ARIA DI CAPRI / FRESH AIR

A QR Activation Event occurring on Capri Island, Italy, in the Mediterranean Ocean, Summer 2022. This is a nomadic event, traveling from country to country. A community of specially costumed performance artists walk slowly in procession through the town, displaying a logo comprised of a QR CODE and a Lemon insignia. The public engage by snapping photos and activating the QR Logo MediaStream.

By activating the QR Stream the public become part of an expanding virtual network. They are exposed to a curated video film of evocative scenes alternating between the harsh, apocalyptic realities of today and cultural activist, utopian art performances and worldwide, socio-ecologic generative projects.

The Slow-Nature aspect of the public performance implies another speed or time/space reality within which we can deliberately care for every step, care for every breath and collectively care for the interconnection with each other and all things.

The audience/social engagement element of the activity references both the virtual algorithmic and ecologic impact any community can intentionally have and the longterm consequences of living un/consciously as “consumers.” In other words, “Consumers are the Producers of the Future.”

Capri Island has historically occupied the role of a refuge for creatives, cultural and political shape-shifters and visionaries (Edwin Cerio, Axel Munthe, Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach; sites: Villa Fersen/Villa Lysis, commissioned by Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, a French baron, as an escape for he and his lover. It was a gathering place for artists, intellectuals, poets and writers. Villa Orlandi, a retreat for artists: Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys, Jannis Kounellis, Cy Twombly, and others.

The action is created by the collaborative, Institute for Cultural Activism International, a US non-profit.    

Clips of international artists' works included: Gwen Charles, John Halpern, Emily Harris, Laetitia Hohenberg, Margret Wibmer, Zosia Zoltkowski.