Thirteen months in the Year
Marco Fusinato

Thir­teen months in the Year is an exhi­bi­tion of works made in the last year from three of Mar­co Fusinato’s ongo­ing projects.

Ash­es of Cloud and Dele­te­ri­ous Exha­la­tion are two recent noise-gui­­tar impro­vi­sa­tions accom­pa­nied by video mon­tage. A new video is made for each perfor­mance. The video accom­pa­ni­ment is a selec­tion of clips most­ly from the cam­era point­ing at the com­put­er screen. If some­thing in the footage needs edit­ing (removal), black gaffa tape is stuck on the screen to block out that sec­tion and the footage is re-shot. Ash­es of Cloud is 20 min­utes long and was per­formed at Unsound Ade­laide, Aus­tralia, in July 2024. Dele­te­ri­ous Exha­la­tion is 40 min­utes long and was per­formed at Moers Festi­val, Ger­many, in June 2025. For the exhi­bi­tion a live per­for­mance excerpt is shown at the end of each of the video mon­tages.

DESAS­TRES is a per­for­mance of exper­i­­men­­tal-noise gui­tar through mass ampli­fi­ca­tion that synchro­nizes image. First per­formed in the Aus­tralian Pavil­ion at the 59^th Venice Bien­nale (2022) for 200 con­sec­u­tive days. It has since been per­formed world­wide mul­ti­ple times and will be re-staged in Milan in 2026. In par­al­lel to the per­for­mances is a series of exper­i­men­tal silkscreen paint­ings of select­ed images from the DESAS­TRES archive. The titles for each paint­ing are the jpg tags of the orig­i­nal image files. For the exhi­bi­tion, Fusina­to presents three new silkscreen paint­ings from the series.

Mass Black Implo­sion is a series of draw­ings that repur­pose exist­ing avant-garde scores as noise com­po­si­tions. A selec­tion of scores by avant-garde com­posers are repro­duced at 1:1 scale. A line is ruled from every orig­i­nal note to an arbi­trar­i­ly cho­sen point on the score as a propo­si­tion for a new com­po­si­tion. The propo­si­tion being — every note played at once as a moment of con­sol­i­da­tion and sin­gu­lar impact. The exhi­bi­tion fea­tures a mon­u­men­tal 24-part repur­posed score by the com­pos­er Ian­nis Xenakis.

Mar­co Fusina­to is a con­tem­po­rary artist and noise-musi­cian whose work takes the form of instal­la­tion, pho­to­graph­ic repro­duc­tion, per­for­mance, and recording.