Stefano D'Alessio
Right to Be Present
interactive installation
Martina Menegon, Stefano D’Alessio
2013
Right to Be Present is an interactive video-mapping where Human Rights are projected under the Vienna’s Salztorbrücke, bridge that connects the jewish district to the city center. The text scrolls continuously below the bridge, moving from one side the other and giving the audience the possibility to read in huge letters the Human Rights. Depending on the position of the audience and its interests regarding the bridge, the clarity of the text changes. If no one is present or near, the Human Rights melt transforming themselves into unreadable floating trails, traces of something present but washed out by the unawareness or the uninterest of people. Remembering is an active action.
Stills from Alex Wolf Bierbaum's video documentiation
Right to Be Present
interactive installation
Martina Menegon, Stefano D’Alessio
2013
Right to Be Present is an interactive video-mapping where Human Rights are projected under the Vienna’s Salztorbrücke, bridge that connects the jewish district to the city center. The text scrolls continuously below the bridge, moving from one side the other and giving the audience the possibility to read in huge letters the Human Rights. Depending on the position of the audience and its interests regarding the bridge, the clarity of the text changes. If no one is present or near, the Human Rights melt transforming themselves into unreadable floating trails, traces of something present but washed out by the unawareness or the uninterest of people. Remembering is an active action.
Stills from Alex Wolf Bierbaum's video documentiation