Inclus dans:

• Fonds: Gianni Pettena fonds, 1960-2019
•    Série(s): Works, 1966-2018
•      Projet: Performance Fotofosforescente [Performance Phosphorescent] (1977), circa 1977-2015

Personnes et institutions:

• Gianni Pettena (archive creator)
• Gianni Pettena (artist)

Titre:

Performance Fotofosforescente [Performance Phosphorescent] (1977)

Date:

circa 1977-2015

Niveau de description archivistique:
Project

Collation:

• 8 digital files (11 MB)
  5 photographic materials
  3 drawings
  2 textual documents

Présentation du contenu:
The project series documents the performance "Performance Fotofosforescente" carried out at the Palazzo Grassi, in Venice, for the International Festival "The Art of Performance" in 1977. The performance consisted of a phosphorescent figure descending the grand staircase of the main entrance to the courtyard of the Palazzo Grassi, crossing the atrium through the audience, and heading down the steps towards the Grand Canal to finally disappear into the water. The performer is holding in his hands a three-dimensional phosphorescent Escher cube, the only source of light while the courtyard is in almost total darkness. "The evocative setting, the music, the darkness and this moving light produced an effect of “working” of the space, somewhere between the real and the imaginary [...]." [1]

The project series contains a draft and a more final storyboard of the performance, Pettena's handwritten notes, and photographs of the performance at the Palazzo Grassi.

Source:
[1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/perf-phorsphorescent-1977/ (last accessed 12 November 2019)

Numéro de référence:

AP207.S1.1977.PR01

Mode de classement:
Material in this project series was kept in its original order when it was first processed upon its arrival at CCA.

Localisation:

Venice Italie

Langue et écriture des documents:

• English
• Italian

Contient:

• AP207.S1.1977.PR01.001, Storyboard, Performance Fotofosforescente, circa 1977
• AP207.S1.1977.PR01.002, Storyboard, notes and photographs of the performance, Performance Fotofosforescente, circa 1977
• AP207.S1.1977.PR01.003, Photographs of the performance and project description, Performance Fotofosforecente, 2010 - 2015