The suggestive video FUSION, originated from Ingeborg Lüscher’s artistic and human sensitivity, seems to provide a critical path aimed at highlighting a real genetic modification of soccer. Players that are no longer players, that lose their sports identity to become upwardly-mobile managers, actors of a ritual pantomime, in which they follow a script which pitilessly requires them to be dressed up like successful and powerful men. No colored jerseys, no numbers on the back, no canonical trunks. Even the ball, primary item of the game-sport sacredness, turns – through mockin fade-outs – into the symbol of power and money.
Bruno Pizzul 2001
IL901
Fusion, 2002
Outdoor installation
Tecnovision LED wall of a football stadium
Video, 8 min 30 sec, colour, sound, HD, Italian version
Exhibitions
Stadio Giuseppe Meazza di San Siro, Milano, May 22, 2002
Catalogues
Milano 2001
Texts
Oberschelp 2001 a