On June 22nd, in collaboration with Teatro della Contraddizione, NABA presented the installation “Contra-visione”, realised by the students of the MA in New Technologies for Arts.
“Contra-visione” invited the user to immerse themselves in a dialogic space to experience audiovisual fragments of the Bovisa and Navigli districts in Milan. The installation, an exploration of the urban fabric, its spaces and times, was a portal based on the idea of the cyclical intertwining of possible past and present moments, to symbolize an eternal return of history. A return that takes place with changes and settlements of identity: rural, commercial, industrial, perpetually poised between being a treasure and a relict. The installation space was populated, as the participants embraced a forest of projections that gave shape and articulated the two spaces, their lines of continuity and discontinuity. The hosts were also the constructor of meaning, induced to adopt multiple perspectives, abandoning the dichotomy of 'outside' and 'inside', and to abandoning themselves to traces, fragments of landscapes, recombining them in a personal, imaginary body.
The installation, created in partnership with Teatro della Contraddizione and Maria Carpaneto (Il Filo di Paglia Association), and developed from a concept by Marco Maccaferri, was the result of the choral work of the students Giacomo Baccega, Ciro De Palma, Long Huang, Qian Lu, Marta Maglio, Mattia Magni, Tito Pietrella, Paola Sau, Cheng Sun, Sun Qiwen, Sofia Varsos, Yao Meng, Cheng Zhang, Ruijian Zhang, Yue Zhao, and was developed in the Multimedia design courses of the MA, under the supervision of NABA lecturers Andrea Agostini, Francesco Bianchi, Matteo Marson, the Academy’s Dean Guido Tattoni, and assistants Giulia Silvestri and Vashish Soobah.
