Remix

L’Ambulante is a research laboratory that experiments with the interaction between visual arts, territories, cities, and its dwellers through cultural initiatives and urban research. L’Ambulante dives into various territories in order to establish long-term projects and offer different perspectives and representations of our time.

L’Ambulante has been dealing with archives and “edited” films production starting from archival materials ("Rondò final", 2021) and also with the spreading of a certain kind of archive-based cinema. They have started a new experimental research, through which they want to explore and consider the web as an archive of pre-existing materials, reasoning on the media representations that these materials create by conveying specific messages and events of the contemporary world. Through a remix, they have attempted one or more than one deconstructions of these stories, in order to recreate critical interpretations of the representation of the present time. They have therefore involved a mixed group of filmmakers and sound artists; after having first shared a workshop moment all together, they have asked them to realize some pieces of artwork by using materials mainly coming from the Web (Instagram stories, YouTube videos, Facebook videos, institutional videos, family film footages, political statements, etc.) that could, all together, raise questions going beyond the general theme addressed in the single fragment. A process of meditation, experimentation and therefore creation (Remix to be precise), which is also a reflection on cinema and media. Each of the involved artists has dealt with the archive, following a common guideline which can be summed up by the concept of “EVENT”. Starting from these individual artworks, we have dismantled, reassembled and realized a new one, a collective one. A Remix of the Remix.