
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
