OTS Mixtape // 04 - We Take It Underground
Video, 2023
About the artwork
We go below the streets, in the dark place where so much of the hip hop culture developed: the subway, the arteries that brought hip hop throughout the city, even in faraway neighbourhoods. In this kind of underworld, dance finds - and creates - its own space.
OTS Mixtape is a video companion to the series "On These Streets", and it's meant as an immersive device to relive those times. It uses a format that is native to the period (music videos) to bring us deep into our memories, while also creating something entirely new.
Sound design by Andrea Ciulu - AI generated music by Andrea Ciulu
Audio explanation
Listen to Andrea Ciulu discuss this work.
Andrea Ciulu was born in Rome, Italy, in the 1980s. With a background as a writer and visual artist, he has been working in the creative industries for the last twenty years in roles of creative direction.
His artistic work is an ongoing exploration of the limits of memory and of our perception of reality: a research conducted by exploiting technology and its intrinsic limits, by mixing the familiar with the uncanny, nostalgia with bewilderment. Andrea’s work has been exhibited in Rome, San Francisco and Mexico City.