Giuseppe Buffoli, Valentino Canclini, Umberto Cavenago, Chiara Ceroni, Federico Crespi, Ermanno Cristini, collettivo damp, Gabriele Di Matteo, Al Fadhil, Luca Fantasia, Pierluigi Fresia, Pau Masclans, Cecilia Mentasti, Giovanni Morbin, Giancarlo Norese, Giovanni Oberti, Bertille Ogier,  Pasquale Polidori, Angelo Ricciardi, Luca Scarabelli, Enzo Umbaca

A project by Ermanno Cristini and Luca Scarabelli

In an almost anonymous place—better yet, an indifferent one—a measure of space, the small, the minimal, intersects with a dimension not normally its own, time, generating an enigmatic un/balance.

Short Time is a constellation of micro-acts, micro-works, micro-things that invest a space—the place that hosts them—in the name of their total gratuitousness. They serve no purpose and expect nothing; situated in the small, the marginal, the insignificant, the unremarkable, they walk along the sharp edge of hesitation, practicing that surplus signifier which, beyond communicative finalization, distinguishes artistic making as expenditure.

It is to this spirit that Short Time is indebted, dispersing itself into an empty corner, an empty place, any place within the exhibition space—a “liminal” space that appears only through attention and through the loss of countless unrecognized moments of a duration oscillating from 1 to 273 seconds. At times without a plan, without a map, without an end, without a purpose, yet with the determined constancy of conscious failure.

“I seek the void, which is the end of all art, of all history, of every world.”
(Carmelo Bene, Un dio assente. Monologo a due voci sul teatro)

The project envisages a framework of micro-performative components to coincide with the opening, alongside an installation component, unfolding over the more extended duration of the exhibition, also composed of the “relics” of the initial actions. Much—or little—noise about nothing.