DECEMBER 2021
CRIPTA747 RESIDENCY PROGRAMME

PUBLIC PROGRAMME

[eng below]
Cripta747 è lieta di invitarvi al Public Programme che accompagna “Who Is It?”, progetto di Mattia Capelletti, curatore in residenza e vincitore della borsa di ricerca di Cripta747 Residency Programme 2021.

Gli eventi del Public Programme costituiscono un momento di apertura, di condivisione di conoscenze ed esperienze, e permettono al pubblico di partecipare al processo di ricerca attraverso una serie di appuntamenti gratuiti di diversa natura, pensati per approfondire alcuni degli aspetti fondamentali che muovono la ricerca di Capelletti.

“Who Is It?” analizza la voce e il timbro da più angolazioni, dando uguale spazio di espressione a istanze umane e inumane, ai timbri organici e alle voci sintetiche, alla macchina e all’animale, con un'attenzione particolare alla contemporaneità e alle voci fuori campo.

Il progetto prende forma anche grazie al contributo di artistз, performer, studiosз e amicз che accompagnano Capelletti in una ricerca corale capace di decentrare la voce narrante, e che confluiranno nel podcast, risultato finale del progetto. 

Cripta747 Residency Programme è realizzato con il supporto di Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo e di Fondazione Crt.

[eng]
Cripta747 is happy to invite you to the Public Program of “Who Is It?”, a project by Mattia Capelletti, curator in residence and winner of the research fellowship of Cripta747 Residency Programme 2021. 

The Public Program offers a moment of openness, encourages sharing knowledge and experiences, and involves the public in the research process through several free events designed to deepen some of the fundamental issues on which Capelletti's research is articulated.

“Who Is It?” focuses on the voice and specifically on vocal timbre from different perspectives. It gives equal space of expression to human and inhuman instances, organic timbres and synthetic voices, and the machine and the animal, with particular attention to contemporaneity and its marginal voices. 

The project takes shape through the contributions of artists, performers, scholars and friends who accompany Capelletti to deliver a choral research able to decentralize the narrator's voice and animate the podcast, which will act as the final result of the project.

Cripta747 Residency Programme is realised with the support of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo and Fondazione Crt.

Per partecipare agli appuntamenti del Public Programme è necessario iscriversi seguendo le istruzioni che trovi qui sotto.

To attend the events of the Public Program, book your seat by following the instructions below.

LISTENING SESSIONS

Wed 11/24 h. 6:30pm - Tue 12/07 h. 6:30pm @ Cripta747
Via Catania 15/F, Turin.

The duration of the event is about two hours
Number of people allowed: 15 

[ita]
Scopo delle listening sessions è coinvolgere direttamente il pubblico nel processo di ricerca attraverso l’ascolto guidato e la discussione di fonti sonore e testuali per dare ai partecipanti l’opportunità di confrontarsi con i temi di “Who Is It?”, esplorandone criticità e potenzialità.

[eng]
The listening sessions aim to directly involve the public in the research process through guided listening and discussion of vocal, sound and textual references to allow participants to deal with the essential concepts of "Who Is It?", exploring their potential and problematic nature.

LIVE PERFORMANCE: JUDITH HAMANN, NOUR MOBARAK

Sun 12/19 h. 7pm @ Imbarchino del Valentino
Viale Cagni 37 (Parco del Valentino), Turin.

Number of people allowed: 30

[ita]
Judith Hamann è unǝ violoncellista e compositorǝ Australianǝ, attualmente vive e lavora a Berlino. Il suo lavoro comprende elementi di musica improvvisata, classica contemporanea, sperimentale e popolare. La sua pratica si concentra sulle tecniche di “scuotimento” (shaking) del violoncello, su una raccolta di nuovi lavori per violoncello e canto a bocca chiusa (humming) e una ricerca sul “collasso” della pratica strumentale.

Nour Mobarak è un’artista Libanese-Americana nata a Il Cairo, Egitto, e con base a Los Angeles. Attraverso la sua pratica scava nella violenza e nel desiderio, nelle compulsioni e anomalie comuni sia ai singoli individui che a un’intera società o a una nazione. In questo processo, il suo corpo agisce attraverso la voce, il suono, la performance, la scultura, la scrittura e il video, come elemento ibrido soggetto alle condizioni  geopolitiche attuali.

[eng]
Judith Hamann is a cellist and performer/composer from Naarm/Birraranga (Melbourne), Australia, now based in Berlin. Judith’s performance practice stretches across various genres encompassing elements of improvised, contemporary classical, experimental, and popular music. Currently their work is focused on an examination of expressions and manifestations of 'shaking’ in solo performance practice, a collection of new works for cello and humming, and ongoing research surrounding ‘collapse’ and the ‘de-mastering’ of instrumental practice.

Nour Mobarak is a Lebanese-American artist born in Cairo, Egypt, and based in Los Angeles. She excavates violence and desire – the compulsions, and glitches in both a person or nation state. Her body acts, in voice, sculpture, sound, performance, writing and video, as one hybrid part under current geopolitical conditions.

WORKSHOP

Tue 12/14 @ IIS Norberto Bobbio
Carignano, Turin.

[ita]
Mattia Capelletti  e Costanza Candeloro saranno ospiti dell’Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Norberto Bobbio di Carignano, dove condurranno un laboratorio di scrittura che incoraggerà gli studenti a sperimentare nuove modalità di produzione intellettuale svincolate delle regole formali e letterarie. Partendo dalla pratica dell’imitazione, da fenomeni di plagio e altri processi di “cannibalismo” o di interiorizzazione delle voci degli altri - familiari, figure istituzionali come gli insegnanti, o i pari - il workshop intende stimolare i partecipanti a sperimentare nuove soluzioni per trasformare il contenuto orale in materiale testuale.

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Mattia Capelletti, together with the artist Costanza Candeloro, will be guests of the Norberto Bobbio High School of Carignano. They will lead a writing workshop to encourage students to experiment with new forms of intellectual production free from literary and formal rules.

Starting from the practice of imitation, phenomena of plagiarism, and other processes of "cannibalism" or internalization of the voices of others - family members, institutional figures such as teachers, or peers - the workshop aims to inspire participants to experiment with unconventional solutions to transform the oral content in textual material.

OPEN STUDIO & LISTENING SESSIONS

WHO IS IT?

Cripta747 is pleased to present "Who Is It?", a project by Mattia Capelletti, curator in residence and winner of the research fellowship of Cripta747 2021 Residency Programme.

The voice is at the heart of the research that Mattia has been carrying out since 2016, together with the artist Costanza Candeloro through the Idioletta platform, and that he has subsequently developed in the context of his studies in Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam.

With “Who is It?” Mattia focuses on vocal timbre, a sound quality that allows for the identification of the speaker and draws a politics of listening  based on recognition and conditioned by specific cultural norms.

The construction of identity is articulated around vocal timbre through collective processes that involve both the speaker and the listener. By no means bound to an immutable corporeality, unlike it is generally considered, timbre is rather to be understood as an intersubjective experiment in which the voice welcomes the other through its infinite possibilities, disregarding expectations and disrupting normative binarisms. Captured in its function of trace of individuality, timbre is subjected to biopolitical control by means of the listening technologies we interact more and more with. But it is precisely in relation to surveillance and voice cloning technologies that a new voice politics unfolds, characterized by tactics of manipulation of vocal timbre, often carried out through the creative abuse of the same technologies that try to control it.

Capelletti’s research will be presented through the Open Studios and a public programme – with collateral in-depth events, listening sessions and live performances – that will punctuate the coming months of residency. These events are shaped around some essential concepts that synthesize the macro-themes on which “Who Is It?” is structured: Non ho la bocca e devo urlare (I have no mouth, and I must scream); The Cocktail Party Problem; Vocum discrimina. 

Non ho la bocca e devo urlare analyzes the way the development of "voice cloning" technologies complicates the notion of timbre as an exclusively individual feature, raising increasingly urgent ethical questions. Yet, machines and human beings have always been entangled in a promiscuous relationship based on mutual imitation. In this line of research, vocal deepfakes and anthropic "rhythmachines" start a dialogue whose stake is the very definition of voice and human being.

The Cocktail Party Problem invites reflection on the tendency to think of the voice as a – metaphorical and literal – tool of political and social recognition. While many voices are still fighting to be heard, increasingly ubiquitous surveillance technologies make it necessary to hide or not be identified – at least according to the normative coordinates of disciplinary devices. This research chapter examines the "aesthetics of disappearance", the dissolution of the voice into a polyphonic chorus and of timbre as a biometric mark of the subject.

Vocum discrimina refers to the ancestral need to get in touch with the other and to how this has historically generated experiments, sometimes naive, often inspired, always interesting. In a logocentric society such as the West, where articulated language is a discriminating requirement to access political life and civil rights, some subjects are structurally excluded. At the heart of this thematic area are animal and human timbres, with a particular focus on disabledvoices and interspecies communication, declinations of vocality able to reconfigure its boundaries and to project timbre beyond its limits.

“Who Is It?” gives equal space to human and inhuman instances, to organic timbres and synthetic voices, to the machine and to the animal, as all of them are expressions of an exchange that redefines their essences and redesigns their boundaries. Capelletti’s attention addresses contemporaneity and its marginal voices with a heterodox approach. The sonic raw material, which will provide the research with the necessary case studies, will be oriented towards the construction of a new abnormal vocal canon, overcoming historicized solutions and once-disruptive experiments that, far from being a prerogative of an avant-garde spirit, have instead merged into more pop forms of expression.

Vocal timbre resists a purely analytical approach, but invites interdisciplinary methods, active political experiments and performative practices. That is why “Who Is It?” will take shape through the contributions of artists, performers, scholars and friends who will accompany Mattia to deliver a choral research able to decentralize the voice of the narrator, and animate the podcast which will act as the final result of the project.

OPEN STUDIO

Duration of the visit: 30min

Torino Art Week opening time:
Thu 4/11 h. 4 - 7 pm
Fry 5/11 h. 4 - 7 pm
Sat 6/11 h. 4 - 10 pm
Sun 7/11 h. 11 am - 7 pm

LISTENING SESSIONS

Duration of the events: 2h
Available places: 15

Calendar of events:
Wed 24/11 h. 6 pm
Tue 7/12 h. 6 pm

Free entry. In compliance with the measures to contain Covid-19 emergency, Green Pass is required for accreditation.

CRIPTA747 RESIDENCY PROGRAMME

OPEN CALL 2021
WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENT

Cripta747 is happy to announce curator Mattia Capelletti (Varese, 1991) has been appointed fellow of the fifth edition of the Residency Programme. 

This year, the open call was focused on the national artistic scene. It was addressed to Italian and Italy-based artists, curators and researchers, in order to support innovative research and the work of art professionals in Italy, promote the cultural exchange with the territory and strengthen the bond with the public.

Mattia Capelletti was selected by an expert board composed of Caterina Avataneo, an independent curator based between London and Turin, and Alessandra Franetovich, an art historian, critic and curator based in Turin. Together with Cripta747's team, the board examined numerous applications and chose Capelletti's project among many excellent candidates who deal with burning issues through different practices, expressive languages and very intriguing aesthetics.

Mattia Capelletti is a researcher, writer and curator based between Amsterdam and Milan. Interested in sound and the human voice, he investigates its aesthetics and politics across theory and different disciplines. He understands curating as an expanded practice that moves beyond the event but flows organically into long-term discussion.

His project for Cripta747 Residency Programme is based on his academic and curatorial research into the voice, its politics and aesthetics. It will take shape in a podcast that shall act as a platform for exchange with guests and the exhibition of the work of invited artists. The driving force of this medium is the voice, its narrative potential, interpretative power and ability to convey intimacy by implicating the listener into a dialogue.

We believe in the project presented by Mattia Capelletti: it has a strong appeal and ability to involve other artists and contemporary art professionals, to connect with local cultural contexts and build a community. He has solid, coherent and recognisable research in both material and conceptual production, critically grounded in the current debate.

This is the first time that a curator is selected for the Residency Programme, it will be a new exciting challenge for us. The pandemic has reminded us of the increasing importance of supporting mobility, research and production, of the significance of experience exchange  with artists and the public, and, last but not least, of how culture is essential to the development of a territory. 

Mattia Capelletti will undertake the residency from September to December 2021, in the new venue of Cripta747, at via Catania 15/F, Turin. We can't wait to welcome him and start working together!

We would like to thank all those who have applied to the Residency Programme, the curatorial board and everyone who made this project possible.

Cripta747 Residency Programme is a project by Cripta747, realised with the support of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo and Fondazione Crt.