River orchestra towards future rurality

Vittoria Assembri’s work aims to create a future rural scenario based on a set of voices, everyday gestures, as well as other visible and invisible, human and non-human elements such as: speeches, songs, short stories, calls, verses, harvests , objects and materials. This multichannel orchestra, recorded between two villages and then spread across both banks of the river, is not a nostalgic testimony of rurality, but is an active space and a critical space from which it is possible to imagine new speculative narratives and a new collective memory of the future rural river.

Vittoria Assembri is an Italian artist who investigates relationships between architecture and sound. Her practice explores territories considered marginal, from both an architectural and sound point of view. The artist focuses her research on the regeneration of urban spaces such as the recovery of built heritage that seeks meanings of sustainable sociability and social diversity. Her research develops around the notion of Third Landscape, an oblique and unconventional condition of abandoned spaces invested with spontaneous forms of other species.

Sound piece created as part of the artistic residency “ÁGUA DOCE, ÁGUA SALGADA”, by artist Vittoria Assembri.