Limes | Bright Festival
Stazione Leopolda | Firenze 2023
There is nothing like time to impose on our minds the concept of limit.
Limit is always seen as a hindrance, obstacle or impediment. All of these are concepts that, especially in the contemporary world, imply the idea of the need to go beyond, in a constant tension towards a progress intended as mere growth, accumulation, addition.
However, this idea of progress is driving us to a clash with the limit, with a linearity which is consistent with the idea of time that supports it. This clash will result in a defeat for human - and not only human - beings.
It is necessary to think about time in several dimensions - not only a circular one, but rather a spherical one, in which growth makes way for evolution, speed dissolves and limit is welcome as an element that defines and protects us, in a measured expansion that doesn’t add up, but rather includes.
Limes is an onto-immersive installation: the viewer is immersed into an acoustic and visual bubble which is totally disassociated from the surrounding objective reality.
It’s not simply video mapping, but rather an experience aimed at drawing the viewer on an intimate journey, in which the visual, voices, synthetic and organic sounds integrate cyclically with each other.
The private space-time in which the experience absorbs the viewer is a catalyst for a route between analogical and digital, matter and technology, subjective and social.
Mou Lab is an artistic collective composed of different members according to the project to be carried out.
The founding core promoting projects and driving the general and concept creative direction is always the same for each project and, each time, it is enriched by professionalism and expertise otherwise absent in it, to create experiences with co-creation as their signature element.
Project team for Limes
Concept, installation design, general creative direction: Mou Lab
Video production: Mou Factory
Bibliographical and philological research: Silvia Ogniben
Audio creative direction, music and sound-design: Matteo Milani
Voice over: Polyglot Radio, V.O. Art London