冰岛计划

The routines, the charm and the forma mentis of the people of Iceland through a series of monologues in which the various protagonists tell their stories. The result is a spellbinding cross-section of life in Iceland, a concentration of anthropological and folkloristic aspects: the illusion of affluence spread across all levels of society, myths and pantheistic faith, the ancestral habits of a community imbued with a strong sense of belonging. All this provides the cultural and economic sub-stratum for an entire generation of kreppa babies, literally "children of the crisis", who take their first steps on ground made impervious and insidious thanks to recent worldwide economic upheaval. Thus the clearest manifestation of history´s nemesis, in which crimes of fathers - guilty of having wholeheartedly adhered to the Western capitalist system and, worst of all, having blatantly succumbed to the magnetic lure wielded by the United States - must inexorably be paid for by their children. Indeed, the foisting of a sophisticated financial superstructure upon a nation formerly void of speculative vocation and to this day in search of a place, in political terms, in the world, had devastating repercussions. Utterly unprepared to bear the brunt of the shock waves sent out by the American banking fiasco of 2009, that gamble cost Iceland dearly. 　　"Tralalà was born from the project Kreppa Babies that has been developed in 2008 during what we call the "Icelandic chapter" or better: a series of video-art projects which we completed during our stay in Iceland which lasted four months. Our interest in this place was born not so much because of the natural beauty that characterize the island but because it seemed an absolute contemporary metaphor for the modern Western society. Geologically the island has been created by the collision of the North American plate with the Eurasian one and it´s one of the few places in the world where the line connecting the two plates is on land and clearly visible, this fracture is divided by millennia of about two centimeters a year thus creating a pillow area defined by geologists 'ground zero' that will lead in future millennia to a division of the island into two distinct parts." (Masbedo)