The work, conceived and created by Pascolo Abusivo (a collective formed by the students of the Master’s degree in Multimedia Arts and Design at RUFA), is presented as an immersive virtual reality experience, accessible through a VR headset. After a brief introductory environment, which guides the user in understanding how to navigate the experience, a path unfolds across four environments, each dedicated to a decade of the Romaeuropa Festival.
Each space becomes a landscape to be crossed: within it, a path intertwines with three-dimensional objects that evoke emblematic works, events, and productions, closely linked to the dramaturgy of those years.
The transition from one environment to the next takes place through an active gesture: a playful action that triggers the opening of a portal, allowing access to the following environment. This journey leads to a fifth environment, where the user views the teaser of the current edition, before reaching a further concluding space. Here, works created over time by the various study programs of the Rome University of Fine Arts (RUFA) take shape in a new form.
Completing the narrative, in each environment dedicated to a decade, the posters of all the years that compose it appear, visible as scenographic elements—living decorations that inhabit the space and reinforce the visual memory of the journey.
REFrame thus becomes the conceptual key of the work: an invitation to “re-place the frame,” to look again at what has been and what continues to transform. Through the journey across decades, environments, and visions, the experience allows the past of the festival to be reimagined and projected into new perspectives, opening the field to multiple points of view.
Pascolo Abusivo is a transdisciplinary and multimedia art collective founded in 2024, composed of five emerging artists from the Roman and Italian scene. The collective focuses on exploring the contemporary human experience through a blend of critical thinking, collective activism, and experimentation.
Pascolo Abusivo investigates the expansion of perception, employing diverse media and cutting-edge technologies, and exploring the interaction between habitats, social practices, and the tools of contemporary digital culture. Moving beyond the boundaries of immersive experiences, light and sound performances, and VJing, Pascolo Abusivo embraces an approach grounded in in-depth research and experimentation.
The collective is committed to digging beneath the surface of concepts, offering explorations that challenge conventional perspectives, with the mission of creating artistic projects that inspire audiences to broaden their understanding of reality and reflect on their role both as actors and as observers of the real.
Based in Rome and active across Italy, Pascolo Abusivo embodies the minds and bodies of Silvia Baldo, Elisa Catalano, Annarita Debellis, Giuseppe Di Capua, and Raffaele Esposito.
