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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
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
