NL premiere

DESASTRES (2022–ongoing) is a durational performance of experimental, noise, and metal guitar through mass amplification that synchronises with images. First performed at the 59th Venice Biennale for 200 consecutive days, artist Marco Fusinato improvises slabs of noise, saturated feedback, and discordant intensities with an electric guitar that triggers a deluge of disparate and disconnected images onto a large-scale, purpose-built screen. The images are sourced via a stream of words that have been put into an open search across multiple online platforms as well as from Fusinato’s own photographs taken with his phone camera. The mass indexing is a mess – a morass of randomly generated images. There is no theme as such; rather, the immersive encounter with sound and image is open interpretation, creating some kind of hallucination, offering elation through disorientation and exhaustion through confusion.

Marco Fusinato is a contemporary artist and noise musician whose work takes the form of installation, photographic reproduction, performance, and recording. He conceives his work as a succession of interrelated projects, often continuing across numerous iterations. Within these projects, the works are almost always serial and use specific frameworks for experimentation. Working across disciplines and cultural fields, Fusinato explores the tensions and contradictions of opposing forces such as underground culture versus institutions, noise versus silence, minimalism versus maximalism, and purity versus contamination. As a musician, Fusinato explores the idea of noise as music, using the electric guitar and mass amplification to improvise intricate, wide-ranging, and physically affecting frequencies. He performs regularly in the experimental music underground, primarily as a solo artist, and has released many recordings.