Pulse is a light installation composed of 150 red construction lights, distributed throughout the raw architecture of an industrial space in transition, destined to become a public library — an important place of growth and exchange for a public that thinks, reads, and questions.
Construction is underway. In this moment of disruption that the building site imposes on urban life, Pulse takes the lights of the construction yard and gives them a new life. Elements originally designed to signal danger, obstacles, or ongoing works are magically transformed into something else.
The audience explores the space, invited to inhabit a project in the making, disoriented by flashing pathways, reflective shadows, and the sound of a city in transformation.
Some lights blink in unison, suggesting a fragile order. Others are left to chance. Their distribution hints at the profile of the structure yet to come, outlined through the contents that will inhabit it and by the pulse of activities that will build new relationships within the urban fabric — healing it from the wound left by the loss of what once was, and from the uncertainty imposed by construction during this delicate moment of transition.
Some of these lights will communicate selected book contents through their own Morse code. The words that will nourish the consciousness of hundreds of readers will also take shape in performative actions, recurring at intervals throughout the space during opening days.
Artistic Direction: Francesco Maggiore
Artist: Cristian Rizzuti
Music: Julian Álvarez Chaia
Coordination: Carlo Picerno
Animated Construction Sites: Michela Rondinone
Project Management: Giorgia De Giorgi
Safety Engineer: Alessandra Pierucci
Graphic Design: Graziana Saccente
PERFORMERS:
Giovanni Pio Apolloni, Antonio Carro Pereira, Paula Cerezo Sanchez, Lidia De Nuzzo, Elena Ferrante, Sabrina Nuti, Greta Riccardi, Sara Santoleri, Martina Sarubbi, Nicolas Veron
COLLABORATION:
Amanda Castria, Antonio Figliuolo, Giacomo Marcucci, Martina Morgia, Federico Tidei
PHOTO / VIDEO DOCUMENTATION:
Nicola Tommaso, Lorenzo Papili, Paolo Gentile, Martina Catarisano
SUPPORTED:
@municipioroma2, @costruzionicivilicerasi , @labics @fondazionedioguardi @cantiereevento @sisas_spa.
