SEI UNA NUVOLA DI ZUCCHERO (2021), sound installation, variable duration. Obre Platz, 11025 Gressoney-Saint-Jean (AO).

Una Boccata D'arte,

SEI UNA NUVOLA DI ZUCCHERO, 2021

solo exhbition, Italian Cutural Institute Madrid

DIÁLOGOS

What can you see from your window?
There are as many stories as there are windows on the world: every person has their own window, a space which from the inside opens out towards the outside, offering its own unique and personal perspective on the world and its own landscape.
Panorama is a sound installation that was designed specifically for San Gimignano’s Nottilucente festival in 2014.
The objective I had set myself was that of offering people visiting San Gimignano the opportunity to leave a trace of their visit with a visual account of their world. And so for a week I interviewed the people I met (tourists as well as the inhabitants of San Gimignano) and asked them to respond in their own language to the question ‘What can you see from your window?’ and I then produced a single audio track  with the various response I had collected. Panorama was played over a stereo system that was set up on the last floor of the Torre Grossa civic  museum, next to a large window offering a view of the Tuscan landscape below it.  By listening to others, people can identify with them as they access and share their special landscape.

Panorama

Una scatola in cartone è appoggiata a parete: ha le misure adatte a contenere il mio corpo e il packaging e la grafica dei prodotti IKEA.
L’articolo è GIUSEPPINÄ.
La scatola, vibrando, emette dei suoni grazie a uno speaker a vibrazione al suo interno. La traccia audio diffusa è ottenuta da una registrazione di Google Translate.
“Giuseppina” (il mio nome) è pronunciato dalle voci femminili di Google Translate nelle diverse lingue disponibili a una riproduzione audio (cinese, francese, inglese, spagnolo, coreano, finlandese, etc..).
GIUSEPPINÄ è un autoritratto e/o la sovrapposizione delle “Giuseppina” possibili.

GIUSEPPINÄ (self-portrait)

Extract 01-Tribute To Takahashi Shinkichi

TRACES OF DREAMT CHILDREN is an ongoing prejudices-free research project for a book and work of public art that collects the personal experiences of pregnant women with particular emphasis on the dreams and the infinite possibilities that unfold during pregnancy.
INTERVIEW EXTRACT, FEBRUARY 2019, MASS MoCA, USA
ph: Oliver Scott

http://www.giuseppinagiordano.com/traces-of-dreamt-children/

TRACES OF DREAMT CHILDREN, interview (extract)

IN BLOOM, 2019
Giuseppina Giordano, Fabio R. Lattuca
lenght: 7:06 min, in loop
Created in collaboration with Italian musician Fabio R. Lattuca for Giordano’s site-specific installation Please, Teach Me the Language of a Rose, at Taubman Museum of Art,  the composition was performed by people aged from two to eighty-seven, who created sounds following the instructions in the catalog below. 
The sounds catalog was born in the desire to imitate the sounds of a blossoming and closing flower during a summer day, with the aim to evoke a field of flowers.

IN BLOOM
SOUNDS CATALOGUE and INSTRUCTIONS 

1 - WIND BLOW: imitate the blowing of the wind
2 - BREATH OUT - BLOOMING FLOWER: breathe out
3 - BALLOON BLOW - BLOOMING FLOWER: inflate the lips and let out the air gradually
4 - CRUNCHES - BLOOMING FLOWER: made with abundant saliva between tongue and palate
5 - SNAP - BLOOMING FLOWER: snaps made with a wide open mouth
6 - BOTTLE CAP- BLOOMING FLOWER: imitate the sound of an uncorking bottle cap
7 - AHHH - BLOOMING FLOWER: say AHHH, as it is after a weary day when you have free time
8 - OHHH - CLOSING FLOWER: say OHHH, as it is after a weary day when you can go to sleep 
9 - KISSES - CLOSING FLOWER: kiss, holding the lips back
10 - AIR SUCTION  FAST - CLOSING FLOWER: imitate the sound of a fast backwash
11 - AIR SUCTION SLOW - CLOSING FLOWER: imitate the sound of a slow backwash
12 - BREATH IN - CLOSING FLOWER: breathe in 

IN BLOOM  
PARTITION AND TIMELINE

SUNRISE: THE BLOSSOM STARTS - silence, wind blow, breath out, ahhh 
8 AM: THE BLOSSOM CONTINUES - breath out, balloon blow, crunches, ahhh
12 PM: ALMOST ALL FLOWERS HAVE BLOSSOMED, SOUNDS OF MAXIMUM INTENSITY - breath out, balloon blow, crunches, snaps, bottle cap, ahhh
2 PM: ALL FLOWERS HAVE BLOSSOMED, VERY FEW SOUNDS - wind blow, breath
5 PM: FLOWERS START TO CLOSE, SUNSET - breath in, air suction slow, air suction fast, kisses, ohhh
SUNSET / NIGHT: ALMOST ALL FLOWERS ARE CLOSED, SOUNDS OF GREATER CLOSURE - breath in, air suction slow, air suction fast, kisses, ohhh 
NIGHT: BACK TO SILENCE, wind blow, breath in