Corte al Vico II San Michele 2024: Dust of days and Assenti Assenti

13/05/2024

Corte Vico II San Michele 2024. Archive, Sound, and Memory in the Vesuvian Zone

10–11 May 2024 – Ottaviano (NA)

As part of the annual event called Corte II Vico San Michele produced by Vesuvio Adventures,, I presented a two-day program of installations and performances hosted in a private courtyard . This project, as always in my practice, is not only artistic but also curatorial. The idea behind Corte is to create a reflective space on life, memory, and collective identity in the Vesuvian zone.

Dust of Days

A site-specific installation composed of photographic prints developed in multiple techniques during my residency at the Frans Masereel Centrum (Belgium).

The work draws from my personal archive collected in the Vesuvian hinterland between 1996 and 2001. It reflects on youth in the suburbs during the first Berlusconian political wave in Italy.

The prints – layered, altered, and reimagined – embody a documentary approach that questions both personal memory and collective history.

Site-specific installation Dust of Days by Giovanni Ambrosio, printed at Frans Masereel Centrum and presented in Ottaviano. A sound and archive-based project on memory and the Vesuvian zone. — Dust of days I call you, dust from days, you answer me. A personal archive-based documentary project about Naples and youth from the hinterland at the time of Italy’s first Berlusconi political wave. 1996-2001 Ph. courtesy of © Angela Sodano

Assenti Assenti

10 May 2024, 20:00

A live sound installation developed through a reassembled archive of field recordings, artist interviews, ambient layers, and voices. The project was created in collaboration with Mark Vernon and COB, forming an acoustic act of memory reactivation.