urban fragments

Urban fragments was a video installation - urban interventions project that was researching creative mapping and intertextual exercises dialoguing with the urban palimsest and transposing material collected in one environment to a completely different one. the whole research was made in internet, where people from different cities in the world have mapped their journeys, swapping then the maps and imprinting the new maps on their own streets, documenting on video. 

the resuts of this process was edited by me and crosses with calvino's text: "Invisible cities".

Cast list:

"Michele Louise Schiocchet (for the MA Performance Practices and Research)
A 30 minute video installation.

The work is focusing on how the relationship between the self and the other can be mediated on the space, (especially the urban space), investigating ways in which a documentation process can approach subjective aspects of the movement of people on the city, being at the same time, the act of telling a story, the story itself. Or, in other words: Documenting can be responsable for creating the subject of the documentation.
The installation is based on the idea of looking to the city as an inhabitable media. The city is seen here as a complex and multilayered space that overlaps history, language, culture, imaginary, etc, and by its rich symbolical environment has potentially uncountable narratives already imprinted on it.

This installation is a compillation of atempts to extract (or to imprint) portraits of everyday life renegociating at the same time the use of the urban surfaces.

During the last few months I have been collecting testimonials of subjective experiences connected to a certain everyday trajectory in urban spaces. From this material I have prepared documents with pictures, maps and texts, that (filtered and adapted) refered to the original material received. This documents have travelled through internet and arrived elsewhere, where the task was then to ‘re-imprint’ the material received, on the personal urban landscape.

The videos (which were also taken with everyday life tools) are result of the free association and of the apropriation of the traces of each other rountines. The game created here is a sequence of documentation layers, where the representation of life and life itself mix up so as fiction and reality in public spaces (physical or virtual spaces).



Collaborators list (huge thanks for all)

Directed and edited by Michele Louise Schiocchet


Collaborators:

Contribution with food, consume and movement maps:

Lou Coleman
Ben Melchiors
Laura-Kate Jennings
Fabio Salvatti
Virginia Maria
Cleila Elvira Lyra
Jana Schuldt
Lori Calisi
Celina Davila
Giorgio Cossu


Thanks to:
Shirley Hottier
Lucia Romeu
Patricia Venancio Oliveira
Maria Maria Papaxristou


Video 1

If I could only see the sky above my head through the shadow of your steps.

São Paulo:
Head of Camera (literally): Camera and bike ride: Fabricio Muriana

London
Images: Michele Louise Schiocchet
Walker (based on São Paulo material): Androniki Marathaki
Editing : Michele Louise Schiocchet


Video 2

Der himmel über Batroun (?)
Editing : Michele Louise Schiocchet

Lebanon
Images from Batroun (Lebanon) : Leonardo Augusto Schiocchet/ Dahlia Domian
Stills from Lebanon : Leonardo Augusto Schioccchet
Audio selection by Leonardo Augusto Schiocchet, «borrowed » from ; Ziad Rahbani , album "Bema Enno" ;

Tracks ;
Heyk bt'aml Heyk
Ataba 1
Ataba 2
Talfan Ayyash

Berlin :
Images from : Fabio Kinas
Walker (based on Lebanon material); Mariana Minossi


Video 3

The cities were all one, if I remember while passing by

Hamburg
Stills and description of the bike ride in Hamburg from : Jana Schuldt

Ghent
Walkers / images ( based on Hamburg material) :

Danae Baert
Nele Allewaert

Oslo :
Walkers / images ( based on Hamburg material) :

Thea Marie Dolva
Marit Letnes

Rio de Janeiro ;
Text ; Caricia (about a moment while passing by the street Voluntarios da Patria, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro) : Carla Böhler

Curitiba (Brazil)
Walkers /images (based on Carla Böhler material) :

Carmen Jorge
Vivian Mortean

Fukushima (Japan)
Walker /images (based on Carla Böhler material) :
Ai Kawano

Napoli (Italy)
Images (video from personal mapping) :

Celina Davila
Giorgio Cossu
Iluavi

Walkers / Stills (based on Carla Böhler material) /images (based on Carla Böhler material) :

Celina Davila
Giorgio Cossu

Audio : Collaboration of Marcelo Vourakis with theme based on street sounds of Sao Paulo.

Fragments of the text ’ Invisible Cities’ by Italo Calvino
Voices :
Laura-Kate Jennings
Michele Louise Schiocchet

The space
Printed images ; stills from the screen and room

Napoli : Celina Davila e Giorgio Cossu
Lebanon : Leonardo Augusto Schiocchet
Hamburg : Jana Schuldt
Sao Paulo : Fabricio Muriana
Berlin : Fabio Kinas
Curitiba : Carmen Jorge, Vivian Mortean
All the extra images are from Michele Louise Schiocchet apart from cities maps."