We arrived at Civitella with a hard drive full of recordings of plastic objects, and we have worked on assembling those sounds into an album that was already in progress when we came to the castle. But the discovery of the acoustic space of the castle itself was a...
At Civitella I produced ‘raw’ video footage for two works. The first was my own ‘home-movie’ footage of the castle (people and place) as well as other events in Italy. One such event took place in Città di Castello. It was an award ceremony for Umbrian residents who...
I’m a night owl. Western culture doesn’t consider the nocturnal laborer’s efforts especially virtuous. Benjamin Franklin summed the prevailing sentiment toward those who rise late (however noble the struggle with art may have been the night before): “Up, sluggard, and...
I made “The Dress” my first piece of dried jasmine flowers in 1994. I combined the flowers into a 160 x 85 cm piece with the help of cotton thread and needle and then made a dress after a pattern. At first I wanted to wait and fix the decay of flowers by the way of...
