Apparatuses in collision,
Excerpts, evanescent glimpses.
A fragmented path of chasms, black holes, intermittence: no signal.
The loss of pieces of self, burned in a thousand reflections,
like luminous trails splash away still burning.
Shreds of lost and found ribbons are there intertwined and hidden. Faded, illusory images ready to
vanish and then rise again.
Riccardo Tesorini uses video circuit bending to investigate memory's personal and collective relationship. A tampering with the apparatus of both human and machine memories where archiving takes place on unstable and fragile media. The use of personal and non-personal VHS tapes is a pretext to evoke distant and alteral memories, corrode them, thus discovering new paths such as those of the circuit that house the video signal inside.
Before being digitized, the VHS is manipulated in the most disparate forms and the result is often unexpected, with a high degree of unpredictability given by the procedure. On the other hand, the sound material is of various kinds: self-built audio circuits, modular synthesis, concrete sounds of aluminum digitally processed with autonomously designed algorithms.
Credits
Title: Abbaglia e svanisci
Year: 2022
Genre: A/V, Found Footage
Author: Riccardo Tesorini
Duration: 5’00’’
Audio specs: Stereo
Screened at:
• 03/04/25 — Dream Sequence – experimental film screening series (London, UK).
• 08/02/25 — Singletary Center Visual Music Festival , University of Kentucky (USA)
• 06/12/2024— Selected for publication in the academic journal Umanesimo Tecnologico (Studium Edizioni in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts Santagiulia).
• 07/03/23 — Extra Loud (Bologna).
•19/11/22 — Audio Rocket Festival (Osaka, Japan).
• 01/07/22 — Within Tension (Vancouver, Canada).