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GUIDED TOURS
VERTIGO HIGHLIGHTS
FROM 2 APRIL TO 14 JULY 2024
Fondazione MAST presents Vertigo Highlights, a series of short thematic guided tours of the exhibition Vertigo - Video Scenarios of Rapid Changes, that explore and investigate the rapid changes taking place in different spheres of our society.
Each week, our guides will help visitors discover the six thematic sections of the exhibition: work and manufacturing processes, trade and traffic, new behaviors, communication, natural environment, and social contract.
The guided tours are in Italian and open to a maximum of 25 people. Admission is free and booking is required.
Vertigo Highlights
Work and Manufacturing Processes
Visitors will discover works that investigate the complex dynamics of today's working sphere, the working conditions in factories, the evolution of automation in today's production processes and the progressive merging of professional and private life.
At the end of the tour, visitors will be able to continue their visit independently.
Weeks: May 28-June 2, June 25-30
Time: from Tuesday to Friday at 5 PM, Saturday and Sunday at 11 AM
Duratation: 30'
Vertigo Highlights
Trade and Traffic
Today, global trade and global traffic links span the entire globe, casting a dense network of movement and exchanges. The tour aims to explore works that analyze these dynamics and their consequences: the gig economy and the delivery economy, a platform capitalism in which we ourselves, as data providers, become products.
At the end of the tour, visitors will be able to continue their visit independently.
Week: June 4 – 9 / July 2 - 7
Time: from Tuesday to Friday at 5 PM, Saturday and Sunday at 11 AM
Duratation: 30'
Vertigo Highlights
New Behaviours and Social Contract
The rapid developments in science, economics and technology exert an important influence on the behaviour of individuals and the entire social fabric. Through this tour, visitors will discover the artists' view on these issues.
At the end of the tour, visitors will be able to continue their visit independently.
Week: June 11-16 / July 9-14
Time: from Tuesday to Friday at 5 PM, Saturday and Sunday at 11 AM
Duratation: 30'
Vertigo Highlights
Communication
Nowadays, communication has exploded in terms of quantity thanks to new technologies and new transmission channels. Simultaneously, it has imploded in terms of content and complexity. A flood of information invests people - reality and thought merge: artists have decided to give their own representation of this phenomenon.
At the end of the tour, visitors will be able to continue their visit independently.
Weeks: May 21–26, June 18-23
Time: from Tuesday to Friday at 5 PM, Saturday and Sunday at 11 AM
Duratation: 30'
Vertigo Highlights: a focus on Richard Mosse
Natural Environment
A special tour focusing on the environment and specifically on the work Broken Spectre (74') by Richard Mosse, located in MAST’s Gallery 0, which visitors will be able to watch in its entirety during the visit.
This tour aims to highlight the videos in the exhibition that place the theme of environmental protection at the centre of their investigation. Climate change is pressing rapidly, and we can no longer escape the evidence.
Time: every Wednesday at 5.30 PM / every Saturday and Sunday at 4.30 PM
Duration: 40’ visit + 74’ screening
The screening of Broken Spectre is scheduled at 6.10 PM (Wednesdays) and 5.10 PM (Saturdays and Sundays) and has a total duration of 74'. Please arrive at the starting time of the visit to enter the hall and attend the full screening of the film.