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a week's notice

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These are excerpts from the audio that I made for the Istituto Svizzero showing of Tomaso de Luca's video installation "A Week's Notice". It's a reinterpretation of the initial foley and interstitial music that I recorded in 2020 for the original MUSEO MAXXI exhibition.

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The 80s and 90s, while the AIDS crisis was wiping out the population, affecting disproportionally the queer community, were the decades that saw the rising of what Sarah Schulman refers to as the gentrification of AIDS. As people were dying daily, entire neighborhoods were emptied out, furniture and objects belonging to the owners were thrown out in the street, leaving their apartments empty and without heirs, ready to be put back on the market for wealthier and healthier renters. A Week’s Notice is an ode to the queer architecture, an attempt to reclaim that public and domestic space that has been obliterated by progress.

In the triptych of videos are displayed twenty- five architectural miniatures, modeled after movies’ architectures, from Buster Keaton’s and The Wizard of Oz to low-budget TV series and b-movies, from well-known buildings by Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier to anonymous corridors, public bathrooms and studio-apartments I lived in, from installation by Gordon Matta-Clark and Dan Graham to campy dollhouses. Drawing on the slapstick register, the twenty-five miniatures move, implode, levitate, tremble, fly, open and close, turn on and off, in a clumsy repertoire of domestic accidents.

The three channel video and sound installation is conceived as a rhapsody, where sound and moving images overlap in a different way at every loop, re-composing themselves in a unique pattern over time.

Tomaso De Luca, A Week’s Notice, 2020
three channels video and sound installation, color sound, total length 60’00”
video still
the work has been made through the support of Fondazione MAXXI and BVLGARI
Courtesy the artist, Fondazione MAXXI and Monitor, Rome, Lisbon, Pereto

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released June 10, 2021

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