Suspended territories and other Italian stories
Suspended territories and other Italian stories
Videoart screening curated by Visualcontainer Italian Videoart Platform
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Incidental Peripheral
Videoart Screening from Mediterranean area
Curated by Rachel Dedman, London/Lebanon
26 October 2015
c/o MUU Galleria
Lönnrotinkatu 33
Helsinki
Il territorio come spazio inesplorato o ripensato, luogo di apparizioni e riflessioni.
La selezione video verte sul rapporto tra la ricerca artistica e la ricerca di territori altri, dove poter trascendere dal dato reale per ricreare uno spazio concettuale o subliminale. Si tratta di storie raccontate a metà, di spazi sospesi tra reale e il subliminale. Storie che ridisegnano i confini del reale e che indagano il quotidiano o la proiezione di esso. Un viaggio tra pensieri, ricordi ed elaborazioni che riguardano aspetti socio culturali che riflettono la situazione contemporanea italiana.
Gli artisti selezionati a loro volta riflettono le visioni degli ultimi anni attraverso il mezzo video, ricreando scenari reali ed ideali, giocando con il linguaggio digitale fino all’astrazione del dato reale stesso. Le opere presentate sviluppano un linguaggio originale, una non-narrazione lineare che porta lo spettatore su diversi livelli di lettura e comprensione. Le opere selezionate spaziano dall’animazione alla performance, creando volutamente un caleidoscopio di linguaggi visivi per amplificare la percezione e la visione dello spettatore.
Visualcontainer come piattaforma dedicata alla videoarte italiana, da anni ricerca e indaga la produzione audiovisiva sia di artisti middle-carrier che di giovani artisti emergenti. Le considerazioni emerse dalla stesura di “Suspended territories and other italian’s stories” evidenziano in particolare l’intensità e la bellezza attraverso ricerche linguistiche sempre originali attraverso l’uso consapevole del mezzo audiovisivo e delle nuove tecnologie.
Artists:
Barbara Brugola & Trond Arne Vangen, Rita Casdia, Natalia Saurin, Marta Roberti, Mauro Folci, Armida Gandini, Lucia Veronesi, Lino Strangis, Cristina Ohlmer, Patrizia Bonardi
Video selected:
Barbara Brugola & Trond Arne Vangen - Pic nic , 8.00, 2015
Rita Casdia - I d , 4.50, 2015
Marta Roberti - Sarà stato, 7'12", 2013
Natalia Saurin - Contemplazione, 3:33, 2010
Mauro Folci - Esodo/Exodus, 1'37", 2011
Patrizia Bonardi – Run with the past, 4: 41 2014
Armida Gandini - Muovo sonnambula al mondo, 2'00", 2012
Lucia Veronesi - Paesaggio senza titolo #7, 2' 32'', 2014
Lino Strangis - Pensiero volante non identificato, 4:30, 2014
Cristina Ohlmer - Pixel Motion, 13.00, 2013
Visualcontainer Italian Videoart Platform nasce allo scopo di promuovere e divulgare opere e progetti di videoarte attraverso i diversi progetti culturali organizzati all’interno di un unico polo di ricerca che comprende: Visualcontainer distributor, il primo distributore italiano di videoarte con un archivio in continua crescita di 70 artisti e più di 200 video consultabili on line e disponibili per il noleggio, e polo attivo nella ricerca e scambio di progetti culturali.
VisualcontainerTV – International Videoart webchannel, il web channel fondato nel 2009, il cui palinsesto comprende rassegne, interviste, monografie e screening dedicati ad artisti, festival e al mondo della videoarte.
[.BOX] videoart project space, dal 2010 lo spazio espositivo di Milano che ospita le più aggiornate ricerche nel panorama della videoarte, grazie alla collaborazione con curatori ed istituzioni internazionali.
+
Incidental Peripheral
Videoart Screening from Mediterranean area
Curator: Rachel Dedman, London/Lebanon
Quale significato ha il termine Mediterraneo per gli artisti? Come uno spazio definito da una connessione periferica al mare, è assolutamente enorme - si estende dal sud della Spagna, Nord Africa e l'Italia tutta la costa dell'Europa orientale, spaziando fin oltre la Turchia,la Grecia prima di arrotondarsi in Egitto e Libia. Una regione sagomata - letteralmente - dalla fluidità di un corpo d'acqua, quale rilevanza può avere questo termine sulla comprensione delle pratiche degli artisti che lavorano in paesi perifericamente connessi, al di là di un concetto geograficamente superficiale?
Questo screening della durata di un'ora per MUU Helsinki, non tenta di rispondere a questa tematica, e non vanta né ampiezza di considerazioni, né rigore. L'idea è quella di resistere alla tentazione di gettare le reti tematiche troppo ampie, o soffermarsi specificatamente sul Mediterraneo come luogo di ansia, urgenza, di migrazione e sconvolgimenti politico-economici. La selezione video è basata invece da un interesse sulle località di origine come un modus operandi di lavorare con il mezzo video, ed è realizzata da opere considerate, in modi molto diversi, in base al genere e al significato del termine "provenienza".
Selezione Video:
Nour Ouayda, The Pale Light Of Day, 2014, 22'
Mirna Bamieh, Interrupted Biographies, 2014, 11'
Faycal Baghriche, The Message Project [extract], 2010, 8'
Marwan Hamdan, On Earth As It Is In Heaven, 2014, 14'08"
Rachel Dedman (b.1989, London) is an independent curator and writer based in Beirut, Lebanon. Rachel is currently curating the inaugural satellite exhibition for the Palestinian Museum, 2016, (Birzeit, West Bank) on the history and contemporary political significance of embroidery and textiles. In 2015 she curated the winning Franchise Program exhibition for apexart (New York, USA) in Beirut, and is curator-in-residence at 98weeks (Beirut, Lebanon). Rachel’s writing has been commissioned and published by Ibraaz, the Mosaic Rooms, Culture+Conflict, ArtDiscover and the Journal of Art Historiography. She was a finalist in the International Awards for Art Criticism, and has received scholarships from Independent Curators International and the Getty Foundation. She is the co-founder of the collective Polycephaly, which transforms research projects into meeting-points to think, formulate and share ideas around the process of art-making today. Rachel holds a First in the History of Art from St. John's College, Oxford, and was the Von Clemm Fellow at Harvard University, 2012-13. In 2013/14 she was a participant of Ashkal Alwan's Home Workspace Program, Beirut.
racheljdedman@gmail.com
MUU è run artists space finlandese, associazione artista interdisciplinare, fondata nel 1987 per rappresentare e promuovere forme d'arte nuove e sperimentali, come Q media art, performance, video, arte ambientale, arte concettuale, la ricerca sonora e altre modalità sperimentali di produzione culturale.
Gli obiettivi di Muu sono quelli di sviluppare la collaborazione e lo scambio di artisti che lavorano in campi diversi, per la produzione di progetti, eventi, seminari e mostre e di suscitare discussione politica culturale. Muu opera con organizzazioni culturali ed educative finlandesi ed internazionali.
www.muu.fi
Un ringraziamento speciale a Timo Soppela e tutto lo staff di MUU Galleria e Rachel Dedman, oltre che all' Istituto di Cultura Italiano di Helsinki per aver reso possibile il progetto di scambio.
Videoart screening curated by Visualcontainer Italian Videoart Platform
+
Incidental Peripheral
Videoart Screening from Mediterranean area
Curated by Rachel Dedman, London/Lebanon
26 October 2015
c/o MUU Galleria
Lönnrotinkatu 33
Helsinki
Il territorio come spazio inesplorato o ripensato, luogo di apparizioni e riflessioni.
La selezione video verte sul rapporto tra la ricerca artistica e la ricerca di territori altri, dove poter trascendere dal dato reale per ricreare uno spazio concettuale o subliminale. Si tratta di storie raccontate a metà, di spazi sospesi tra reale e il subliminale. Storie che ridisegnano i confini del reale e che indagano il quotidiano o la proiezione di esso. Un viaggio tra pensieri, ricordi ed elaborazioni che riguardano aspetti socio culturali che riflettono la situazione contemporanea italiana.
Gli artisti selezionati a loro volta riflettono le visioni degli ultimi anni attraverso il mezzo video, ricreando scenari reali ed ideali, giocando con il linguaggio digitale fino all’astrazione del dato reale stesso. Le opere presentate sviluppano un linguaggio originale, una non-narrazione lineare che porta lo spettatore su diversi livelli di lettura e comprensione. Le opere selezionate spaziano dall’animazione alla performance, creando volutamente un caleidoscopio di linguaggi visivi per amplificare la percezione e la visione dello spettatore.
Visualcontainer come piattaforma dedicata alla videoarte italiana, da anni ricerca e indaga la produzione audiovisiva sia di artisti middle-carrier che di giovani artisti emergenti. Le considerazioni emerse dalla stesura di “Suspended territories and other italian’s stories” evidenziano in particolare l’intensità e la bellezza attraverso ricerche linguistiche sempre originali attraverso l’uso consapevole del mezzo audiovisivo e delle nuove tecnologie.
Artists:
Barbara Brugola & Trond Arne Vangen, Rita Casdia, Natalia Saurin, Marta Roberti, Mauro Folci, Armida Gandini, Lucia Veronesi, Lino Strangis, Cristina Ohlmer, Patrizia Bonardi
Video selected:
Barbara Brugola & Trond Arne Vangen - Pic nic , 8.00, 2015
Rita Casdia - I d , 4.50, 2015
Marta Roberti - Sarà stato, 7'12", 2013
Natalia Saurin - Contemplazione, 3:33, 2010
Mauro Folci - Esodo/Exodus, 1'37", 2011
Patrizia Bonardi – Run with the past, 4: 41 2014
Armida Gandini - Muovo sonnambula al mondo, 2'00", 2012
Lucia Veronesi - Paesaggio senza titolo #7, 2' 32'', 2014
Lino Strangis - Pensiero volante non identificato, 4:30, 2014
Cristina Ohlmer - Pixel Motion, 13.00, 2013
Visualcontainer Italian Videoart Platform nasce allo scopo di promuovere e divulgare opere e progetti di videoarte attraverso i diversi progetti culturali organizzati all’interno di un unico polo di ricerca che comprende: Visualcontainer distributor, il primo distributore italiano di videoarte con un archivio in continua crescita di 70 artisti e più di 200 video consultabili on line e disponibili per il noleggio, e polo attivo nella ricerca e scambio di progetti culturali.
VisualcontainerTV – International Videoart webchannel, il web channel fondato nel 2009, il cui palinsesto comprende rassegne, interviste, monografie e screening dedicati ad artisti, festival e al mondo della videoarte.
[.BOX] videoart project space, dal 2010 lo spazio espositivo di Milano che ospita le più aggiornate ricerche nel panorama della videoarte, grazie alla collaborazione con curatori ed istituzioni internazionali.
+
Incidental Peripheral
Videoart Screening from Mediterranean area
Curator: Rachel Dedman, London/Lebanon
Quale significato ha il termine Mediterraneo per gli artisti? Come uno spazio definito da una connessione periferica al mare, è assolutamente enorme - si estende dal sud della Spagna, Nord Africa e l'Italia tutta la costa dell'Europa orientale, spaziando fin oltre la Turchia,la Grecia prima di arrotondarsi in Egitto e Libia. Una regione sagomata - letteralmente - dalla fluidità di un corpo d'acqua, quale rilevanza può avere questo termine sulla comprensione delle pratiche degli artisti che lavorano in paesi perifericamente connessi, al di là di un concetto geograficamente superficiale?
Questo screening della durata di un'ora per MUU Helsinki, non tenta di rispondere a questa tematica, e non vanta né ampiezza di considerazioni, né rigore. L'idea è quella di resistere alla tentazione di gettare le reti tematiche troppo ampie, o soffermarsi specificatamente sul Mediterraneo come luogo di ansia, urgenza, di migrazione e sconvolgimenti politico-economici. La selezione video è basata invece da un interesse sulle località di origine come un modus operandi di lavorare con il mezzo video, ed è realizzata da opere considerate, in modi molto diversi, in base al genere e al significato del termine "provenienza".
Selezione Video:
Nour Ouayda, The Pale Light Of Day, 2014, 22'
Mirna Bamieh, Interrupted Biographies, 2014, 11'
Faycal Baghriche, The Message Project [extract], 2010, 8'
Marwan Hamdan, On Earth As It Is In Heaven, 2014, 14'08"
Rachel Dedman (b.1989, London) is an independent curator and writer based in Beirut, Lebanon. Rachel is currently curating the inaugural satellite exhibition for the Palestinian Museum, 2016, (Birzeit, West Bank) on the history and contemporary political significance of embroidery and textiles. In 2015 she curated the winning Franchise Program exhibition for apexart (New York, USA) in Beirut, and is curator-in-residence at 98weeks (Beirut, Lebanon). Rachel’s writing has been commissioned and published by Ibraaz, the Mosaic Rooms, Culture+Conflict, ArtDiscover and the Journal of Art Historiography. She was a finalist in the International Awards for Art Criticism, and has received scholarships from Independent Curators International and the Getty Foundation. She is the co-founder of the collective Polycephaly, which transforms research projects into meeting-points to think, formulate and share ideas around the process of art-making today. Rachel holds a First in the History of Art from St. John's College, Oxford, and was the Von Clemm Fellow at Harvard University, 2012-13. In 2013/14 she was a participant of Ashkal Alwan's Home Workspace Program, Beirut.
racheljdedman@gmail.com
MUU è run artists space finlandese, associazione artista interdisciplinare, fondata nel 1987 per rappresentare e promuovere forme d'arte nuove e sperimentali, come Q media art, performance, video, arte ambientale, arte concettuale, la ricerca sonora e altre modalità sperimentali di produzione culturale.
Gli obiettivi di Muu sono quelli di sviluppare la collaborazione e lo scambio di artisti che lavorano in campi diversi, per la produzione di progetti, eventi, seminari e mostre e di suscitare discussione politica culturale. Muu opera con organizzazioni culturali ed educative finlandesi ed internazionali.
www.muu.fi
Un ringraziamento speciale a Timo Soppela e tutto lo staff di MUU Galleria e Rachel Dedman, oltre che all' Istituto di Cultura Italiano di Helsinki per aver reso possibile il progetto di scambio.
Suspended territories and other Italian stories
Videoart screening curated by Visualcontainer Italian Videoart Platform
+
Incidental Peripheral
Videoart Screening from Mediterranean area
Curated by Rachel Dedman, London/Lebanon
26 October 2015
c/o MUU Galleria
Lönnrotinkatu 33
Helsinki
Suspended territories and other Italian stories
The territory conceived as an unexplored or rethought space, a new place of apparitions and reflections.
The video selection focuses on the relationship between artistic research and the research of "other" territories, where is possible to transcend from reality and create a conceptual or subliminal space. These are halfway stories about the real and the subliminal throughout space suspended. Stories that redraw the boundaries of reality and investigating the everyday habits and the projection of itself. A journey through the thoughts, memories and elaborations concerning socio-cultural aspects that reflects the Italian contemporary situation. The selected artists, in turn, reflect the visions of the last years through the medium of video, recreating real-world scenarios and ideals, playing with the digital language untill abstraction. The art works presented develop an original non-linear narrative language that takes the viewer on different levels of reading and understanding. Moreover, The selected works range from animation to performance, deliberately creating a kaleidoscope of visual languages boosting the perception and vision of the viewer.
Visualcontainer as a platform dedicated to Italian video art, has been working for years researching and investigating the audiovisual production of middle-carrier and emerging artists. Emerging considerations from "Suspended territories and other italian's stories" highlighted the idea of intensity and beauty through linguistic research always original thanks to the conscious use of the audiovisual media and new technologies.
Artists:
Barbara Brugola & Trond Arne Vangen, Rita Casdia, Natalia Saurin, Marta Roberti, Mauro Folci, Armida Gandini, Lucia Veronesi, Lino Strangis, Cristina Ohlmer, Patrizia Bonardi
Video selected:
Barbara Brugola & Trond Arne Vangen - Pic nic , 8.00, 2015
Rita Casdia - I d , 4.50, 2015
Marta Roberti - Sarà stato, 7'12", 2013
Natalia Saurin - Contemplazione, 3:33, 2010
Mauro Folci - Esodo/Exodus, 1'37", 2011
Patrizia Bonardi – Run with the past, 4: 41 2014
Armida Gandini - Muovo sonnambula al mondo, 2'00", 2012
Lucia Veronesi - Paesaggio senza titolo #7, 2' 32'', 2014
Lino Strangis - Pensiero volante non identificato, 4:30, 2014
Cristina Ohlmer - Pixel Motion, 13.00, 2013
Visualcontainer Italian Video Art Platform was created in order to promote and disseminate the video art through various cultural projects organized within a single research center that includes: Visualcontainer distributor, the first Italian distributor of video art with an archive of more than 70 artists and 200 videos available on line and for hiring;
VisualcontainerTV – International Video Art webchannel, the TV channel on the web whose programming includes exhibitions, monographs, interviews dedicated to video art, artists and festivals. [. BOX] video art project space, the space exhibition center in Milan that hosted the most interesting research in video art, thanks to the collaboration with curators and institutions.
+
Incidental Peripheral
Videoart Screening from Mediterranean area
Curator: Rachel Dedman, London/Lebanon
What significance does the term Mediterranean have for artists? As a space defined by a peripheral connection to the sea, it is absolutely vast – stretching from Southern Spain, North Africa and Italy across the coast of Eastern Europe, sweeping down past Turkey, Greece and the Levant before rounding Egypt and Libya. In a region shaped – literally – byfluidity, by a body of water, what bearing can such a term possibly have upon understanding the practices of artists working in peripherally connected countries, beyond the superficially geographic?
This hour-long screening for MUU Helsinki, of video artwork by Mediterranean artists, does not attempt to answer this, and can lay claim to neither breadth nor rigour. It hopes to resistthe temptation to cast wide thematic nets, or to dwell specifically upon the Mediterranean asa site of anxiety, urgency, migration and politico-economic upheaval. The selection of artworks has been guided instead by an interest in locality and origin as a mode of working with video, and is driven by works considering, in very different ways, genesis and what it means to be from somewhere.
Video selected:
Nour Ouayda, The Pale Light Of Day, 2014, 22'
Mirna Bamieh, Interrupted Biographies, 2014, 11'
Faycal Baghriche, The Message Project [extract], 2010, 8'
Marwan Hamdan, On Earth As It Is In Heaven, 2014, 14'08"
Rachel Dedman (b.1989, London) is an independent curator and writer based in Beirut, Lebanon. Rachel is currently curating the inaugural satellite exhibition for the Palestinian Museum, 2016, (Birzeit, West Bank) on the history and contemporary political significance of embroidery and textiles. In 2015 she curated the winning Franchise Program exhibition for apexart (New York, USA) in Beirut, and is curator-in-residence at 98weeks (Beirut, Lebanon). Rachel’s writing has been commissioned and published by Ibraaz, the Mosaic Rooms, Culture+Conflict, ArtDiscover and the Journal of Art Historiography. She was a finalist in the International Awards for Art Criticism, and has received scholarships from Independent Curators International and the Getty Foundation. She is the co-founder of the collective Polycephaly, which transforms research projects into meeting-points to think, formulate and share ideas around the process of art-making today. Rachel holds a First in the History of Art from St. John's College, Oxford, and was the Von Clemm Fellow at Harvard University, 2012-13. In 2013/14 she was a participant of Ashkal Alwan's Home Workspace Program, Beirut.
racheljdedman@gmail.com
MUU is an artist run, Finnish interdisciplinary artist association, founded in 1987 to represent and promote new and experimental forms of art. These are such as media art, performance, video, environmental, space and conceptual art, sound and other experimental modes of cultural production.
The aims of Muu are to develop the collaboration and interchange of artists working within different fields, to produce projects, events, seminars and exhibitions of the Muu (“the Other”) art fields and to arouse cultural political discussion. Muu operates with Finnish and international cultural and educational organizations.
www.muu.fi
Special thanks to Timo Soppela and all MUU crew + Rachel Dedman and to Istituto di Cultura Italiano of Helsinki for make it possible.
Videoart screening curated by Visualcontainer Italian Videoart Platform
+
Incidental Peripheral
Videoart Screening from Mediterranean area
Curated by Rachel Dedman, London/Lebanon
26 October 2015
c/o MUU Galleria
Lönnrotinkatu 33
Helsinki
Suspended territories and other Italian stories
The territory conceived as an unexplored or rethought space, a new place of apparitions and reflections.
The video selection focuses on the relationship between artistic research and the research of "other" territories, where is possible to transcend from reality and create a conceptual or subliminal space. These are halfway stories about the real and the subliminal throughout space suspended. Stories that redraw the boundaries of reality and investigating the everyday habits and the projection of itself. A journey through the thoughts, memories and elaborations concerning socio-cultural aspects that reflects the Italian contemporary situation. The selected artists, in turn, reflect the visions of the last years through the medium of video, recreating real-world scenarios and ideals, playing with the digital language untill abstraction. The art works presented develop an original non-linear narrative language that takes the viewer on different levels of reading and understanding. Moreover, The selected works range from animation to performance, deliberately creating a kaleidoscope of visual languages boosting the perception and vision of the viewer.
Visualcontainer as a platform dedicated to Italian video art, has been working for years researching and investigating the audiovisual production of middle-carrier and emerging artists. Emerging considerations from "Suspended territories and other italian's stories" highlighted the idea of intensity and beauty through linguistic research always original thanks to the conscious use of the audiovisual media and new technologies.
Artists:
Barbara Brugola & Trond Arne Vangen, Rita Casdia, Natalia Saurin, Marta Roberti, Mauro Folci, Armida Gandini, Lucia Veronesi, Lino Strangis, Cristina Ohlmer, Patrizia Bonardi
Video selected:
Barbara Brugola & Trond Arne Vangen - Pic nic , 8.00, 2015
Rita Casdia - I d , 4.50, 2015
Marta Roberti - Sarà stato, 7'12", 2013
Natalia Saurin - Contemplazione, 3:33, 2010
Mauro Folci - Esodo/Exodus, 1'37", 2011
Patrizia Bonardi – Run with the past, 4: 41 2014
Armida Gandini - Muovo sonnambula al mondo, 2'00", 2012
Lucia Veronesi - Paesaggio senza titolo #7, 2' 32'', 2014
Lino Strangis - Pensiero volante non identificato, 4:30, 2014
Cristina Ohlmer - Pixel Motion, 13.00, 2013
Visualcontainer Italian Video Art Platform was created in order to promote and disseminate the video art through various cultural projects organized within a single research center that includes: Visualcontainer distributor, the first Italian distributor of video art with an archive of more than 70 artists and 200 videos available on line and for hiring;
VisualcontainerTV – International Video Art webchannel, the TV channel on the web whose programming includes exhibitions, monographs, interviews dedicated to video art, artists and festivals. [. BOX] video art project space, the space exhibition center in Milan that hosted the most interesting research in video art, thanks to the collaboration with curators and institutions.
+
Incidental Peripheral
Videoart Screening from Mediterranean area
Curator: Rachel Dedman, London/Lebanon
What significance does the term Mediterranean have for artists? As a space defined by a peripheral connection to the sea, it is absolutely vast – stretching from Southern Spain, North Africa and Italy across the coast of Eastern Europe, sweeping down past Turkey, Greece and the Levant before rounding Egypt and Libya. In a region shaped – literally – byfluidity, by a body of water, what bearing can such a term possibly have upon understanding the practices of artists working in peripherally connected countries, beyond the superficially geographic?
This hour-long screening for MUU Helsinki, of video artwork by Mediterranean artists, does not attempt to answer this, and can lay claim to neither breadth nor rigour. It hopes to resistthe temptation to cast wide thematic nets, or to dwell specifically upon the Mediterranean asa site of anxiety, urgency, migration and politico-economic upheaval. The selection of artworks has been guided instead by an interest in locality and origin as a mode of working with video, and is driven by works considering, in very different ways, genesis and what it means to be from somewhere.
Video selected:
Nour Ouayda, The Pale Light Of Day, 2014, 22'
Mirna Bamieh, Interrupted Biographies, 2014, 11'
Faycal Baghriche, The Message Project [extract], 2010, 8'
Marwan Hamdan, On Earth As It Is In Heaven, 2014, 14'08"
Rachel Dedman (b.1989, London) is an independent curator and writer based in Beirut, Lebanon. Rachel is currently curating the inaugural satellite exhibition for the Palestinian Museum, 2016, (Birzeit, West Bank) on the history and contemporary political significance of embroidery and textiles. In 2015 she curated the winning Franchise Program exhibition for apexart (New York, USA) in Beirut, and is curator-in-residence at 98weeks (Beirut, Lebanon). Rachel’s writing has been commissioned and published by Ibraaz, the Mosaic Rooms, Culture+Conflict, ArtDiscover and the Journal of Art Historiography. She was a finalist in the International Awards for Art Criticism, and has received scholarships from Independent Curators International and the Getty Foundation. She is the co-founder of the collective Polycephaly, which transforms research projects into meeting-points to think, formulate and share ideas around the process of art-making today. Rachel holds a First in the History of Art from St. John's College, Oxford, and was the Von Clemm Fellow at Harvard University, 2012-13. In 2013/14 she was a participant of Ashkal Alwan's Home Workspace Program, Beirut.
racheljdedman@gmail.com
MUU is an artist run, Finnish interdisciplinary artist association, founded in 1987 to represent and promote new and experimental forms of art. These are such as media art, performance, video, environmental, space and conceptual art, sound and other experimental modes of cultural production.
The aims of Muu are to develop the collaboration and interchange of artists working within different fields, to produce projects, events, seminars and exhibitions of the Muu (“the Other”) art fields and to arouse cultural political discussion. Muu operates with Finnish and international cultural and educational organizations.
www.muu.fi
Special thanks to Timo Soppela and all MUU crew + Rachel Dedman and to Istituto di Cultura Italiano of Helsinki for make it possible.
