by the incessant succession of changes and upheavals, capable of breaking every boundary and making every dichotomy regarding the structuring division between the human, natural and digital universe labile.
Starting from Lacan's quote "the real is the impossible", he defines as a static culmination that which already has a defined nature, in opposition to the potential energy of entities in (trans)formation.
The Fantasmagorico installation intends to exploit the intrinsic phenomenon of the permanence of the image on the retina to trace a missed act of existence, from which, through the reflection and active awareness of the user, create arbitrary, eclectic, hybrid, decentralized, fluid, discontinuous visions which continually rewrite the fact, making it unreal and therefore possible.
An iridescent reality, everchanging like the Reserve. A superficial and immersed reality, present and absent, like the Doberdò lake which appears and disappears, silent and disruptive.
Fantasmagorico is a natural and fantastic theater in constant movement, discussion and construction.
The user, therefore, is an active spectator in building new awareness and infinite scenarios: a Man-scientist, that is, a Man-observer and listener, in constant search of the iridescent and the mutable, of the fantastic.
The immersive installation, accessible one person at a time via VR device during the opening day and via personal mobile device for the rest of the exhibition, stands as a parallel in constant evolution and reorganization, changing in time and space.
Phantasmagoric, therefore, superimposes the gazes on the device. The digital medium becomes a third eye, an open potential in which to immerse yourself.
The interaction between individuals and between individuals and machine, provides a vast field of observation and action, only for those who actively suspend the unique to add themselves to the Other.
It is, therefore, through the crossing of glances that both, content and container, subject and object, internal and external, internal and external, word and image, come to life.
The real environment, brought back into the digital vision, becomes an experience capable of generating, through the element of water, complex relational paths, at multiple levels, which intertwine with each other.
The environment and the people who inhabit the space at that precise moment find new meaning in the possibility of being perceived and becoming Other, through the overlap between subject-object, between eye-device, between person-thing.
Through the story.
Listening.
The universe.
The landscape.
The water.
The Other.
Everything appears and disappears.
The image fades.
Subject or object?
Metamorphosis.
Testo critico a cura di Elena Manfrè
