EVA FRAPICCINI  | DREAMSCAPE | Turin Polo del ‘900 | May 9, 2023

EVA FRAPICCINI  DREAMSCAPE curated by Paola Ugolini

POLO DEL ‘900 TURIN from 9 to 24 MAY 2023 OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION 9 MAY AT 6.00 PM

>> PUBLIC PROGRAM TURIN Tuesday 9 May 3.00pm – 6.00pm Friday 19 May 4.00pm – 6.30pm Sala del Novecento, Polo del ‘900 Turin (free entry) will be dedicated to examining the correspondence between dream imagery collected in different areas of the world and the evocative role of dreams in visual and literary culture

DAY OF MAY 9 Institutional greetings: Emiliano Paoletti director of Polo del ‘900 Turin Speeches by Cristina Cobianchi (president of AlbumArte and project manager of Dreamscape), Eva Frapiccini (artist and artistic director of Dreamscape), Alessandra Donati (University of Milan Bicocca), Giulia Palomba (curator of the Dust of Dreams project), Anna Daneri (curator, co-artistic director of the Electropark festival) Davide Dal Sasso (Labint – University of Turin); Carola Barbero (University of Turin), Paola Ugolini (curator of the InBetweenArtFilm Foundation and visiting at the IUAV in Venice, curator of Dreamscape).

DAY OF MAY 19th Speeches by Tiziana Andina (Labont – University of Turin), Arianna Cecconi (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Marseille), Diletta De Cristofaro (University of Northumbria), Lucrezia Cippitelli (Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan) Vincenzo Santarcangelo (Catanzaro Academy of Fine Arts), Federica Martini (HEAD, Geneva).

After the exhibition at the Polo del ‘900, the Dreamscape exhibition, an immersive and interactive sound installation, will move to:

7-12 June 2023 MOTHER MUSEUM Naples

6-16 July 2023 FOUNDATION FOR CULTURE – DUCAL PALACE 14-16 July as part of the Electropark festival Genoa

Concept and artistic direction Eva Frapiccini Edited by Paola Ugolini Project direction Cristina Cobianchi General coordination Marta Bracci Production assistant Elena Inchingolo Music Sara Berts Interactive systems technician Emanuele Lauriola Mixing Nicolò Foglia Design setting Michele Tavano Video editing Ylenia Busolli Graphic Design Grazia Dammacco

an AlbumArte production

With the support of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo In collaboration with Forevergreen nell’ambito di Electropark 2023

Museo Madre Napoli, Fondazione per la Cultura – Palazzo Ducale Genova, Polo del ‘900 Torino, Comune di Genova, Collettivo Zero APS Napoli, Fondazione Morra Napoli, Genovacreativa.it, Labont – Center for Ontology Università di Torino, Sala Dogana a Palazzo Ducale Genova

*** The Dreamscape project received the contribution of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation as part of the “ART~WAVES. For creativity, from the idea to the scene” which looks at the consolidation of the creative identity of the territories through support for programming in the field of performing arts and contemporary creative production, combining research, production, offer and distribution in an ecosystem logic for strengthen the artistic vocations of the area.

The first stage of Dreamscape, an immersive and interactive sound installation by Eva Frapiccini, a multimedia artist and researcher who works on the relationships between memory, power and sociopolitical changes, opens on 9 May 2023 from 6.00 pm at the Polo del ‘900 in Turin, where it will remain until May 24th.

On Tuesday 9 May from 3.00 pm to 6.00 pm, the inauguration of the exhibition project will be preceded by the first part of the Public Program Dreamscape, organized by AlbumArte and Labont – Center for Ontology of the University of Turin. The second part of the panel will take place on Friday 19 May 2023 from 4pm to 6.30pm.

The traveling project, curated by Paola Ugolini and produced by AlbumArte, with the support of Fondazione Compagnia di SanPaolo, from the Polo del ‘900 in Turin, will move from 7 to 12 June to the Madre Museum in Naples and from 6 to 16 July at Foundation for Culture – Palazzo Ducale in Genoa (from 14 to 16 July as part of the Electropark Festival).

Dreamscape is the second stage of an international research project developed by Eva Frapiccini from 2011 to 2022 in which thousands of people from different areas of the world entered her Dreams’ Time Capsule to record the story of one of their dreams. Through this ethnographic research practice Frapiccini has extrapolated some recurring themes, key words, archetypes, symbolic figures and common tensions.

“The purpose of the archiving was to carry out a utopian work, to reach people in different parts of the world to record their nightly dreams, to understand if there were any common images, testing the Jungian collective unconscious. Over the years, during historic votes, pandemics, and national referendums, more than 2300 people have responded to this call and entered the traveling structure in Bogota (Colombia), Cairo (Egypt), Stockholm and Fittja (Sweden), Genoa , Bergamo and Turin (Italy), Potsdam (Germany), Berlin, Sharjah and Dubai (Arab Emirates), Manama (Bahrain), Riga (Latvia), Wakefield (United Kingdom)” says the artist.

A research project that translated in 2022 into a video installation accompanied by the performance of Francesca Dibiase, Ilaria Quaglia and Valerie Tameu, with choreography by Daniele Ninarello, which gave visual concreteness and plasticity to the dreamlike material. This year the artist has instead put the practice of listening at the center by creating an immersive sound installation that requires the presence of the public to be activated.

In the dimly lit exhibition space, with the original sound dramaturgy of sound artist Sara Berts and the interactive systems specially developed by Emanuele Lauriola, Dreamscape shifts the attention from a distant vision to an intimate and at the same time collective participatory experience that reveals the universal of the unconscious, since dreams transcend the cultures to which those who generate them belong. “It can be said that the voices preserved in the archive belong to a suspended time, they are not in the past and the future, they simply are, and they speak to us about something that is outside of time: the dream journey” states the artist.

Dreamscape in the three stages of Turin, Naples and Genoa will be enriched by a public program with workshops and talks, which will involve schools, universities and the inhabitants of these cities.

PUBLIC PROGRAM TURIN

The Public Program, organized by AlbumArte and Labont – Center of Ontology of the University of Turin, will be dedicated to examining the correspondence between dream imagery collected in different areas of the world and the evocative role of dreams in visual and literary culture, and will take place in the Sala Novecento of the Polo del ‘900, over two days: on 9 May from 3.00 pm to 6.00 pm and on 19 May from 4.00 pm to 6.30 pm with the participation of anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers and art critics (free admission ).

9 May

Institutional greetings: Emiliano Paoletti director of Polo del ‘900 Torino and Francesca Gambetta program manager, Cultural Innovation Area Compagnia di San Paolo.

Speeches by Cristina Cobianchi (president of AlbumArte and project manager of Dreamscape), Eva Frapiccini (artist and artistic director of Dreamscape), Alessandra Donati (University of Milan Bicocca), Giulia Palomba (curator of the Dust of Dreams project), Anna Daneri (curator, co-artistic director of the Electropark festival) Davide Dal Sasso (Labont – University of Turin); Carola Barbero (University of Turin), Paola Ugolini (curator of the InBetweenArtFilm Foundation and visiting at the IUAV in Venice, curator of Dreamscape).

19 May

Speeches by Tiziana Andina (Labont – University of Turin), Arianna Cecconi (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Marseille), Diletta De Cristofaro (University of Northumbria), Lucrezia Cippitelli (Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan) Vincenzo Santarcangelo (Catanzaro Academy of Fine Arts), Federica Martini (HEAD, Geneva).

The scientific contributions collected during the Public Program will be part, together with the visual and critical contents of the two years of the project, of a publication in Italian and English dedicated to the project (September 2023).

Official website project: https://www.dreamsarchive.eu

Thanks to Gruppo Ingegneria Torino