Corte Vico II San Michele

Site-Specific Installation of  Ius Soli: Campania Felix delenda est – Chapter 1

I started working on a possible archive for a depiction of Vesuvio’s Red Zone in 2018. Over the years, while producing installations and exhibitions, I came across so many artists building up, in their peculiar way, a relationship with Vesuvio’s aesthetics. Those encounters, sometimes literally walks and hikes, those conversations, have been producing modifications in my archive, on a conceptual and physical level. A re-shaping reminding me of Vesuvio’s central structure, seeming to be there from the beginning of time, surrounded by this series of changes, sometimes radical, we usually call eruptions. So, the CORTE VICO II SAN MICHELE – a real private courtyard in Ottaviano’s historical center –  offers me a space to process both my archive and my Vesuvio encounters. And especially the constant meeting and dialogue with the association Vesuvio Adventures itself, based on conversations, projects, walks and the mountain’s (that’s how we call the Somma–Vesuvius volcanic complex) views.

Dialogues · Regeneration · Community Stones · Abrasions · Catastrophes · Archives

In April 2022 I opened a private courtyard in Ottaviano’s historic centre as a living archive for my ongoing Ius Soli project. Corte Vico II San Michele offered the perfect site: a raw architectural pavilion where earth meets stone, gesture meets dialogue, and community meets catastrophe. Together with Vesuvio Adventures, we activated the courtyard as:

• A Dialogue Space – panels and flags sparking public reflection
• A Documentary Piece – porous walls bearing traces of print and rubbing
• A Fibre – material threads connecting ground and sky
• An Architectural Pavilion – a living frame for walks, performances, and sound
  
  
  Event program: 15 April 2022, 19:30Live Performance: Julia Liedel, The Insecurity of the Way of Being
  
  16 April 2022, 16:00 Walking Lab: Innesti, Interruzioni, Intrecci with Progetto Fiori
  Explore the historic centre of Ottaviano in a participatory promenade.
  
  Location: Corte Vico II San Michele (Piazza San Michele), Ottaviano (NA)
  Opening hours:
  • 15 April from 19:30
  • 16 April from 14:00 to 22:30
  
  ↳ Browse the full PDF catalogue to dive into the installations, archival materials, and performative acts that define Corte Vico II San Michele 2022.