Scala 1:18. Setting its contents in the factory ambient and analyzing its obsessive and repetitive production process, the performance involves five women, dressed and combed the same, repeating all the same gestures, steps and sequences enhanced by a projected video of machines at work.
SYBINQ ART PROJECTS, in collaboration with LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY,
is pleased to invite you to: MARCO DALBOSCO > SCALA 1:18
presented by sybin > susanna bianchini
Italian artist Marco Dalbosco presented the performance *Scala 1:18 *for the
first time as a parallel event at Manifesta 7 (Rovereto, Italy 2008).
Setting its contents in the factory ambient and analyzing its obsessive and
repetitive production process, the performance involves five women, dressed
and combed the same, repeating all the same gestures, steps and sequences
enhanced by a projected video of machines at work.
The entire operation
seems to have a liberating aspect that redeems creativity from job
alienation; in fact it focuses, at the same time, on the issue of repeating
and modulating mechanisms, set behind the creativity myth. The performers
look like they are free, whereas they always come back to the starting
point; they become metaphor for our own way of thinking, which sometimes may
be constructed and constricted.
Following Guy Debord’s idea of society as a spectacle, instead of turning
the production system into a show it is the alienation of the individual,
the suspension of a thinking being and the unavoidable conformation of the
mass that underline Dalbosco’s work. The choreographer Gloria Ploritch and
her students, all from the Italian Northern Region of Trentino, have been
working all along with Dalbosco to give shape to this performance, never
before presented in the UK.
The exhibition is accompanied by a text by the Curator.
Scala 1:18 is the closing event of *SybinQ Art Projects* for the year
2010: please join us for some Christmas and New Year good wishes!
MARCO DALBOSCO lives and works in London. Selected Events > 2010: *Scala
1:18*, London Metropolitan University, London (UK) and 26cc Space for
Contemporary Art, Rome (IT); *Meeting Ring*, SybinQ Art Projects, London
(IT); *Incerti Arredi # Office Sales*, Cesare Pietroiusti’s Studio, Rome
(IT). 2009: 1h Art Project, London (UK). 2008: *Scala 1:18*, Manifesta7,
Parallel Event, Rovereto (IT). 2008: *Incerti Arredi*, Paolo Tonin
Contemporary Art, Turin (IT).
This event is possible thanks to the support of the Provincia Autonoma di
Trento (IT), Cultural Association Ordine_Sparso (IT), London Metropolitan
University and Levent Bozdere (UK).
Tuesday 14 decenber 2010, from 6:30 pm
Unit G15
41 Commercial Road, London Metropolitan University
London E1 1LA