Cities And Memory

"A crowded procession of singular figures, images and imaginaries, possible futures "“Figures” is built upon a field recording of a threshold zone where the mountains begin to yield to the plains, and where the river itself is divided since a part of its water is withdrawn into a side channel for hydropower production.The underlying approach draws on Steven Feld's proposition that attentive listening is itself a rigorous form of research. Given time and attention, sound ceases to be the object of study and becomes its instrument, a means by which human, natural, hybrid, and alien figures can be identified within the landscape, and within the constant flow of water. "Isn’t culture a constant flux? "Isn’t transmission/tradition a constant flow?"The matter is: inquiry of this kind is subjective. Its situatedness is not incidental to Figures: it is its method. My personal geography is deeply intertwined with the river systems of Veneto: I was born on the river Brenta in Bassano del Grappa, I live in Rovigo betwe