Alessandro Carboni Portfolio 2016

A L E S S A N D R O C A R B O N I
Performance practices and research strategies
2 0 0 0 - 2 0 1 6 P O R T F O L I O
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Alessandro Carboni is choreographer, performer and researcher whose projects explore the complex relationships between body, map and city. His
works are mappings that represent places that reshapes and weaves according to different stages stimulated by specific urban contingencies. The
materials and collected data, produced during the long periods of work in selected urban areas, are accumulated in an archive that is transformed into
visual works and body performance. Alessandro Carboni’s projects have been displayed, performed and situated in many countries across the world. As
a committed teacher, he has been lecturing about his findings at numerous distinguished academic and nonacademic institutions.
After an education in visual arts and performance between Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence and Central Saint Martins in London, he has developed
many projects, exhibitions, performances at festivals, museums and galleries in Europe, USA, Hong Kong, India and China. He has worked with: School
of Architecture, Hong Kong; School of Performance, University of Kerala, Trichur, India; Central Saint Martin’s University of Art Londra; Ciant, Praga;
NABA, Milano; S.T.E.I.M, Amsterdam; FestArch festival Internazionale di Architettura; CCDC, Hong Kong; 1aSpace Hong Kong; Mediadanse –
Département Danse de l’Université Paris-VIII; NewSchool University, New York; Dept.Architecture Tamkang University, Taipei; Master di Alta
Formazione sull’Immagine Contemporanea, Fondazione Fotografia, Modena; IRESA, Sousse University – Tunisia. On the occasion of 13th Venice
Biennale International Architecture Exhibition, Alessandro Carboni has participated at the Hong Kong Pavillion opening ceremony with the
performance Learning Curves-Kaitak River. He holds a PhD in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong. Based in Sardinia, he is currently
working as an independent artist.

EM Tools - urban mapping and performance art practice - 2016
by Alessandro Carboni
The performance is a composition of series of situations that I collected with my body in Hong Kong during the clashes and protests in November 2014. The performance is an
attempt to rethink the body as cartographic and mapping tool able to physically relate with situations that occur in urban space and reconfigure them with a choreographic
thinking. The project is part of Alessandro Carboni’s PhD research Performing Urban Complexity, School of Creative Media, City University, Hong Kong.
Performance with: Alessandro Carboni; Interactive media: Emanuele Lomello; Production: Formati Sensibili – art&science mashups; Duration: 30min

Always Becoming - 2016
Always Becoming is a nomadic platform of research reflecting on the body by combining, performative practices, embodiment processes, body
mapping of urban space, cartography and experimental geography. Conceived as a collaborative working platform, the project is founded on the
interdependence between science, practice and production. Performers, artists and theorists share research materials, thoughts, ideas to work
around the body as vector, as a tool and not a condition, to analyze the environment and the urban space. Time and space will be approached from a
variety of viewpoints; artistic, political, social. The research period is envisioned to be oscillating between moments of urban explorations,
performances, workshops, rehearsal, informal presentations and longer outdoor practice sessions. Always Becoming# took place already in several
cities such as Aarhus, Malmo, Bologna, Copenhagen and Hong Kong.
Always Becoming
Project by Alessandro Carboni
Theoretical consultant and curatorial: Piersandra di Matteo
Production: Progressive Archive (2016)
With the support of Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC);
Videotage: Fuse Artist-in-residence Programme; Italian Culture Institute of Hong Kong; School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong;
Adaptive Environments Research Group/IT University of Copenhagen; Living Archives Project, University of Malmö; Kunsthal, with the support of
Participatory IT/Department of Aesthetic of Communication at the University of Aarhus; Atelier Sì spaziotempo 2015/16 Artists in ResidenSì
Programme – Progetto Interregionale di Residenze Artistiche realizzato con il contributo di Regione Emila-Romagna e MiBACT.
https://alwaysbecomingproject.wordpress.com/

Being here, in what will no longer be - 2015
The performance is a composition of series of situations that I collected with my body in Hong Kong during the clashes and protests in November 2014. The performance is an
attempt to rethink the body as cartographic and mapping tool able to physically relate with situations that occur in urban space and reconfigure them with a choreographic
thinking. The project is part of Alessandro Carboni’s PhD research Performing Urban Complexity, School of Creative Media, City University, Hong Kong.
Performance with: Alessandro Carboni; Interactive media: Emanuele Lomello; Production: Formati Sensibili – art&science mashups; Duration: 30min

Being here, in what will no longer be - 2015

My body is a Sampler - (2014 - ongoing)

AS IF WE WERE DUST - (2014)
As if we were dust – (2014)
Research and performance: Alessandro Carboni
with the participation of the group Phren
assistant project: Chiara Castaldini
production secretary: Cristina Gervasi
in collaboration with: Centro Mousikè, Studio RP, Museo del Patrimonio Industriale, Roveri Costruzioni s.r.l
The actions of the perfomer and the dancers are based on the application of EM:toolkit, a compositional urban mapping tool for performance developed and systematized by
myself.

REMAPPING EXTREME LAND - (2014)
remapping extreme land # gagliano del capo
according to my personal geography
project by alessandro carboni
direction, research, mapping, performance, editing: alessandro carboni
documentation and photography: luca coclide, abdi yacine benseddik and francesca marconi
secretary, assistant and press office: cristina gervasi
assistance: annapaola presta
support: my family and all people from gagliano
the project remapping extreme lands# has been developed in the frame of Indagine sulle Terre Estreme, produced and curated by Ramdom. Direction, Paolo Mele. Progetto
GAP is curated by Francesca Marconi.
A site specific exploration around the landscape of Salento – specifically the area around Gagliano del Capo – on different geographical scales. On the one hand, the artist
focuses on interdisciplinary exploration that led him to discover the paths along the coast and inland, either on foot or by boat, with the use of various media such as field
recording, photographs and video. On the other hand, the exploration carries out on a human scale: this allows the artist to understand the area’s history through the stories
of the people encountered in the period of residence. During the meetings, the participants are guided in the creation of a shared map of the area around Gagliano del Capo.
This dialogue and exchange allowa the artist to collect materials, experiences and stories that relate to the coast and the land, and use them as ideas for the creation of the
event and final performance. The project remapping extreme lands# is developed in the frame of Indagine sulle Terre Estreme, in the frame of GAP, produced and curated by
Ramdom.

REMAPPING EXTREME LAND - (2014)

LEARNING CURVES - (2013 - on going)
Interdisciplinary research project on places of contact between natural and urban landscape.
The rivers is the place of contact between two points: the natural landscape, and the artificial landscape, the result of the effects of production, of social, cultural and
environment. A river is the element of transformation: a concrete landscape system, or an element in equilibrium in which all the natural and artificial elements can be
variously connected.

LEARNING CURVES/LIzhiwan Creek, Guangzhou (2013)
During a period of exploration Alessandro Carboni explored the area along the creek
on different geographical scales. On the one hand, interdisciplinary exploration led
him to discover the paths along the canal with the use of various media such as field
recordings, photographs and videos; on the other hand, exploration was carried out
on a human scale: through interviews with researchers and local inhabitants from
Pantang village, characterized by the exchange between the people and the artist, in
which ideas have emerged and points of view on the history of Lizhiwan Creek and its
current status. This time of sharing, allowed the artist to collect materials,
experiences and stories about the canal, and use them as inspiration for the
installation and the performance.
During the exploration of some ruined part of Pantang village, Alessandro collected
old bricks in which they are used for the creation of miniature map of the territory.
The entire project attempt to create a visual, geographical, historical and personal
point of view of Lizhiwan Creek and its current status.
Research and project: Alessandro Carboni
Assistance: Francesca Frassoldati
Secretary: Cristina Gervasi
Thanks to: Liang Family and Pantang village
Production: Formati Sensibili 2013
Learning Curves/Lizhiwan Creek has been hosted in residence and supported by
South China University of Technology (Guangzhou, PRC)
The project has been developed in the frame of the exhibition: Watersheds, the
narrative of the recycle process in a waterborne urban space, 2013-14 Hong Kong
and Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale of UrbanismArchitecture
01-20/11 - Residence in Guangzhou, China
07/12 -Installation and performance @ Watersheds exhibition,
Urban Border Bi-City Biennale of UrbanismArchitecture 2013
Website: http://learningcurveslizhiwancreek.wordpress.com/

LEARNING CURVES/LIzhiwan Creek, Guangzhou (2013)

LEARNING CURVES/Shing Mun River, Hong Kong - (2013)
The new stage of Learning Curves takes place in Hong Kong and focuses on the Shing
Mun River. The project intends to focus the research on the transformation of the
landscape caused by major land reclamation that irrevocably changed the Shatin area.
The dramatic human activity around the Shatin area, which started at the beginning
of the 1970s due to land reclamation and extension over the sea, transformed the
villages into the biggest residential urban agglomerate in Hong Kong.
Website: http://learningcurveshingmunriver.wordpress.com/
Project by Alessandro Carboni
Assistance: Li Wai Mei and Cristina Gervasi
Translation in English: Andrea Scalas
Photography and graphic: Alessandro Carboni
Recording assistance: Jacklam Ho and Dylan Kwon
Special thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Choy Hon Sum
Alessandro reportage has been published for the
Italian magazine Frontierenews.it
Learning Curves/ Shing Mun River has been
developed in the frame of The Library by
soundpocket artist in residence

LEARNING CURVES/Shing Mun River, Hong Kong - (2013)

LEARNING CURVES/Kaitak River, Hong Kong - (2008 - 2012)
KAITAK RIVER, Hong Kong
Since 2008, Alessandro Carboni has been working around Kai Tak River, Hong Kong
focusing his research on Nga Tsin Wai village, one of the latest rural villages in
Kowloon. Taking this as a point of departure, Carboni has been examining local
disappearing urban spaces, which overlap with several discrete boundaries within Kai
Tak River, Kowloon Walled City and To Kwa Wan. The project aims not merely to show
the general phenomenon of urban transformation, but to inspire people to consider
how art practice, being a discipline for active production of thinking, affects the city
and how it respond to our bodies and spaces. The urban river redevelopment becomes
a metaphor for change of a whole community.
website: http://learningcurveskaitakriver.wordpress.com/
Project by Alessadro Carboni
with the support:
Urban Place Unit – Wallace Chang Ping Hung,
Hong Kong
the Unit for Community Building is formally part
of the Department of Architecture, Chinese
University of Hong Kong.
1aspace Gallery, Hong Kong
City Contemporary Dance Company, CCDC, Hong
Kong

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a geo-sketching performance by Alessandro Carboni
from Learning Curves Asia - Overlapping Discrete Boundaries project
A mental geography reconstruction of places, perceptions and fragments of a research journey around Kaitak River. City, bodies, urban transformation, tensions that animate
social change are transformed in a "geo-sketching" object media base performance. River and urban space are reduced as miniature in a which a table became a map of a
human landscape.
DIARY OF A BODY MAPPING, KAITAK
RIVERProject and performance by Alessandro Carboni
A mental geography reconstruction of places, perceptions and fragments of a research journey around landscapes. City, bodies, urban transformation, tensions that animate
social change are transformed in a "geo-sketching" object media base performance. River and urban space are reduced as miniature in a which a table became a map of a
human landscape.
GEO SKETCHING (2012)

DIARY OF A BODY MAPPING, KAITAK RIVER - 012GEO SKETCHING (2012)

DIARY OF A BODY MAPPING, KAITAK RIVER - 202GEO SKETCHING (2012)

LEARNING CURVES/Kaitak River, Hong Kong - (2008 - 2012)

Learning CurvesLEARNING CURVES/ Magra River, Lunigiana La Spezia- (2013)
MAGRA RIVER, Lunigiana/La Spezia
During a period of residence Alessandro Carboni explored the area along the river
Magra on different geographical scales. On the one hand, interdisciplinary
exploration led him to discover the paths along the river with the use of various
media such as field recordings, photographs and videos; on the other hand,
exploration was carried out on a human scale: through two workshops for children
and adults made in Arcola, characterized by the exchange between the participants
and the artist, times when ideas have emerged and points of view on the history of
the Magra and its current status . Through the creation of a miniature map of the
territory, the participants were told the river Magra from a geographical point of
view, historical and personal. This time of sharing, allowed the artist to collect
materials, experiences and stories about the river, and use them as inspiration for the
creation and performance.
http://learningcurvesmagrariver.wordpress.com/
Research and project: Alessandro Carboni
Assistance and secretary: Cristina Gervasi
Thanks to: Tue Greenfort, Tiziano Bonini, Sara
Dughetti, Federico Bacci and Comune di Arcola
Production: Formati Sensibili 2013
Learning Curves/Magra has been hosted in
residence by CastelloInMovimento, Fosdinovo
The project has been developed in the frame of Lo
Spazio Inventato an event that aims to involve the
city in a movement of cultural appropriation
through supportive housing spaces, this summer
will be the historic stairways of La Spezia.

Learning CurvesLEARNING CURVES/ Magra River, Lunigiana La Spezia- (2013)

Learning CurvesLEARNING CURVES/Danshui River, Taipei - (2011)
DANSHUI River, Taipei
The Danshui River is the largest river in Taipei. It crosses all urban area and goes into
the South China Sea. An urban exploration of Zhuwei community living around Plum
tree stream connected to Danshui River. The research process is focused on
sustainable and multidisciplinary strategies proposals of how to revitalize the
polluted condition of Plum-Tree-Stream. During the residency program Alessandro
Carboni conducted research, workshops at the Department of Architecture of
Tamkang University and lectures at Tamsui historical museum. He also produced
urban action and several works about the neighborhood existing condition and local
history.
Hosted by Bamboo Curtain Studio Art in Residence Program, Taipei.
http://learningcurvesdanshuiriver.wordpress.com/

Learning CurvesLEARNING CURVES/Danshui River, Taipei - (2011)

OVERLAPPING DISCRETE BOUNDARIES ASIA - exhibition (video, installation and sound) 2013

MY CARTHOGRAPHY THEORY OF NOWHERE - exhibition 2013MY CARTOGRAPHY’S THEORY OF NOWHERE (2012)
My Cartography's Theory of Nowhere is a work that tells a visual journey through the works of the Galleria Comunale of Cagliari. The artist has designed this space as a place
to explore and the works as territories to follow, and to relate. The work carried out is constituted by three maps in glass which are suspended vertically in the middle of a
corridor and horizontally on a table. During the observation, the transparency of glass allows the visitor to observe the signs and the map and at the same time to include in
its frame elements which are located in the space. My Cartography's Theory of Nowhere becomes a device capable of integrating the background, or the landscape within
itself. In the Galleria Comunale, the works already become the landscape which is inserted inside. The maps created are therefore not only the two-dimensional
representation of space, but they are also the three-dimensional image of a place. In the work space and place converge in one spatial dimension: the frame. Infinitely many
points of view are intended to include in it a background-landscape always different.

MY CARTHOGRAPHY THEORY OF NOWHERE - exhibition 2013

ON FORMATION OF CLOUDS (2012)
Landscape exploration between sky and earth
is part of Learning Curves interdisciplinary project by Alessandro Carboni
On formation of clouds is focuses on the study of water cycle in various states of transformation. An interdisciplinary exploration of Italian Alps: Valeille, Val di Cogne, a
description of places, territories, a collection of materials, sound, images. A “progressive archive” remodulated in a visual sound and movement performance. On formation
of clouds is a creative residence made in collaboration with Museo Forte di Bard and Riccardo Mantelli.

OVERLAPPING DISCRETE BOUNDARIES - ASIA Tour (2010)
An interdisciplinary research project that explores the urban transformations in specific palces and territories around Foshan, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hanoi, Ho Chi Mihn
City,: a meditation on the changes in contemporary society through a study on the body and its anthropological and socio-cultural transformations in urban space.
Overlapping Discrete Boundaries was developed in Asia in 2010.. The research focuses on the relationship of city and human landscape transformation around Asian
metropolies. The research has been produced in the frame of ”Focus on Art and Science in the Performing Arts” with the support of the Cultural Program of the European
Commission and Nao – Nuovi Autori Oggi.
http://learningcurvesasia.wordpress.com/
During the trip, Alessandro Carboni has used an interdisciplinary
methodology of mapping and analysis of urban space, which he invented,
which runs through the visual arts, performance, architecture, urban
sociology, cognitive science and new technologies. A “haptic topography”
which has shifted from time to time, in various procedural stages, in the
specific urban contingencies.

OVERLAPPING DISCRETE BOUNDARIES - (on going)
Research Team:
Alessandro Carboni: concept, research and explorations
Riccardo Mantelli: urban proximity detector
Dickson Dee, Kembo: video documentation
Elisa Poli: scientific contribution
Production: Formati Sensibili
The project is "Focus on Art and Science in the
Performing Arts with the support of the Cultural Program
of the European Commission and Nao – Nuovi Autori Oggi
Partners:
School of Architecture, Hong Kong
NoiseAsia, Hong Kong
Nanihin Art Centre, Foshan
Performing Art Centre - Switch On, Kuala Lumpur
Osage Gallery, Singapore
Youth Centre, Ho Chin Minh City
HanoiSoundstuff Festival, Hanoi
LaDU / Urban Density Laboratory-Faculty of Architecture, Cagliari
Fabbrica Europa, Florence
Digital D3D_Master Environment_NABA, Milan

OVERLAPPING DISCRETE BOUNDARIES - ASIA Tour/ FOSHAN (2010)
FOSHAN 23° 1′ 0″ N, 113° 7′ 0″ E
After Shenzhen and Guangzhou, Foshan is the third largest city in the Pearl River
Delta. Once famous for the production of porcelain, recently, due to the economic
boom in China, Foshan city has undergone a urban, social, economic transformation
very fast at times disjointed and schizophrenic. An analysis of urban stratification and
social change around the Pearl River Delta and Shunde district.

OVERLAPPING DISCRETE BOUNDARIES - ASIA Tour/ FOSHAN (2010)
FOSHAN 23° 1′ 0″ N, 113° 7′ 0″ E

OVERLAPPING DISCRETE BOUNDARIES - ASIA Tour/ KUALA LUMPUR (2010)
KUALA LUMPUR 3° 8′ 8.52″ N, 101° 41′ 16.8″ E
Kampung Baru is a urban village in downtown Kuala Lumpur. Over the years it has
become a major urban area not only for the interest of large construction companies,
but also for its political and religious value: in the area live the oldest Muslim
communities in the nation. A urban exploration of the the Klang River where the
oldest mosque in Kuala Lumpur is located and reflection on the changing Muslim
identity.

OVERLAPPING DISCRETE BOUNDARIES - ASIA Tour/ KUALA LUMPUR (2010)

OVERLAPPING DISCRETE BOUNDARIES - ASIA Tour/ SINGAPORE (2010)
SINGAPORE 1° 18′ 0″ N, 103° 48′ 0″ E
The southern part of the main island of Singapore is fully urbanised and densely
populated. Around the centre of the city however have expanded the so-called “new
town” in which lives 86% of the total population. An exploration of Queenstown, the
oldest New Town of the City. A urban action of 24 hours in the Food Court, perhaps
the only real social space left in the whole area. Here the people of Queenstown,
meet, eat, share tables and spend most of their time.

OVERLAPPING DISCRETE BOUNDARIES - ASIA Tour/ SINGAPORE (2010)
FOSHAN 23° 1′ 0″ N, 113° 7′ 0″ ESINGAPORE 1° 18′ 0″ N, 103° 48′ 0″ E

OVERLAPPING DISCRETE BOUNDARIES - ASIA Tour/ HO CHIN MNH CITY (2010)
HO CHIN MINH CITY 10° 46′ 10″ N, 106° 40′ 55″ E
Ho Chi Minh City has become the largest urban centre of southern Vietnam. An
exploration inside the communities that live around the Kênh Tàu HU (TofuCanal),
the channel that runs through the District 8, which, since its black, polluted, dense
and impenetrable colour was nicknamed Black Canal.

OVERLAPPING DISCRETE BOUNDARIES - ASIA Tour/ HO CHIN MNH CITY (2010)

HANOI 21° 2′ 0″ N, 105° 51′ 0″ E
Hanoi is one of the new global cities of the 21st century. Political, economic, touristic
and cultural centre, Hanoi has recently entered into competition with the
neighbouring cities of South East Asia and in the last 10 years, with the thriving
southern region of China. The increasing urbanisation, rapid industrialisation and the
resulting economic expansion, have transformed the city in a radical way. An
exploration on the floating village born under the Long Bien Bridge, a symbol of the
ancient Hanoi.

HARMONOLAND (2012)
Conference-performance and Alessandro Carboni
from Overlapping Discrete Boundaries Project - Asia
Harmonoland is a mental geography reconstruction of places, perceptions, and fragments of a research trip, between several cities in Asia. City, bodies, urban
transformation, tensions that animate crowds of change are told in a lecture-performance, by Alessandro Carboni interested in the human landscape, in particular to the
body and its relationship with space.

LAU NAY (2011)
Concept, coreography and object-media base: Alessandro Carboni Dance: Sayaka Kaiwa
Light design: Enzo Fascetto Sivillo Fascetto
Music: Dickson Dee
Interactive system: z25.org and Emanuele Lomello
Production: Formati Sensibili 2011 - Nao–Nuovi Autori Oggi Supporto: LaDU Laboratorio
Densità Urbana–Facoltà Architettura ,Cagliari|; NoiseAsia ,HongKong –
WallaceChang-School of Architecture of Hong Kong The Performance has been developed
in the frame of “Focus on Art and Science in the Performing Arts” with the support of the
Cultural Program of the European Commission.
From Overlapping Discrete Boundaries Project - Asia
A reconstruction of places, perceptions, and fragments of a research trip, between several cities in Asia. City, bodies, urban transformation, tensions that animate crowds of
change are represented in an object media base performance.

Passing from a Southeast Asian metropolis to a remote village in Abruzzo can create dislocation and estrangement in the traveller-type of the XXI century. But it can also be
important to outline guidelines of an alternative working method to land, for example, a new treaty of geography, to identify unusual similarities and unforeseen tensions
and friction that can arise only with comparison of reality of antipodes. The project aims to reveal tensions and energies of the relationship between people and city through
an experimental and multidisciplinary practice of exploration. A reconstruction of a "geography" using body as a tool for analysis of space. [fragment] A progressive archive of
places, perceptions and mnemonic fragments through action, performance, object-media base installation, images, video, articles and reports. The multidisciplinary artist
spent almost a month in residence in the small village of Guilmi (Ch), Abruzzo. The research focused on the concept of “human energy” related to the unstoppable
demography decreasing process on village: only 100 people still living in the village. The research defined in several stages, included actions in urban and rural areas and
direct meeting, workshops and and collective work-installation in collaboration with the local inhabitants.
http://rethinkinghumanenergies.wordpress.com/
Rural landscape exploration in Gulmi (Ch), a small village situated amid the hills of Vasto.
RETHINKING HUMAN ENERGIES (2010 - ongoing)

RETHINKING HUMAN ENERGIES (2010 - on going)

Research project exploring in particular the mediated relationship between body and urban environment. It has three main interrelated objects of research and it is
developed through a creative dialogue between the relative practices: choreography, urban geography-visual art and communication technologies intertwined in an
emergent disciplinary ﬁeld dealing with the human body, the city and the generative code.
WHAT BURNS NEVER RETURNS (2007-2009)

Research Team:
Alessandro Carboni: concept, research, exploration and
performance
Riccardo Mantelli: generative code:
Lorenzo Tripodi: walker and urban trajectories
Danilo Casti: soundlandscape
in collaboration with: WBNR- Laboratorio su densità e
trasformazione urbana, Facoltà di Architettura Cagliari
Production npa Officina Ouroboros 08
Partners:
in the frame of Moving_Movimento
un progetto di Fabbrica Europa; Festival Santarcangelo dei
Teatri, Santarcangelo; Giardino Chiuso / Teatro dei Leggieri,
San Gimignano; Officina Giovani / Cantieri Culturali ex Macelli,
Prato; Assessorato alla Cultura e alle Politiche Giovanili del
Comune di Prato
support:
Central Saint Martin's University of Art - Londra
Dipartimento Architettura - Università di Cagliari
Conservatorio Palestrina di Cagliari

A performance research about the phenomenon of “high-speed urbanization” in the
most disarticulated forms of urban density. The project has been developed through a
collaborative platforms of research in which, a wide range of contributors, had
enriched the basic artistic and technical competencies. Urban researchers, media
artists, theorists and software programmers, had leaded a both a performance
production and a theoretical contribution.

Concept, performance and object media-base: Alessandro Carboni
Technical assistance: Fabio Atzeni
Production | Formati Sensibili
Co-production: 1a space (Hong Kong); partnership programme | CCDC
Dance Centre (Hong Kong)
Support: Wallace Chang-School of Architecture, CUHK), Choi Yan Chi (1a
space), Tse Yin Mo (Art Product Promotion), Anthony Siu Kwok-Kin
(Research Institute of China. History and Department of Chinese), Wing
Sze Blake (Community Development), Leung sik-lun (Vice-president of
Nga tsin Wai community)
INVERSE POWER OF WAVELENGHTS (2009)
From What Burns Never Returns project
An investigation on the relationship between city and body and how it is able to shape the city and how it is transformed in relation to urban transformation. The
performance attempt to rethink the urban space, not as something given, but as a place of experience and production in the body, in its various specific aspects, becomes the
agent of change and fulcrum of discussion. Inverse Power of Wavelengths is a hybrid territory and cross-disciplinary experimentation in which the observation and
documentation urban are the key elements of a performing and visual interpretation.

INVERSE POWER OF WAVELENGHTS (2009)

Research, choreography and interpretation: Alessandro Carboni
Music: Danilo Casti
Light design: Cinzia Nieddu
Technical assistance: Fabio Atzeni
Production: N.P.A Officina Ouroboros 07, University of Art Central Saint Martin’s, Londra; School
of Drama University of Calicut di Thrissur, India; Santarcangelo 07 International Festival of the
Arts; L’arboreto - Teatro Dimora, Mondaino
ABQ - Mechanical extention in four arithmetic operations (2007)
From From Quad to Zero project
ABQ is a performance inspired by Quad (Samuel Beckett), the concept of Zero and Classical south Indian dance movement. The performance attempt to place various and deep
questions on the using of the number in choreography processes.

ABQ - Mechanical extention in four arithmetic operations (2007)

SEARCHING FOR ESTIMATE SPACE – (2008)
Installation and performance
Dimension: L.1200cm, W.6000cm, D.700cm
Mixed media: wood and sand
Performers: Song Nan; Cheung Sau King; Tsui Ivy Yit Chit; Tong Wai Chun Mayson

KNOT (2007)
KNOT - video
by Alessandro Carboni and Simone Lecca
Production: N.P.A Officina Ouroboros 2007
Supportt: Central Saint Martin's University of Art, London.
Research, Choreography and interpretation: Alessandro Carboni
Video direction and editing: Simone Lecca
Duration: 10.43min
Original Format: DVpal
Awards, First prize of Premio Riccione TTV - Concorso Italia “Nuovi Talenti” 08

FROM QUAD TO ZERO (2006)
Research project has investigated Quad by Samuel Beckett through a research around the concept of Zero and Classical south Indian dance movement in an attempt to place
various and deep questions on the using of the number in choreography processes.
fromquadtozero.wordpress.com
The research investigates the concept of zero, regarding its
implementation on the creation and application of a methodology for
performance. The concept of zero originated in Ancient India. Through a
long journey crossing China and Middle East, it arrived in Europe. The
objective of the research is to analyse the zero and the frame of historical,
conceptual and methodological references it affords. In encountering of
the state of “absence”, Alessandro Carboni have been considering the
geographic movement of the zero, from two points East to West. They
traced an axis taking the opposite route, West to East, searching the origin
of the zero in the contemporary India, China and Middle East.

OVERLAPPING DISCRETE BOUNDARIES - (on going)
Research Team:
Alessandro Carboni: concept, research and choreography
Ligia: dance
Vinod: dance
Production: N.P.A Officina Ouroboros Teatro
Partners:
Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design in London;
School of Drama-University of Calicut in Thrissur, Kerala, India.

Leading workshop at School of Drama, Trichur
Starting from the study of sequences and movement patterns of the classical
dances of South India, but also inspired by a study of Vedic mathematics, FROM
QUAD TO ZERO interrogates the relationship between the number in relation with
choreographic composition processes. This investigation leads to the meeting with
Quad, work of Samuel Beckett and the concept of zero and its origins. The research
aimed to questioning the idea of representation in dance of the zero as empty,
void and inconsistency material

Urban exploration developed during a residence in Amsterdam –
Docklands Noord Werf. The body is the module of space
exploration.
Body exploration Alessandro Carboni
Sound exploration: Danilo Casti
In collaboration with: Ogino Knauss
Production: Steim; Stubnitz; Movin' Up – Gai; Officina Ouroboros
DOCK K CODE (2005)

ETIMO (2005)
From Climax project with ooffouro
Choreography and Interpretation: Alessandro Carboni
Music: Danilo Casti
Assistance and Light: Cinzia Nieddu
Production: N.P.A Officina Ouroboros 05

ABQ - Mechanical extention in four arithmetic operationsEPIGENESI (2004)
Choreography and Interpretation: Alessandro Carboni
Music: Danilo Casti
Assistance and Light: Pavla Beranova
Production: N.P.A Officina Ouroboros 04; Divadlo29 (Czech Republic);

ABQ - Mechanical extention in four arithmetic operationsTHE VISION OF THE WORLD THROUGH AN INSTANT (2003)
Choreography and interpretation: Alessandro Carboni
Music: Danilo Casti
images and Light: Alessandro Carboni
Production: N.P.A Officina Ouroboros 03;

EXERCISE OF COMBINATIONS (2002-2005)
Choreography and interpretation: Alessandro Carboni
Music: Danilo Casti
images and Light: Alessandro Carboni
Production: N.P.A Officina Ouroboros 03;

HORIZON (video series) – 2012
Horizon – Video series
Drawing by Alessandro Carboni
Duration: 1.43min

COMPLEX BODY NETWORKS - (2013 - on going)
Research that brings together the world of the Science of Complex Networks, the experimental performance, architecture, urban geography, cognitive science and visual arts.
The research studies are focused on society as a Complex Network of relationships between bodies, which in turn are themselves Complex Systems, which are divided into
movements, gestures and postures, deep-rooted and evolved through millennia of stratification and social interactions. The theory of Complex Networks offers a universal
vision which provides different levels of description, macroscopic / microscopic, that interact and influence each other. Devices and sensors of all kinds are with us and track
our movements and our urban trajectories opening a brand new opportunity to study human behavior. At the moment, the project is part of Alessandro Carboni PhD research
programme at the School of Creative Media, City University, Hong Kong.
http://complexbodynetworks.wordpress.com/

ANTI MAP LAB (2010-2013)
Anti Map Lab - From objective map to subjective is created for the purpose of reﬂect upon and revising existing norms, conventions and forms of practices in the
relation between performance, city, urban geography, visual art and generative code.

VEDIC CHOREOGRAPHY CUBE TOOLVEDIC CHOREOGRAPHY CUBE TOOL (2005-2009)
Choreography lab methodology.
This methodology devises the joins of the human body in 8 colors where a cube is possible to be built up. Every cube’s angle represents one of
these color-joins and give the potentiality of creating a dance sequence by using only one of the millions different possible cubes. The most important outcome
of this methodology regard to perception of changing the way the body has learned to move by giving it new spurs based on this different logic.
According to this structure there are eight main elements in our body:
head, shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, sacrum, hip, knee, feet. They can be
used as a starting point in building up our choreography. Each part has
a colour representative: white, yellow, orange, red, violet, brown,
green, blue. Using these eight colours we can build a cube which
illustrates all the relations and surfaces that we were going to use in
our sequence. The structure of this geometrical body enables a
performer to create many versions of its movements. Each of these
relations can be read in a different way,therefore the variety of

VEDIC CHOREOGRAPHY CUBE TOOL (2005-2009)

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