do-around-the-world

♦ september 1th at 6 pm – Giardini Pubblici-Loggetta Lombardesca | PREVIEW
in collaboration with Ra-dici35

♦ september 7th at 10.30 pm – Artificerie Almagià > video installation

by Parini Secondo
with Sissj Bassani, Martina Piazzi
field recordings e sound design video Glauco Salvo, Pier Paolo Zimmermann
organization Margherita Alpini
production Parini Secondo, Nexus Factory
with the support of ResiDance – Network Anticorpi XL, supportER – Rete Anticorpi Emilia-Romagna, AMAT Marche (IT), Culture Moves Europe, Magdalena Oettl, Taarnby Park Studio (Copenhagen, DK)
further supports Parsec Bologna, ORA (Sondrio, IT), MarcRope (Milano, IT), ERASMUS+ program, KOMMA Production (Copenhagen, DK), CSC – Centro per la Scena Contemporanea (Bassano del Grappa, IT), Armunia (Castiglioncello, IT)

There is a space between the concrete and heaven where the air is sweeter and your heart beats faster. You drop and then you jump up again and you do it over and over again until the rope catches on your foot or your mother calls you home… You mambo back and forth, it’s like dancing. When you do-around-the-world, it’s like a ballet dancer’s pirouette. In the rope, if you’re good enough, you can do anything and be anything you want.
Veronica Chambers

Through the activity of jump rope, Parini Secondo together with Glauco Salvo and Pier Paolo Zimmermann creates a performative action and a practice of archiving that ignites places by their intrinsic and veiled acoustic characteristics.
The instrument of skipping rope is used as an activator of specific acoustic events in places selected for their resonant power. Thus, the video-tutorial, usually intended to emphasise the activity of the jumping subject, is instead used as an event that illuminates the environment, the frame in which the jump is inserted. The gymnastic activity becomes an acoustic and visual meditative pretext, supported and conducted by Glauco Salvo’s subtle electronic interventions – lyrical and illusory glimpses provoked to divert perception – and Pier Paolo’s alienating perspectives.

ph. Pier Paolo Zimmermann