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LA POLIZIA IN VALSUSA / Police in Valsusa

2023

La polizia in Valsusa collects stories and reflections on the military occupation that the Italian state has been carrying out in Valsusa since 2005. The voices in the piece are from people inside the NO TAV movement, an Italian grass root struggle that, since the early 2000s, has opposed the construction of the second high-speed train line between Turin and Lyon.

The audio piece does not claim to be an exhaustive documentation of the many past and current incidents involving NO TAV and police. Instead, it tries to offer a picture, as candid and heartfelt as possible, of how the police and the army are perceived and opposed in Valsusa. This leaves room for broader reflections on the repressive nature of the state and the instrumental use of the police.

A Spanish version of the piece has been presented at Tsonami Festival 2022 in Valparaiso, Chile. French and English versions are in progress.

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BISOGNA CANTA’ SEMPER – book chapter

2022

Here’s the book chapter I co-authored with Lorenzo Pedrini about the social logic of ultras chanting. The essay has been published in the book “Le Strade della Teppa”, RedStar Press, 2022

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IGNITE

2019 - 2022


An incendiary mixture consumes the membrane of a loudspeaker, devouring its insides.

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WHEN SOUND ENDS

burnt book, 2022



This book is a translation of a series of actions that I conceived and performed as part of the project When Sound Ends.

Primarily intended to be experienced live, the actions and associated artifacts act as witnesses – often silently – to the impermanence and fragility of the body. The presence, absence and loss of sound become a metaphor for the human condition.

This book in turn functions as a sort of remembrance which allows these actions to live on in another medium, in another body.

design: Davide Tidoni
hand-binding: Tatsuya Inuikawa
dimensions: 108×150mm
number of exemplars: 10
year: 2022
orders: write to baitabaita AT riseup DOT net

The book exists in 10 different exemplars, each with a different number of pages. Each exemplar bears unique burn marks.

RADICAL MURMUR

2022



Here you can download the full text used for producing the audio interview above. The interview covers the main themes of my work and has been written for Radical Murmur, a podcast produced by TRASHLINIE in collaboration with rekto:verso, Gonzo (circus), and COLLATERAL.

WHEN SOUND ENDS – book format



TOWARDS A SOCIOLOGY OF ULTRAS’ CHANTING – essay

2021
Here’s an essay based on my field research with the ultras group Brescia 1911. I co-authored the essay with sociologist L.Pedrini. Unfortunatley it’s only available in italian for the moment…

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WE SPEAK THE AIR WE BREATHE

2021


A choreographed sequence of white noise makes audible how sound propagates and interacts in relation to the architecture of the place.

The title of the work refers to the condition of interdependence that permeates all relationships. Streams of white noise become modified in relation to the surrounding physical space which sound encounters as it propagates. As we breathe the air we speak… drawing air inwards into our body and exhaling it outwards from our lungs back into surrounding space.

The performance in the video happened in 2021 but its first versions and research date back to 2014.

Performance: Davide Tidoni
Performed by Abigail Aleksander, Amber Meulenijzer, and Franziska Windisch
Video: Sander Tas with Davide Tidoni
Sound: Davide Tidoni

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WE SPEAK THE AIR WE BREATHE – documentation video


MORE ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE HERE

who will guard the guards?

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WHEN SOUND ENDS

exhibition 2021



This series of works explores themes of corporeality, in relation to sound production and audition, touch, and loss. The loudspeakers, microphones, enclosures, and membranes presented in this exhibition are in varying states of disrepair; most are no longer capable of producing sound and thus are poignant objects for meditation on impermanence, bodily frailty, and death. Each of these corpses bear visible marks of violence, traces of past collisions and other wounds which emphatetically encourage viewers to visualize this encounter and the consequential loss of capacity.

See more documentation about the overall project: whensoundends.davidetidoni.name/

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ATTACK / DECAY – documentation video


MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT HERE

ATTACK / DECAY

2020


Attack/Decay is a night walk where participants are invited to explore the acoustics of specific locations by means of a custom built impulse generator device.
The acoustic qualities and the spatial features of the chosen locations serve as a point of departure for developing site related listening pieces.
Through direct experience, the walk introduces participants to primary acoustic principles and spatial listening, framed as a state of interference and interdependency with the propagation of sound in space.



Technical development by Airborne Instruments.
With the support of Nadine, laboratory for contemporary arts and the VGC.

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WHERE DO YOU DRAW THE LINE BETWEEN ART AND POLITICS?

book of interviews, 2021



Where Do You Draw the Line Between Art and Politics? consists of a series of interviews with individuals who have been active in various capacities at the intersection of art and politics.

Between historical documentation, political memory, dialogic reflections, and motivational support, the publication focuses on the experiences, commitments, and feelings that animate and inform aesthetic priorities in social spaces both within and outside of art institutions; a repository designed to inspire and encourage the politicization of aesthetics, as opposed to the aestheticization of politics.

The people I interviewed are: Pietro Perotti, a Fiat worker and self-appointed worker communicator; Lucia Farinati, a researcher, activist and independent curator; two anonymous members of a hacker collective working in the field of technology and urban space; Errico Canta Male, a singer-songwriter; and Mario “Schizzo” Frisetti and Luca Bruno, of the Torino Squatters.

Read the introduction of the book.

design: Marzia Dalfini with Davide Tidoni
producer: a.pass in collaboration with nadine
publisher: a.pass
distributor: a.pass and Compulsive Archive
number of copies: 500
year: 2021
orders: write to baitabaita AT riseup DOT net

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