EMPTY HEADS
by Ambienti Coassiali
1 March 2018
Ambienti Coassiali videos stand as spaces of the mind populated by signs, dreams, words, lights and clippings of clouds, on a curtain woven by signs and words that compose and break out of the organized codes, returning "ambiguity" to the vision of a space otherwise flat in the details.
The videos have been made using the broadcast TV equipment of a public TV station during night shifts. Experimenting and exploiting the capabilities of video mixers, titlers, colour correctors, tube cameras, video tapes and editing controllers, synthetic abstract images, light loops and poetry text have been created and edited to form the structure of the three original Rooms videos (4-5-6). Using the same techniques as source, Room 3 has been made in 1996 and the remaining two Rooms have been realized in 2017, in occasion of the vinyl/DVD reissue of Ambienti Coassiali Vol. 1 by Incidental Music.
From 1988 to 1994 Empty Heads videos have been selected and presented at several festivals, among them:
1988 - U-Tape, Ferrara, IT
1988 - Giovedì Primo spettacolo - Bologna, IT
1989 - Musica in video, Milano, IT
1990 - Anteprima cinema indipendente, Bellaria, IT
1990 - Videoculture 3 , Napoli, IT
1990 - Video PAL, Perugia, IT
1990 - le culture della visione, Milano, IT
1991 - 13th Tokio Video Festival, Tokyo, JP
1991 - Filmaker, Milano, IT
1991 - Giovedì Primo spettacolo - Bologna, IT
1992 - 14th Tokio Video Festival, Tokyo, JP
1994 - Locarno VideoArt Festival, Locarno, CH