domus-CIRCULAR
14.4.2005 6pm to 6am
San Siro stadium
Milano, Italy
Info/invitation at www.domusweb.it
A night with domus at SanSiro during the salone del mobile
For one night, on Thursday 14th April, Domus will turn Milan’s largest and most powerful urban interior into a public piazza. Some of today’s most celebrated artists, filmmakers, performers, designers, architects, Djs, colleges of art & design will come together to animate this vast “urban spaceship”, giving life to one of the largest events of the 2005 Milan Furniture Fair. For one night, San Siro stadium will become the centre of gravity of the city, thus becoming a city itself.
WITH:
Cao Fei
Matthew Barney (De Lama Lamina)
Arto Lindsay & Carnaval band
Carlos Casas
Marcello Maloberti
Alejandro Jodorowsky e Marianne Costa
Thomas Koner
Dj Capa Soul e Dub Master Spillus
Pedro Reyes
Yona Friedman
Enzo Mari
Elisabetta Benassi
Armin Linke /Piero Zanini, Super!
Luca Vitone
Ogi:noknauss
Kinkaleri
A12
John Duncan
Giuseppe Ielasi
Brandon LaBelle
Eric La Casa
Pietro Pirelli/AGON
Renato Rinaldi
Valerio Triboli
Nathalie Djurberg
Jimmie Durham
::invernomuto::.
Schools: Domus Academy, Naba, IUAV, Central Saint Martins, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea(e1) + MA Industrial Design
TDK dance marathon (LCD SoundSystem, Prefuse 73, Tarwater, Jamie Lidell, Light Surgeons, Alter-Ego, Four Tet, Eboman, Chris Cunningham),
DOMUS PIC NIC
h 9.30 pm: Round-table with H.U. Obrist, Stefano Boeri and: Ettore Sottsass,
John Foot, Tino Sehgal, Michele De Lucchi, Marco Belpoliti, Andrea Branzi, James Irvine, Yona Friedman, Paola DiBello (Video-Stadio), Alberto Garutti, Lisa Ponti, Jurgen Bey, Marti Guixe, Patricia Urquiola, Gabriele Basilico, Aldo
Brandirali, Pierfrancesco Barletta, Milly Moratti, Alberto Garutti, Shoggoth (Homey), Enzo Mari (fuori picnic, Enzo Mari: a domanda
risponde), Aron Losonczi (Litracon); all Circular artists; Comitato San
Siro: Silvana Gabusi (gruppo Verdi San Siro) e Patrizia Binda (Legambiente
Milano nord); La Gazzetta dello Sport. AND:
h 7.30 pm: The Critic that was an Artist, Hommage to Pierre Restany with Stefano Casciani, Maria Grazia Mazzocchi, Nicolas Bourriaud, Alessandro Mendini, Piero Gilardi, Lea Vergine, Hans Ulrich Obrist
The city in the Spaceship
Stefano Boeri
During the Furniture Fair, the interiors of Milan are filled with objects. You enter, look at them, then leave in search of others, inside some other enclosed space. Milan is after all a city of interiors. The renaissance courtyards in the historic centre are interiors, as are the places that represent fashion and design, the Fiera, the Triennale, Palazzo Reale, the showrooms, lofts, shops and the network of professional studios that feeds the city each day. The lecture theatres of the schools and universities are also interiors, as well as the rooms and halls where editorial and banking alliances are formed and gauge their relationship with politics. Even the most important open spaces are used as if they were interiors, as is the case every day in the “fashion triangle”, or the route that runs from the Teatro alla Scala through the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele to Piazza Duomo, kinetic heart of Milan.
During the Furniture Fair, many of the interiors of Milan are opened up. And so, finally, they show us what they are and what they can do: connect themselves with their specialised network to similar spaces (rooms in Dubai, New York, Tokyo, Shanghai) often producing truly excellent performances. But it is also in that period that the interiors of Milan reveal their weakness; their indifference towards the urban space that surrounds them. That in Milan is in fact often decayed, void of places for resting and meeting, in the hands of wildly circulating traffic. Never as during the great Fair of Objects do the interiors of Milan appear so extraordinary in connecting themselves in the world and so stingy in taking care of the public space in which we place our feet. They are islands in an archipelago with no sea.
A year ago, with ‘Transient’ (a multi-media event by Ludovico Einaudi and
Armin Linke), Domus staged a visual and soundtrack of the contemporary world
as the backdrop to a fashion show of (often vacuous) designer objects.
This year Domus aims to overturn the meaning of one of the biggest and most
powerful urban interiors in Milan, the stadium at San Siro. With ‘Circular’, the stadium will be transformed for a night into a public piazza. Open to the unforeseeable behaviour and tastes of those wishing to follow a series of events that – as happens increasingly frequently in outdoor spaces in the city – light up and die down like temporary “flames”. To then perhaps be relit a little further over, or in another place entirely.
For a night the great spaceship of football, an arena for focalised, monothematic, synchronised events, will open up to the neighbourhood, the world, accepting its variety and uncertainty.Transforming itself, for a night, into a real public space. Generous and unpredictable. Exactly that which in Milan, as well as many other cities around the world, is missing today.
