The Serpent, Act 2, New York · 1988

On November 11 of 1988, in New York, at the Snow Ben Room of Bobst Library
of New York University, it was performed Il Viaggio del Serpente as second act
of the Serpent travelling event It was sponsored by the Italian Institute of Culture
and presented as an international interactive Italian evening of art, music, poetry
and technology. It was made in collaboration with the Department of Art and Art
Professions and the Department of Music and Performing Art Professions of New
York University, the Department of Physics of the University of Cagliari and the
Dax Group of Carnegie Mellon University. An art show was held by the Italian
artists Marina Cappelletto, Antonia Carmi, Franco Ciarlo, Dionigi Cossu, Ivan
Dalla Casa, Baldo Diodato, Cosino Di Leo Ricatto, Roberto Fabricciani, Manuela
Filiaci, Dinu Ghezzo, Andrea Grassi, Gianfranco Mantegna, Renato Miceli, Beatrice
Muzi, Luca Pizzorno, Renzo Ricchi, Elisabetta Zanelli. Ivan Dalla Tana presented
his Nuclear Serpent, placed on the back of a three folder enlargement of the Manifesto
group shot made in August at the House of the Slaves in Goree, to be carried again to
Goree for the closing act of the Serpent, planned in December. A serpentine ritual
procession was made by participant artists, following a red route designed on the
floor by hundred copies of The Serpent Invitation to the Magic Island of Goree. It
moved from the NYU Ben Snow Room entrance to a computer installation in which
was displaced a 1992 Columbus Business Plan developed for the 500th anniversary
of Christopher Columbus.  The interactive event started with Miguel Algarin and
Arturo Lindsay singing on a phone call to Franco Meloni, at the University of  Cagliari. 
Dinu Ghezzo followed by orchestrating on the phone a music happening. George
Chaikin transmitted art images via fax with to Franco Meloni’s studio, where with
Valeria Meloni, Antonello Dessi, Giovanna Caltagirone, Anna Saba, Andrea Portas,
Grazia Medda, Stefano Grassi, Annamaria Caracciolo, Antonio Caboni, and
Francesco Aymerich, he was also exchanging art images via fax and computers
with Bruce Breland, Robert Dunn, Daniel Goldman, Jim Kocher, Philip Rostek,
Nathania Vishnevsky, Matt. Wrbican of the Dax Group of Carnegie Mellon, in
Pittsburgh. As closing action, in front the computer monitor with the 1992
Christopher Columbus Business Plan, Sandro Dernini wearing an anti-gas mask
performed by phone the presentation of the program of the Serpent event
travelling from New York to Dakar-Goree, via Sardinia

by Plexus International 1988