Critical Writing Index

Poetico-Political Audio Visions

by Sandra Lischi

Public, 2002, v. 25, pp. 28-34

Lischi performs a critical analysis of video installations made by the Milanese group Studio Azzurro. She pays particular attention towards analyzing the ways in which the group's interactive strategies relate to the issues of fascism, trauma and memory. Their unique employment of interactivity, which eliminates the visibility of technological agency, according to Lischi, creates a connection between "ethics" and "aesthetics", thus allowing video to develop political and social utilization.

ITEM 2002.207 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

The Garden of Things (Il Giardino delle Cose) – Studio Azzurro

VideoPoemi, Opera-Poem-Videos (VideoPoemOpere), Aca Nada – Gianni Toti

The Mistery of Oberwald (Il Misterio di Oberwald) – Michelangelo Antonioni

La Verifica Incerta, Anna – Wold Vostell

Spoon River – Alberto Grifi

Promessi Sposi – Giacomo Verde

Blood is not Fresh Water (Il Sangue non e Acqua Fresca) – Alessandro Amaducci

La Febbre – Cane Capo Volto

Nocturne – Daniele Segre

Antoniette De Lillo

Theo Eshetu

Giuseppe Baresi

Fluid Video Crew

Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci-Lucchi