CIRCULAR

Participatory Installation and Performance

Winner project of the Bright Festival 2023 Call for Artists, Bright Festival, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy.


Circular is a participatory installation that creates a dynamic collaboration between the artists, the audience and their environment. The project involves the audience in the art-making process, transforming them from passive observers into active creators of the artwork.
Audience and artists act inside the circular LED structure that encompasses the entire environment. Thanks to the microphones placed inside the room, the voices and actions of the visitors as well as the resonances of the environment itself interact with sound and light. Sounds, words, and breaths are captured and re-recorded, with the process being repeated. The size and geometry of the room lead to some frequencies being amplified, while others are dampened. Eventually the words will become unintelligible, replaced by the characteristic resonant frequencies of the room itself. Thus, creating endless sound variations.
The LED visual highlight the human relationships with the environment, making tangible how the space transforms sound and light, and how in return it affects us.
Artists interact with the installation in short live performances, throughout the day, manipulating the recorded sounds and creating new sound and light contexts to provide key clues for new collective experiences.
This project aims to emphasizes on the visitor’s action, manipulates their sensory encounters and showcases their creative expression. Through social interaction, the project fosters dialogue and social activism. Thus, offering a new medium for political participation.