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Member Since: 8/16/2006
Band Members: PAOLO FAVERO - text / photographs / visuals
anthropologist from stockholm university (sweden) has conducted various research projects in india ranging from youth culture and globalization to mental illness and tourism. recently he has published a book on his research entitled india dreams:cultural identity among young middle class men in new delhi. currently working on hindi film in the indian diaspora in italy, favero has held several photo-shows on indian modernity and on Pakistani mountain areas and he is the author of indicamisticamediatica (with fabrizio de piccoli) and of the documentary flyoverdelhi (with angelo fontana).
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FABRIZIO DE PICCOLI - sounds / music
aka NPERFECT
composer, painter, dj and records collector.
He studies guitars, piano and tabla from his childhood
with ever a special look for electronic sounds experiments.
He's now a quoted music producer for dance clubs, visuals, art installations and commercials.
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a live audio/video installation on the phantasms of india
glimpses into the metropolitan life, the films, the aesthetics and the sounds of contemporary India
a provocation to our conventional images and notions about this exotic country played out in a live dialogue between a vj and dj
Sounds Like: INDICA MISTICA MEDIATICA was born as a work-in-progress in 1999 through the collaboration between an anthropologist/visuals-maker and a dj/electronic-music-composer.
Taking off from the idea of inserting contents gathered from anthropological research into spaces of leisure, the project was animated by the ambition of experimenting artistically with the dialogue between digital sounds and images and between serious issues and entertainment forms.
INDICA MISTICA MEDIATICA aims at raising the awareness of club visitors, subway-commuters or any other kind of distracted viewers on questions of cultural critique. Focussing on metropolitan india, it is a provocation to european conventional ideas and images of so-called third world countries and to the consequences of this imaginary for what regards multiculturalism and integration in contemporary europe.
THE DEBUT
the project had its debut with the videoinstallation indica mistica mediatica. entirely build on photographic images this 34 minutes long installation was lunched at the club THE BEACH in turin in the summer of 2002. the same fall it was selected for the 2002 edition of the environment TORINO FILM FESTIVAL.
INDICAMISTICAMEDIATICA ..LIVE !
the second step of the project is entitled indicamisticamediaticalive! and is a live audio/video performance/installation approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes. based on original material filmed in new delhi and bombay and re-edited footage from various hindi films it offers glimpses into the metropolitan life, the films, the aesthetics and the sounds of contemporary india.
INDICAMISTICAMEDIATICAlive! had its debut in the summer of 2005 at the ELETTROWAVE festival (section of arezzowave festival, arezzo, italy).
besides being a stage-performance where images and sounds are played live. the other guest artists those night was Talvin Singh and Dj Rummy.
INDICAMISTICAMEDIATICAlive! is also a ready-made installation on dvd (of either 30 or 60 minutes) for usage in museums, public places, etc.
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