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mammasONica (IT) → OVERLOЯD

19-24
  • 4 City center
  • Videomapping

About project

OVERLOЯD is a monumental video mapping projection created specifically for the tower of the Old Town Hall. The work explores the tension between today’s rationalist, data-driven systems and the natural, emotional experience of life. At once a critique and a counter-system, the piece transforms the clock tower into a feedback loop teetering between data saturation and collapse. Visitors are drawn into an environment where quantification becomes tangible, their senses overwhelmed by glowing interfaces, recursive patterns, and algorithmic soundscapes. The invisible systems that currently govern our attention, behaviour, and aesthetic values inevitably begin to spiral into panic. Will we let ourselves be guided solely by numbers, or can we still listen to our natural intuition?

Artist

mammasONica is an Italian multidisciplinary creative studio working across audiovisual performance, lighting design, interactive installations, and new media theatre. Their large-scale projects have been exhibited at prestigious venues including the European Parliament in Strasbourg, the Atrium in Weimar, the powerful Wadi Namar waterfalls in Riyadh, and the solemn Buchenwald Memorial.Their performances have received numerous international awards and academic recognition. The studio’s site-specific works are often referenced as exemplary models of how to engage with locations that possess a complex or challenging identity.

Location

The Old Town Hall was established in 1338 as the seat of the Old Town’s self-government. Its oldest section is the southern wing, which features a bay-window chapel and the unique astronomical clock. The foundation of the complex is a Gothic house that belonged to the wealthy merchant Wolflin of Stone, to which a massive tower was added in 1364. Soaring nearly 70 metres high, the tower remains a dominant feature of both the Town Hall and the square, offering one of the most breathtaking views of Prague’s historic centre. Its monumental presence provides a striking canvas for mammasONica’s projection, seamlessly fusing historical architecture with algorithmic aesthetics.

  • Installation partner

    Italian cultural institute in Prague

  • With the support of

    Prague 1

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