Set design of an immersive scenography at Venice Immersive, the Extended Reality section of the 81. Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia
The Gossips' Chronicles is a location-based multiplayer installation that combines a real-life guided tour in a torture museum with a VR experience to tell the story of the Gossips, a population that lived around the 5th century AD and is now extinct. Skilled craftsmen, they made precious objects to channel the energy of the universe, interact with plants, clone DNA and tame the elements'.
For this exhibition, we designed and produced five stage devices that support, arrange and illuminate a series of 3D printed artworks and virtual reality viewers. The arrangement of the scenic devices at the four corners of the space supports the narrative and enters into dialogue with the guide and the viewers. The devices are both functional and evocative; their presence, materials and composition are reminiscent of archaic, crude, metallic torture instruments with exposed bolts and adjustment and fastening systems.
Their form is light, delicate, linear and almost disappears, this contrast between severe and delicate is one of the key aspects of this installation; another aspect is the lighting system, integrated into the base, which illuminates the works from below, a blade of sharp, dramatic red light that transforms these objects into an immersive scenography.
Careof (Marta Bianchi)
Studio GISTO
Alessandro Mason, Pietro Lora
Aljoša Marković
Alessandro Mason, Aljoša Marković