(kinetic installations)
400 x 15 x 10 cm
Wood, plastic, anemocoric seeds
Performance 

Gusts of wind shatter the geometry of the sowing;
a breath upon the architecture hidden beneath the earth,
to awaken it anew, vigorous and profound,
capillary and woven into the very urban fabric that holds it.
Whispering to you not to take the plants for granted,
for they will not remain forever to offer you their shade;
the rest will be answered by something else, if anything remains.
While the trees shrink and dwindle,
dig holes deep into the earth and shelter yourselves,
for out here, the feet are burning.  

Thinking of a device to foster a dialogue with the PAV and the city of Turin, an opportunity arises to connect the architecture of the park-museum with the vegetation of Turin's avenues, the Botanical Garden of Turin, and the Agrobarriera project. In a historical moment where many plant species are at risk due to the speed of change, offering a chance and dedicating a moment of reflection to those specimens that shelter us daily from the sun's rays becomes a necessary practice. 

ph: Giorgia Lippolis

ph: Antonio Jordan

(performative installation)
600 x 1000 x 0.5 cm
Elastic, rubber, ropes, pulleys, carabines, seeds 

To fight against the vertical, pulling the horizon taut becomes necessary.
Invisible to careless eyes. It builds up antibodies.
Swift and violent, it snaps in the air.
It frees memories, scatters their recollections.
It lays the groundwork for a revolution from the ground up.
Becoming elastic becomes a way to traverse space, to make room.
To be more expandable, more responsive.
To launch oneself outward.
To break out. 

The project stems from a collaboration with IsolaPepeVerde (and with the support of Careof) in Milan, reorganizing their archive of seeds exchanged over time and reviving the memory of how the site was born. Through a seedball action inside a construction depot behind the vertical gardens and Gae Aulenti, it launches outward seeds rejected by Milan’s Botanical Garden and urban green space management: seeds of non-native, adaptive, and resilient plants that will represent the future, the foundation of our social diet tomorrow. The work acts as a fuse for a moment of reopening toward the community surviving in the neighborhood, provoking the urban space and the vertical structures surrounding it. It undermines the paradigms through which the surrounding area is selected and constructed in an elitist and sterile manner. 

ph: Giorgia Lippolis

(kinetic installations)
150 x 60 x 30 cm
Iron, straw, iris rhizome
Performance 

Reappropriation of the landscape
through genetic reshuffling,
resilient and adaptive to the habitat,
via a new redefining of boundaries.
War tools
aid the non-peaceful and competitive struggle
of the non-human
in the effort to intermingle and avoid subjugation.
By adopting light transportation strategies,
the seeds
become excellent traces to graft themselves onto the location.
They violently scream wild love.

A project that works on the landscape, on the reappropriation of spaces, and on experiencing a meadow in a different
way, with violences to rebel against.
Blu and Verde involve and reshuffle the archive of wild Umbrian seeds;
Lasciapassare (Pass/Clearance) involves the pomological archive and the Apulian drover's roads (tratturi).

ph: Giorgia Lippolis

(series of kinetic installations)
variable dimensions

Reappropriation of the landscape through genetic remixing,
resilient and adaptive to the habitat,
through a new redrawing of boundaries.
Warlike instruments aid the non-peaceful and competitive struggle of the non-human
in the endeavor of remixing and not being subjugated.
Adopting light transport strategies,
anemochory and zoochory
they become excellent traces for grafting themselves onto the site.
They violently scream wild love. 

A project that works on the landscape, on reappropriating spaces, and on experiencing a meadow differently, with violences to accept, be they victories or losses.
It involves and remixes the archive of Umbrian wild seeds; the ASD Narnense team, which, with its drum rolls and smoke bombs, provided the sound backdrop for my performance; the ‘camporella’ area used by the Narni inhabitants, as much loved as it was, in fact, polluted, and now cleaned up.

ph: Giorgia Lippolis

(site specific installation)
Iron, parachute shreds, steel cables, evolutionary seeds for aridiculture
500 x 400 x 400 cm

The zombie-wind wanderer is a nomad dancing with the wind fighting industrial sterility by sowing plants with resilient genetics unsuited for consumption but terribly suited for life the parade of the bud marks its passage blossoming among the dead Pollen rebels the wind-strewn flowerbed fights neighboring monocultures contaminates those who do not remix 

Cimitero di Filetto (IT)
Collaboration with the Filetto cemetery; with the local community (farmers, peasants, residents and passers-by in the cemetery); with MagazzenoArt Bologna (which funded the residency); with the Entelekia project (born in Romagna, it seeks to survive among monocultures 2024 The zombie-wind wanderer is a nomad dancing with the wind fighting industrial sterility by sowing plants with resilient genetics unsuited for consumption but terribly suited for life the parade of the bud marks its passage blossoming among the dead Pollen rebels the wind-strewn flowerbed fights neighboring monocultures contaminates those who do not remix thanks to the valuable work of recovering, maintaining, and adapting ancient varieties); for the establishment of a flowerbed that maps local, current, and ancient varieties, private and public, allowing anyone who wishes to take care of it and pick flowers directly on site to place on graves. Parade from the former agricultural weigh station to the Filetto Cemetery. 

ph: Giorgia Lippolis

(kinetic installation)
Obeche, ebony stain, rope, pulleys, selection of seeds for aridiculture.
350 x 70 x 10 cm 2024

The bouquet has germinative potential.
The anemochoric dance intertwines with the zoochoric.
An evolutionary mix is a good starting point from which to generate new spaces.
A handful of collaborations cast into a place’s future is a good idea to begin with.
Cooperation between individuals, of any nature, becomes a way to generate the landscape.
It is with this goal that I want to look at space.
A double bouquet launched simultaneously that thrives in time and space, giving hope for the future to species that gaze upon each other every day for a chance.
A clear spatial embrace, defined in the act, perpetual in its resonance.

 Project in collaboration with the precious archive of evolutionary seeds of the Department of Agronomy and Botany of the Catholic University of Pia cenza(IT); the establishment of an aridiculture experimentation flowerbed allowed PhD students to emancipate themselves from the restrictive guide lines of multinationals that push research only on certain varieties, impoverishing the synergistic vision of a broader world. 

ph: Giorgia Lippolis

Dimensioni Variabili
wood, eco-leather, steel, sugar. 

Like wasps, the invitation is to adapt. Aridity is a source of new habitable frontiers. Hymenopteran-like, we will shift levels. Entomologically inspired, we will inhabit fresh solutions. More nomadic and more humble. 

Project in collaboration with the foundations of the Bergamo Monastery and the anthill I found inside. The structure serves as a device for the ants to feed, as the black parts are covered with a sugary molasses. For us, it remains the testimony of a monument that emulates an important moment in the history of animal kingdom evolution. 

ph: Edoardo Bonacina

(site specific installation)
wood, steel, ropes, local seeds.
200 x 150 x 100 cm
Torre Massimiliana, Sant’Erasmo, Venezia (IT) 

To the reconquest of the habitat
reclaiming subtracted spaces
attacking sterile geometrization
in favor of spontaneously proliferating ones.

Project that, thanks to walks, saw the birth of community moments that allowed the mapping of spontaneous plants on the Island of S. Erasmo, around the Torre Massimiliana. The activation of the device then reseeded the roof-meadow, simulating an attack on the anthropized area. 

ph: Erik Falchetti

(site specific video-installation)
video, wood, steel, tiles, rural seeds variable dimension
SpreadMuseum Collection, Entraveaux (FR) 

Mapping of the paths, connecting Entraunes to the historic fort on top of the mountain (Citadel), of its internal passages, as it is abandoned and never architecturally surveyed, of plant development at various altitudes through the collection of seeds, berries, drupes, fruits, leaves.
SeedsMap was placed at the beginning of the path, outside the village walls. The video was donated to the municipality as mapping and survey. 

ph: Maroussia Mbaye

(series of interspecies feeding stations)
wood, steel, solar-powered circuit for feeder dispenser
194 x 173 x 68 cm
Castello Visconteo di Pagazzano, Treviglio (IT)

Structure serving as training for intraspecies cooperation, for habitat repopulation, to redesign new possibilities for intertwinings. 

Project in collaboration with the Feline Area of the Visconti Castle of Pagazzano, Treviglio, for its repopulation after years of poisoning rodents and birds, which subsequently impacted their predators, the moat waters and the ecosystem within it. 

ph: Erik Falchetti

(series of interspecies feeding stations)
182 x 103 x 142 cm
wood, steel, plexiglass, solar-powered circuit for seed dispenser.

 
Supply station for migratory individuals.
In an era when fewer and fewer individuals can afford to migrate according to their needs;
where the structures aimed at their sustenance become more slender and precarious;
establishing new points for provisioning becomes a way to support kinship and co-inhabit with other species. 

Project born to travel and yield to the habitat part of the personal seed archive remixed with seeds found on site. Conceived, designed, and realized during the pandemic, where the terrace was a condominium ashtray and the trees in the background hosted life. Thus was born the desire to establish a point of interspecies contact, between condominiums, sedentary and migratory species, when to take care of a commonspeace by redefining boundaries and concept of ownership.

ph: Arianna Marchetti