THE IRRATIONAL CITY
sonorisation | Stazione Santa Lucia | Venezia
The Irrational City
Can a city be non-rational? And, is logic expression of the times?
The Irrational City with its enigmatic lighting presence rises questions about Venice. In this city what is irrational? The rigid flows of tourists or the uprising flow of water? The
light installation is placed in a urban junction where the forced adaptation of two opposite systems makes the contemporary logic intruding in a physical unaltered structure.
The reference is the Pythagorean idea of numbers being the essence of everything or, more precisely, that the principles of mathematics are also the principles of the entire
reality. Permanence and immutability are key features of such a scenario where every shape is expression of a number.
Venice with its fixed border line in space and time, is definitively Pythagorean. Here the overlapping element of modernity creates a short circuit that could admit to be
represented just by an irrational number. π, the first letter of περίμετρος (perimetros), meaning 'measure around' in greek, is our homage to Venice.
Artist | Antonella Dedini
Stazione S. Lucia | Venezia
Sound | Schnitt
Artist | Paolo Cesaretti
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