ENTproject-Venice Biennale 2021/22

About "ENT1"and"ENT2"-Italian Pavilion Architecture Biennale 2021 and Cameroon pavilion Art Biennale 2022

Light installation (cm 60 x cm 60 h cm165), plexiglas, led and 3D animation, sonification of environmental data.
Graphic programming: Marco Marchesi
Graphic reworking and adaptation for ENT2: Paolo Corti
Sonification and implementations: Alex Piacentini

After his participation in the double role of visual artist and musician-performer, at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021 (Italian Pavilion “Resilient Communities”) with “ENT1 – Venice/Auckland” in connection with the twin installation sent to the antipodes at the University of Auckland (NZ), Alessandro Zannier realizes the second twinning, this time with the African continent, comparing the environmental data of Venice with those of Cameroon.

ENT2 is part of a series of twin light installations that put Italy in dialogue with different continents, crossing big data on various types of pollution or human phenomena on the environment in space-time. The flow of these data, also obtained in collaboration with the Italian CNR, goes to generate, evolve and solicit a 3D animation that the artist has created, revealing the shape of the “human swarm” intended as a macro subject made of colonies of events and highlighting dynamics that lead back by analogy to biological and physical forms present on other scales in nature. The artist, who has been conducting for years a research based on concepts between science, art and analysis of social systems, shows the unprecedented aspect of the “mega man” as a “hyper object” composed of phenomena, unhinging the concept of individual “I” of the single and highlighting the collective unconscious dynamics.

Based on the contents of the concept album “Entanglement” (signed with the musical alias “Ottodix”) the project aims to make people think about the immediate correlation of individual local phenomena on a global scale, with instantaneous cause-effect on the whole system.