30.05.2025

Agg vist nu rummore

Art, Installation, Sound, Via Liguria 20, Roma

H18:00
“I Pomeriggi” series

Dates
30.05.2025
Location
Via Liguria 20, Roma
Category
Art, Installation, Sound
Information

H18:00
“I Pomeriggi” series

Free entrance, register here

The event is part of the series I Pomeriggi dedicated to the Fellows.
Curated by Ambra Viviani (Fellow Roma Calling / Visual Arts)

Agg vist nu rummore (I saw a noise) is a listening session that explores forms of ambiguity, misalignment and deception in the auditory experience, focusing on the relationship between sound perception and the construction of the imaginary. Through practices such as those of noisemakers and dubbers, in which sound is produced to deliberately detach itself from its source and replace other actions and figures, the supposed transparency of sound language is questioned. This practices highlight the gap between what is heard and what is supposed to have originated it.

In this space of uncertainty, the listener is invited to autonomously reconstruct scenes, bodies and environments, activating an imaginative process that is both subjective and shared. Error, misunderstanding and substitution become generative elements of meaning, opening up a possible co-authorship of listening. The session proposes a journey through different formats, from radio audio drama to contemporary artistic practice. Agg vist nu rummore question the synaesthetic potential of listening and its capacity to subvert the perceptive hierarchy between seeing and hearing.

The listening session features works by Janna Graham, Adriene Lilly, Diego Marcon, Federico Pozuelo and Tommaso Massimiliano Alfì, Ambra Viviani.

 

Janna Graham, To Slow Down Time, 2019
Music: Sarah J. Ritch

Aurora Borealis sound recording: Stephen P. McCreevy

Ambra Viviani, Ho capito qualcosa ma lontano da tutto, 2025
Music: Minne de Curtis
Sound design: Simone Costamagna

Foley: Enrico Roselli

Federico Pozuelo and Tommaso Massimiliano Alfì, Unreliable Object, 2023
Music and Sound design: Tommaso Massimiliano Alfì

Voices: Francesca Flora, Emilio Mannari

Adriene Lilly, score to a mystery, 2022

Diego Marcon, ToonsTunes (Four Pathetic Movements), 2016, Audio Track
Duration: 10’2 »

Janna Graham is an award-winning Canadian radio producer, media artist, and writer. Her radio documentaries have aired on CBC Radio 1, RTE Docs on One (Ireland), and SWR 2 (Germany). Her community-engaged audio work has taken the form of pirate radio transmissions, site-specific installations, oral history projects, and audio walking tours.

Adriene Lilly is a sound and radio artist, sound designer, field recordist, and audio engineer. Her work is often preoccupied with overwhelming phenomena such as hyperobjects, horror vacui, and pain experiences. Her longest-running creative project is the on-again, off-again series The Blind Tourist on WFMU. Other works have aired on Constellations, WBEZ’s Re:Sound, Radiophrenia, the Lucia Festival, and Earlid. She also maintains Long Live the New Sound, a public-access-style platform for experimental audio. As a producer and editor, she collaborates with clients to create thoughtful, sound-focused podcasts, broadcasts, and multimedia works. Her credits include projects for WNYC, Vox Media, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Audible, among others. She has worked on award-winning series such as Finding Tamika (2022, Molten Heart & Audible) and Copper & Heat (2022).

Diego Marcon primarily focuses on moving image. His practice centres on the investigation of cinematic archetypes in a process combining theoretical and structural approaches to filmmaking, with the sentimental attitudes of popular movie genres. His works – spanning film, video and installation – often utilise a looped structure to articulate an emotional display that flirts with the pathetic aspects of popular entertainment; and simultaneously draws attention to the media itself. Throughout Marcon’s work, empathy and vulnerability are deployed with intentional ambiguity, such that the instrumental use of their forms and figures constitute a blurred morality. This ambiguity is viewed by Marcon first and foremost as a political weapon of defiance.

Federico Pozuelo is a visual artist who explores the construction of historical events, the aestheticisation of political violence, and the theatricalisation of cultural narratives through the language of film. Pozuelo holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (2014) and a Master’s degree in Theoretical Philosophy from the UNED in Madrid (2023). His projects have been funded by entities such as the Artissima (Turin), CAM (Madrid), the Spanish Ministry of Culture (Spain), and Giulietta Basel (Basel). He has collaborated with various institutions, including W139 (Amsterdam), DeAppel (Amsterdam), PAV (Turin), Careof (Milan), Sala Amadís (Madrid), CASTRO (Rome), Cripta747 (Turin), Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella), among others.
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Tommaso Massimiliano Alfì is a multidisciplinary sound artist who composes original scores for film, video art, and works across sound design. His recent projects apply experimental techniques within cinema, popular music, and sonic art. His practice is shaped by his main project, MVRGN. In 2017, he founded Povera, a platform dedicated to experimental sonic culture in Turin. His music has been released by Riforma (Berlin–Turin), Noods (Bristol), and Radio Sygma, among others.

Ambra Viviani is an artist and researcher. She earned an MFA from the Institut Kunst in 2017 and is currently a doctoral candidate at the Zurich University of the Arts and the University of Art and Design Linz, where her research focuses on the de/re-construction of loving discourse. In 2020, she founded Giulietta, an artist-run space and curatorial project, and since 2022, she has curated the radio exhibition series OTTERS HOLDING HANDS. She has received research grants from the Patronage Fund for Young Swiss Artists (Basel), IfCAR (Zurich), SRKS/FSRC (Bern), the Albert Friedrich His-Stiftung (Basel), and the Fiorucci Art Trust (London). She has been in residence at the Istituto Svizzero in Rome (2024/25), Villa Clavel in Augst (2024), CASTRO Projects in Rome (2022), JET LEG in Munich (2022), Atelier Mondial in Hangzhou (2019), the Akademie der Künste in Berlin (2018), and Tropical Lab in Singapore (2017). Her work has been presented in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, China, and Singapore. In her transdisciplinary practice, she constructs narrative environments in which perceived reality and fiction, as well as the boundaries between perceptual organs, blur and collapse into one another. Working with alternative and non-linear narrative modes, she stages encounters where meaning slips, multiplies, or dissolves.