VOLGAR ELOQUIO [2002/2015]

Single-channel digital video projection | 00:17:00 | silent | black-&-white | 4:3 | Dimensions: variable

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INSTALLATION VIEW : https://vimeo.com/108887737

                                       https://vimeo.com/1059160060

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VOLGAR ELOQUIO comprises a performance-based video work depicting a typewriter typing a poem by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Versi del Testamento [Lines from the Testament] (1969), in real-time. It describes the manifestations of a profound sense of solitude.

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Companion work to SENZA PAROLE

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SHOWN

Pasolini: Durations, Casa Italiana - Zerilli-Marimò, New York University, New York, US (2025)  

Articule (Montréal)

A-Space (Toronto)

Moving Image Centre (Auckland)

New Zealand Film Archive (Wellington)

SCA Galleries (Sydney)

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WRITING

Frederico Camera, 'John Di Stefano’s Bandiera Nera'. Australasia Journal of Popular Culture, 2015

Gary Sangster, 'In Theory', Bandiera Nera. SCA Galleries, Sydney, 2015

Aleksandr A. Wansbrough, “Archaeological Journeys: John Di Stefano’s Bandiera Nera”. Alphaville - Journal of Film & Screen Media, 2016

Laurence Simmons, 'Passion for Pasolini',  Illusions - Journal of Moving Image & Performance Criticism, 2004

Kate Griffin, Texts & Subtexts. Moving Image Centre, Auckland, 2003

Sherry Simon, Deviant Translations. Articule, Montréal, 2002

Will Kwan, Another Version: John Di Stefano’s Redeeming Translations. A Space Gallery, Toronto, 2002

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VOLGAR ELOQUIO is part of the PASOLINI PROJECT - a project inspired by Italian filmmaker and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini.

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INSTALLATION VIEW: SCA Galleries (Sydney) : VOLGAR ELOQUIO and SENZA PAROLE