Directed by Corinne Mazzoli
Produced by Careof
The Gossips' Chronicles

The Gossips' Chronicles is a location-based multiplayer installation that combines an IRL guided tour of a torture museum with a VR experience to tell the story of the Gossips, a population, who lived around the 5th century AD and are now extinct. Skilled artisans made precious objects to channel the energy of the universe, interact with plants, clone DNA and master the weathers However, this independence did not last long, their tools being stolen and them being tortured and exterminated. These objects have survived to become instruments of torture exhibited in museums all over the world. In our exhibition The Guide, the last witness of the Gossips' traditions, welcomes the public, inviting them to discover this different point of view on history.

Synopsys

In the early Middle Ages, women formed a strong community, they orally passed down stories, folk cultures and were skilled healers. They were called Gossips from god-sibb meaning close kinship. The Gossips were the 'women friends' (Silvia Federici, 1998). With the advent of capitalism and the strengthening of patriarchal authority, the term took on the negative connotation of female gossip, freedom was lost and those who rebelled against these restrictions were burnt at the stake as heretics. Hence the inspiration for The Gossips' Chronicles a guided tour that tells two different versions of the story of artefacts displayed in a torture museum. Here, the word Gossips refers to a community of living beings, in tune with nature and the cosmos, who are stripped of their objects for the sake of capital possession and then exterminated to destroy their memory. The story develops from the objects of torture that have come down to us today: historical fakes, whose stories collapse, leaving room for doubt and uncertainty as to where the boundaries between true and false lie.

Backstage

Credits

The Gossips’ Chronicles

Directed by
Corinne Mazzoli

Written by
Anja Boato

Produced by
Marta Bianchi / Careof

TECHNICAL INFO

Immersive Project:
Location Based Experience & Live interactive performance

Running time (min): 30'
Language: English
User Experience:
onsite multiplayer Compatible devices:
metaQuest Standalone

Custom Roomscale

VR CREW

Emanuele Kabu
Design & Animation

Saverio Trapasso
Technical Director & Technical Artist / Artheria

Marco Montini
Developer / Artheria

Mauro Sommavilla
Composer

Massimiliano Borghesi
Sound Designer

Benedetta Borciani
Voice Over

IRL CREW

Est Coulon
Performer

Tulls Primultini
Performer

altre500persone
Performer

Arturo Boem
Costume Design / Swampgod

Marcello Batelli
Sound Designer

Alessio Sacchetto
Technical Sound Support / Musical Box Rent

Alessandro Mason & Pietro Lora
Set Up Design / Studio Gisto

Gabriele Guarisco
3D Concept Designer

Simone Fontana
3D Print / Holit

Jacopo David
Props

Chiara de Rota
Props / NANA.LAB Scenografie

Luca Coppola
Communication Design / AUT Design Collective

Luca Pili
Behind the Scenes

Valentino Pascolo
Set Up Dressing

Ilaria Doardo & Stefano Locci
Plushy velvet, fabric / Dedar

Lara Facco
Press and Communication / Lara Facco P&C

WEBSITE CREDITS

Pietro Coda, Luca Coppola, Riccardo Berrone / AUT Design Collective

Hund Studio

Andrea Venturini

Jacopo David
Logo

Emanuele Kabu
Illustrations & animations

Events

La Biennale — Cinema Immersive2024

Press