Chiara Fumai's performative work has had a broad resonance in the contemporary art world; how- ever, scholars have largely overlooked her early involvement with music as a DJ, while it was a lec- ture-performance based on vinyl records that brought Fumai international recognition. The artist combined her knowledge of the development of italodisco with the biography of the singer Nico Fumai (actually, her father's name). I first examine Chiara Fumai's efforts as a DJ and record label founder. Then, the entirely fictional (but plausible) story of Nico Fumai will be explored in depth. The music and visual materials produced by Chiara Fumai as evidence of Nico Fumai's career will be traced back to their original sources, showing the actual songs and record covers that Fumai appropriated and attributed to her father, leveraging the relationship between the inauthenticity of italodisco and the verisimilitude of her lecture.
Il lavoro di Chiara Fumai ha avuto ampia risonanza nel mondo dell'arte contemporanea e dei per- formance studies; tuttavia, è fino ad oggi mancato un approfondimento sulle sue attività musicali, mentre fu proprio in seguito a un lavoro interamente basato su dischi e canzoni che ottenne il primo importante riconoscimento internazionale. Fumai ha impiegato la propria conoscenza del- l'italodisco per creare la biografia e la discografia fittizia di Nico Fumai (il nome del padre). I ma- teriali sonori e visivi prodotti dall’artista come prova dell’esistenza del cantante saranno ricondotti alle loro fonti originali, mostrando le canzoni e le copertine dei dischi di cui Fumai si è appropriata, attribuendole al padre e facendo leva sul rapporto tra l'inautenticità della musica italodisco e la verosimiglianza della lecture-performance.
Chiara Fumai Presents Nico Fumai: Italodisco as Audiovisual Performative Fiction / G. Bottin. - In: IMAGO. - ISSN 2038-5536. - 30:(2025), pp. 75-95.
Chiara Fumai Presents Nico Fumai: Italodisco as Audiovisual Performative Fiction
G. Bottin
2025
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Chiara Fumai's performative work has had a broad resonance in the contemporary art world; how- ever, scholars have largely overlooked her early involvement with music as a DJ, while it was a lec- ture-performance based on vinyl records that brought Fumai international recognition. The artist combined her knowledge of the development of italodisco with the biography of the singer Nico Fumai (actually, her father's name). I first examine Chiara Fumai's efforts as a DJ and record label founder. Then, the entirely fictional (but plausible) story of Nico Fumai will be explored in depth. The music and visual materials produced by Chiara Fumai as evidence of Nico Fumai's career will be traced back to their original sources, showing the actual songs and record covers that Fumai appropriated and attributed to her father, leveraging the relationship between the inauthenticity of italodisco and the verisimilitude of her lecture.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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