Giuseppe Fanizza - Spectaculum
Spectatulum
Directed by Giuseppe Fanizza
[2011] 2013
Clip version: 54 clips, with and without sound, 1920x1080, Apple Pro-res, 25fps
Full version: 12', with sound, 1920x1080, Apple Pro-res, 25fps
With “Spectaculum”, Giuseppe Fanizza uses images to analyze the concept of Spectacle, questioning the magnetism of the television medium and the persistence of its power in the web era.
Starting from the etymological root, Fanizza chooses to capture the faces of many unsuspecting television viewers and their reactions when they realize that among what they are watching there are even shots portraying them: he proposes an interruption of programming with moments of self-viewing, where the viewer becomes the object of their own gaze. From spectators to protagonists, the many subjects find themselves facing the astonishment of their sudden appearance on TV. In a perfect exchange between reality and fiction, the artist manages to reveal the intrusiveness of the small screen in everyday life.
The work was produced as part of ArteVisione (pilot edition 2011), a project by Careof and Sky for social engagement.
A 12-minute edit of the work was broadcast on Sky Arte in August 2015 and presented at the festival Lo Schermo dell'Arte 2015 in Florence.
SYNOPSIS
Spectaculum is a video work composed as a series of interruptions in television programming. The project originates from footage shot in public spaces where real and imagined communities are absorbed in watching the glowing screen broadcasting sports events on Sky channels. Investigating the perceptual flow between viewer, medium, and spectacle—namely between the subject, the recording device, and the means of image transmission—it creates a short circuit between reality and representation. Reality itself—in a moment of disorientation and suspension—becomes part of the continuous stream of stimuli, in which the image of the viewer—the real—is retransmitted in the form of spectacle—the represented. Reality is spectacularized.
GIUSEPPE FANIZZA - BIOGRAFIA
Giuseppe Fanizza (1979, Fasano) works primarily with photography and video, understood as tools for investigating territory, social landscape, and topographic memory. His projects are often conceived as complex audiovisual researches shared with working groups. Starting from a meticulous collection of traces, he builds progressively broader narratives that go beyond the immediate object of investigation and provide an overall vision of the themes explored, giving rise to true curatorial projects based on archives open to the network.
Selected solo exhibitions. 2014: 817 Selfies, Castello Ducale di Agliè, project #CrossHeritage; 2013: Immaginari di Confine, Sede Helvetia Assicurazioni, Milan. 2012: Stanze, On the Move, Festival della Fotografia, Cortona.
Selected group exhibitions. 2015: The Wall. Art face to face with borders, Careof, Milan; Projekt Metropolis, CSW Kronika, Bytom, Poland. 2014: Where is the familiar, GlogauAIR, Berlin; Frammenti d’Italia #3, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa. 2013: Habitat Project, Milano&Oltre, Triennale, Milan. 2012: Fight Specific Isola, by Isola Art Center, Frigoriferi Milanesi, Milan.
TECHNICAL DATA SHEET
Spectatulum
Directed by Giuseppe Fanizza
[2011] 2013
Clip version: 54 clips, with and without sound, 1920x1080, Apple Pro-res, 25fps
Full version: 12', with sound, 1920x1080, Apple Pro-res, 25fps
Filming, editing and post-production: Giuseppe Fanizza
Production: Careof and Sky
Producers: Marta Bianchi, Careof and Cristina Fenzi, Sky
