SELECTED VIDEOS AND PERFORMANCES RECORDINGS
NUOVO MONDO: TOUR GUIDE OF HEAVEN AND HELL
Alex Cecchetti
With Tim Etchells and Ola Maciejewska
Curated by The Book Lovers
Organised by: Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle and Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture
NUOVO MONDO took place at the Museum of Sculpture
Królikarnia Palace
Puławska 113a, Warsaw
October 28 at 19:00.
NUOVO MONDO: Tour Guide of Heaven and Hell is the third episode in Alex Cecchetti’s ongoing artist’s novel, Tamam Shud. It is also is a performative seminar on poetry, a walk through the concentric circles that descend and ascend through the building of the Królikarnia Palace in Warsaw. Alex Cecchetti will accompany the public through these narrow passages where artists embody poems. What is hell for many can be heaven for some.
Guided Tour of Heaven and Hell
Alex Cecchetti
Palais de la Découverte, FIAC PARADE, 20 October 2016
With poems by: Bill Knott, Erin Lindal Martin, Sylvia Plath, Nicanor Parra, Dorothea Lasky, Anna Akhmatova, Nichita Stanescu, David Berman, William Blake, Sandro Penna, Alex Cecchetti, Ariana Reines, John Giorno, Dante Alighieri
Special guests: Michael Horovitz and Vanessa Vie
Belladonna video 2016
Video HD double channel loop
Camera A: Alex Cecchetti
Camera B: Benoît Maire
Alex Cecchetti 2010
Two people filming their own image of the sun reflected in the sea water, at the same moment in the same place. Each person see in the water a different sun, there are many sun reflected in the sea as many viewers are watching, this is a well visual phenomenon related to the point of view of the beholder. But what happens when the two viewers start to dance a waltz? When they dance so close the reflections juxtapose and they may end up seeing the same sun.
