Light Dissolution (of the borders)

Parallel Event to Manifesta7

Stefano Cagol
Light Dissolution (of the borders)
16 19 July, 2008

Opening: 16 July, 9.30 pm

Location: Over the city of Trento, Trentino, Italy

http://www.manifesta7.it

The light draws lines impossible to be held in the hands, as the same the borders between nations and cultures are. From this idea the site-specific installation Light Dissolution (of the borders) moves.

The intervention looks at the geographical, historical and cultural specificity of the territory, through a wider and universal viewpoint. A powerful beam underlines and shatters at the same time the border between the two provinces of Trentino and Süd-Tirol and the two cultures, the German and the Italian ones that are together in this region. They are not only physical borders, but the mental ones, too. Highly imprinted are by people belongings, beliefs and preconceptions that are unveiled as being inconsistent, as light is, both intense and fragile.

Light Dissolution is a 7000 W beam positioned on the top of the Sardagna hill, 500 m over sea level, west side of the valley. The light-ray is over the city of Trento and moves from south to north, three times per minute.

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