“The Art of Change Opera” is an experimental project which develops a radically new artistic form, – open, participative, generative and interactive -, addressing the question « what needs to be changed » in the world today.
Originally conceived by composer and multimedia artist Jean-Baptiste Barrière, with a libretto by philosopher Chiara Bottici, it incorporates specially recorded interviews, and statements from intellectuals, thinkers and activists from all around the world. These video materials are mixed with actors interpreting fragments of texts about change. Speech materials proliferate in music, ‘orchestrated’ (some pre-recorded in advance, some live in real-time) and performed, partly by instrumentalists and partly with the help of computer generative compositional processes.
With
Jean-Baptiste Barrière.
Chiara Bottici (libretto) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. She is the author, among others, of Imaginal Politics: Images beyond Imagination and the Imaginary (Columbia University Press, 2014); A Philosophy of Political Myth (Cambridge University Press, 2007); and Uomini e stati. Percorsi di un’analogia(ETS, 2004), which was published in English as Men and States(Palgrave, 2009), and of the novel of novels Per tre miti, forse quattro(Manni, 2016).
