selection of works:

The Urne

am Telegrafenberg

Locuratolo approaches the numbers of fatalities that have died worldwide due to interventions by external states and due to civil wars in a formal, minimalist, abstract way, reduced to a base material. A silent and haunting ephemeral monument emerges, spreading out on the former military compound. It is a walk-in site-specific installation. It also provides space for visitors to write down words and wishes of peace for the living and the deceased, who are victims of violent interventions in public spaces. These loving gestures are read out in an evening ritual, burned, and spread out on the military ground.

Sound of the Lines - Klang der Linien

Performance & Sound

Original Duration 14:01’’

Looking at western drawings a line traditionally adds material on top of the other, separates through color, and aims to be preserved.

The Performance ‘Sound of the Lines - Klang der Linien’ is a counterpoint to the western understanding of a line in academic drawing. Here drawing is understood as an incision: a line as a cut into the material, a line that transforms immaterialistically into waves in space - through sound. Something, which does not depict the outside world, but channels language and symbolism from the universe. Including moments of seeing and not being able to see fully, as well as the constant awareness of the impermanence of the used materials.

Thus, the video documents the creation of a drawing in the presence and absence of material, movement, sound, and light. With a bent aluminum stick the performer carves into the sand, gypsum mixture realizing a sound on the edge of comfort and discomfort. The work embodies a reverse དཀྱིལ་འཁོར། (Sand-Mandala) and applies to elements of 枯山水 (kare-san-sui), embracing transience as a part of creation. It is inspired by the work Pollen from Hazelnut, Wolfgang Laib, and by CURA, Jenna Sutela.

Exhibited at Drawing Performatif (2022), Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Video stills (1,3,5) & Photographs (2,4) on 35mm film during performance ‘Space Site Traveller, The gods buried by us’ by Angelica Cecatto

Showing ‘Space Site Traveller - The Gods buried by us’

on a small iPod, almost not noticeable and included on the installation

of the exhibition Phantom Ships, 2022, Group Exhibition at Wintertuin, Antwerp, Belgium

Space Site Traveler: The Gods Buried By Us

Video-Performance, Sound, 8’40’’, 2022

Synthetic Voice Design by Angelica Cecatto

Space Site Traveler: The Gods Buried by Us is a digital artwork containing a documented site-specific Performance on the Island Aegina in Greece and the island's virtual representation online. It refers to dualities, rituals, and questions the reality or fiction of spaces, their bodies, and their stories. The displayed performer embodies a spiritual figure which executes rituals. The body leads the viewer to a story of ancient and meditative procedures pointing to unity. A funeral of this spiritual embodiment takes place and the performer embodies themselves again. This death results in the ability to experience life from a human perspective. Allowing all understandings of reality as being a fictive representation of the world. Since all of them and non of them are existing in the same site of space.

‘Space Site Traveller - The Gods buried by us’ was also displayed on an iPod together with the work 'Immediate Space' of Nadja Geer.
At the opening, the work 'Immediate Space' moved within the exhibition space to either activate a sound piece by Katharina Michalsky or to allow visitors to see the video performance.

Exhibition view at In Search for Overwhelming Banality, 2022: The Status Quo of Public Spaces, One Minute Space, Athens, Greece

VUNZIG VEESJE

2022 Performance for SMAAK Festival at Oude Badhuis, Antwerp, Belgium

Cooperation of Rooftoptiger and Archipel Members

2021 Totally Trashing Trampolin:Trailer; Original Duration of Performance: 43 Minutes, filmed by Roberta de Lacerda Medina, at Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany

‘Not two’ a Performance Trilogy

Teaser of Performance

Original Duration of Perfomance 210:01’’

Performer: Adam Hartnell & Locuratolo

In 'Not two' a pile of soil is placed in the centre of the hall of the former Slaughterhouse. Two performers fill up the giant space by creating small piles. Afterwards they sweep up all piles into one again and redo the performance. It is expressing the view on two opposite forces existing at the same time constantly creating and deconstructing life physically, mentally and spiritually - in space - as a constant loop.

Special Thanks to:

Adam Hartnell

@archipel.site especially to

@BramRombouts and @saraDandois