Donato Epiro
Zone Umide (Live Performance)
08.31.2021 from 19:00 untill 21:00
Donato Epiro
Zone Umide (Live Performance)
08.31.2021 from 19:00 untill 21:00
Donato Epiro, Zone Umide
Museum of Marine Biology “Pietro Parenzan”, Porto Cesareo, LE
31 August 2021, 7-9 pm
free entrance, booking required
to join please send an email to: info.studioconcreto@gmail.com
Wetlands are extremely interesting environments for scientists, as they play a pivotal role in preserving biodiversity. Likewise, these ever-moving areas are imbued with a deep metaphorical and evocative value. They are indeed interstitial, hybrid and changeable, and as a result of the continuous contact between water and mainland, they present us with a constant redefinition of borders, forms and matter. The vulnerability of these ecosystems stems from a high sensitivity to climate change and from the extreme levity with which their porous and permeating borders have been transformed by reclamation works. Such transforming works aimed at creating new spaces for agricultural and industrial activities, a phenomenon that in the last century caused the disappearance of a high number of wetlands worldwide.
By exploring this imagery, the original work “Zone Umide” [Wetlands] by composer, musician and biologist Donato Epiro explores the relation between natural and artificial, by establishing a personal dialogue with the Marine Biology Museum in Porto Cesareo, created in the second half of the 20th century by prof. Pietro Parenzan. The museum is an anthropic environment where ecosystems are organised, classified, and arranged to enable a process of research and scientific observation, but it also hosts activities of monitoring, safeguarding and communication of these complex themes. Shying away from descriptive aims, the live performance composed and staged by Donato Epiro recreates the coexistence and the random combination of the elements that shape the ecosystems of wetlands and seas, as well as the relations among, and the peculiar lives of, some of their inhabitants. The result is a score that recreates the mobility and randomness of natural environments through sounds produced by analogical and digital synthesis.
This multidisciplinary dialogue, produced by studioconcreto with the support of Fondazione Puglia, is the outcome of a collaboration with the Marine Biology Museum “Pietro Parenzan” of Salento University, and it constitutes the first stage of a journey to discover the scientific and art collection of this area.
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Museo di Biologia Marina “Pietro Parenzan”
Via A. Vespucci, 13/17
73010 Porto Cesareo (Lecce), Italy
According to current governmental decrees valid for all cultural centres in Italy (ref. D.L., 23 July 2021), starting from 6 August 2021 it is compulsory for visitors to the Museum to show their Green Pass, or an alternative certification, together with a valid identity document. These measures do not apply to children under the age of 12 and to those who behold a specific medical certification.