Contaminations between archaeology and contemporary art. Video performance and dialogue with the artist and the MAPPA Lab team.

On 28 April 2025, at 6.30 p.m., at the Arsenale Spazio Sammartino in Pisa, Vicolo Scaramucci 2, there will be the presentation of the video performance Hypnaground, curated by MAPPA Lab of the University of Pisa and the French artist Violaine Lochu.
The project stems from an experimental path that weaves together artistic and archaeological practices to explore the landscape of the Apuan mountains as a place of memory, dream and transformation. The performance gives back the results of a collective creative process through images, sounds and narratives that reflect on the relationships between human beings and ecologies of the past, present and future.
The vision of the video will be followed by a public dialogue involving Violaine Lochu – an artist whose performance and sound practice explores the voice as a living archive, between languages, rituals and memories – together with the researchers of MAPPA Lab, a laboratory of the University of Pisa that deals with transdisciplinary methodologies for the analysis of landscapes, with particular attention to mountain and marginal contexts.
The meeting will be led by Elena Marcheschi, a lecturer and researcher expert in video art and experimental audiovisual languages, who will lead the dialogue with the artist and solicit reflections and open discussions with the audience.
The event is realised with the support of the Special Projects for Education of the University of Pisa for the academic year 2024/2025.
Admission is free. The event will be held in Italian, all the practical information is available in the attached poster.
An extract of the project is available online:http://www.violainelochu.fr/?page_id=2682