On 22 April, to celebrate Italian Research Day and World Earth Day, the Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco presented the multimedia show “Ora, i limiti del pianeta” (Now, the Planet’s Limits), the new performance project by Imaginarium (Francesca Pasquinucci and Davide Giannoni) featuring storytelling, drawings, animation, direction and original musical compositions.
Art and science meet, in this videomapping and music tale, on what scholars call “planetary limits’” i.e. those thresholds that mankind should not cross to prevent the Earth from collapsing. Nine fundamental environmental processes by which the planet regulates itself.
The project was carried out with the support and scientific contributions of ESA – European Space Agency, ASI Italian Space Agency, EGO European Gravitational Observatory and INGV National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, organisations and institutes that provided the Study with incredible “sounds”’ from space and from underground.
Fundamental, in fact, were the exchanges and meetings with physicists, climatologists and space experts, which enabled Imaginarium to create a poetic narrative, steeped in surreal art, based on solid scientific concepts.
The event was organised in collaboration with the Consulate General of Italy in San Francisco.
