The SantaGiulia Academy of Brescia, with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute, is participating in the Prague Quadrennial, an event of great international relevance since 1967.
The Quadrennial constitutes one of the world’s major scenography platforms and is a unique showcase to present the latest research in stage and costume design as well as in sound and lighting and in all the other elements that concur in the development and setting of theatre stages. The SantaGiulia Academy of Brescia represents Italy at the event with a light and sound installation entitled “Spaces Exercises – Do you want to see Mr. Klamm?”, drawn from the unfinished novel ‘The Castle’ by Franz Kafka.
The installation, which falls within the category of soundesign and lightdesign, is interactive. The setting changes with the passing of every visitor, continuously generating new combinations of light and sound. The itinerary is a sort of transfiguration of the main character of Kafka’s novel who, due to the changes in the environmental coordinates, never reaches his destination, remaining imprisoned in a sort of labyrinth generated by something like an internal short circuit.
The Italian Ambassador in Prague, Francesco Saverio Nisio, said: “The teachers and students at the SantaGiulia Academy are truly good, they are surprising in how inventive and in-depth their research and their representative capacity is. In going through the labyrinth, I too was transported into a world of fluorescence and sound tracks where everybody lives a personal sensation of their own: a sensorial experience of truly great interest.”
The installation was set up in the premises of the Italian Cultural Institute in Prague under the guidance of Professors Carlo Susa, Massimo Tantardini, Stefano Mazzanti, Enzo Mologni and Fabrizio Saiu. All the Academy’s third-year students participated in the project.
