Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith and Philip Glass
MUMMER LOVE

October 24, 2025 – January 11, 2026
Corte Est | OGR Torino

Mummer Love is one of the two Luci d’Artista 2025 works commissioned by Fondazione CRT

Free admission

Hours
Monday – Thursday | 6 PM – 12 AM
Friday – Saturday | 6 PM – 2 AM
Sunday | 6 PM – 10 PM

 

Until January 11, 2026, the Corte Est of OGR Torino will be illuminated by Mummer Love, the site-specific audiovisual installation by the Soundwalk Collective, featuring the voice of Patti Smith and the music of Philip Glass.

Conceived as an immersive journey, Mummer Love originates from recordings made by Stephan Crasneanscki in Arthur Rimbaud’s house in Harar, Ethiopia, and from Sufi chants collected during the same expedition. Voices, sounds, and images evoke the French poet’s African period, recreating the mystical and sensory dimension of his quest.

Patti Smith’s voice, reading excerpts from Illuminations, intertwines with Philip Glass’s hypnotic notes to create a suspended soundscape — one made of inner rhythms and silences that heighten the perceptual experience. As in Rimbaud’s synesthetic writing, vision becomes a bodily experience: the visitor is invited to linger in the space, to listen, to be permeated by it.

Mummer Love represents the second chapter in the Perfect Vision cycle, a trilogy through which Soundwalk Collective has explored the poets of ecstasy (Rimbaud, René Daumal, and Antonin Artaud), delving into the threshold between word, spirituality, and perception.

“Through Sufi chants, one accesses other levels of self and consciousness.
This connection, like poetry, is a universal language.
A language of the soul, for the soul.”
— Stephan Crasneanscki

 

SOUNDWALK COLLECTIVE
Formed by artist Stephan Crasneanscki and producer Simone Merli, Soundwalk Collective integrates sound, film, and mixed media into site-specific artworks. Evolving along multidisciplinary lines, they have nurtured creative collaborations with, among others, artist and writer Patti Smith, filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, photographer Nan Goldin, choreographer Sasha Waltz, filmmaker and musician Jim Jarmusch, and actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg. Their work has been presented at institutions, festivals, and fairs including the Brooklyn Academy of Music (New York), CCB (Lisbon), Centre Pompidou (Paris), documenta (Kassel), FRIEZE (New York), kurimanzutto (New York), Manifesta (Palermo), Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin), Mendes Wood DM (São Paulo), MOT Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo), Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (Medellín), Onassis Stegi (Athens), Piknic (Seoul), and Volksbühne (Berlin).

CREDITS
Artistic direction: Stephan Crasneanscki, Patti Smith
Field recording, direction, cinematography: Stephan Crasneanscki
Voice: Patti Smith
Piano: Philip Glass
Recorded at: Electric Lady Studios, New York
Produced by: Soundwalk Collective with Leonardo Heiblum, Russell Elevado
Additional production: Simone Merli
Video production, multi-channel edit & grading: Pedro Maia
On-site production: Elena Origliasso
Audio engineer: Nicolò Foglia
Project management: Tessa Nijdam
Special thanks: Adrienne White, Leonardo Heiblum, Analogue Foundation, Bella Union, Dunvagen Music, kurimanzutto.

An adaptation commissioned by OGR Torino for Luci d’Artista.