Paul Gazzola (AU/DE): Street Walks – Kuopio
In reinterpreting the simple human activity of walking as a filmed event, Street walks -Kuopio picks up on a juncture between the real and the potential for staged fictions. Local volunteers are filmed at walking speed from a moving vehicle, creating a continuous scenography of everyday activity. Here walking, reframed by the camera’s lens, asks us to consider the city streets as theatrical spaces, juxtaposing the built-environment with the protagonist’s endless trajectory.
Paul Gazzola (AU/DE)
Paul Gazzola’s interdisciplinary practice operates across architecture, performance and theory in the production of choreography, video and multi-media installation. Originally trained as a carpenter, Gazzola holds a B.A. in Performance, is a qualified a Feldenkrais practitioner and in 2004 commenced studies in architecture. The culmination of these varied inquiries, each exploring the connection/intervention between the body and the built form, create a unique set of discourses. Gazzola also has a curatorial practice, presenting festival and conference events on architecture and the body.