Alda Terracciano
Bio
Alda Terracciano is inspired by the intrinsically poetic quality of the everyday life. As a result, she creates work that makes use of nonlinear narrative and plays with the evocative interplay between sounds, images and multisensory landscapes to explore “g-local” cultures.
Alda is Honorary Research Associate at University College London and co-leader for the Centre of Critical Heritage Studies at the University of Gothenburg.
As Artistic Director of ALDATERRA Projects in 2012, she presented the installation 'Streets of… 7 cities in 7 minutes' during the London Olympic Games with the support of Arts Council England. Her latest multisensory digital art installation ‘Zelige Door on Golborne Road’ was produced as a result of the arts and heritage project Mapping Memory Routes of Moroccan Communities, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund to explore the local Moroccan cultural heritage.
Alda for MG
Reading Memory Routes explores the intangible heritage of diverse communities in Reading through oral narratives and sensory stimulation. The idea is to engage passengers of different age groups, cultural and social backgrounds in individual memory sessions focused on their everyday life, cultural heritage, sense of home, and identity. On the opening day of the Moving Gallery exhibition, the artist will invite passengers to directly relate to specific places they see from the bus in their daily journeys and link them to special memories they hold for them. These digital memories will be then pinned to a map of the bus route and woven together in a dramaturgical sound composition to be experienced by passengers in their journeys through the city. As a result, the bus route will become a living museum of cultural memories open to all for the entire duration of the MG experience.
Click here to access the Reading Memory Routes podcasts.
Passengers will have the opportunity to listen to The Reading Memory Routes podcasts also on the
bus via internal speakers.
Reading Memory Routes
The work aims to develop a new way of collecting and sharing memories of the city that takes into account the power of the senses in eliciting personal and collective responses.
