NO HAY BANDA / Diagram I for video and 8-channel digital audio (2005) Dur. 7'25''
		When Cézanne invites the painter to "treat nature starting from cylinder, sphere, cone, each one in perspective" (...) he purposes a use of geometry totally different from the one that reduces it to a code for painting. (...) Actually we could say that Cézanne's use of geometry is analogic, not digital. The diagram, or pattern, is analogic; the code, on the opposite, is digital. (G. Deleuze, Francis Bacon. Logica della sensazione)
		For a moment we'll act as if we don't know anything about the theories of matter and the theories of soul, nothing about the disputes on reality or ideality of the world, and here I stand before images, in the most unclear meaning which could be attributed to that word, images perceived when I open my senses, unperceived when I close them. All these images act and react one to each other in all their elementary parts. (H. Bergson, Materia e memoria)
		From the work of frame to video, we assist more and more to the construction of an image defined by molecular parameters. Intermittent editing, ultra-rapid, machine enchainment of images-matter. The aim is that of arriving to a pure action, so as it is in things or matter, as far as molecular interactions are extended. (G. Deleuze, Immagine-movimento)
		Since first post-war period diagram played a role of increasing significance in the most advanced architectural production, becoming in the last years the specific feature of new avant-garde, which considered diagrammatic substance as element of innovation capable of synthetically putting in relation compositional aspects with functional, symbolic, conceptual, temporal and cinematic aspects. The effectiveness of diagram stands in its multi-disciplinarity: it is the mediator between different and inter-related quantities, with representational functions, just like a graphic short cut to representation of complex phenomena. Francis Bacon used to consider his paintings as diagrams and Deleuze was fascinated by Bacon's ability o0f generating abstract shapes starting from human figure. According to Van Berkel diagrams are maps which may appear to be abstract but actually aim at organization of space, or time, or motion, or abstract phenomena. Deleuze, with reference to Bacon's paintings, conceives diagram as a catastrophe which happens in the painting by the introduction of a change of unit of measurement, that is "replacing figurative units with micro-metric or cosmic unities. Diagram throws a meaningless stretch of pure sensation in the heart of representation" (Claudio Bisioni, "Straight Story/Lost Highway", in Attaverso Mulholland Drive, Il Principe Costante Edizioni 2004, p. 35). The selection of the starting materials for NoHayBanda / Diagram I (images and sounds from the movie Mulholland Drive by David Lynch) is consequent to the fact that Lynch's work - especially from Lost Highway - is organized around the concept of diagram. In his essay Bisioni notes that "the relation between described sequence and global movie economy is regulated by the logic of diagram". In NoHayBanda human figure does not appear in any body part (except for reflections through glass), there is no affection, material bodies blend contaminating and hybridizing according to balance standards set every time starting from density, complexity, linearity and intelligibility values, logic consequentiality is diagrammatically broken in favour of a pure, controlled, pre-ordered sensoriality and the oblique dimension conceived as a sum of horizontal and vertical components is obtained through processes of de-focusing and anamorphosis. The method is that of finding the moment in which structures begin to fade, contours become fluid and elastic, giving birth to the mechanism which Deleuze called abstract machine of faceness and facification (every thing that will pass through it will take the aspect and the function of a face). therefore the machine is "the moment or the aspect in which exist but functions and matters", a diagram without substance and without shape, which doesn't have content nor expression: it is Hjelmslev's matter of sense.
	First performance Monday 28 November 2005 h8pm Seconda Università di Napoli - Library of mathematics, Polo Universitario via Vivaldi 43 - Caserta (Italy) Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali - Dipartimento di Matematica Sciences of Sounds - Concert of Computer Music 5th Conference "Understanding and creating music" "Autunno Musicale 2005" - Caserta
	Installation version - first performance (with "Echoes 5-18") Saturday 26 November 2005 from 7pm till sunrise Institut Francais de Naples - Festival "ART - Les jeudis de l'art contemporain" Istituto Grenoble - via Crispi, Naples (Italy) "La Notte della Musica" in collaborazione con l'Università di Salerno, a cura di V. Cafagna
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