OGR YOU continues its cycle on October 9, 6 pm, Sala Duomo, with a special listening session by the duo Invernomuto, titled "Black Med". It marks the start of a new project, which premiered at Manifesta 12 (Palermo).

This is how the artists (Simone Bertuzzi and Simone Trabucchi, who live and work between Milan and Vernasca, PC) introduce it:

“The Mediterranean Sea, once understood as a fluid entity that aided the formation of networks and exchange, is now the scenario of heated geopolitical dispute. This ever-problematizing milieu is the battlefield for increasingly complex identities; the sonic trails emerging from the Mediterranean then, as scholar Iain Chambers puts it, “resist representation, propose an effective economy [that is] intrinsically diasporic.” Following Alessandra Di Maio’s adaptation of the Black Atlantic theory to the Mediterranean, Black Med aims at intercepting the trajectories that sounds trace passing through this protean area”.

The session consists of a music selection with a keynote presentation, explaining the backstories of each track.

Simone Bertuzzi (Piacenza, 1983) and Simone Trabucchi (Piacenza, 1982) collaborate as Invernomuto since 2003. Although their work focuses primarily on the moving image and sound, they also integrate sculpture, performance, and publishing into their practice. Their work has been shown at TATE (London), Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna), The MAC (Belfast), Nuit Blanche 2017 (Paris), Museion (Bozen), Pinksummer Gallery (Genova/Roma), Unsound Festival (Krakow), Kunstverein München (Munich), Bozar (Brussels), FAR° (Nyon), Centre d’Art Contemporain (Geneve), Bétonsalon (Paris), Live Arts Week V (Bologna), Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Addis Ababa), American Academy (Rome), Triennale (Milan), amongst others. Invernomuto is a MAXXI Bvlgari Prize 2018 finalist. Bertuzzi and Trabucchi have developed individual lines of research into sound with the outlets Palm Wine and STILL, respectively.

Their website: www.invernomuto.info

All OGR YOU events, curated by Barbara Casavecchia in collaboration with Sergey Kantsedal, are free and open to the public upon reservation.

 

Invernomuto, Black Med, 2018. Courtesy the artist