Danilo Correale
VACANT
Project Info
- đ Chiesa di San Severo al Pendino, Via Duomo 286, Napoli
- đ Vasco Forconi
- đ€ Danilo Correale
- đ Amedeo Benestante
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Danilo Correale, VACANT, installation view, ph Amedeo Benestante
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Danilo Correale, VACANT, installation view, ph Amedeo Benestante

Danilo Correale, VACANT, installation view, ph Amedeo Benestante

Danilo Correale, VACANT, installation view, ph Amedeo Benestante

Danilo Correale, VACANT, installation view, ph Amedeo Benestante

Danilo Correale, VACANT, installation view, ph Amedeo Benestante

Danilo Correale, VACANT, installation view, ph Amedeo Benestante

Danilo Correale, VACANT, installation view, ph Amedeo Benestante

Danilo Correale, VACANT, installation view, ph Amedeo Benestante

Danilo Correale, VACANT, installation view, ph Amedeo Benestante

Danilo Correale, VACANT, installation view, ph Amedeo Benestante

Danilo Correale, VACANT, installation view, ph Amedeo Benestante
An event has just ended
a spontaneous
exuberant
moving celebration.
The hall is crowded, the stadium is full
Roars
of applause
from the audience.
An ancient gesture
heretic
primal
at times vulgar
revolutionary
because it breaks
the notion of a secret association
revealing an affective connection
the sharing of an idea.
An embrace addressed to those who have crossed
a threshold to offer us a part of themselves.
A sign of support and gratitude
measurable despite the distance between performer and crowd.
But the clapping never ends, it goes on for too long. It becomes hypnotic, dissonant, gradually absurd. The promise of individual transformation and collective catharsisâpotentially contained within that ritualâappears to be broken or jammed.
What happens when an expressive effortâdriven by love or by egoâreaches its climax? When the spotlight goes outâon a performance or on the lies of a leaderâthe endorphin rush ends, and after a moment of ecstatic unity we suddenly return to normal?
Which act of imagination will be able to change us, taking root in our lives beyond the fleeting duration of that applause? Beyond that event? Vacant is an intervention both intimate and public, a composition that invites us to reflect on the experience of an end and of the void, and to question individual agency by engaging the symbolic and inherently iconoclastic power of applause.
"Vacant" is made with the contributions of more than 350 artists, curators, philosophers, architects, historians, choreographers, and activists who, from 1954 to 2013, shared their research trajectoryâthrough lectures and gatheringsâwith thousands of resident artists at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Maine, USA.