ALIGNMENTS: WORKSHOP FOR SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL AWARENESS
May 27th 2023
Roberto Casti's workshop is dedicated to listening, speaking and writing, and is inspired by a number of readings, including Marlen Haushofer's The Wall and Eduardo Kohn's How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human.
In line with the artist's research, which focuses and sheds a light on the unnoticed, the marginal and what we normally consider irrelevant, participants will be invited to analyze and describe their surroundings (in this occasion, a park) from the recording and processing of data collected during their exploration. The aim of the workshop is a collective, shared, reconstruction of a landscape, forgoing conventional descriptions and disregarding sight, which is normally preponderant in such an exercise.
Sections of the workshop:
1. Collective reading of texts that can provide perspectivist examples.
2. Writing exercises, focusing on describing the surrounding landscape.
3. Collective sounds recording of the sites where the workshop takes place, starting point for an audio track stemming out of a collective project.
4. Translation of the perceived sounds in the space into drawings on the canvas.
The material produced during the workshop will feed into a publication signed by the artist and in a limited edition.
Where: Parco della Caffarella
May 27th, h 11.00
Number of participants: max 20
Cost: € 15
Bookings and further information email: info@iunoiuno.it
Roberto Casti (Iglesias, 1992) is an artist, musician and writer. He works and lives between Milan and Iglesias, in Sardinia. His artistic practice includes different media like video, performance, installation, painting and sound. His transdisciplinary project The Boys and Kifer, founded in 2014 as a fictional music band, investigates new ways of community and cohabitation, collaborating with different artists, theorists and musicians. He collaborated with different spaces and art institutions like MAN (Nuoro), FRAC (Corte, France), Marsèlleria (Milan), PAV - Parco Arte Vivente (Turin), OGR - Officine Grandi Ripar azioni (Turin), Academy of Fine Arts of Brera (Milan). He published articles for Nero On Theory, Kabul magazine and ArtsLife. In 2023 he participated in the publication of Soft Crash, collective book produced by MACRO (Rome).