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Sottovoce

Dennis Del Favero
2002
Four channel multi-phase DVD video installation

The title 'sottovoce' is a musical term derived from the Italian "in a barely audible voice, a whisper" and alludes to the whispered and haunting nature of the Sottovoce's voice-over. This menacing evocation of events leading up to a terrorist attack at Oxford University is recounted from the points of view of a senior research scientist and his partner who were involved in sensitive defense research and whose role in the terrorist attack remains ambiguous.


Sottovoce evokes a world where love and violence merge and contemporary political ideals fuel a new lust for human sacrifice. In its exploration of the contemporary world it unfurls a turbulent panorama of events and memories questioning an anaesthesia now commonplace.

Security forces were put on alert today after an explosion ripped apart a lecture hall in Oxford University, killing fifteen and injuring forty senior research scientists. The blast was so severe that the west wing of the four hundred year old Newton Hall was in danger of collapse. The explosion occurred during a lecture by the controversial physicist, Dr. Albert Siller, whose opposition to current Israeli policies have brought accusations of anti-semitism. Ripping through the Physics Department the explosion caused extensive damage. The University would neither confirm nor deny that sensitive defense research relating to the current mid-east situation has been disrupted by the blast. In a separate development, Police seek a researcher who was known to be living with Dr Siller to help them with their investigations. It is not known whether she survived the blast. London.

Dennis Del Favero is Co-Director of the iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research at the University of New South Wales and an Artist-in-Resident at ZKM, Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Presented in co-operation with the Mori Gallery and the iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research, University of New South Wales.
Art Gallery of New South Wales Nov 30 - Jan 19 2002/03