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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
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
