Purpose of residency: creation, recording, research, sound experimentation
In the center of Sardinia, in various villages of the Barbagia region, strange and archaic traditions are deeply rooted.
Ancient cults practiced by the local inhabitants represent an intense and brutal relationship between man and the wild, and have a mystical, spiritual and sacred value, with a cathartic and liberating purpose.
These costumes belong to a time that does not belong to us, masking oneself is a destiny, the link in a disquieting relationship between the animal-being and the divinity; wearing a mask means metamorphosing into the form of another entity.
The threatening and disturbing effect of these masks is not to frighten the other, but to provoke a relationship with the other. Inhabitants of this region use the expression Animas to define something that has no time, no body, sometimes disquieting, wild, that is specifically non-human and serves to live an experience.
In February, Andrea Graziosi and Raphaële Dupire spent ten intense days in Barbagia, taking part in the ritual outings of the Animas. They documented the sound aspects: recording breaths, trying to capture the soul of masks, gleaning sound bodies.
The aim of this residency is to redeploy these recordings out of context, to sort them out and link them together. A time dedicated to listening before seeking to write, to make the recordings dialogue, converse or respond to each other in a scenographic device.
Commissioned & produced by
GMEM - Centre national de création musicale
Support for the commissioning and production of music concerts 2023
La Sacem
Andrea Graziosi
photographer, project leader and artistic director
Born in 1977, Andrea Graziosi grew up in Loreto, a village in central Italy, one of Italy's most visited spiritual and pilgrimage sites. Between the mid-90s and 2004, he brought his artistic research and experience to the underground culture, getting involved in several collective projects dedicated to the dissemination of experimental art.
In 2004, he completed his university studies in Literature and Philosophy, with a thesis on the representation of "The transgression of the image" in 90s photography, with special mention from the jury, at the University of Bologna. Between 2004 and 2010, he lived between Strasbourg and Paris, working in the image field on a number of feature films, commercials and music videos.
In 2010, Andrea Graziosi decided to return to photography after training at the École de l'Image at Gobelins. Since then, he has been working as a freelance photographer, developing his photographic projects alongside commissions. His research revolves around the correlations that human beings maintain with other forms of life; evoking and working on ontological notions linked to the concepts of becoming animal, parallel dimensions, fracture, strangeness, he aims to produce photographic works, in which the place of the printed object is decisive.
In 2015, published his first book, Nunc Stans - La Sainte Victoire, by Editions André Frère. He is currently working on three new publishing projects.
Raphaële Dupire
sound artist, composer
Raphaële Dupire is a French multidisciplinary artist born in Paris in 1986 and currently living in Marseille. Her work is based on the meeting of sound and performance arts. She is a composer, improviser and performer. For her, collaboration is a privileged means of creating, freeing oneself from the aesthetic limits of genres.
Her work takes many forms, from fixed sound (concert pieces, sound on image, radio) to improvisation, performance, spatialized interpretation and installation. She works as a sound engineer and sound recordist for film and radio, and as a composer for the performing arts. She is particularly fond of thinking of sound as a dramaturgical and relational vector.
At the same time, Raphaële works as a teacher for a variety of organizations. She offers to experiment with collective creation processes and to play multidisciplinary scores.
Andrea Graziosi
photographer, project leader and artistic director
Raphaële Dupire
sound artist, composition and sound installation design
Emmanuel Germont
sound engineer, sound recording
Jade Hennequin
project documentation
