Camille Norment
Pulse - Single Formation
L’opera si trova tra le montagne di Santa Gertude come a voler essere custode del silenzio e maestosa testimone della distruzione. I tamburi sono stati per lungo tempo legati ad assetti di potere, nonché utilizzati dai reggimenti di guerra. La battuta di tamburo è comunicazione, stabilisce controllo. La bacchetta diventa un fallo di potere. L’aspetto surreale e sorprendente dell’installazione riesce ad emergere anche sul senso di sconcertante incertezza caratterizzante dei nostri tempi.
Camille Norment, Pulse - Single Formation, 2021, Chiesa Parrocchiale S. Geltrude, Santa Gertrude (BZ), Trentino-Alto Adige. Ph. Marta Tonelli
Camille Norment (Silver Spring, US, 1970) multimedia artist, musician and composer, Norment works with sound, installation, sculpture, drawing, performance and video. She investigates socio-cultural phenomena through music and sound, considered as a force that acts on the body, mind and society. In her performances, Camille performs accordingly as a solo artist, with other musicians, and with her ensemble, the Camille Norment Trio. In 2015, she was selected by the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) to represent Norway in the Nordic Pavilion of the Venice Biennale.
Santa Gertrude is a village of 148 residents, part of the municipality of Ultimo, in Val d’Ultimo, in the autonomous province of Bolzano (61 km away) in Trentino-Alto Adige. The Lahner Säge Visitor’s Center was created from an old Venetian sawmill. With its fascinating computer animations, it provides access to all the surrounding forest’s secrets. Just before Santa Gertrude stands the most impressive natural monument in the province of Bolzano: the thousand-year-old larches, with circumferences of about 8.2 m and heights of around 28 m.