SOT GLASS
Ana Shametaj and Giuditta Vendrame’s “Sot Glas” project is a sensitively arranged physical and linguistic labyrinth. Beginning in the Wundergarten on Graz’s Schlossberg, it continues in the Stallbastei, moving from impressions of dreamlike weightlessness with a view of the city lights to a warm, humming space that allows individual identity to recede and collective experience to come to the fore. The sound and light installation was first realized at the 18th Architecture Biennale in Venice. For KLANGLICHT 2024, the artists have added lullabies in different languages to previously researched peace, war, migration and children’s songs.
A project as a guest at the Graz Museum Schlossberg.
Graz Museum
Biography:
Ana Shametaj (born 1991, Durrës, Albania) is a filmmaker and theater director. She co-founded Kokoschka Revival, an artist collective and digital art studio, in 2013. Her hybrid practice moves towards video art and installation, developing multiple levels of perception of dramaturgy. Her work has been exhibited in various international contexts, including the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Locarno Film Festival and the Piccolo Teatro in Milan.
Giuditta Vendrame (b. 1985, Maniago, Italy) is an artist based in the Netherlands. In her practice she explores and investigates citizenship, space and mobility. She questions social, artificial constructions with physical, geographical elements and natural forces. She has exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Walker Art Center and the Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, among others.
Credits:
Authors
Ana Shametaj, Giuditta Vendrame,
Light Design and scenography
Giulio Olivero
Sound Design
Renato Rinaldi
Technical Director
Fabio Brusadin
Voices
Anutis (Alba Nacinovich, Juliana Azevedo, Caterina De Biaggio, Laura Giavon), Piccolo Coro degli Amici diretto da Aglaia Merkel Bertoldi, Gruppo vocale femminile Stu Ledi
Production
Kokoschka Revival
Scientific consultancy
Valter Colle, Marjeta Pisk (ZRC SAZU, Institute of Ethnomusicology), Lino Straulino
Acknowledgment
A special thanks to the music label NOTA per “Lisica ta Fasalawa” – CD “REZIJA” NOTA CD 231.
SOT GLAS has initially been ideated and created for f “Spaziale. Everyone belongs to everyone else,” Italian Pavilion at the 18th. International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2023, promoted by the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture and curated by Fosbury Architecture. In 2023 the project has been developed in collaboration with Comune di Trieste, Casa della Musica, Club Alpinistico Triestino, Alpe Adria Cinema – Trieste Film Festival and with the support of Regione autonoma Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Comune di Trieste, Ambasciata e Consolato Generale del Regno dei Paesi Bassi, Ambasciata della Repubblica d’Albania in Italia, Creative Industries Fund NL, INPS – Fondo PSMSAD, Fondazione Benefica Kathleen Foreman Casali, Fondazione Pittini, OPIFICIO NEIRAMI.