Diego Tonus
Forwarding (Rod Summers) Invited to take part in this edition of Helicotrema, Diego Tonus (b.1984) decided to forward his invitation to artist and composer Rod Summers (b.1943), as an intervention. Met almost by chance in Maastricht (NL) in 2018, Rod Summers has revealed to be also a great collector of mail art – he has one of the biggest collection of messages both in hardcopy and digital form: a collection of more than 100000 pieces in the form of mail, email, conversations and an archive of Skype interventions set in the virtual landscape of the web. For this occasion, Summers accepted the ‘forwarding of the invitation’ proposed by Tonus and presents The Death of Bees (2018). This audio piece presents two overlaying soundtracks: a background audio landscape and a delayed voice of the artist describing an uncanny scene as it unravels in front of his eyes. The processed voice becomes enigmatic as the information is not immediately reachable, therefore it transforms into secret; the audio-filter conceal what potentially happened in this ‘still life’ while Summers is witnessing the event. Forwarding (Rod Summers) is the first intervention of a series by Diego Tonus, considering the act of ‘forwarding’ as artistic gesture thought as a practice of collaboration with other artists. Forwarding (Rod Summers) Invitato a partecipare a questa edizione di Helicotrema, Diego Tonus (b.1984) decide, come intervento, di inoltrare il suo invito all’artista e compositore Rod Summers (b.1943). Incontrato quasi per caso nella città di Maastricht (NL) nel 2018, Rod Summers si è rivelato anche un grande collezionista di mail art – una delle più grandi collezioni di messaggi sia in formato cartaceo sia in formato digitale: una collezione di più di 100000 pezzi nella forma di messaggi, email, conversazioni e un archivio di interventi via Skype realizzati nel paesaggio virtuale del web. Forwarding (Rod Summers) è il primo intervento di una serie di Diego Tonus, che vede nell’inoltro, un gesto artistico pensato come pratica di collaborazione con altri artisti.
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