Stefania Zorzi

The video installation "Gedankensplitter" was created during the grenzART gallery symposium in the cellar streets, Kellergasse Raschala (Hollabrunn – Austria) in 2022.

The installation relates "thought" and "memory". The video combines thought fragments that have become memories and gives the opportunity to create a new thought.

I filled the bottles with water from the well in Cellar Alley Raschala. I asked some questions to the artists who attended the symposium. The water captures the memory of this moment. The water bottles have become a place where memories are held as molecular information.

Pensiero (thought) is a term derived from the Latin “pensum” (participle of the verb “pendere”: “to weigh”). "Pensum" indicated a certain amount of wool that was actually "weighed". Then the wool was given to the spinners, who had the task of processing it. The "pensum" was thus the raw material: it metaphorically denoted an original element or an original theme that had to be treated, worked out and thus brought into a new form.

Ricordo (memory) comes from the Latin "re-cordor": "re" - backwards and "cor" - heart. It means to recall to the heart (remember). In ancient times the heart was thought to be the seat of memory.

The installation includes the embroidery of the image of the brain and heart, places of thought and memory. Moreover, I turned the wool thread into raw wool. The duration of this work corresponds to the duration of the answers that the artists gave me. All the raw wool is on the scales: what is the weight of thoughts?

 

Thanks to all the participants:

Julia Bugram, Dora Creminati, Sonia Gansterer, Marcello Gobbi, Christine Maringer, Norbert Maringer, Gerald Nigl, Robert Petschinka, Jadranka Protic, Hanna Scheibenpflug, Franz Seitl, Gudrun Seitl, Stano Mikovcak, Janos Szurcsik, Andy Wallenta.

 

© Stefania Zorzi