Performing The Archives. Sound.The boost of new technologies and beyond
an event within

until 29 May, valid for all exhibitions currently on view, due to the rearrangement of selected galleries and the implementation of energy efficiency improvements to the buildings
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– IED Istituto Europeo di Design professors, NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti professors, RUFA Rome University of Fine Arts professors;
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MAXXI’s Collection of Art and Architecture represents the founding element of the museum and defines its identity. Since October 2015, it has been on display with different arrangements of works.
20 May 2025 06.00 pm
books at MAXXIC’era una volta Hollywoodby David Niven
20 May 2025 06.30 pm
talkRiabitare Roma. Palazzina LIVEby IT’S ARCHITETTURA
21 May 2025 06.00 pm
talkBeyond the AudibleThe Electrical Jubilee in Christina Kubisch's Sound Paths
23 May 2025 07.00 pm
talkÈ stato un casoby Massimiliano Fuksas
24 May 2025 04.30 pm
MAXXIperTUTTIGeografie liquidelab in LIS
27 May 2025 06.00 pm
books at MAXXIL’uomo che arrestò Mussoliniby Mario Avagliano
Archive Wall – entrance fee 5 euros
ticket to 3 events 10 euros – free for myMAXXI cardholders
Three events to trace back the history of sound experimentation in Italy from 1950 to 2000
In conjunction with When Sound Becomes Form, we will retrace the fundamental stages of Italian sound experimentation over the course of three events.
This is a 50 years-long story, where sound comes off the stave and looks at new electronic technologies giving shape to innovative artistic languages and enabling a manipulation of sound and an amplification of space itself, with a cross-fertilisation of cinema, art, choreography, literature, publishing and mass media.
At our third event we get to 1990, when Mario Sasso and Nicola Sani are awarded the Prix Ars Electronica in Linz for their video composition Footprinte. Marcello Aitiani exhibits his Nave di Luce, pioneering work that is a precursor of IT technologies. At the same time, Ida Gerosa presents Memorie d’acqua Fontana di Trevi in Rome, a multimedia performance with music and environment sounds by Luigi Ceccarelli.
It is during those years that Michelangelo Lupone adopts a cross-disciplinary approach that enables an integration of the music, scientific and technological sectors, marking an artistic journey that is increasingly targeted to an integrated use of the listening environment, leading to the birth of great musical installations based on invention technologies.
Introduced by
Carlo Fatigoni curator of the When Sound Becomes Form
Speakers
Ida Gerosa e Michelangelo Lupone
Moderated by
Giulia Pedace MAXXI Research