New entry > Archivio Video is a recurring event that periodically presents works preserved in the Archivio Video of Careof.

From May 3 to 12, 2012, New entry > Archivio Video presents to the public the winning works of the Identik.IT competition, conceived by the curatorial collective Gruntumolani, promoted by the Master in Curatore Museale e di Eventi at IED Rome, with the aim of stimulating reflection on the theme of Italian identity.

The awarded works, recognized for their attentive analysis of territory, language, culture, and national traditions as key factors in a transforming process originating from the encounter with the other, are Secret Lives by GruppoGruppo, S.P.Q.T. – Memorie Tiburtine by Jacopo Natoli, and Fratelli d’Italia l’Italia si è persa by Gloria Pasotti.

Secret Lives (2011, 6'09'') by gruppoGruppo is a triptych dedicated to the Italian composers Luciano Berio, Franco Donatoni, and Bruno Maderna. Through the manipulation and blending of images and excerpts from the repertoires of the three musicians — Sinfonia for Berio, Hot for Donatoni, and Venetian journal for Maderna — sound variables, cellular structures, and possible landscapes come to life. gruppoGruppo is an Italo-Swedish collective composed of Fabio Monni and Alessandro Perini.

In S.P.Q.T – Memorie Tiburtine (2011, 7'34''), Jacopo Natoli explores urban landscapes that seem suspended on the edge of a memory. What fully emerges in the author's mind is a repertoire of memories where the story being told is gradually revealed by deciphering every sign. A guide are the verses of the Tiburtine poet Fiorenzo Cialone in Lu riò, whose glimpses inspire the suggestive shots by the Roman artist in a rare coherence: «Conoscio tutti quanti li cantuni,/le strate, le scalette e lli portuni,/li sò girati tutti a pparmu a pparmu,/li vardo e me l’aggusto carmu carmu».

For Gloria Pasotti, the national anthem Fratelli d’Italia, written by Goffredo Mameli and composed by Michele Novaro in 1847, is not only the symbol of Italian Unification but also a stimulus for reflection on the sense of belonging to the Italian state and on the very meaning of an identity that refuses to be delimited, circumscribed, or labeled. In Fratelli d’Italia l’Italia si è persa (2011, 1'25''), the broken singing of the author, which spreads altered in the water, is a metaphor of a “broken saying,” of a self and a country that meet and merge in the search for the self.

Identik.IT – Italian identities in video, presented at Careof from May 3 to 12, 2012, is the second of three appointments of a traveling exhibition project located in the venues of The Gallery Apart in Rome and the Museo Nitsch in Naples.

With the contribution of Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lombardia and Regione Lombardia - Istruzione, Formazione e Cultura