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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
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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
Visualcontainer, dopo essere stata invitata a contribuire al capitolo CENTRI DI PRODUZIONE E DISSEMINAZIONE del libro IL VIDEO RENDE FELICI , Treccani – curato da Valentina Valentini, partecipa come coordinatore al Tavolo di Lavoro: Produzione e Distribuzione: Nuove modalità presso l’Auditorium del Palazzo delle Esposizioni a Roma.
IL VIDEO RENDE FELICI | TRE GIORNATE DI STUDIO
Tre tavoli di lavoro coinvolgono artiste e artisti, studiosi e istituzioni su temi rilevanti per la videoarte in Italia, la curatela, la produzione e la distribuzione, lo statuto giuridico del video, con l’obiettivo di elaborare collettivamente delle proposte operative da discutere il 5, 6, 7 luglio presso il chiostro-giardino della Galleria d’Arte Moderna.
PRODUZIONE E DISTRIBUZIONE: NUOVE MODALITÀ
giovedi 28 aprile ore 11-14 Palazzo Esposizioni – Auditorium
coordinano Alessandra Arnò e Paolo Simoni – Visualcontainer
Partecipano:
Bruno Di Marino
Giacomo Mazzone
Simona Da Pozzo
Mariangela Michieletto – Archivio Nazionale Cinema Impresa
Alterazioni video
Quayola
Studio Azzurro
Il tavolo di lavoro mira ad approfondire le dinamiche e le pratiche di produzione e distribuzione dagli anni Ottanta fino ad oggi, attraverso il contributo di esponenti del settore che a vario titolo hanno sviluppato modalità e pratiche fondamentali per la diffusione delle opere audiovisive in Italia e all’estero, nella rete e fino alla conservazione.
Il dibattito affronta in maniera trasversale le esperienze relative alla circolazione di audiovisivi sperimentali in mostre e festival, la produzione e distribuzione di videoarte e le relative aspettative e ricadute sul pubblico, oltre le strategie di produzione e diffusione contemporanee, sia sul territorio, sia in rete e le diverse modalità di coinvolgimento del pubblico in situ e online.
Argomenti di interesse:
- Metodi di diffusione e circolazione dell’audiovisivo sperimentale attraverso lo sviluppo di piattaforme, pratiche curatoriali, ibridazioni varie, etcc..
- Le prassi che permettono la sostenibilità per lo sviluppo e la diffusione delle opere
- Le strategie per attrarre interesse e raggiungere nuovo pubblico.
- Le prospettive future sulla funzione degli archivi.
Visualcontainer al termine del dibattito presenta l’ultimo progetto curatoriale dedicato alla diffusione della videoarte nel circuito istituzionale: Panoramica*21 // Cambiamenti di Stato, screening di 10 opere di videoarte italiana selezionate su call nazionale.
PROGRAMMA 3 GIORNATE DI STUDIO
Il video rende felici. Videoarte in Italia a cura di Valentina Valentini è una mostra che si articola in due spazi, Palazzo delle Esposizioni e Galleria d’Arte Moderna. Soggetto della mostra è la produzione di videoarte e cinema d’artista in Italia dalla fine degli anni Sessanta al nuovo secolo.
In mostra 19 installazioni a cui si aggiungono oltre 300 opere raccolte all’interno di rassegne dedicate, per un totale di oltre 100 artiste e artisti coinvolti. Il percorso espositivo si snoda attraverso la molteplice varietà di formati espositivi: video monocanale, installazioni video, multimediali, interattive, con l’intento di evidenziare le interferenze del video con il cinema, la tv, il teatro, la danza, la fotografia, le arti plastiche.
