alessandro carboni portfolio 2014

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Interdisciplinary artist, Alessandro Carboni addresses his research paths on multiple domains both from theoretical and practical studies. His experience, gained as a visual artist and performer, focuses on the body and its relationship with space. Its practices were consolidated over the years through a method as toolkit for urban mapping and performance. This toolkit defines a sequence of steps and processes that builds on ethnographic data collection, field work practices, network analysis, visual art and performance. His works are interdisciplinary mappings that represent places that the artist reshapes and weaves according to the different stages stimulated by specific urban contingencies. The research materials and collected data, produced during the long periods of work and residence in selected urban areas, are accumulated in an archive that is transformed into visual works and body performance.

After an education in visual arts and performance between Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence and Central Saint Martins in London, he has developed many projects, exhibitions, performances at festivals, museums and galleries in Europe, USA, Hong Kong, India and China. He has worked with: School of Architecture, Hong Kong; School of Performance, University of Kerala, Trichur, India; Central Saint Martin’s University of Art Londra; Ciant, Praga; NABA, Milano; S.T.E.I.M, Amsterdam; FestArch festival Internazionale di Architettura; CCDC, Hong Kong; 1aSpace Hong Kong; Mediadanse – Département Danse de l’Université Paris-VIII; NewSchool University, New York; Dept.Architecture Tamkang University, Taipei; Master di Alta Formazione sull’Immagine Contemporanea, Fondazione Fotografia, Modena; IRESA, Sousse University – Tunisia. On the occasion of 13th Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition, Alessandro Carboni has participated at the Hong Kong Pavillion opening ceremony with the performance Learning Curves-Kaitak River. At the moment he’s developing a PhD at the School of Creative Media, City University, Hong Kong.

PROJECT

AS IF WE WERE DUST - (2014)

As if we were dust – (2014)Research and performance: Alessandro Carboniwith the participation of the group Phrenassistant project: Chiara Castaldiniproduction secretary: Cristina Gervasiin collaboration with: Centro Mousikè, Studio RP, Museo del Patrimonio Industriale, Roveri Costruzioni s.r.lThe actions of the perfomer and the dancers are based on the application of EM:toolkit, a compositional urban mapping tool for performance developed and systematized by myself.

AS IF WE WERE DUST - (2014)

REMAPPING EXTREME LAND - (2014)remapping extreme land # gagliano del capoaccording to my personal geographyproject by alessandro carbonidirection, research, mapping, performance, editing: alessandro carbonidocumentation and photography: luca coclide, abdi yacine benseddik and francesca marconisecretary, assistant and press office: cristina gervasiassistance: annapaola prestasupport: my family and all people from gaglianothe project remapping extreme lands# has been developed in the frame of Indagine sulle Terre Estreme, produced and curated by Ramdom. Direction, Paolo Mele. Progetto GAP is curated by Francesca Marconi.

A site specific exploration around the landscape of Salento – specifically the area around Gagliano del Capo – on different geographical scales. On the one hand, the artist focuses on interdisciplinary exploration that led him to discover the paths along the coast and inland, either on foot or by boat, with the use of various media such as field recording, photographs and video. On the other hand, the exploration carries out on a human scale: this allows the artist to understand the area’s history through the stories of the people encountered in the period of residence. During the meetings, the participants are guided in the creation of a shared map of the area around Gagliano del Capo. This dialogue and exchange allowa the artist to collect materials, experiences and stories that relate to the coast and the land, and use them as ideas for the creation of the event and final performance. The project remapping extreme lands# is developed in the frame of Indagine sulle Terre Estreme, in the frame of GAP, produced and curated by Ramdom.

REMAPPING EXTREME LAND - (2014)

LEARNING CURVES - (2013 - on going)Interdisciplinary research project on places of contact between natural and urban landscape.The rivers is the place of contact between two points: the natural landscape, and the artificial landscape, the result of the effects of production, of social, cultural and environment. A river is the element of transformation: a concrete landscape system, or an element in equilibrium in which all the natural and artificial elements can be variously connected.

LEARNING CURVES/LIzhiwan Creek, Guangzhou (2013)

During a period of exploration Alessandro Carboni explored the area along the creek on different geographical scales. On the one hand, interdisciplinary exploration led him to discover the paths along the canal with the use of various media such as field recordings, photographs and videos; on the other hand, exploration was carried out on a human scale: through interviews with researchers and local inhabitants from Pantang village, characterized by the exchange between the people and the artist, in which ideas have emerged and points of view on the history of Lizhiwan Creek and its current status. This time of sharing, allowed the artist to collect materials, experiences and stories about the canal, and use them as inspiration for the installation and the performance.During the exploration of some ruined part of Pantang village, Alessandro collected old bricks in which they are used for the creation of miniature map of the territory. The entire project attempt to create a visual, geographical, historical and personal point of view of Lizhiwan Creek and its current status.

Research and project: Alessandro CarboniAssistance: Francesca FrassoldatiSecretary: Cristina GervasiThanks to: Liang Family and Pantang villageProduction: Formati Sensibili 2013Learning Curves/Lizhiwan Creek has been hosted in residence and supported by South China University of Technology (Guangzhou, PRC)The project has been developed in the frame of the exhibition: Watersheds, the narrative of the recycle process in a waterborne urban space, 2013-14 Hong Kong and Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture01-20/11 - Residence in Guangzhou, China07/12 -Installation and performance @ Watersheds exhibition, Urban Border Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture 2013Website: http://learningcurveslizhiwancreek.wordpress.com/

LEARNING CURVES/LIzhiwan Creek, Guangzhou (2013)

LEARNING CURVES/Shing Mun River, Hong Kong - (2013)

The new stage of Learning Curves takes place in Hong Kong and focuses on the Shing Mun River. The project intends to focus the research on the transformation of the landscape caused by major land reclamation that irrevocably changed the Shatin area. The dramatic human activity around the Shatin area, which started at the beginning of the 1970s due to land reclamation and extension over the sea, transformed the villages into the biggest residential urban agglomerate in Hong Kong.

Website: http://learningcurveshingmunriver.wordpress.com/

Project by Alessandro CarboniAssistance: Li Wai Mei and Cristina GervasiTranslation in English: Andrea ScalasPhotography and graphic: Alessandro CarboniRecording assistance: Jacklam Ho and Dylan KwonSpecial thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Choy Hon SumAlessandro reportage has been published for the Italian magazine Frontierenews.itLearning Curves/ Shing Mun River has been developed in the frame of The Library by soundpocket artist in residence

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LEARNING CURVES/Shing Mun River, Hong Kong - (2013)

LEARNING CURVES/Kaitak River, Hong Kong - (2008 - 2012)

KAITAK RIVER, Hong KongSince 2008, Alessandro Carboni has been working around Kai Tak River, Hong Kong focusing his research on Nga Tsin Wai village, one of the latest rural villages in Kowloon. Taking this as a point of departure, Carboni has been examining local disappearing urban spaces, which overlap with several discrete boundaries within Kai Tak River, Kowloon Walled City and To Kwa Wan. The project aims not merely to show the general phenomenon of urban transformation, but to inspire people to consider how art practice, being a discipline for active production of thinking, affects the city and how it respond to our bodies and spaces. The urban river redevelopment becomes a metaphor for change of a whole community.

website: http://learningcurveskaitakriver.wordpress.com/

Project by Alessadro Carboniwith the support:Urban Place Unit – Wallace Chang Ping Hung, Hong Kongthe Unit for Community Building is formally part of the Department of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong.1aspace Gallery, Hong KongCity Contemporary Dance Company, CCDC, Hong Kong

http://learningcurveskaitakriver.wordpress.com/

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a geo-sketching performance by Alessandro Carbonifrom Learning Curves Asia - Overlapping Discrete Boundaries projectA mental geography reconstruction of places, perceptions and fragments of a research journey around Kaitak River. City, bodies, urban transformation, tensions that animate social change are transformed in a "geo-sketching" object media base performance. River and urban space are reduced as miniature in a which a table became a map of a human landscape.

DIARY OF A BODY MAPPING, KAITAK RIVERProject and performance by Alessandro Carboni

A mental geography reconstruction of places, perceptions and fragments of a research journey around landscapes. City, bodies, urban transformation, tensions that animate social change are transformed in a "geo-sketching" object media base performance. River and urban space are reduced as miniature in a which a table became a map of a human landscape.

GEO SKETCHING (2012)

DIARY OF A BODY MAPPING, KAITAK RIVER - 012GEO SKETCHING (2012)

DIARY OF A BODY MAPPING, KAITAK RIVER - 202GEO SKETCHING (2012)

GEO SKETCHING (2012)

LEARNING CURVES/Kaitak River, Hong Kong - (2008 - 2012)

Learning CurvesLEARNING CURVES/ Magra River, Lunigiana La Spezia- (2013)

MAGRA RIVER, Lunigiana/La SpeziaDuring a period of residence Alessandro Carboni explored the area along the river Magra on different geographical scales. On the one hand, interdisciplinary exploration led him to discover the paths along the river with the use of various media such as field recordings, photographs and videos; on the other hand, exploration was carried out on a human scale: through two workshops for children and adults made in Arcola, characterized by the exchange between the participants and the artist, times when ideas have emerged and points of view on the history of the Magra and its current status . Through the creation of a miniature map of the territory, the participants were told the river Magra from a geographical point of view, historical and personal. This time of sharing, allowed the artist to collect materials, experiences and stories about the river, and use them as inspiration for the creation and performance.

http://learningcurvesmagrariver.wordpress.com/

Research and project: Alessandro CarboniAssistance and secretary: Cristina GervasiThanks to: Tue Greenfort, Tiziano Bonini, Sara Dughetti, Federico Bacci and Comune di ArcolaProduction: Formati Sensibili 2013Learning Curves/Magra has been hosted in residence by CastelloInMovimento, FosdinovoThe project has been developed in the frame of Lo Spazio Inventato an event that aims to involve the city in a movement of cultural appropriation through supportive housing spaces, this summer will be the historic stairways of La Spezia.

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Learning CurvesLEARNING CURVES/ Magra River, Lunigiana La Spezia- (2013)

Learning CurvesLEARNING CURVES/Danshui River, Taipei - (2011)

DANSHUI River, TaipeiThe Danshui River is the largest river in Taipei. It crosses all urban area and goes into the South China Sea. An urban exploration of Zhuwei community living around Plum tree stream connected to Danshui River. The research process is focused on sustainable and multidisciplinary strategies proposals of how to revitalize the polluted condition of Plum-Tree-Stream. During the residency program Alessandro Carboni conducted research, workshops at the Department of Architecture of Tamkang University and lectures at Tamsui historical museum. He also produced urban action and several works about the neighborhood existing condition and local history.Hosted by Bamboo Curtain Studio Art in Residence Program, Taipei.

http://learningcurvesdanshuiriver.wordpress.com/

Learning CurvesLEARNING CURVES/Danshui River, Taipei - (2011)

OVERLAPPING DISCRETE BOUNDARIES ASIA - exhibition (video, installation and sound) 2013

MY CARTHOGRAPHY THEORY OF NOWHERE - exhibition 2013

MY CARTOGRAPHY’S THEORY OF NOWHERE (2012)

My Cartography's Theory of Nowhere is a work that tells a visual journey through the works of the Galleria Comunale of Cagliari. The artist has designed this space as a place to explore and the works as territories to follow, and to relate. The work carried out is constituted by three maps in glass which are suspended vertically in the middle of a corridor and horizontally on a table. During the observation, the transparency of glass allows the visitor to observe the signs and the map and at the same time to include in its frame elements which are located in the space. My Cartography's Theory of Nowhere becomes a device capable of integrating the background, or the landscape within itself. In the Galleria Comunale, the works already become the landscape which is inserted inside. The maps created are therefore not only the two-dimensional representation of space, but they are also the three-dimensional image of a place. In the work space and place converge in one spatial dimension: the frame. Infinitely many points of view are intended to include in it a background-landscape always different.

MY CARTHOGRAPHY THEORY OF NOWHERE - exhibition 2013

ON FORMATION OF CLOUDS (2012)Landscape exploration between sky and earthis part of Learning Curves interdisciplinary project by Alessandro CarboniOn formation of clouds is focuses on the study of water cycle in various states of transformation. An interdisciplinary exploration of Italian Alps: Valeille, Val di Cogne, a description of places, territories, a collection of materials, sound, images. A “progressive archive” remodulated in a visual sound and movement performance. On formation of clouds is a creative residence made in collaboration with Museo Forte di Bard and Riccardo Mantelli.

ON FORMATION OF CLOUDS (2012)

OVERLAPPING DISCRETE BOUNDARIES - ASIA Tour (2010)An interdisciplinary research project that explores the urban transformations in specific palces and territories around Foshan, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hanoi, Ho Chi Mihn City,: a meditation on the changes in contemporary society through a study on the body and its anthropological and socio-cultural transformations in urban space. Overlapping Discrete Boundaries was developed in Asia in 2010.. The research focuses on the relationship of city and human landscape transformation around Asian metropolies. The research has been produced in the frame of ”Focus on Art and Science in the Performing Arts” with the support of the Cultural Program of the European Commission and Nao – Nuovi Autori Oggi.http://learningcurvesasia.wordpress.com/

During the trip, Alessandro Carboni has used an interdisciplinary methodology of mapping and analysis of urban space, which he invented, which runs through the visual arts, performance, architecture, urban sociology, cognitive science and new technologies. A “haptic topography” which has shifted from time to time, in various procedural stages, in the specific urban contingencies.

OVERLAPPING DISCRETE BOUNDARIES - (on going)

Research Team:Alessandro Carboni: concept, research and explorations

Riccardo Mantelli: urban proximity detector

Dickson Dee, Kembo: video documentation

Elisa Poli: scientific contribution

Production: Formati Sensibili

The project is "Focus on Art and Science in the

Performing Arts with the support of the Cultural Program of the European Commission and Nao – Nuovi Autori Oggi

Partners:

School of Architecture, Hong Kong

NoiseAsia, Hong Kong

Nanihin Art Centre, Foshan

Performing Art Centre - Switch On, Kuala Lumpur

Osage Gallery, Singapore

Youth Centre, Ho Chin Minh City

HanoiSoundstuff Festival, Hanoi

LaDU / Urban Density Laboratory-Faculty of Architecture, Cagliari

Fabbrica Europa, Florence

Digital D3D_Master Environment_NABA, Milan

OVERLAPPING DISCRETE BOUNDARIES - ASIA Tour (2010)

OVERLAPPING DISCRETE BOUNDARIES - ASIA Tour/ FOSHAN (2010)

FOSHAN 23° 1′ 0″ N, 113° 7′ 0″ EAfter Shenzhen and Guangzhou, Foshan is the third largest city in the Pearl River Delta. Once famous for the production of porcelain, recently, due to the economic boom in China, Foshan city has undergone a urban, social, economic transformation very fast at times disjointed and schizophrenic. An analysis of urban stratification and social change around the Pearl River Delta and Shunde district.

OVERLAPPING DISCRETE BOUNDARIES - ASIA Tour/ FOSHAN (2010)

FOSHAN 23° 1′ 0″ N, 113° 7′ 0″ E

OVERLAPPING DISCRETE BOUNDARIES - ASIA Tour/ KUALA LUMPUR (2010)

KUALA LUMPUR 3° 8′ 8.52″ N, 101° 41′ 16.8″ EKampung Baru is a urban village in downtown Kuala Lumpur. Over the years it has become a major urban area not only for the interest of large construction companies, but also for its political and religious value: in the area live the oldest Muslim communities in the nation. A urban exploration of the the Klang River where the oldest mosque in Kuala Lumpur is located and reflection on the changing Muslim identity.

OVERLAPPING DISCRETE BOUNDARIES - ASIA Tour/ KUALA LUMPUR (2010)

OVERLAPPING DISCRETE BOUNDARIES - ASIA Tour/ SINGAPORE (2010)

SINGAPORE 1° 18′ 0″ N, 103° 48′ 0″ EThe southern part of the main island of Singapore is fully urbanised and densely populated. Around the centre of the city however have expanded the so-called “new town” in which lives 86% of the total population. An exploration of Queenstown, the oldest New Town of the City. A urban action of 24 hours in the Food Court, perhaps the only real social space left in the whole area. Here the people of Queenstown, meet, eat, share tables and spend most of their time.

OVERLAPPING DISCRETE BOUNDARIES - ASIA Tour/ SINGAPORE (2010)

FOSHAN 23° 1′ 0″ N, 113° 7′ 0″ ESINGAPORE 1° 18′ 0″ N, 103° 48′ 0″ E

OVERLAPPING DISCRETE BOUNDARIES - ASIA Tour/ HO CHIN MNH CITY (2010)

HO CHIN MINH CITY 10° 46′ 10″ N, 106° 40′ 55″ EHo Chi Minh City has become the largest urban centre of southern Vietnam. An exploration inside the communities that live around the Kênh Tàu HU (TofuCanal), the channel that runs through the District 8, which, since its black, polluted, dense and impenetrable colour was nicknamed Black Canal.

OVERLAPPING DISCRETE BOUNDARIES - ASIA Tour/ HO CHIN MNH CITY (2010)


HANOI 21° 2′ 0″ N, 105° 51′ 0″ EHanoi is one of the new global cities of the 21st century. Political, economic, touristic and cultural centre, Hanoi has recently entered into competition with the neighbouring cities of South East Asia and in the last 10 years, with the thriving southern region of China. The increasing urbanisation, rapid industrialisation and the resulting economic expansion, have transformed the city in a radical way. An exploration on the floating village born under the Long Bien Bridge, a symbol of the ancient Hanoi.

HARMONOLAND (2012)Conference-performance and Alessandro Carbonifrom Overlapping Discrete Boundaries Project - AsiaHarmonoland is a mental geography reconstruction of places, perceptions, and fragments of a research trip, between several cities in Asia. City, bodies, urban transformation, tensions that animate crowds of change are told in a lecture-performance, by Alessandro Carboni interested in the human landscape, in particular to the body and its relationship with space.

LAU NAY (2011)

Concept, coreography and object-media base: Alessandro Carboni Dance: Sayaka Kaiwa Light design: Enzo Fascetto Sivillo Fascetto Music: Dickson DeeInteractive system: z25.org and Emanuele LomelloProduction: Formati Sensibili 2011 - Nao–Nuovi Autori Oggi Supporto: LaDU Laboratorio Densità Urbana–Facoltà Architettura ,Cagliari|; NoiseAsia ,HongKong – WallaceChang-School of Architecture of Hong Kong The Performance has been developed in the frame of “Focus on Art and Science in the Performing Arts” with the support of the Cultural Program of the European Commission.

From Overlapping Discrete Boundaries Project - AsiaA reconstruction of places, perceptions, and fragments of a research trip, between several cities in Asia. City, bodies, urban transformation, tensions that animate crowds of change are represented in an object media base performance.

LAU NAY (2011)

RETHINKING HUMAN ENERGIES - 2010

Passing from a Southeast Asian metropolis to a remote village in Abruzzo can create dislocation and estrangement in the traveller-type of the XXI century. But it can also be important to outline guidelines of an alternative working method to land, for example, a new treaty of geography, to identify unusual similarities and unforeseen tensions and friction that can arise only with comparison of reality of antipodes. The project aims to reveal tensions and energies of the relationship between people and city through an experimental and multidisciplinary practice of exploration. A reconstruction of a "geography" using body as a tool for analysis of space. [fragment] A progressive archive of places, perceptions and mnemonic fragments through action, performance, object-media base installation, images, video, articles and reports. The multidisciplinary artist spent almost a month in residence in the small village of Guilmi (Ch), Abruzzo. The research focused on the concept of “human energy” related to the unstoppable demography decreasing process on village: only 100 people still living in the village. The research defined in several stages, included actions in urban and rural areas and direct meeting, workshops and and collective work-installation in collaboration with the local inhabitants.

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Rural landscape exploration in Gulmi (Ch), a small village situated amid the hills of Vasto. RETHINKING HUMAN ENERGIES (2010 - ongoing)

RETHINKING HUMAN ENERGIES (2010 - on going)

Research project exploring in particular the mediated relationship between body and urban environment. It has three main interrelated objects of research and it is developed through a creative dialogue between the relative practices: choreography, urban geography-visual art and communication technologies intertwined in an emergent disciplinary field dealing with the human body, the city and the generative code.

WHAT BURNS NEVER RETURNS (2007-2009)

Research Team:

Alessandro Carboni: concept, research, exploration and

performance

Riccardo Mantelli: generative code:

Lorenzo Tripodi: walker and urban trajectories

Danilo Casti: soundlandscape

in collaboration with: WBNR- Laboratorio su densità e

trasformazione urbana, Facoltà di Architettura Cagliari

Production npa Officina Ouroboros 08

Partners:

in the frame of Moving_Movimento

un progetto di Fabbrica Europa; Festival Santarcangelo dei

Teatri, Santarcangelo; Giardino Chiuso / Teatro dei Leggieri,

San Gimignano; Officina Giovani / Cantieri Culturali ex Macelli,

Prato; Assessorato alla Cultura e alle Politiche Giovanili del

Comune di Prato

support:

Central Saint Martin's University of Art - Londra

Dipartimento Architettura - Università di Cagliari

Conservatorio Palestrina di Cagliari

Associazione ArCoEs -Cagliari



A performance research about the phenomenon of “high-speed urbanization” in the most disarticulated forms of urban density. The project has been developed through a collaborative platforms of research in which, a wide range of contributors, had enriched the basic artistic and technical competencies. Urban researchers, media artists, theorists and software programmers, had leaded a both a performance production and a theoretical contribution.

http://whatburnsneverreturns.wordpress.com

Concept, performance and object media-base: Alessandro CarboniTechnical assistance: Fabio AtzeniProduction | Formati SensibiliCo-production: 1a space (Hong Kong); partnership programme | CCDC Dance Centre (Hong Kong)Support: Wallace Chang-School of Architecture, CUHK), Choi Yan Chi (1a space), Tse Yin Mo (Art Product Promotion), Anthony Siu Kwok-Kin (Research Institute of China. History and Department of Chinese), Wing Sze Blake (Community Development), Leung sik-lun (Vice-president of Nga tsin Wai community)

INVERSE POWER OF WAVELENGHTS (2009)From What Burns Never Returns projectAn investigation on the relationship between city and body and how it is able to shape the city and how it is transformed in relation to urban transformation. The performance attempt to rethink the urban space, not as something given, but as a place of experience and production in the body, in its various specific aspects, becomes the agent of change and fulcrum of discussion. Inverse Power of Wavelengths is a hybrid territory and cross-disciplinary experimentation in which the observation and documentation urban are the key elements of a performing and visual interpretation.

INVERSE POWER OF WAVELENGHTS (2009)

Research, choreography and interpretation: Alessandro CarboniMusic: Danilo CastiLight design: Cinzia NiedduTechnical assistance: Fabio AtzeniProduction: N.P.A Officina Ouroboros 07, University of Art Central Saint Martin’s, Londra; School of Drama University of Calicut di Thrissur, India; Santarcangelo 07 International Festival of the Arts; L’arboreto - Teatro Dimora, Mondaino

ABQ - Mechanical extention in four arithmetic operations (2007)

From From Quad to Zero projectABQ is a performance inspired by Quad (Samuel Beckett), the concept of Zero and Classical south Indian dance movement. The performance attempt to place various and deep questions on the using of the number in choreography processes.

ABQ - Mechanical extention in four arithmetic operations (2007)

LIKE HOT AIR BALOON (2012)

SEARCHING FOR ESTIMATE SPACE – (2008)

Installation and performanceDimension: L.1200cm, W.6000cm, D.700cm Mixed media: wood and sandPerformers: Song Nan; Cheung Sau King; Tsui Ivy Yit Chit; Tong Wai Chun Mayson

KNOT (2007)

KNOT - videoby Alessandro Carboni and Simone LeccaProduction: N.P.A Officina Ouroboros 2007Supportt: Central Saint Martin's University of Art, London.Research, Choreography and interpretation: Alessandro CarboniVideo direction and editing: Simone LeccaDuration: 10.43minOriginal Format: DVpalAwards, First prize of Premio Riccione TTV - Concorso Italia “Nuovi Talenti” 08

FROM QUAD TO ZERO (2006)Research project has investigated Quad by Samuel Beckett through a research around the concept of Zero and Classical south Indian dance movement in an attempt to place various and deep questions on the using of the number in choreography processes.fromquadtozero.wordpress.com

The research investigates the concept of zero, regarding its implementation on the creation and application of a methodology for performance. The concept of zero originated in Ancient India. Through a long journey crossing China and Middle East, it arrived in Europe. The objective of the research is to analyse the zero and the frame of historical, conceptual and methodological references it affords. In encountering of the state of “absence”, Alessandro Carboni have been considering the geographic movement of the zero, from two points East to West. They traced an axis taking the opposite route, West to East, searching the origin of the zero in the contemporary India, China and Middle East.

OVERLAPPING DISCRETE BOUNDARIES - (on going)

Research Team:Alessandro Carboni: concept, research and choreography

Ligia: dance

Vinod: dance

Production: N.P.A Officina Ouroboros Teatro

Partners:

Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design in London;School of Drama-University of Calicut in Thrissur, Kerala, India.

FROM QUAD TO ZERO (2006)

FROM QUAD TO ZERO (2006)

Leading workshop at School of Drama, Trichur

Starting from the study of sequences and movement patterns of the classical dances of South India, but also inspired by a study of Vedic mathematics, FROM QUAD TO ZERO interrogates the relationship between the number in relation with choreographic composition processes. This investigation leads to the meeting with Quad, work of Samuel Beckett and the concept of zero and its origins. The research aimed to questioning the idea of representation in dance of the zero as empty, void and inconsistency material

Urban exploration developed during a residence in Amsterdam – Docklands Noord Werf. The body is the module of space exploration. Body exploration Alessandro CarboniSound exploration: Danilo CastiIn collaboration with: Ogino KnaussProduction: Steim; Stubnitz; Movin' Up – Gai; Officina Ouroboros

DOCK K CODE (2005)

DOCK K CODE (2005)

ETIMO (2005)

From Climax project with ooffouro

Choreography and Interpretation: Alessandro CarboniMusic: Danilo CastiAssistance and Light: Cinzia NiedduProduction: N.P.A Officina Ouroboros 05

ETIMO (2005)

ABQ - Mechanical extention in four arithmetic operations EPIGENESI (2004)


Choreography and Interpretation: Alessandro CarboniMusic: Danilo CastiAssistance and Light: Pavla BeranovaProduction: N.P.A Officina Ouroboros 04; Divadlo29 (Czech Republic);

EPIGENESI (2004)

ABQ - Mechanical extention in four arithmetic operations THE VISION OF THE WORLD THROUGH AN INSTANT (2003)


Choreography and interpretation: Alessandro CarboniMusic: Danilo Castiimages and Light: Alessandro Carboni Production: N.P.A Officina Ouroboros 03;

EXERCISE OF COMBINATIONS (2002-2005)


Choreography and interpretation: Alessandro CarboniMusic: Danilo Castiimages and Light: Alessandro Carboni Production: N.P.A Officina Ouroboros 03;

HORIZON (video series) – 2012

Horizon – Video seriesDrawing by Alessandro CarboniDuration: 1.43min

COMPLEX BODY NETWORKS - (2013 - on going)Research that brings together the world of the Science of Complex Networks, the experimental performance, architecture, urban geography, cognitive science and visual arts. The research studies are focused on society as a Complex Network of relationships between bodies, which in turn are themselves Complex Systems, which are divided into movements, gestures and postures, deep-rooted and evolved through millennia of stratification and social interactions. The theory of Complex Networks offers a universal vision which provides different levels of description, macroscopic / microscopic, that interact and influence each other. Devices and sensors of all kinds are with us and track our movements and our urban trajectories opening a brand new opportunity to study human behavior. At the moment, the project is part of Alessandro Carboni PhD research programme at the School of Creative Media, City University, Hong Kong.http://complexbodynetworks.wordpress.com/

PERFORMING URBAN COMPLEXITY - (2014 - 2016)Performing Urban Complexity, is an investigation about body, space, cartography, mapping and complexity. Considering the ways that cities are defined as complex system

and concurrent processes of mapping. I focus on how human body can be used as a mapping tool that collects and translates data from and with the city into body

performance. Considering mapping as result of certain effects upon perceptions and practices of space, my research proposes a new methodological toolkit for urban mapping

for performance, informed by self-reflective practice and Action Research strategies. This novel toolkit defines a sequence of steps and processes that researchers and

practitioners can use that builds on ethnographic data collection, field work practices, network analysis and performance. At the moment, the project is part of Alessandro

Carboni PhD programme at the School of Creative Media, City University, Hong Kong. http://spaceasprocess.wordpress.com/

ANTI MAP LAB (2010-2013)workshop on creative spatial exploration techniques

Anti Map Lab - From objective map to subjective is created for the purpose of reflect upon and revising existing norms, conventions and forms of practices in the

relation between performance, city, urban geography, visual art and generative code.

ANTI MAP LAB (2010-2013)

ANTIMAP LAB (2010-2013)

VEDIC CHOREOGRAPHY CUBE TOOLVEDIC CHOREOGRAPHY CUBE TOOL (2005-2009)Choreography lab methodology. This methodology devises the joins of the human body in 8 colors where a cube is possible to be built up. Every cube’s angle represents one of these color-joins and give the potentiality of creating a dance sequence by using only one of the millions different possible cubes. The most important outcome of this methodology regard to perception of changing the way the body has learned to move by giving it new spurs based on this different logic.

According to this structure there are eight main elements in our body: head, shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, sacrum, hip, knee, feet. They can be used as a starting point in building up our choreography. Each part has a colour representative: white, yellow, orange, red, violet, brown, green, blue. Using these eight colours we can build a cube which illustrates all the relations and surfaces that we were going to use in our sequence. The structure of this geometrical body enables a performer to create many versions of its movements. Each of these relations can be read in a different way,therefore the variety of exploring this cube is endless.

VEDIC CHOREOGRAPHY CUBE TOOL (2005-2009)

VEDIC CHOREOGRAPHY CUBE TOOL

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