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Alterazioni video NIGHT TALK OF THE FORBIDDEN CITY china, 2007 exhibited: Night talk of the forbidden city #2 , Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia, Italy,2007 Night talk of the forbidden city, DDM Warehouse Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2007 link to related works: QR code series forbidden words series forbidden bags Matrix During their time in China, Alterazioni Video explored the topic of language, and the possible outcomes of the agreements between multinational communications companies and the state censorship system. The various "cells" of Alterazioni Video networked on a local basis using an anonymizer (a tool which guarantees anonymity while surfing), which enabled them to draw up a list of words and phrases prohibited on the main search engines and instant messenger programmes in use in China, with the aim of working out the semantic basis behind these filters. Alterazioni Video then put these terms back "into circulation", by printing the offending phrases on plastic bags, in English and Chinese, and handing them out free of charge on the streets of Shanghai, with the intention of restoring their full communicative potential. The exhibition includes a number of photos depicting this part of the project. The encounter between Alterazioni Video and Alighiero Boetti's work on linguistic codes and signs stimulated a more intellectually sophisticated project, "encrypting" its message on a literal and metaphoric level. Based on the idea that censorship has always driven linguistic evolution, Alterazioni Video utilized Boetti's work as a medium, a coding system which the art world was already familiar with, and which could therefore be used to convey this new message. The result is Matrice, ideograms etched onto printing stones which can be assembled in a grid, forming endlessly reproducing matrixes, and QR code series, multi-colored combinations of symbols embroidered on canvas.

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PROJECTS

LAVAZH PARTI
Tirana 2011

ROSA PERFETTO
CENSORED SHOW, Ravenna, Italy 2010

ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD
Bandjoun / Cameroon 2009

SYMPHONY N.1
New York 2009

I WOULD PREFER NOT TO
Milan 2009

VELIKI CEVAPCIC
Ljubljana 2008

INCOMPIUTO SICILIANO
from 2006

COPY_RIGHT_NO_COPY_RIGHT
Manifesta 7 Rovereto 2008, Shanghai 2007, Milano 2005

SOMETIMES YOU MUST BREAK THE RULES
Eindhoven 2007

NIGHT TALK OF THE FORBIDDEN CITY
China 2007

VIOLENT ATTITUDE
Shanghai 2007

THE AESTHETIC OF DRUGS
Taipei 2008, Reggio Emilia 2007

MEDITERRANEO
New York 2006

NO THINK NO PLAN NO SLEEP
Falluja 2006

IF YOU HEAR SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING
New York 2006

1-800-IRAKI-ARTS
New York 2006

WAITING FOR THE TSUNAMI
Worldwide 2005

LIGHT WAVES
from 2005

LEGAL SUPPORT
Shanghai 2007, Moscow 2006,
Genova 2004

 

 

Alterazioni video
NIGHT TALK OF THE FORBIDDEN CITY

china, 2007

exhibited:
Hyperlucid, Prague Biennale 4, curated by Domenico Quaranta, Karlin Hall, Prague, CZ
Night talk of the forbidden city #2 , Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia, Italy,2007
Night talk of the forbidden city, DDM Warehouse Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2007

link to related works:
QR code series
forbidden words series
carpets series

forbidden bags
Matrix

 

 

During their time in China, Alterazioni Video explored the topic of language, and the possible outcomes of the agreements between multinational communications companies and the state censorship system.
The various "cells" of Alterazioni Video networked on a local basis using an anonymizer (a tool which guarantees anonymity while surfing), which enabled them to draw up a list of words and phrases prohibited on the main search engines and instant messenger programmes in use in China, with the aim of working out the semantic basis behind these filters. Alterazioni Video then put these terms back "into circulation", by printing the offending phrases on plastic bags, in English and Chinese, and handing them out free of charge on the streets of Shanghai, with the intention of restoring their full communicative potential. The exhibition includes a number of photos depicting this part of the project. The encounter between Alterazioni Video and Alighiero Boetti's work on linguistic codes and signs stimulated a more intellectually sophisticated project, "encrypting" its message on a literal and metaphoric level. Based on the idea that censorship has always driven linguistic evolution, Alterazioni Video utilized Boetti's work as a medium, a coding system which the art world was already familiar with, and which could therefore be used to convey this new message. The result is Matrice, ideograms etched onto printing stones which can be assembled in a grid, forming endlessly reproducing matrixes, and QR code series, multi-colored combinations of symbols embroidered on canvas.

 

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