Ministero della cultura: Due qui / To Hear

Conveyance (Vitalia), 2006 Olnick Spanu Art Program. Currently on view at the 60th International Venice Biennale d’Arte 2024.

“We listen in order to interpret our world and experience meaning” (Pauline Oliveros)

Playing on the homophones “two here” (in Italian, due qui) and “to hear,” the title of this project suggests how hearing—or better, listening—is a form of attention to others. The acoustic paradigm should be seen here as a physical experience, but also as a metaphor, an invitation to pay attention, to listen to the Other, be it a human being, a mechanical element, or a natural form. In Bartolini’s view, art is a path to knowledge, and the project suggests that “lending an ear” could become a tool for self-improvement within the community of this world.