Visionaria | Live Performance by Alessandro D’Alessandro & Gianluca Abbate

Visionaria is a live audio-visual performance with music by Alessandro D’Alessandro and live visuals by Gianluca Abbate. A one-hour journey that blends archival images, animated painting and experimental sound, presented in festivals and theaters across Italy between 2023 and 2024.

VISIONARIA
Live music by Alessandro D’Alessandro
live visuals by Gianluca Abbate

On this page I share some images from Visionaria, a project I am developing together with Alessandro D'Alessandro, for which I curate the visual component and the live video performance. Visionaria is a live audio-visual performance where Alessandro D'Alessandro, musician and artist, performs with a prepared accordion and electronic bases, accompanied by my live video interventions. Here you can find video and photographic excerpts documenting the work. I have worked with archival images, re-elaborating and re-sampling them in real time, and adding animated painting interventions. The images come from the photographic archive of the Library of Congress and have been transformed to be projected live during the performance. Visionaria has an approximate duration of one hour. On this page I present three moments of the live performance in which I use these visual repertoires.

The show has been staged in various cities between 2023 and 2024: in Avellino, at Accento d'Oro; in Milan, at Triennale; in Rome, during the Unarchive Festival; in Palermo and Bagheria, on the occasion of Animaphix Festival; and also at Molise Cinema and Ibrida Festival.

Live at Triennale Milano

Here are some images from the live performance held at Triennale Milano in 2024. The performance was introduced by Alina Marazzi, Italian filmmaker and artist, as well as Artistic Director of Triennale’s Performance Cinema section.

A photo from the Visionaria performance at Triennale Milano. Another photo from the Visionaria performance at Triennale Milano with Alessandro D’Alessandro and Gianluca Abbate.

Photo from the Visionaria performance at Triennale Milano. Inside the Triennale Milano theater during the Visionaria performance with Alessandro D’Alessandro and Gianluca Abbate.

LA MASCHERA

Here you can see some fragments of the visuals created for this piece. The archival images have been processed using cut-out and collage techniques, enhanced with animated digital painting interventions.

Visual treatments on archival materials for the Visionaria project.
Animated drawing on archival materials using mixed techniques for the Visionaria project. Animated collage of archival images and visual experiments for the Visionaria project.


TAMMURRIATA NOIR

Here, I use the same technique as before, working with photographic images of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Anna Magnani.

Anna Magnani in Mamma Roma reworked for the visuals of the Visionaria performance.
Archival image of Pier Paolo Pasolini reworked for the visuals of the Visionaria performance. Archival image of Anna Magnani reworked for the visuals of the Visionaria performance.


CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE

Here, too, the technique is the same as the previous ones, but I interweave archival image cutouts with video sequences.

Experimental treatments on photographic archives from the Library of Congress for the Visionaria performance.
Archival photograph reworked with experimental visual treatments for the Visionaria performance. Archival photograph reimagined through collage and animation for the Visionaria performance.


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Alessandro D’Alessandro performing in front of live visuals by Gianluca Abbate for Visionaria. Alessandro D’Alessandro performing in front of live visuals by Gianluca Abbate for Visionaria. Alessandro D’Alessandro performing in front of live visuals by Gianluca Abbate for Visionaria. Alessandro D’Alessandro and Gianluca Abbate performing together in Visionaria. Alessandro D’Alessandro performing in front of live visuals by Gianluca Abbate for Visionaria. Alessandro D’Alessandro performing in front of live visuals by Gianluca Abbate for Visionaria. Alessandro D’Alessandro performing in front of live visuals by Gianluca Abbate for Visionaria. Alessandro D’Alessandro performing in front of live visuals by Gianluca Abbate for Visionaria.

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