78 Giri: Mauro Gioia’s Conferenza Cantata at ICBSA – Stage Photography by Giovanni Ambrosio

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Stage Photography for a Lecture Performance about Neapolitan Songs and Vinyl History

Photographic documentation from rehearsals and live performance of Mauro Gioia’s Conferenza cantata at the Istituto Centrale per i Beni Sonori e Audiovisivi in Rome, Italy. This performance, created for the launch of the Portale della Canzone Italiana, takes the form of a sung lecture blending storytelling, archival research, and live music.

Artist: Mauro Gioia
ICBSA Rome
78 giri E-book
Photography and Design: Giovanni Ambrosio
Era d’oro: visual journal
Era d’oro – E-book
Fondo Gioia – Brochure Design
Portrait: Giuseppe Burgarella
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Mauro Gioia in the Conferenza Cantata. © Giovanni Ambrosio

Gioia performs alongside pianist Giuseppe Burgarella, with texts by writer Antonio Pascale and music historian Anita Pesce. The visual environment is shaped by images and video from Era d’oro: The Shape of an Archive, a visual journal by Giovanni Ambrosio.

Originally commissioned as a stage photography assignment, the work explores the boundary between documentation and storytelling, using photography to frame the archive as a living, performative act.