Coreto. 2021

Audiovisual Installation | Public Space

10m x 10m x 5m. Recycled plastic, digital LED, steel, plexiglass, neon lights, bulbs, dmx motor, ventilators, hazer machine, custom software.

Coreto is a site-specific inflatable installation that intervenes in the familiar architecture of the bandstand. Situated in public parks, these pavilions were designed as civic music stages for communal attention: their radial geometry disperses sound in all directions, the lifted platform ensures line of sight for crowds, the open-air perimeter allows listeners to gather, converse, or drift away. Listening, here, is always a collective act.

From outside, a soft salmon-pink skin expands against the rigid historic metalwork, creating a spilling sculpture between the columns like a held breath. A structure defined by its opennes has become enclosed. Inside, visitors enter a crumpled plastic environment; where wall, ceiling and ground dissolve into an unfamiliar but physically intimate atmosphere. And sound makes the membrane porous: a composition built from field recordings of the city and a real-time microphone capturing its surroundings soundscapes activate a light-colored ring installation suspended overhead.

Familiarity with our surroundings often becomes its own kind of deafness. In Coreto, what fills the space is the city playing back for the pavilion – transformed, slowed, made strange – inviting visitors to listen to something they have always inhabited. 

Coreto was made in collaboration with Penique Productions and commissioned by the Festival des Arts Numériques Pléiades in Saint-Étienne.

Credits:

Commission: Festival des Arts Numériques Pléiades, Ville de Saint-Étienne

Idea | Light | Sound | Software: Marc Vilanova
Inflatable: Penique Productions

Production: Raphael Jourjon
Technical Production: Abdenour Titiem
Metal Work: 2monos

Lighting Fixtures: Luz Negra
Lighting Technology: Protopixel

Installation Support: Dominique Bour, Lary Jean-Batiste, Jonathan Nicodème, Laurraine-Sophie Plantegenest, Saint-Étienne Tech Team

Special Thanks: Jerome Villeneuve, Laura Segura, Mateu Targa, Joan Albert Gisbert, Berni Puig, Konvent.0

Photos: Anna Benet Text: Ana Prendes

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