"itinerários"

My video "itinerários" in collaboration with musician and composer Stefano Risso was selected by curator and artistic director: Roberto Ronca, to be part of the project: CONTEMPORARY VISIONS || VIDEOART IN LOOP

"itinerários" is a collage of instant collective compositions by pedestrian in urban context. Individuals, couples and groups map a journey across time and space by walking in different paces and/or standing still; passengers become a performative ensemble which creates multiple trajectories and random encounters, transforming the square in a site of performance; the music is an important element revealing inner dynamic rhythms of the walking activity, bringing together and resynthesising all the elements of this urban choreography.

The video has been filmed from the top of the arch on Rua Augusta which sees at the Commerce Square (Praça do Comércio) in Lisbon and edited on the experimental music piece - "A wail" - composed and performed by Stefano Risso.

camera/edit/concept: Fenia Kotsopoulou music: "A wail" by Stefano Risso (stefanorisso.com) location: Lisbon, Praça do Comércio year of production: 2015

Note: This video will be screened simultaneously in 65 different locations around Italy and Europe. Also, "HERE BUT NOT HERE AT ALL AT TEH SAME TIME" is part of this amazing event.

Contemporary Visions ∞ VideoArt in LOOP is the event that involves video art in a project shared simultaneously in different parts of the world. THE CONTEMPORARY IN CONTEMPORARY: this is the will of AIAPI to transform an exhibition in an international event involving the world and makes it joined in the art. Different locations in the world, unusual and unexpected places that become places of art that can be used by the public at any time. The people approach contemporary art with a widespread distrust from the habit of thinking that it is a niche product, devoted only to experts and detached to most of people. Art, in fact, belongs to everyone and belongs to everyone. At the moment in which art it is produced by the artist it begins to belong to the people, who can fully enjoy the value even, and perhaps especially, not just where people expect to find it. This is when art becomes of all simultaneously in many parts of the world, people of different cultures live similar experiences, feeling close. The art overcomes barriers, unites and uplifts to a broader reflection of reality, offering visions (contemporary) to which the eyes are grateful.