Concept by Annamaria Ajmone
Graphic project by Giulia Polenta
 
 
Trigger is a project born from a hindrance.

In 2015, Virgilio Sieni invited me to imagine a brief choreographed action for one of the rooms in Palazzo Pitti. For a number of reasons, we realised it would not be possible for me to see the space or work in it until the day of the performance. 

At that time, I was working on a project which is still ongoing and which I have called Arcipelago. It consists in a series of actions for non-theatrical spaces, with constantly changing formats.
Trigger is part of this artistic research.

Having accepted the condition, I decided to imagine and build the performance by planning a score which was modulable, which could be positioned and transformed according to the space in which it was being held. In my mind the idea of camping emerged – an experience which I have always detested and which I have done very few times in my life. My image of the camper derives from the 1960s and ‘70s: I see those sets of tables and chairs, those tents positioned according to the square metres that have been chosen, calculating where the trees will cast their shade, testing the firmness of the soil, evaluating the correct distance from the neighbouring tent. Creating a space which is intimate and private, as well as being shared.

Initially conceived for indoor spaces, the Trigger musical score created by Palm Wine is a mix structured around decreasing fluxes, intended as an “archaeological race” wending its way through Latin American dancefloor music, field recordings repertoire, soft psychedelia and dub. The idea was to create a kind of sound “breakthrough” the walls of the space. The multiform nature of the mix creates a rhythmic and varied musical landscape.

The public sits on chairs arranged by me in a perimeter, proportionate to the shape of the room. Trigger plays on proximity and distance, on detail and broad angle. The spectator’s point of view changes continually and they are individually responsible for composing and selecting that which they can and cannot see, thereby creating their own unique experience.

For Palazzo delle Esposizioni I conceived Trigger Atlas 2016-2020, an atlas made up of images and empty spaces. I selected iconic images of places which, from 2015 up until now, have hosted the Trigger performance.
As in Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Bilderatlas, which inspired this project, “fields of energy provoke the spectator into an open interpretative process”.
 
 

  
"The images are assembled to form a non-complete and evolving collection of places where Trigger has been hosted, from his debut to the present. The reading order follows a chronological progression, from left to right and from top to bottom. All places not included are present here in their loss, within the white space between images."
 
 Annamaria Ajmone, Trigger Atlas.pdf