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Presentation of the CERCA reader publication
IV BienalSur – International Biennial of Contemporary Art from the South / Buenos Aires (2023)
17 MARCH 2024
Noon – 7pm
Casa Degli Artisti
Corso Garibaldi 89/A,
Milan, Italy
Presentation of the CERCA reader publication, the outcome of the CERCA programme, which represented Italy at the IV BienalSur – International Biennial of Contemporary Art from the South / Buenos Aires (2023)
In a logic of collaborations with networks connected to international critical agendas, on March at Casa degli Artisti / Milan: SoutHeritage Foundation for contemporary art, Carico Massimo, Centro Itard Lombardia, Programma a>Monte, StudioAmatoriale, Firmamento Collettivo, Nadir Daily, Scafandra and Visualcontainer, in collaboration with Koinotes – the Germinative Community, presents: “CERCA reader”, the publication of the CERCA program produced and created in the framework of the IV BIENALSUR – International Biennial of Contemporary Art of the South / Buenos Aires (2023 ).
Starting from the format of the biennial is decentralized, democratic, horizontal and humanistic, which embraces the problems of the contemporary world, simultaneously connecting artistic spaces, artists, audiences and communities from all continents to explore alternative dynamics for art and culture and search for new logics of creative and social circulation, the “CERCA reader” editorial project collects documents, images, texts and reflections, articulated in a modular and modular publication that tells the story of the creation of relationships between communities, places, artistic and cultural organizations.
In this context, the *CERCA program, an ecosystem in the form of a laboratory that some entities scattered across the Italian national territory have decided to implement to generate new “common” visions both in terms of research and languages and in terms of cultural productions, has adopted collaboration as a device for investigating and reflecting on the liminality of languages and forms of artistic practices.
The presentation will see the participation of Benedetta Casini (BIENALSUR), Angelo Bianco Chiaromonte (SoutHeritage Foundation), Susanna Ravelli, Fosco Lucini and Tito Almasio (Centro Itard Lombardia), Ferdinando Mazzitelli (a>Monte program), Alessandra Poggianti, Juan Pablo Macias with Fabrizio Basso (Carico Massimo), Angelo Castucci and Francesco Tola (StudioAmatoriale), Alessandra Arno and Paolo Simoni (Visualcontainer), Luca D’Arrigo, Carmelo Crisafulli, Adele Di Bella, Giulia Trivero and Martina Tinnirello (Firmamento Collettivo), Francesca Basso, Marina Martino, Margherita Mascaro (Scafandra), Chiara Belardi, Alberto Groja (Nadir Daily); is part of the Public Program Filoi e Dialogoi of the Koinotes residence—the germinative community.
BIENALSUR IV ed. – SoutHeritage Foundation – Carico Massimo – Centro Itard Lombardia Upstream Program – StudioAmatoriale – Nadir Daily – Scafandra – Firmamento Collettivo – Visualcontainer
PANORAMICA*23 // Bodies matter
An overlook at the production of Italian video art in 2023
Curated by Alessandra Arnò – Visualcontainer
March 13, 2024
from 7 pm to 10 pm
at SuperOtium
via Santa Teresa degli Scalzi 8, Naples
In the evening dedicated to the video art Mumasha (a dance) organized by VVV-R at the SuperOtium space, we were invited as a guest project together with L’Arsenale di Napoli to share visions and conversations on the occasion of VVV-R’s ten years of activity.
Mumasha, a Hunger, an Endless Flow curated by VVV-R
with Nancy Violet Down, Chanda Mwamba, William Sipling and Prajvi Mandhani
Bodies Matter curated by Alessandra Arnò
with: Matteo Campulla, Silvia De Gennaro, Enzo Cillo, DEHORS/AUDELA, Carlo Galbiati, Massimiliano Marianni, Anouk Chambaz, Emma Scarafiotti, Sara Bonaventura, Gianni Barelli, Mariangela Bombardieri, Duccio Ricciardelli – Marco Bartolini.
Music – Piero Chiariello, curated by Arsenale of Naples by Marco Izzolino
PANORAMICA*23 is the collection by the national call of the most original and significant video artworks created in 2023. The selection intends to investigate the production of the territory and provide a current look at ongoing research, sharing it with the public through exhibitions and screenings on the national and international circuit and as a result of Italian videographic research.
PANORAMICA*23 // BODIES MATTER
The curator’s selection shows the complexity of the representation of the body and the human through the reflections of twelve artists who investigate with heterogeneous languages the relationship between the physical body and the digital simulacrum, between re-mediation of vision and visual suggestions that reach the actual data, raw and current.
The multiple themes revealed meta-bodies’ obsession with the virtual world, the anxiety of bodies and the self to adapt to reality, and the need to unfold in other forms to claim one’s status. Suppose virtual bodies inhabit digital space and connect to a vision of another world, where thought becomes a flow of frequencies that deconstruct space and time in a reassuring suspension. In that case, bodies of flesh and blood must defend themselves and fight for their existence and visibility. They must deal with social limits and conventions, sometimes imagining changing their skin or living together and implementing strategies to assert themselves.
Within an introspective and visual loop, the viewer is invited to reflect on visible and invisible bodies and, finally, to engage in a well-known projective psychological exercise.
VIDEOART SELECTION
Matteo Campulla – AN ETERNAL IDLENESS, 3:10, 2023
Silvia De Gennaro – Gaia – Uni(co)verso, 03:35, 2023
Enzo Cillo – Destruction of the Field, 5:00, 2023
DEHORS/AUDELA (Salvatore Insana, Elisa Turco Liveri) – RED, 5:00, 2023
Carlo Galbiati – Le mot couleur, 1:00, 2023
Massimiliano Marianni (1979) – In between, 4:20, 2023
Anouk Chambaz – Mon rire est cascade, 2:40, 2023
Emma Scarafiotti – Nettuno: Birth of a Shell, 7:00, 2023
Sara Bonaventura – Practicing Defense, 3:00 pm, 2023
Gianni Barelli – The Raft of the Medusa 3:14, 2023
Mariangela Bombardieri – Date, 30:00 (excerpt 10:00), 2023
Duccio Ricciardelli – Marco Bartolini – The Rorschach program – number 1, 4:00, 2023
SuperOtium is an art residency space focused on contemporary cultures that combines hospitality activity with a program of residencies for artists, writers, designers and curators, meetings, events, and exhibitions to stimulate meetings and exchanges between inhabitants and travellers and promote a new narrative of the city of Naples.
www.superotium.it
PANORAMICA*22
SCENARI CANGIANTI
Uno sguardo sulla videoarte italiana del 2022
A cura di Alessandra Arnò – Visualcontainer
18 DICEMBRE 2023 ore 17.30 – 20.30
CASA DEGLI ARTISTI
Via Tommaso da Cazzaniga, corso Giuseppe Garibaldi al civico 89/A, Milano
Artisti: Lorenzo Papanti – Sonia Laura Armaniaco – Salvatore Insana – Citron/Lunardi – Eleonora Roaro – Anouk Chambaz – Maria Orciuoli.
Vi invitiamo allo screening di PANORAMICA*22 presentato all’interno della Residenza Koinotés – La comunità germinativa, a cura di Olga Gambari, presso la Casa degli Artisti di Milano.
Lo spazio critico della residenza, in questa occasione, ci permette di approfondire il linguaggio audiovisivo sperimentale, la diffusione delle opere in Italia e i possibili cortocircuiti che si possono creare, e pensare al lavoro dell’artista e del curatore in una modalità alternativa che possa oltrepassare la staticità dei ruoli . L’edizione di questo anno, Scenari Cangianti, invita a superare questa staticità e suggerisce una posizione vibrante, una visione molteplice ed irrequieta.
PANORAMICA*22 è la raccolta con call nazionale delle opere di videoarte più significative realizzate nel 2022. La selezione intende indagare la produzione del territorio e restituire uno sguardo sulle ricerche in corso per condividerle con il pubblico.
PANORAMICA*22 /// SCENARI CANGIANTI
Il cangiante è variabile, mutevole ed instabile, cambia la sua percezione se lo si guarda da angolazioni diverse.
Gli scenari cangianti sono sfuggenti, in continuo cambiamento e sottendono significati diversi ogni qualvolta ci si avvicina alla loro comprensione.
La selezione di Panoramica*22 sottolinea questa caratteristica e le opere presentate sono in continua evoluzione sotto l’occhio dello spettatore, mostrando ambienti quotidiani, luoghi della memoria e spazi computazionali.
La complessità della visione si manifesta attraverso le relazioni tra memorie storiche collettive e ambienti digitali, tra paesaggi meta-organici in evoluzione e misurazioni computazionali che vorrebbero instaurare relazioni empatiche tra i sistemi considerati. In altri casi si esprime in ibridazioni interspecie, che necessitano di cura per svelarsi. Talvolta, la visione trema in attesa della catastrofe quotidiana.
Il cangiate è caleidoscopico, multicolore ed affascinate, impossibile fermarsi solo alla prima impressione.
SELEZIONE VIDEO
Lorenzo Papanti – Expanded Memory, 5:55, 2022
Sonia Laura Armaniaco – WTU (watering the unseen), 2:39, 2022
Salvatore Insana – A quiet sunset, 2:00, 2022
Citron – Lunardi – Compost n.2, 3:31, 2022
Eleonora Roaro – Corvetto 1954, 2:43, 2022
Anouk Chambaz – Marica, 10:00, 2022
Maria Orciuoli – Planets_and_moons (empathy is a form of intensity), 4:30, 2022
