ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR
INTERMISSION
A sound action for movers and traceurs
concept direction and invention sound instruments by Fabrizio Saiu
practice by Fabrizio Saiu with the traceurs of Activita, Parkourwave, Parkourbros, Eden Park Zone, ADD Academy Milano, Formigine Parkour...
and the frisbee players of Voladora Ultimate Frisbee, Frisbee Temple, Disc&Disc Ultimate Frisbee
production Fabrizio Saiu, Linea Festival + Nu Festival
supported by Nòva (2021-22)
technical refinement sound instruments Riccardo Angarano sound action for traceurs and movers
media UFIP cymbals
duration 50-90 minutes
past performance: [2021] Linea Festival, NU Arts and community Festival; [2022] PerAspera, [2023] Farout Live Arts Festival, Periferico Festival.
credits ph. Base Milano FAROUT Live Arts Festival 2023 | Fabio Fiandrini PerAspera Festival 2022 | ph. Vito Lauciello for LINEA Festival Courtesy Apulia Center for Art and Technology 2021
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Starting from a question on the ways in which the city can be crossed and made to resonate, Fabrizio Saìu responds by articulating an experiment on the relationships of interference and connection between soundspacing and art du déplacement
Intermission involves a collective action and a multitude in motion. The multitude comprises professional traceurs and participants introduced to the practice through workshop training. Percussion cymbals dragged on the ground by dacron fishing lines serve as instruments. The organization of sound, arranged in bands and durations, intertwines with the articulation of bodies in urban space, creating a drifting multitude. This results in a suspension of the city's functional life, encouraging active and contemplative participation in reality.
Intermission spreads in a dispersed and decentralized manner, organizing itself into small groups, sometimes involving individual traceurs who traverse and explore the city, marking horizontal and vertical trajectories at varying speeds and intensities. The practice aims to modify the acoustic environment, repurpose urban structures, and interrupt or modulate the flow of movement within the city and public spaces.
The action occurs in small groups of traceurs and participants trained in the practice. It is an intervention conceived and executed based on the urban and acoustic characteristics of the city, targeting the various flows—human, animal, and mechanical—that traverse it.
The practice aims to modify the acoustic environment, repurpose urban structures, and interrupt or modulate the city's movement flows. Intermission is not a performance or spectacle; its form is that of a network that reshapes according to the choices of individual groups.
It unfolds simultaneously across multiple locations, with tendencies toward both condensation and stabilization in one place and dispersion along multiple trajectories or lines of flight.
Each Intermission is unique due to the physical, psychological, and musical characteristics of its participants and groups. The practice adapts to the group's abilities and assumes a form and intensity of intervention that are distinct in each environment.
