HAPPENING UNDER VESUΛIO 2024 – Visual Documentation

Arts and performing arts, Artworks on stage, Performing Arts Photography

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Prophecies and Pronouncements: Text-Based Art and Performance Interventions by Giovanni Ambrosio at Happening Under Vesuvio 2024

Happening Under Vesuvio is an interdisciplinary art event hosted at Kulturfactory, in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius. This 2024 edition embraced the themes #INSIDERS #OUTSIDERS #EXPLOSION #IMPLOSION #PERFORMANCE #ANTIPERFORMANCE #BORDERS, offering an immersive space where artists, performers, musicians, and thinkers engaged in bold experimentation..

ARTISTS: Various invited by Alessia Siniscalchi
Event: Happening Under Vesuvio 2024 May 31st from 20:00 / June 1st
Photographer: GIOVANNI AMBROSIO

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Audience observing sunset at Kulturfactory garden; a moment of collective pause during the art event.

Artists posing after a performance, combining theatrical movement and visual play with bright costumes and trees in the background.

Silhouettes of people at sunset during Happening Under Vesuvio 2024, framed by the gate and a palm tree at Kulturfactory.

View of the villa’s interior with Giovanni Ambrosio’s canvas installation featuring printed Utopia text, projected under a staircase.

Interior view with light installation and #EXPLORE hashtag sign; the desk points toward the open villa doors at dusk.

Live performance outside Kulturfactory with red banners and public interaction, framed by palm trees and architectural elements.

Performer extending arm in a gesture of resistance or invocation, lit during a nocturnal performance with visible body stamps.

Close-up of performer and body stamping intervention during Giovanni Ambrosio’s visual installation.

This year’s event pushed the boundaries of performance art, sound installations, architecture, and ecological storytelling, bringing urgent themes such as climate crisis, identity, gender, and technological disruption into a living dialogue through art.

My Artistic Contribution

As a visual artist, I contributed a site-specific installation that extended my ongoing research in the series Prophecies and pronouncements . My 2024 work consisted of:

Stamped interventions on the performers’ bodies during live action, using language as a fragile yet powerful mark—both archival and ephemeral.

A large printed canvas suspended in the villa, featuring a passage from the book Utopia, exploring notions of collective morality, ecological urgency, and individual responsibility.

This visual strategy intersects text-based art, body-based performance, and spatial installations, anchoring ephemeral performance into a photographic and conceptual document.