Ad Sidera

Ad sidera is a performative installation for one person at a time.
Ad sidera investigates the relationship between the individual and surrounding, "il circostante": from the human to the stars and the way round.
On the night of the 17th July 2013, Villa Mazzacorati-Aldrovandi's theatre turned into a place where to breathe the stars, where boundaries between the inside and the outside, near and far, past and present, has been blouted out in an experience of solitary contemplation.
The sound project of the installation has been developed in collaboration with INAF Bologna (Italian National Institute for Astrophysics) throughout a process of sonification of the data coming from the nowadays visible stars used to interpret the surrounding sounds of the Villa: the sound translation to let it exist.
The celestial map of the sky wrapping the Villa in 1763, year of its construction, was used to modulate the visible shape of the theatre.
The actions of two performers shaped the darkness of the place, as the two angels who unroll the sky in the Scrovegni Chapel by Giotto, moving with the attempt to tune up with the surrounding, revealing the reality of representation in the concreteness of reality.