GOCCE inaugurated: the new major Art production by Chirale

Today, 2 December 2021, GOCCE has been inaugurated — the latest major artistic production of our company.

The black drape fell at 5 pm in the wonderful setting of the Galleria Eustachio Pisani, located in the evocative position at the foot of the magnificent waterfall in the heart of the historic centre of Isola del Liri, in the province of Frosinone.

The work is a permanent multimedia site-specific installation by the two young artists Pentesilea (Valentina Mignogna) and Liz (Elisa Antonacci), produced by Chirale with the contribution of the Regione Lazio through the funding of the Lazio Contemporaneo Public Notice.

The installation will be permanently hosted inside the Galleria Pisani in Isola Liri, open every day from 9 am to 8 pm.

The GOCCE installation is an example of Land Art in which, however, the relationship between environment and technology is reversed.

Normally we find technology used to aesthetically modify, in sounds and forms, the landscape with which the artwork relates.

In the installation proposed by the two young artists it is instead the environment of Isola Liri in its essential element — water — channelled into an even more essential element, the single drops, that modifies in sounds and forms the composed audio-visual material.

The material collected by the artists during the months of on-site research was inspired by the four themes proper to Isola Liri: water, paper, memory, passages.

The installation, in analogy with the waterfall whose flow influences the life and time of the village, explores the places, among the alleys and the paper mills — both active and abandoned — and gathers voices of memory and of the present, tracing an expressive path that unites the elders of the village with the younger generations.

It is therefore not only the physical place that is interpreted by the work, but the entire social context — the village of Isola Liri in the people who live it — in a constant dialogue between drop (individual) and waterfall (community).

The various elements of the installation are housed in a structure that reproduces the macerators used in paper mills, a reference to the village’s important industrial tradition.

The interactive system, based on an articulated stochastic process, processes the audio-video material in an always-different way at each falling drop, just as the passing of water persists in never leaving anything equal to itself.

This synergy, in which interaction becomes content, shows to the lingering audience the phenomenon of natural modifications according to the favourite element of the whole universe: chaos.