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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
PANORAMICA* 21
Changes of State
A gaze at the production of Italian video art of 2021
Curated by Alessandra Arnò – Visualcontainer
May 27, 2022, 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm
Morra Greco Foundation
Palazzo Caracciolo di Avellino
Largo Proprio di Avellino
Naples, NA 80138 Italy
Visualcontainer in collaboration with the Morra Greco Foundation as part of the EDI Global Forum for Education and Integration project presents PANORAMICA * 21, the new annual project
of Visualcontainer dedicated to the Italian experimental audiovisual production which includes the video production of the artists Apotropia, Sonia Laura Armaniaco, Gianni Barelli, Matteo Campulla, Silvia De Gennaro, Simona Da Pozzo, Gianmarco Donaggio, Benedetta Fioravanti, Lorenzo Papanti, Duccio Ricciardelli.
PANORAMICA * 21 arises from the need for Visualcontainer – a platform founded in 2008 and dedicated to the research, care, enhancement and dissemination of video art and new media works – to collect the most representative works of the past year as a survey on the formal experimentation of the medium and on the current socio-political context. At the end of 2021, through a national open call, Visualcontainer invited the artists who live and work in Italy to present the works produced during the year.
PANORAMICA* 21 introduced the concepts of collectivity and temporal contingency, which are indispensable for suggesting a vision limited to our territory and the time we live in. In this first edition, the fil rouge identified is related to CHANGES of STATE, and the gaze on the videographic production of 2021 offers a varied overview of the experiments that the artists have ideally put in place to change status, cross a threshold or simply make a passage. This need to go further, to explore other scenarios or to transfigure becomes a practice implemented through technology, self-consciousness or the computational world. The territories told in PANORAMICA * 21 – Changes of state are areas of passage, projections of our mind, places of memory or everyday spaces emptied of conscious presence that therefore become soft membranes to be crossed.
The selection highlights the recurring thoughts, practices and reflections on such a particular historical moment that for the first time unites both the authors and the spectators.
Visualcontainer is a platform founded in 2008 dedicated to the research, curation, enhancement and dissemination of video art and new media works. The primary objective is to enhance the artists and the most current digital audiovisual languages, from hybrid forms to experimentation with new media, both to approach and excite the public and to update professionals. The project, in the long term, aims to support and enhance the most current digital culture and emerging artists in their experiments, both in Italy and abroad, through an international promotional network.
Website: www.visualcontainer.org
International online video art platform: www.visualcontainer.tv
[.BOX] Videoart Project Space, Milan: www.dotbox.it
SuperOtium, an art-residency space focused on contemporary cultures, combines hospitality business with a residency program for artists, writers, designers and curators, meetings, events, exhibitions, to stimulate meetings and exchanges between inhabitants and travellers and promote a new narrative of the city of Naples.
www.superotium.it
INFORMATION
PANORAMICA * 21
State changes
A gaze at the production of Italian video art of 2021
Artists: Apotropia, Sonia Laura Armaniaco, Gianni Barelli, Matteo Campulla, Silvia De Gennaro, Simona Da Pozzo, Gianmarco Donaggio, Benedetta Fioravanti, Lorenzo Papanti, Duccio Ricciardelli.
Friday 27 May 6 pm – 8 pm
Project by Visualcontainer
In collaboration with: MORRA GRECO FOUNDATION
Palazzo Caracciolo di Avellino
Largo Proprio di Avellino
Naples, NA 80138 Italy
www.fondazionemorragreco.com
Cultural Partner: SuperOtium
Panoramica*21
Municipal Art Gallery Casa Bianca – Thessaloniki, Greece
Address: 182, Vas. Olga Av. & Loro. Via Sofouli, Thessaloniki
18 May 2022, 12:00 -20:00
Video Art Projects presents the curatorial selection of Visuacontainer PANORAMICA * 21, Wednesday 18 May at the Municipal Art Gallery Casa Bianca in Thessaloniki, Greece
Artists: Sonia Laura Armaniaco – Lorenzo Papanti – Matteo Campulla – APOTROPIA – Gianni Barelli – Simona da Pozzo – Benedetta Fioravanti – Duccio Ricciardelli – Gianmarco Donaggio – Silvia De Gennaro
Video Art Projects is a newly emerging international festival focusing on the artistic video creation, which is organized for the first time by the Municipality of Thessaloniki and the Municipal Art Gallery Casa Bianca, in collaboration with the New Media Laboratory of the School of Visual & Applied Arts – Faculty of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with the support of the international festival Video Art Miden.
Video Art Projects will take place at the Municipal Art Gallery Casa Bianca (182, Vas. Olgas Av. & Them. Sofouli str., Thessaloniki), on Wednesday 18, Thursday 19 and Friday 20 of May 2022 (12:00 -20:00), on the occasion of the International Museum Day. 5 projector screens in the gallery rooms will display different video art programs each day.
In the first edition of Video Art Projects, which aspires to be established as an annual event in the future, a rich program of video art screenings from all around the world will be displayed, with more than 140 participant artists and art students from 21 countries. The program includes curatorial selections from invited foreign festivals, specifically from Italy, Germany, Portugal and Brazil. The screenings also include tributes to Greek video art, as well as student works from the School of Visual & Applied Arts – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, curated by the teaching team of the New Media Laboratory.
The invited platforms and organizations from abroad include selections from The New Museum of Networked Art, curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany), Visualcontainer, curated by Alessandra Arno (Italy), FONLAD – International Video Art and Performance Festival, curated by Jose Vieira (Portugal) and Strangloscope, curated by Claudia Cardenas & Rafael Schlichting (Brazil). Also, Video Art Miden (based in Kalamata, Greece) will participate with selections curated by 5 basic members of its curatorial team (Gioula Papadopoulou, Margarita Stavraki, Olga Papadopoulou, Nikos Podias, Maria Bourika).
Video Art Projects organizational team & partners:
Municipality of Thessaloniki – Municipal Art Gallery
Organizational directors:
-Lela Tsevekidou, head of the Directorate of Culture & Tourism, Municipality of Thessaloniki
-Margarita Salpiggidou, head of the Municipal Art Gallery Department, Thessaloniki
Museological direction:
-Thaleia-Maria Alexaki, Museologist, Municipal Art Gallery of Thessaloniki – Casa Bianca
Municipal Art Gallery of Thessaloniki – Casa Bianca organizationalteam: Eleni Anastasiadou, Chara Theocharous, Katerina Geovanekou, Costas Bachariadis, Giorgos Athanasiadis
New Media Laboratory of the School of Visual & Applied Arts – Faculty of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Director of Video Art Projects:
-Georgios Katsangelos, head of the New Media Laboratory (School of Visual and Applied Arts, AUTH)
Art direction: Gioula Papadopoulou, art director of Video Art Miden and teaching staff member of the New Media Laboratory.
Curatorial team-New Media Laboratory: Georgios Katsangelos, Athanasios Pallas, Stelios Dexis, Babis Venetopoulos, Gioula Papadopoulou, Yiorgos Drosos, Fani Boudouroglou
Partner festivals & curators
Video Art Miden [Greece]: Gioula Papadopoulou, Margarita Stavraki, Olga Papadopoulou, Nikos Podias, Maria Bourika
The New Museum of Networked Art [Germany]: Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Visualcontainer [Italy]: Alessandra Arno
FONLAD [Portugal]: Jose Vieira
Strangloscope [Brazil]: Claudia Cardenas & Rafael Schlichting
Municipal Art Gallery of Thessaloniki – Casa Bianca
address: 182, Vas. Olgas Av. & Them. Sofouli str., Thessaloniki
Dates and hours: 18-19-20 May 2022, 12:00 -20:00 (each program will play in a loop)
Info: thessvideo.festival@gmail.com
