27-28-29 Nov 08 Location-The Foundry

In Obsessed About, words are repeated until they go beyond their original meaning to become textures and wordscapes. The words themselves lose their original meaning and are juxtaposed to create new cinematic sequences within reverberating orchestral and electronic and symphonic soundscapes. Alex Taylor has called these sequences music films.
"Obsessed about" is a collaboration between three artist: video artist Giulia Bacci, compositor Alex Taylor and dancer Laura Brera.
In 'Obsessed about' we use space as a mean to stimulate the viewer into seeing things from an unfamiliar perspective. In this work, flickering images are projected into a corner of a dark square room. The images become part of architecture. They exist in space and as space, while a highly amplified sound rumbles i the small space, along the walls, into the body of the viewer.

Making the invisible visible

Did you know that KLEENEX, one of the biggest facial tissue manufacturers, uses 100% virgin wood fibre that contains no recyled fibre?

Did you know that Tree-Free paper can provide an alternative to either recycled or virgin paper wood?

The materials that can produce organic Tree-Free paper tissue are: kenaf, hemp, bamboo, sugar cane, cotton ( from rags or rolls), agricultural residues (such as coffee, banana, rice, wheat, corn, and rye).

My project is based on ecological narratives, images and actions.
My aim is to be informed about the issues surrounding paper waste and the process of making a tissue.
Three weeks ago I did not know that we can make tissue-paper in a different way without using wood fibre - neither did any of the people that I have asked.
I decided to take political action and try to learn about environmental issues and then share this information with the people next to me because I believe that without information and knowledge it is difficult to change people’s attitudes and behaviors.

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Reflections

Something has been broken. Benjamin writes of the loss of the aura through the mechanical reproduction of art itself. The aura represents the originality and authenticity of a work of art that has not been reproduced. The destruction of tradition means the destruction of authenticity.
With the introduction of the camera something has been broken. I used the image of a broken mirror as the destruction of authenticity, which gives us fragmentation, distortion and an unusual perspective of a reflection of a reality.




My work is based on an alternation of still images and video that returns repeatedly in a variety of manifestations. The subjects are always positioned in front of the mirror, where they are forced to interact directly with reality. Initially they look at themselves in the mirror, around them we can see that there is movement, it is busy but it is silent, as they are concentrating on themselves, everything else around them is far away. Thus the mirror becomes a symbol of meditation in the relationship to time and space.. I tried to portray the imagination of the individual, and its potential to inhabit, reclaim or animate an idea or a space in order to create a new and subversive space .
My research began in the tension between image and self (personality) in the contemporary world.
Contemporary society is now saturated with fragmented and distorted abstractions of reality. Just look at any newsstand on any street and you will see that every magazine cover presents such distortions.

"The painter maintains in his work a natural distance from reality, the cameraman penetrates deeply into its web”. (Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction)

During my research I have discovered that an extreme manipulation and enlargement of an image can abstract the reality. As a result of this the photograph can be a new form of hallucination, that it is fake in the perception and real in the time, as a broken mirror can fragment, distort and modify your unconscious thoughts.
In conclusion I think that my fascination with the manipulation of the momentary image, fixed by the camera, drove me to question the authenticity of images and at the same time their mutability.

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