CINZIA CREMONA Under My Hat
7-monitor unsynchronised installation (Time, Various: 2min - 2min 30sec), Mount Victoria Manor Conservatory (Hotel Etico) 2021-22
Also edited as one single-channel film, screening as part of Lumière at Mount Vic Flicks 12min 45 sec 2021-22
Real To Reel Mentorship : Etico, Australia’s first social enterprise hotel for young adults with disabilities.
Under My Hat is a joyous, faceted portrait of seven very special people. Born out of a collaboration between artist Cinzia Cremona and the six inaugural trainees of the Hotel Etico program, and supported by MAPBM, this film highlights the creativity, resilience and unique perspectives of Joshua, Katrina, Harry, Georgia, Quinn and Jacob. Working with Cinzia, they shared personal interests usually kept ‘under their hats’ in their professional setting. With unfailing commitment, assistance and encouragement from Cinzia, Hotel Etico managers, support staff, and the trainees’ families, they played together, grew to trust each other outside of the work environment, and worked collaboratively in a fertile way. Guided by Cinzia Cremona, the trainees developed basic filmmaking skills and had the opportunity to show a side of themselves beyond their working lives at Hotel Etico. Utilising a unique pedagogical framework, Cinzia facilitated the trainees’ creation of their films, enabling them to discuss, decide, direct, film, and make personal and collaborative choices as the films developed.
Dr Cinzia Cremona is an artist and researcher working with video, performance and digital technologies from networked practices to expanded reality. She investigates the interpersonal relationships that emerge via screens and digital platforms. A Visiting Fellow at Macquarie University in Sydney, part of VISOR (Virtual and Interactive Simulations of Reality), she is developing an immersive artwork and collaborating on research into immersive games and virtual reality film. She has been Research Associate at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (University of Dundee, Scotland) since 2013. A member of research cluster Critical Practice at University of the Arts, London, she is involved in practice-based research, expanded performative events and publications, including the forthcoming Transacting as Art, Design and Architecture: A Non-Commercial Market published by Intellect.
