OTS Mixtape // 06 - On the Walls
Video, 2023
About the artwork
Graffiti is a fundamental part of hip hop culture, a true self-affirmation in the urban space. An artistic movement that - like all artistic movements - received some harsh opposition when it was born. Reading some articles from the 1980s and 1990s, familiar arguments emerge that one could still find today applied to other experimental forms of art.
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.