Filippo Andreatta
Artist and curator. He has founded OHT to create works that disrupt the hierarchy of vision and listening. He realises music theatre shows, performances and installations in urban and non-urban contexts. He’s reached the 79th parallel north in the Svalbard archipelago to read Frankenstein around a bonfire, created Little Fun Palace a parasitic caravan that has travelled in Europe and North America, curated the feminist futures programme for Centrale Fies and founded the Nomadic School that moves between mountains, swamps and other rural areas contaminating art with natural and social sciences.
Andreatta’s nuvolario, a research project focusing on clouds, enters into dialogue with the imaginaries and experiences of the School’s participants. The continuous becoming of clouds is related to phase shifting, an essential compositional process in Steve Reich’s music. Repeating note patterns shift gradually, creating intricate rhythmic and harmonic textures in constant motion. Participants explore these patterns through collective study of Reich’s Clapping Music, performed entirely by hand-clapping.
The many variations generated by the phased repetitions lead into a seminar-style second part, where Andreatta engages participants with reflections, observations, and materials collected during the cloud research.
