https://alan-alpenfelt.ch Alan Alpenfelt Sun, 31 Aug 2025 20:52:44 +0000 https://alan-alpenfelt.ch en https://alan-alpenfelt.ch/Home Wed, 03 Nov 2021 19:57:55 +0000 Alan Alpenfelt https://alan-alpenfelt.ch/Home https://alan-alpenfelt.ch/Nothing-Knew Sun, 31 Aug 2025 18:45:25 +0000 Alan Alpenfelt https://alan-alpenfelt.ch/Nothing-Knew Nothing Knew <img width="1613" height="1198" width_o="1613" height_o="1198" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f4d76d767cc4f28abef6b9c3928a1020dc22fc02baf6a81654553b9b58f8f89/Nothing-Knew-5.jpg" data-mid="237673258" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f4d76d767cc4f28abef6b9c3928a1020dc22fc02baf6a81654553b9b58f8f89/Nothing-Knew-5.jpg" /> <img width="1613" height="1198" width_o="1613" height_o="1198" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ecb662ca1f469d295d498c1d2f71ee85848cf47aab0d94b9ce442e98177dc7b9/Nothing-Knew-1.jpg" data-mid="237673262" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ecb662ca1f469d295d498c1d2f71ee85848cf47aab0d94b9ce442e98177dc7b9/Nothing-Knew-1.jpg" /> <img width="1613" height="1198" width_o="1613" height_o="1198" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a508237f223d9fd0e6832e4c40faca09cc23196d464a4309aea294fc20354db6/Nothing-Knew-2.jpg" data-mid="237673261" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a508237f223d9fd0e6832e4c40faca09cc23196d464a4309aea294fc20354db6/Nothing-Knew-2.jpg" /> <img width="1613" height="1198" width_o="1613" height_o="1198" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c78afa368bc8f0b34548aa1c78a530684b57ea1b946d057c8fd6d5a4e4080e5/Nothing-Knew-3.jpg" data-mid="237673260" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8c78afa368bc8f0b34548aa1c78a530684b57ea1b946d057c8fd6d5a4e4080e5/Nothing-Knew-3.jpg" /> <img width="1613" height="1198" width_o="1613" height_o="1198" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/75c735ddd142ac976a3b33b926a690b22e0b6d7d73d780c675980c6eeccc6a47/Nothing-Knew-4.jpg" data-mid="237673259" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/75c735ddd142ac976a3b33b926a690b22e0b6d7d73d780c675980c6eeccc6a47/Nothing-Knew-4.jpg" /> «If we could start again, from nothing, choosing each word carefully, which ones would we choose?” &nbsp;From Nothing Knew Performance - work in progress2025 ︎ Concept&nbsp; Noemi Ferrari &amp; Alan Alpenfelt Nothing Knew is a piece which aims to connect the blind and the sighted audience in experiencing and creating a world together. We have the capacity to create reality, and also destroy it. We do it through language and communication. By constructing categories, symbols, myths, rules, we are able to share the sense of things and create a world made to suit our needs, or to exclude others from it. What kind of reality is the true reality? Who decides it? Or is it just about which one is the more convenient? How quick can reality crumble? How many voices does it take to create a reality? We want to try and create a reality starting from nothing. Beginning from an empty space, together with the audience, we aim to use the power of language and audio description as ontological core-instruments for the creation of a new world. Will different points of view create power dynamics? Will we agree on a common world? The act of describing becomes an act of power, of creation, an attempt of challenging the hierarchy of senses and questioning the politics of presence. In collaboration withTicino in Danza Nairobi Dance Life Festival - Kenya Kenyan Soceity for the Blind Daniel “Mbutch” ︎ Production scheduled for 2026 ︎ Work in progress 3 July 2025 Dance Life Festival Nairobi - Kenya23 July 2025 Maabara, Malindi - Kenya 1 August 2025 National Library In collaboration with the Kenyan Society for the BlindNairobi - Kenya https://alan-alpenfelt.ch/Tempesta-Estiva Sun, 31 Aug 2025 20:52:44 +0000 Alan Alpenfelt https://alan-alpenfelt.ch/Tempesta-Estiva Tempesta Estiva <img width="1613" height="1198" width_o="1613" height_o="1198" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f11ca0b2d0e72f64cefcb63386a41e503565783090cd4e1fe80d9fc110fbb67/Tempesta-Estiva.jpg" data-mid="237674372" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f11ca0b2d0e72f64cefcb63386a41e503565783090cd4e1fe80d9fc110fbb67/Tempesta-Estiva.jpg" /> «If my dad had wanted me so much, why not her?” Radio2025 Italian Credits&nbsp;Written and directed by Alan Alpenfelt Voices:Alan Alpenfelt, Gaia Passaretta One evening in Brusino, a smal Swiss village on the lake of Lugano, at the age of 18 during a summer storm, I was shown a photo of a young girl in a family I didn't know, and I was told that she could be my sister and that if she really existed, she would be living in the United States. I never thought to investigate further until I was given the opportunity to use the Studio 4 of the Swiss Italian Radio for the last time before it closed, where characters and stories had been created for over 50 years. And so I said to myself: what if I created my sister? In this work, I explore the responsibilities towards sons and daughters, my relationship with the sense of family and that with loneliness. Part of an ongoing research about the sense of the need of family.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Produced byRSI - Rete due | Francesca Giorzi On air in October 2025 https://alan-alpenfelt.ch/Compostable Mon, 24 Mar 2025 20:06:54 +0000 Alan Alpenfelt https://alan-alpenfelt.ch/Compostable Compostable <img width="1980" height="1485" width_o="1980" height_o="1485" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d5974bc756e6cfa4d4cc5341e346d1d7a1c176e72768fb52c55a915487189d85/Compostable2.JPG" data-mid="229149029" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d5974bc756e6cfa4d4cc5341e346d1d7a1c176e72768fb52c55a915487189d85/Compostable2.JPG" /> <img width="1980" height="1320" width_o="1980" height_o="1320" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7401feb13e7e50fe380bf7dd43a1dc12e8ab62c43ca0e15e29361491dcc2ec6c/Compostable13.JPG" data-mid="229149040" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7401feb13e7e50fe380bf7dd43a1dc12e8ab62c43ca0e15e29361491dcc2ec6c/Compostable13.JPG" /> <img width="1980" height="1320" width_o="1980" height_o="1320" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c93ca86baa42f602b56225fd6e30647639dfea7575f6a9a6db797f2313580f7c/Compostable14.JPG" data-mid="229149041" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c93ca86baa42f602b56225fd6e30647639dfea7575f6a9a6db797f2313580f7c/Compostable14.JPG" /> <img width="1485" height="1980" width_o="1485" height_o="1980" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95d882f2689d9b2fc59d403ad764610acdf1e598e8215f8b8853a2a1f445767b/Compostable5.JPG" data-mid="229149032" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/95d882f2689d9b2fc59d403ad764610acdf1e598e8215f8b8853a2a1f445767b/Compostable5.JPG" /> &nbsp; «[…] prima che […] l’estate si consumi tutte le spoglie, ormai putrefatte, tornano nel terreno per renderlo grasso, nero e fertile. Non passerà molto che […] ciò che è marcito e si è disfatto riprenderà vita in forme nuove, belle e colorate.» Hermann Hesse In giardino, 1908 «[…] kaum ist wieder […] ein Gartensommer verblüht, so sind alle die Leichen schon verwest und kommen wieder in den Boden, den sie fett und schwarz und fruchtbar machen müssen, und es geht wieder nicht lange, […] so kehrt das Faule und Aufgelöste mit Macht in neuen, schönen, farbigen Gestalten wieder.» Hermann Hesse, Im Garten, 1908 &nbsp; InstallationSite-specific Concept&nbsp; Alan Alpenfelt Design coordination Camilla De Camilli Idea e designMarta Dell'Erba Michael Guggenheim Elisabetta Maifredi Andrea Vailati Biological and structural advice Guido Maspoli Compostable is an installation for the exhibition Nei Giardini di Hesse at the Hermann Hesse Museum in Montagnola, from March 29, 2025 to February 1, 2026. Together with a handful of architecture students from the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, we imagined an installation that could involve the citizens of Montagnola and beyond, to become gardeners, poets, and bring their vegetable scraps to be transformed into precious humus. The rich soil generated over the months will be used to enrich Hermann Hesse's garden and plants. Lo scarto entra in copostiera senza alcuna malinconia della propria identità, accettando di divenire altro, trasformandosi individualmente e trasformando l’intero composto; eterogeneo assemblaggio multilivello tra molecole, corpi uni, e pluricellulari che cooperano, negoziano, si invadono e parassitano, cambiando in continuazione l loro composizione e ciò che li circonda, al punto da rendere impossibile la differenziazione degli elementi.&nbsp; -&nbsp; Antonia Anna FerranteWaste enters the composter without any melancholy about its own identity, accepting to become something else, transforming itself individually and transforming the entire mixture; a heterogeneous, multi-level assemblage of molecules, single-celled and multicellular bodies that cooperate, negotiate, invade and parasitize each other, continuously changing their composition and their surroundings, to the point of making it impossible to differentiate the elements. - Antonia Anna Ferrante Compost is rebellious and wild, it cherishes slow yet deep ongoing life transformation, it is colourful, it loves infinite possibilities, ends always mean new beginnings. &nbsp; Often, the word “compost” makes humans think oh no! It stinks! oh no! all those flies! oh no! It attracts mice! oh no! It’s ugly! However, the way compost behaves, is very much up to the care and actions of the humans themselves. (Spoiler: compost actually doesn’t stink, it smells of moist wood. Mice don’t like it, unless they find meat or pasta leftovers. And what’s more, it shrinks 70% of its initial volume and becomes a dark, nutritious, healthy earth. What one defines as waste, another defines as a source of new possibilities.) The great Swiss poet Hermann Hesse knew this and loved compost. It was a way to take care of his garden. In fact, often poets are gardeners. Or gardeners are poets. We wanted to pay homage to Herman Hesse by building a new type of compost bin, which would be an inspiration to the local population and be located in front of the Hermann Hesse Museum in Montagnola. Some of the questions we asked ourselves were: How can a structure contain, protect, sustain and valorise the conditions of an efficient transformation of a living and well-being society?How can a structure be the skin of a system which lives as a dynamic balance between the parts, based on relations, exchanges and ratio of its regenerative cycle? How can we create an architectural structure which can communicate and express the intrinsic beauty and positivity of what is happening inside? Can it itself be generated by a circular process of material reuse? Should this object be explicit or mysterious? Serve other functions, allow grafts, contaminations, appropriations? Could it be easily replicated by the population in the future? How can we help transform a heap of veggies into a political, philosophical, and poetical body to be inspired by? Let’s make bacteria, fungi, worms and humans feel at home together! If you want to know more on how to create a healthy compost, follow these two links: EN: How to compost - a beginner’s guide IT: Come compostare - città di Mendrisio (CH) In collaboration withMuseo Hermann Hesse QUICK GUIDE TO COMPOSTING! <img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXeI_SFHtjhxNyubrHvaQRC-ZLrS7GqhEpg_GXpHkqLwWf6TvdcZXmOu-lDpl4srggAS5RQVcABzqL6RKB5FjjHSmFI34ptRTfBzf5U__UDquXx5oKVx6HCYbA80mM4eE_QegMYGwQ?key=BXbMD-iko-sBlKm9oZW7SQ9j" width="624" height="486.9753899095673" style="width: 430.544px; height: 335.327px;">You need 2/3 of brown material (leaves, saw dust, twigs, bark, clean cardboard..) and 1/3 of veggies. The brown material makes sure the compost gets activated and it limits smell and flies! So keep adding! What to add: 1/3 of: raw fruit and vegetable scraps, stale or moldy bread, crushed eggshells, coffee grounds, tree leaves 2/3 of: leaves, saw dust, twigs, bark, clean cardboard What not to add:&nbsp; meat and fish, plasticized cardboard, magazines, color prints, glossy paper, cigarette butts and coal ash, carnivore manure, rope, glass, plastic, metal, textiles, leather Before adding vegetable scraps to the compost, cut them into small pieces as this helps to speed up the process and transform the compost into valuable soil! https://alan-alpenfelt.ch/Tramando-Cesare-Lucchini Wed, 03 Nov 2021 23:34:16 +0000 Alan Alpenfelt https://alan-alpenfelt.ch/Tramando-Cesare-Lucchini Tramando Cesare Lucchini <img width="1613" height="1210" width_o="1613" height_o="1210" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/09efcada0fe1c91cc528227740cb8d7314de3ea7d6bf4a0bdc079b3b53b30164/Lucchini-1.jpg" data-mid="209414546" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/09efcada0fe1c91cc528227740cb8d7314de3ea7d6bf4a0bdc079b3b53b30164/Lucchini-1.jpg" /> <img width="1613" height="1198" width_o="1613" height_o="1198" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/69ec8a41336ec9da389ab495e924bfb690be7e74fe61ade96554e70e98bf9b69/Lucchini-2.jpg" data-mid="209414544" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/69ec8a41336ec9da389ab495e924bfb690be7e74fe61ade96554e70e98bf9b69/Lucchini-2.jpg" /> <img width="1613" height="1198" width_o="1613" height_o="1198" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/168e1d5e0b534a84317506e25e3ca302443c47d515355340530390424e6e67d4/LUcchini-3.jpg" data-mid="209414545" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/168e1d5e0b534a84317506e25e3ca302443c47d515355340530390424e6e67d4/LUcchini-3.jpg" /> <img width="1613" height="1198" width_o="1613" height_o="1198" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3138f3aa570c4c2a7ea83359210d1eae9bd2744d6a6495e7cb42ab2dff6042ed/Lucchini-4.jpg" data-mid="209414543" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3138f3aa570c4c2a7ea83359210d1eae9bd2744d6a6495e7cb42ab2dff6042ed/Lucchini-4.jpg" /> « Siamo sagome sfocate in una luce incerta, viviamonel dubbio, ci interroghiamo sul senso della vita, vulnerabili, consapevoli di non essere nessuno. Cerchiamo di dimenticare, non pensare. Ma la terra trema, noi tremiamo. » Joséphine Bohr.“Capiscimi: non è il fondale nero che ognuno di noi porta dentro di sé, a spaventarci, né lo è la forbice che minaccia il filo sottile che ci attacca alla vita. Ma piuttosto l’indifferenza, che asciuta in egual misura le lacrime di chi piange a stomaco pieno e a stomaco vuoto.”Tito Bosia&nbsp; Sound installative performanceOne-off Concept&nbsp; Alan Alpenfelt TextsJoséphine Bohr Matteo Luoni Tito Bosia Anne Haug Paintings Cesare Lucchini Cesare Lucchini lived on an axis between Cologne, Ticino and Milan and in this light we are interested in retracing him through the narrative views of artists of the word who live and create in and between these territories: Germany, internal Switzerland, Italian Switzerland and Italy. These perspectives will contain the personal experience of each author on Lucchini's artistic medium, on the territory, but also on their biographical data, in contact and "collision" with the biographical and exuberant data of the pictorial artist. If the exhibition is titled "the earth trembles", we played with the word "tremble" transforming it into "plot": what will be the plot of the meeting between these writers and the artist? The creative process started from contact with Lucchini: Four authors (Anne Haug, Tito Bosia, Joséphine Bohr, Matteo Luoni) visited the artist's studio, in the industrial area of Lugano, each at separate times. The meeting was recorded and became the creative basis of a specific writing, which captured the painter's work and life under different facets. The geographical origin of each playwright involved and their "nomadic" professional history, between different cities and towns, became the generating meeting point of four textual and sound dramaturgies: in the centre, as in the large canvases exhibition in Mendrisio, four different human landscapes, lost between transcendence and immanence, this time no longer made of pigment and matter, but of words, sounds and voices. [...] “Ragazzi, il Signore è del Milan. Und en Teil der Gäaste stegh auf, ich schöre, kommt zu mir, umarmt mich, piacere, piacere, wenn ich will, dann darf ich am Sonntag mit ihnen Fussball gucken. Ein Platz am Milan-Tisch ist reserviert. Und nun war alles klar. Die vier Bildschirme hägnen da, um Inter, Milan, Juventus un Napoli zu schauen. Und ich war nun fester Teil des Milan-Tisches. “[...] &nbsp; Anne Haug.[...] “Paura di restare, fermarmi, e capire d’un tratto, che la vita era tutta lì. Che non avevo più occhi per conoscere altri artisti, mani per dipingere altri quadri, forza per tendere un’altra tela. Paura di te.” [...] Matteo Luoni In collaboration withMuseo d’Arte di Mendrisio Funded by FSRC/SRKS Oertli Stiftung ︎ One off.&nbsp; https://alan-alpenfelt.ch/Mein-Vater-Erzahlt-Mir-Jeden-Sonntag-Unsere-Neun-Planeten Thu, 04 Nov 2021 20:31:55 +0000 Alan Alpenfelt https://alan-alpenfelt.ch/Mein-Vater-Erzahlt-Mir-Jeden-Sonntag-Unsere-Neun-Planeten Mein Vater Erzählt Mir Jeden Sonntag Unsere Neun Planeten <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f1cbdf7df7d37dba749085a2af55a26949a772ff848e0f41a4c0ac4f47fc42b/Mein-Vater-Erzahlt-Mir-Jeden-Sonntag-Unsere-Neun-Planeten-1.jpg" data-mid="127562547" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f1cbdf7df7d37dba749085a2af55a26949a772ff848e0f41a4c0ac4f47fc42b/Mein-Vater-Erzahlt-Mir-Jeden-Sonntag-Unsere-Neun-Planeten-1.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" 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Civilizations without boats tend dry up their dreams. Espionage replacesadventure, police replace pirates. Michel Foucault 24h performance Site-specific 2018&nbsp;︎ Concept Alan Alpenfelt, Francesca Sproccati Mein Vater Erzählt Mir Jeden Sonntag Unsere Neun Planeten is a sound and performance installation curated by Alan Alpenfelt and Francesca Sproccati. It invites the public to discover heterotopic spaces where the experience of listening and sharing solitude helps to detach ourselves towards unfamiliar places, to a spiritual space that re-opens the imagination, creativity and the way we reflect upon things. Two urban shops are transformed into spaceships and inhabited by two astronauts for the duration of 24 hours, both connected by a radio transmission. The first one is a radio station that wants to question the unknown spaces beyond the boundaries of the Earth through the practice of listening. The second one is a place where the gaze is focused on the relationship of intimacy between human beings, exploring the distance that separates one body from another through the practice of listening and spending time dancing, taking care of a garden made of memories of encounters with old people. Francesca and Alan are both convinced that there are fewer and fewer uncontaminated places on Earth to explore alternative views on society and on themselves. So they decided to go into Space; a place in which the absence of gravity allows new experiments. By entering a spaceship and navigating in solitude, they can drift towards heterotopic spaces made of sound and subjective time, where listening experiences and meditation help them to detach from what is known and defined. A necessary and spiritual space to re-open their imagination, creativity and the way they reflect upon things. Unlike utopias which console us by giving us virtuous and perfect spaces to imagine, heterotopias suspend any sort of given truth. They are disquieting because they secretly undermine our language, break up and tangle clichés, devastate the "syntax" that keeps words and things together. They dry up the pre-existing discourse, they block the meaning of words, retracing their roots from every possibility of grammatic expression. In a world overwhelmed by visual consciousness and political compliance, Alan and Francesca want to explore new places capable of cultivating alternative imagination. Each in their own, they pass a day and a night bathed in spatial sound “travelling” for 24 hours from a point A to a point B. On their way, they encounter objects, planets and ufos that activate sound works collected during a call. Every minute of the transmission of the journey corresponds to 4,101,650 km. The public can freely access the two spaceships at any time of the performance and remain with them as much as they want. They are invited to listen together and participate in the solitary activities that each astronaut undertakes while passing the time during the long journey. Discover more here︎&nbsp;https://francescasproccati.ch/mein-vater ︎ Past events Altofest Matera Matera, I 15-16.11.2019 Site BIG Biennale Interstellaire des espaces d’art GenèveGenève, CH28-30.6.2019 Site ChiassoLetterariaCorso San Gottardo 8A,Chiasso, CH13-14.5.2019 SiteCoseCosmicheFondazione Arthur Cravan, Milano IT Residency16-17.12.2018 Site Funded by&nbsp;ProHelvetia SRKS/FSRC Republic and Canton of Ticino - Swisslos https://alan-alpenfelt.ch/Thank-you-honestly-thank-you Thu, 06 Apr 2023 21:09:13 +0000 Alan Alpenfelt https://alan-alpenfelt.ch/Thank-you-honestly-thank-you Thank you, honestly, thank you <img width="1570" height="2048" width_o="1570" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa0ce1591f42cd79081a9b7c48f37cf91cd99a79ab9cb54e5628b4b27a2aec5f/5b39ad3d-9e47-4887-828e-ca8d109aeb00.JPG" data-mid="204319271" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa0ce1591f42cd79081a9b7c48f37cf91cd99a79ab9cb54e5628b4b27a2aec5f/5b39ad3d-9e47-4887-828e-ca8d109aeb00.JPG" /> <img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/248741e93291abca256d9a0770e9d419cb4281631eaae950c5be6956c7bc0a8c/c7b27a4b-75e5-40e0-b46b-c2cd68915471.JPG" data-mid="204319270" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/248741e93291abca256d9a0770e9d419cb4281631eaae950c5be6956c7bc0a8c/c7b27a4b-75e5-40e0-b46b-c2cd68915471.JPG" /> <img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8e99d9148f2143ab83ee2c47f7c2bb06ada0081a5394d05028af7df142462216/19e334c1-1f6a-40e9-9e9c-1d03892094e1.JPG" data-mid="204319266" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8e99d9148f2143ab83ee2c47f7c2bb06ada0081a5394d05028af7df142462216/19e334c1-1f6a-40e9-9e9c-1d03892094e1.JPG" /> <img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64d7599047a77f3321d0d8c843d5bb8e30bf898a54797eb1539d2ae00bea6df3/c7b3906a-45b1-482a-a572-a3e42787cd00.JPG" data-mid="204319269" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/64d7599047a77f3321d0d8c843d5bb8e30bf898a54797eb1539d2ae00bea6df3/c7b3906a-45b1-482a-a572-a3e42787cd00.JPG" /> <img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4917c5de576d08ae99c79bd7ec8e2e714b7feadf25eb09c70b18bfc2c1504217/a0cb24c3-2f96-46ed-abdf-196e263df02f.JPG" data-mid="204319267" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4917c5de576d08ae99c79bd7ec8e2e714b7feadf25eb09c70b18bfc2c1504217/a0cb24c3-2f96-46ed-abdf-196e263df02f.JPG" /> The Sky is a sea of darkness, when there is no sun to light the way.&nbsp;Sun Ra ArkestraNeither will it be other than other, while it remains one; for not one, but only other, can be other than other, and nothing else. Plato Text 2023Part of: Common Actions by Olivia Wiederkehrhttps://www.oh-wiederkehr.ch/ Dramaturgs Letizia Russo Manolis Tsipos A text based on Free to be grateful - n° 18 of the Freedom of action Manifesto by Olivia Wiederkehr.&nbsp; Can you be grateful to a person you never knew but who you are directly related to and that the most difficult thing to tell this person is that you are grateful? https://alan-alpenfelt.ch/WKR-Waste-Kompost-Radio Fri, 05 Nov 2021 09:13:49 +0000 Alan Alpenfelt https://alan-alpenfelt.ch/WKR-Waste-Kompost-Radio Waste Kompost Radio <img width="1680" height="1050" width_o="1680" height_o="1050" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8ef60a201c7ce0e7fddb6457609f7e61f9cdb94f3cffa81f8141d8b978b35ae/Schermata-2022-06-22-alle-09.58.33.png" data-mid="151796915" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c8ef60a201c7ce0e7fddb6457609f7e61f9cdb94f3cffa81f8141d8b978b35ae/Schermata-2022-06-22-alle-09.58.33.png" /> <img width="1679" height="1036" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b60fe9914c5756c06b2e7c9aa65b826c0a36ef664fd8c209ecf13c649b5e64eb/Sunset.jpg" data-mid="151797048" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b60fe9914c5756c06b2e7c9aa65b826c0a36ef664fd8c209ecf13c649b5e64eb/Sunset.jpg" /> In every piece of recorded sound, there is a kind of potential for its undoing [...] you can actually recompose as well as deconstruct the underlying logic of a tune and make something completely other out of it. The Strangeness of Dub - Edward George Sound Installation2022&nbsp;︎&nbsp;&nbsp; Concept &amp; Waste collection Daniela Allocca Alan Alpenfelt Sustained by: Pro Helvetia Migros Kultur Prozent ︎Upcoming:&nbsp;check WKR site for next broadcasts Waste Kompost Radio is a radio flow composed of sonic waste discarded during editing processes. Radios, composers, artists from around the world are invited to send their unwanted “sound waste”, everything which has been considered wrong or useless and therefore cut out. It is collected and processed through algorithms which gradually decompose the information in the same way biological and chemical reactions decompose organic material into compost. The time in which we live is characterised by a disproportionate production of objects, which translates into a disproportionate production of waste. According to some scholars we have moved from the anthropocene to the Wasteocene (Armiero, 2021): we are in fact living in the age of waste. The culture of waste is a culture that has unlearnt to reuse waste or to envisage a production where nothing has to be discarded. We are fed official narratives to follow and asked to relegate waste to unseen hiding places, we use the margins as a receptacle for the unseen rather than enhancing them as a place of richness and proliferation of diversity. Art finds its life in waste. Art is not immediately something beautiful to look at or listen to. But Art can help us rethink official paradigms by taking discarded imperfections and offering us a lense into looking at them more closely. Inside the narratives of waste we might find that unwantedness is the source for a new and healthier world. This is why we wish to explore the concept of compost and create a parallel system that decentralizes humans from their main narratives and places them as listeners of what they decide is not fit. It means assuming responsibility for what is being discarded and at the same time asks them to contribute actively in a conscious way. Compost is the observable proof of how life is a cycle made of interacting differences, where nothing remains the same and everything serves a greater purpose.Waste Kompost Radio constitutes a place of sonic inclusion where its practices learn from the forest how to relate to all living things. This inclusive process operates as a translation taking place in compost, recovering what is considered unproductive, excluded and useless and transforms it into a sonic fertilizing substance, giving it back in an enriched form to the cycle of life. Site wastekompostradio.com ︎Past WKR 25h broadcast - #0111 - 12 February 2024 WKR Installation launch FIT Festival, Lugano - CH 4-8 October 2023 WKR Residency Palazzo Trevisan, VenicePro Helvetia Arts Residency17 - 23 October 2022 Le Festival des Échecs Espace libre Visarte Biel/Bienne (CH)30.6 - 28.7.2021 https://alan-alpenfelt.ch/Binaural-Views-of-Switzerland Wed, 03 Nov 2021 23:42:04 +0000 Alan Alpenfelt https://alan-alpenfelt.ch/Binaural-Views-of-Switzerland Binaural Views of Switzerland <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a915d81668a681284d122f0a7710546b6571ac8990fd317476e18424cc02f8c/Binaural-Views-of-Switzerland-1.jpg" data-mid="127561757" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9a915d81668a681284d122f0a7710546b6571ac8990fd317476e18424cc02f8c/Binaural-Views-of-Switzerland-1.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/00e573f12ab931240ccef00bf331d6b31729e7a9d360db17175bb9946f843384/Binaural-Views-of-Switzerland-10.jpg" data-mid="127561767" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/00e573f12ab931240ccef00bf331d6b31729e7a9d360db17175bb9946f843384/Binaural-Views-of-Switzerland-10.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a07f1c325250842e04a71be9e715d4e180357e3b52600689390ed0466b54a69b/Binaural-Views-of-Switzerland-18.jpg" data-mid="127561787" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a07f1c325250842e04a71be9e715d4e180357e3b52600689390ed0466b54a69b/Binaural-Views-of-Switzerland-18.jpg" /> ︎︎︎More photos below! Listening to reality through the amplification of a microphone is like secretly entering the fabric of the world. It’s like drifting with your ears inside a dense matter, leaving your face out to breathe. It’s spying without malice. [...] It’s the clanging of cow bells woven with the cries of playful children, creating a sound substratum of the Alps; or that of a powerful mountain waterfall mingled into the roar of a military jet.&nbsp;In an unrestricted state of freedom in which things can flow, sounds move, influencing each other as if in an endless dance. Alan Alpenfelt Audio-visual installation 2019&nbsp;︎︎Selected for Pro Helvetia Swiss Selection Edinburgh Concept, journey, sound recording Alan Alpenfelt Kaiser Panorama&nbsp; Franco Mondia &amp; Antonio Lo Menzo. Soundscape creations Enrico Mangione ︎ Upcoming 30.8 - 9.9 2024 Festival Castel dei Mondi, Andria (I).&nbsp;︎PastBrixton HouseLondon, UK8-12.3.2022 Pro Helvetia Swiss Selection brixtonhouse.co.uk SonOhrGrand Palais, Bern, 2022Edinburgh Fringe,UKPro Helvetia Swiss SelectionSummers of 2020 &amp; 2021CANCELLED (Covid-19)Lugano High School 1Lugano, CH2 - 14.2. 2021SonOhr FestivalBern, CH26.2 - 7.3.2021https://sonohr.ch/ CANCELLED (Covid-19)FIT Festival internazionale del Teatro e della scena contemporaneaLAC Hall - Lugano, CH5.9 - 11.10.2020https://www.fitfestival.ch/ PHOTO IS:RAELTel Aviv, Israel11.2020(”Selfies” video sequence)http://www.photoisrael.orgSwiss Stereoscopic Society annual assemblyLa Chaux-de-Fonds, CH14 - 17.2020CANCELLED (Covid-19)4th International Conference on Stereo &amp; Immersive MediaLisbon, Portugal18 - 20.6.2020CANCELLED (Covid-19) Accademia di ArchitetturaUniversità della Svizzera italianaMendrisio 14.11 - 5.12.2019 Binaural Views of Switzerlandis an audiovisual installation inspired by the philosophy of the Sublime. It focuses on the human being as the observer of a nature that he has tried to tame but whose effects (in particular mass tourism and its contribution to climate change) return with irrepressible violence. The work reports on the changes caused by human activity in the Swiss landscape since 1863, when the British photographer William England participated in the first Grand Tours of Switzerland, taking stereoscopic photographs of more than 150 locations. Over the course of a two-month journey, Alan Alpenfelt documented 30 of these locations, reporting on environmental and sound changes using binaural sound recording and 3D photography. The centrepiece of the exhibition is a modern reconstruction of a Kaiser Panorama - a public stereoscopic viewer from the 1800s - presenting Alan Alpenfelt's journey in dialogue with William England's original stereoscopic photographs. With the aid of headphones, visitors can also choose between the binaural soundscapes of the present and the imaginary ones of the past. Discover more here ︎&nbsp;binauralviewsofswitzerland.com All the locations Alan visited on his journey, are placed in Google Maps Street View. Will you find them all?︎ Here is one... Special thanks to London Stereoscopic Company and Peter Blair for providing information on William England. 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In this case every, or almost every thought which could obliterate or deform mnemonic recording is laboured: the memory of a trauma, suffered or inflicted, is in itself traumatic because it hurts to remember or, at the very least, it will disturb. He who was injured, tends to remove that memory in order to not renew the pain; he who instead inflicted, chases the memory back into the depths, to free himself, to reduce his guilt. Primo LeviThe drowned and the saved Audio installation 2015 - 2018Concept, interviews, sound designAlan AlpenfeltPaintingsRavi Tironi In collaboration with RSI - Rete Due We are distinguished by our own history. Our choices and destiny depend upon it. Knowing the story of who surrounds us allows us to know ourselves better. But bombarded by images of war and inherent tragedy from the rest of the world, in part inured to them, in part addicted to evil, we forget to question what happens to the people that have truly experienced the reality of these devastating hostilities. In 1991 Ex Jugoslavia was subjected to an appalling civil war which seized the population unprepared. The peculiarity shared by who survived the conflict is their incredulity that war, violence and hatred could so suddenly erupt between neighbours and previously peace-loving citizens. It seemed that in Europe the disgraceful and shocking veil of ethnic cleansing had been buried at the end of Nazism, or at least the brutal force with which it shattered our continent had been quashed. The Balcan wars proved the contrary and reminded us that the most dramatic tragedies can occur even in front of our own house door. The ill-omened event re-opened many wounds exposing once again the capacity of one group or individual to desire the annihilation of another. Consequently, Western European countries, witnessed a flood of refugees seeking political asylum. Those of us who attended elementary and middle school in the ’90s can surely remember new children sitting in the classrooms, with strange names and different looks, speaking a language never heard before. We all knew of a war we’d seen on TV and we guessed they came from there. However, nobody knew what a war was nor what these children had gone through before entering the door of our classroom and sitting among us. Childish racism broke out against who couldn’t integrate immediately, who wasn’t fun at first sight. They would defend or ridicule themselves just to be recognised in the eyes of the others. This work shows what happened to these children who escaped the conflict, yet brought with them memories of the atrocities of war, in all its different aspects. Children who, even if from different sides, all had something in common: that is, their struggle to make a new life in the country that first hosted them after their flight from their devastated homeland. Twenty years from the last great European conflict, I Am Here Now reconstructed some of the stories of modern exiles which have by now lived the most part of their life in a country not of theirs and which had to reinvent an identity in an unknown place. They have blent into the moltitude of people living in Switzerland (and abroad) leaving the traces of their own past to vanish. Traces they carry inside, and one of the most intense experiences for human beings: war. Discover more here ︎ iamherenow.ch Funded byFSRC/SRKS RSI RETE DUERepubblica e Cantone Ticino - DECSDicastero servizi e attività sociali: Chiasso, culture in movimento Migros Percento CulturaleUfficio Federale della Migrazione - UFMServizio per lotta al razzismo - SLRErnst Göhner StiftungCittà di Bellinzona ︎ Past events High school of Lugano 1, Lugano, CH 4-8.5.2015 Teatro Il Foce Lugao, CH 23 - 30.11.2014 site Cantonal Library of Bellinzona Bellinzona, CH 10.5 – 7.6.2014 Site ChiassoLetteraria&nbsp; InaugurationMagazzini FFS, Chiasso 3-5.5.2013 Site