Dialogos

Assab One ospita Dialogos, una ricerca nata senza un disegno curatoriale ortodosso, focalizzata sulla possibilità di sviluppare una pratica artistica attorno a dei presupposti di continua negoziazione del sapere, delle scelte e delle sensibilità. Un’esperienza cresciuta tra artisti che si sono “scelti” per coincidenza, “affinità elettive”, o traiettorie che hanno incrociato il loro fare.

Per l'occasione verrà realizzata un'edizione numerata che conterrà tutti i materiali attraverso cui il progetto si è sviluppato nel tempo. Completano la pubblicazione diversi contributi teorici, tra cui quello di Lorena Giuranna.

I – Dialogo come pratica estetica
Dialogos  è un progetto espositivo disposto tra dinamica performativa e intervento installativo. Nasce dalla possibilità di pensare lo spazio come una formula di tempo, cioè un quando prima che un dove, nel momento in cui esso viene negoziato e trasformato da una relazione. Il dialogo si pone dunque come pratica estetica poiché esso stesso è l’elemento che modula e struttura un tempo e poi uno spazio.

II – La storia
Non per caso questo progetto nasce da un percorso comune che Ermanno Cristini, Luca Scarabelli e Alessandro Castiglioni stanno sviluppando dal 2008. Dialogos è infatti figlio di altri due importanti progetti: il primo, Roaming, si basa su mostre che durano l’effimero tempo di un’inaugurazione per poi fluttuare nell’inconsistenza della propria documentazione; l’altro, L’ospite e L’intruso, è pensato come una serie di mostre ed incontri presso lo studio di Ermanno Cristini, che hanno il senso di affermare una pratica di confronto.

III – Circolo Ermeneutico
Dialogos è dunque una sorta di partita a scacchi. Dove però l’operazione artistica e la sua traccia, l’oggetto, si caricano di una comunicabilità reversibile, tra artista e artista, artista e opera, opera e spazio, spazio e spettatore, spettatore e spazio, spazio e opera, opera e artista, artista e artista. È per questo motivo che il dispositivo predisposto dal progetto è fatto di azioni, risposte e di risposte a queste risposte.

Assab One
associazione promozione arte contemporanea
via Assab, 1
20132 Milano
tel +39 022828546, +39 3482925085
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Cartografia di un paesaggio sospeso

Dall’archivio storico del Comune di Jerago con Orago


Ermanno Cristini, Chiara Foletto, Giancarlo Norese, Luca Scarabelli
a cura di Alessandro Castiglioni



Sabato 9 aprile 2011, ore 15.30
Castello Visconteo di Jerago

aperto anche domenica 10 aprile, 10/12.30, 14.30/18



“Il passato è una struttura fragile, costantemente a rischio. Questa vulnerabilità segreta, non dichiarata, è legata ad una semplice considerazione: il passato è un tempo, è un luogo che non c’è più, non esiste: non possiamo vederlo, toccarlo, viverlo. A noi ne restano esclusivamente delle tracce, i segni lasciati a terra dalle cose trascinate (...)

Il passato è dunque una costante operazione di consapevolezza: è costruzione e interpretazione esercitata nel presente e soggetta a tutte le possibili oscillazioni che l’oggi manifesta o subisce. Il rapporto tra passato e presente, in questa prospettiva, risulta non lineare, complesso e spesso anche imprevedibile (...) 
Con il frammentario materiale di un passato riorganizzato ho invitato gli artisti a costruire una nuova storia, una narrazione visiva che diviene un ponte tra passato e futuro, ricordo e desiderio, nel tentativo di mappare un paesaggio, quello del nostro passato, che non c’è più...” 



Alessandro Castiglioni

In occasione di Terra, arte, radici 2011, Comune di Jerago con Orago, Associazione culturale Aleph, Castello Visconteo di Jerago


Roaming, Palermo

Significati possibili
Ermanno Cristini, Silvia Giambrone, Mickael Marchand, Concetta Modica, Giancarlo Norese e Luca Scarabelli

r-roaming a cura dei corsi di Sistemi editoriali per l’arte / Metodologia progettuale della comunicazione visiva, Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti, Bergamo

fotografia: Alessandro Di Giugno
web: simply.it
A cura di Alessandro Castiglioni, Helga Marsala

Riso, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia
PPS/Meetings
c.so Vittorio Emanuele 365, Palermo
Giovedì 31 marzo 2011, ore 19

Roaming, come in una costante risignificazione di piani e sistemi linguisitici è invitato a partecipare a “PPS//Meetings”, ciclo di mostre ed eventi curato da Helga Marsala all’interno della Project Room di Palazzo Riso, in occasione della collettiva “PPS, Paesaggio e Popolo della Sicilia”, a cura di Giovanni Iovane.
Questo particolare appuntamento del progetto Roaming si rivolge ad una specifica dimensione, proposta da Helga Marsala, di rilettura e ricostruzione dei passaggi di senso e significato che si avvicendano tra artista e opera - opera e pubblico. Come in un costante flusso fuori controllo, questo sistema di relazione porta con sé il prezioso rischio dell’errore, dell’incomunicabilità, della misinterpretazione, del vuoto di senso.
Questa dinamica mi sembra trovi un significativo punto di partenza nella terza delle celebri Lezioni Americane di Italo Calvino, quella dedicata all’Esattezza, dove leggiamo:

“Viviamo sotto una pioggia ininterrotta di immagini; i più potenti media non fanno che trasformare il mondo in immagini che in gran parte sono prive della necessità interna che dovrebbe caratterizzare ogni immagine, come forma e come significato, come forza di imporsi all’attenzione, come ricchezza di significati possibili.
Gran parte di questa nuvola di immagini si dissolve immediatamente come i sogni che non lasciano tracce nella memoria; ma non si dissolve una sensazione d’estraneità e disagio”.

È per questo motivo che questa particolare edizione del progetto verrà sviluppata in relazione al corso di Sistemi Editoriali per l’Arte dell’Accademia Carrara di Bergamo: insieme agli studenti che prenderanno parte all’evento, si costruirà in un secondo momento un seminario in cui, discutendo di questi presupposti teorici, si realizzerà un r-roaming, un catalogo/non catalogo della mostra, amplificando la dimensione di “significati possibili” che il rapporto tra immagine e documentazione porta con sé.

Alessandro Castiglioni

www.roaming-art.it
www.palazzoriso.it

Archiviazioni

Archiviazioni. 
Exercises of investigation and discussion on contemporary South

March 26th, 2011 - laboratory for Art and Architecture
via Enzo Ferrari, contrada Pisello, Lecce, IT


Actions:
Costruire Processi: progettualità, spazio e tempo / Building Processes: planning, space and time
public discussion, 11am–1pm and 3pm-5pm
with Julia Draganovic / Francesco Arena / Fabio Pollice and Annalisa Zacheo / Karen Hough / Devrim Kadirbeyoglu / Federica La Paglia / Attila Bruni / Shawn Van Sluys / Stefano Taccone / Chiara Agnello / Giulia Pedace / Mauro Marino / Francesca Boenzi

Gran Turismo / Great Tourism
curatorial revisitation of a private archive by Luigi Presicce and Luigi Negro / 18.00

Le Cose Preziose / The Precious Things
self-financing group action / 6.30pm
works of: Luigi Presicce, Francesco Arena, Luigi Negro, Luca Francesconi, Enzo Umbaca, Cristian Chironi, Stefano Romano, Paola Anziché, Daniele Pezzi, Andrea Kvas, Antonio Rovaldi, Angelo Bianco, Roberto Martino, Marco Belfiore, Adriano Nasuti Wood, Elenia De Pedro, Giorgio Guidi, Dragana Sapanjos, Stefano Graziani, Giallo Concialdi, Andrea Sala, Riccardo Beretta, Alessandro Ceresoli, Jacopo Casadei, Cesare Pietroiusti, Sergio Breviario, Alessandro Vizzini, Riccardo Baruzzi, Giancarlo Norese.

An autonomous society is different than a heteronomous one (hetero = others) because while all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those in which their members are aware of this fact, and explicitly self-institute (αυτο-νομούνται). In contrast, the members of heteronomous societies attribute their imaginaries to some extra-social authority (i.e. God, ancestors, historical necessity). Cornelious Castoriadis, Figures of the Thinkable, Stanford University Press, July 18, 2007

On the occasion of its public presentation, archiviazioni has invited Stefanos Tsivopoulos to elaborate an archive image which represents the main concept and the aims of the project. I Want My Utopia Back is a reflection on the concept of Autonomy in relation to that of Archiving as an action. This transformative process that goes from information to knowledge, from institutional construction to social action and the formation of an autonomous consciousness, was also the basis of democracy in ancient Greece. For Tsivopoulos, archives do not necessarily server as ‘representatives’ of the historical truth, but rather as another way to tell a story. This story aims to reflect the creative and imaginary possibilities of our times. Stefanos Tsivopoulos (Prague, 1973) is a Greek artist/filmmaker who lives and works in Athens and Amsterdam. His research reflects on history and historical memory as a narrative construction – a construction mediated by images that have been edited and re-edited, and deprived from images that were never taken or that are lost. In his films he is blurring fact and fiction, past and future, as he is less interested in extracting the truth from these narrative constructions, but rather in interrogating the possibilities and qualities that lie within them. It is the ambiguous nature of image, and its shift from an aesthetic object, to commodity to archived evidence of historical truth that is on question in his work.

archiviazioni – exercises of investigation and discussion on the contemporary South is an open project of documentation, discussion and action conceived and directed by Giusy Checola and curated together with Luigi Presicce, developed in collaboation with Salvatore Baldi for the production, Anna Cirignola and Elvira De Masi for the relations of the territory. It’s included in the program Lab 12:00 promoted by the SoutHeritage Foundation for contemporary art of Matera (Basilicata, Italy). It presents its activities and its spaces on the 26th March 2011 at its venue, the Laboratory of Art and Architecture of Lecce (Apulia, Italy), an ex tobacco factory based in the heart of Salento.


Archivica

Archivica is an archive in progress that selects and presents national and international art and interdisciplinary publications and reviews, the digital and audiovisual documentation of works and projects by artists, curators and theoricians from local, national and international fields, and in the so called ‘Souths’ of the world. With them Archivica establishes different kind of interactions and collaborations, through the collection of materials, the organizations and co-production of projects, the acquisition of meaningfull Funds for the relation between art and territory.

Archivica has acquired the personal archives of art critic Anna Cirignola, the Fondo Verri Liberi Cantieri of Lecce and the archives of Oreste by Cesare Pietroiusti, Luigi Negro, Emilio Fantin and Giancarlo Norese, including photos, letters, drawings, publications and printed matters produced during the activities of the Oreste Project, from 1997 to 2002.
Archivica has started a long term collaboration with careof/DOCVA Documentation Center for the Visual Arts in Milan, through the exchange of materials, for the promotion of the Southern artistic scene and the collection of untraceable videodocumentation of talks, seminars and projects realized in Italy and abroad by careof in the last twenty years, and through the development of projects of communication and presentation of the materials archived.
It has started various collaborations with projects, archives and art organizations like Expòsito, Observatory for Young Artists, Naples; Index, list of contemporary art in Basilicata promoted by the SoutHeritage Foundation, Matera; Connecting Cultures, Milan, specialized on art projects in the public spaces in relation with the landscape; ESCORIA Nuevos Medios of Quito, the most important archives in Ecuador, specialized in video-art and new media.

Archiviazioni is addressed to artists, curators, cultural operators and students who live and work in Southern Italy, and to everyone who wants to participate to the proposed activities. From here comes the collaboration with SUM Project of Lecce, a network for promotion of independent local music and local reference for the Creative Commons licenses, under which are registered the contents of the website archiviazioni.org, in order to stimulate the access to information and the free circulation of ideas.


info: www.archiviazioni.org / giusy AT archiviazioni DOT org

Thank you failure

Date: March 9. 2011 (Wednesday)

Venue: A Space - Asia Art Archive, Room 1001, 10/F Hollywood Centre, 233 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

Thanks to everyone to join us to Thank You Art Day 11'
We are very greatly pleased to invite you here and share a brief information of the programme. Wish you enjoy our "A virtual live windows" in between here and there, on and off-line and you and us. We have on-offline sites in/out of Hong Kong (A Space @Asia Art Archive / www.aaa.org.hk), contributors and other guests could fine us through live streaming on-line and on-site. This is an upgrade version of "A surprised live chat section" from last year's programme.

This year's main topic and keywords of programme are:
"Be Linked/ Collective Synergy" "Positive Collectivism" "Failure"
This is going to be a stage to share various ideas and its phenomenon of collectivism nowadays. Over 15 young artists and talented cultural workers are invited to stand for telling you a story of pure facts what we are facing now, as well as exchanging such interesting cases of how "collaboration"/ "un-expected combination" could bring impressive impacts.
You will find more friendly gestures and a naked practice by art+cultural workers today.

Please find more information and some of past programs at wiki:
thankyouartday.wikispaces.com/2011
twitter.com/thankyouartday (Follow us)
RSVP at me

Time table:
3pm: A Space Open (8am in Europe)
3pm: Soft March - Opening manifesto "Art allows me the freedom to choose poverty" by young art laborers with Sylbee Kim
4pm: Thank You Art Day - "A virtual live windows" starts (9am in Europe)
4pm: Susanna Chung of Asia Art Archive - "OPEN EDIT: Mobile Library" with "A live exhibition tour" by Duc & Lena at San Art in Vietnam
4:30pm: Kenta Torimoto X Chen Hangfeng with Piano Performer Hajime - "Snow" from Hokkaido!
4:45pm: Saubin Yap - "Hello" from KL
5pm: Ise parkingproject - "Hello" from Singapore Biennale (10am in Europe)
5:15pm: Alterazioni Video - "Collective Annual Meeting"
5:30pm: -Coffee break- RECESS X Nicola Turrini X Nina Fiocco X Jaša X Giancarlo Norese
6pm: Adrian Wong X Ezra Emerson - "Jerk Meeting" performance (11am in Europe)
6:15pm: Nicolas Pelzer - "Sketch"
6:30pm: Magdalen Wong - "Hello" from Goyang International Artist Residency in Korea
6:45pm: Yuk King Tan - "Farewell" performance
7pm: Isabella Ng X Mark Beasley - "I told you we can hear the ocean" (noon in Europe)
7:15pm: Giles Thackway X BABABA International - "gPhone Walki Talki"
7:30pm: -Beer hours- Kuo-Wei Lin X Global Alien - "ALIENATION"
8pm: Sadam Fujioka - "Code Poetica" Closing performance

On-site installation:
"SO DO WE collective" offline station
"Art allows me the freedom to choose poverty" by Sylbee Kim
"0 Budget in Object" by What If Artist Group

About "Thank You Art Day" (39art): Thank You Art Day' - The Day of 39@rt is a holiday to appreciate, promote, and otherwise positively engage ourselves in contemporary art. It was established by Japanese artist Yoshiaki Kaihatsu in 2000 to foster the appreciation of contemporary art in Japan, and it became world-wide event now. Last year, 16 museums and 141 art galleries/spaces, as well as individual artists and Internet-based entities in The world , offer special tie-in programs on March 9. (www.39art.com)

P.S In Japanese, 3/9 (san-kyuu) sounds how Japanese people pronouce "Thank You" because there are no "th" sound in Japanese language. That's how "Thank You Art Day" is started!

Contact:
Nana Seo, Curator
nanaseo at gmail dot com
www.nanaseo.com

To be Lu Cafausu

Matter of Action

Matter of Action is the third appointment of the INTERMEDIA cycle, an exhibition of alternative artist’s media - curated by Giorgio Maffei, Sara Serighelli, Fabio Carboni and Samuele Menin.
By nature, performance, happening, body art, action poetry are artistic actions aimed at lasting only for the short moment of their ritual fulfillment. This exhibition tries to stop the time focusing on the sequence of actions through those media able to give substance and duration to the performing event – photographs, records, videos and books. Through a set up that can appear disturbing, the exhibition wants to suggest a sharing experience of the contents based on the visitors’ perception.

Photographs, books, videos and the artist’s records hold the memories, preserving tracks and, at the same time, transcribing - with different tools - images, words and meanings of a way of making Art that has deeply affected the historical development of the second half of the 20th century.
All along the exhibition, art works from the 60s and 70s are gathered through necessary historical photographs to hint at the first performing actions of the Avant-garde and of the artists who, at the end of the ‘50s, turned their work toward the overtaking of the objectual form of the artifact. Duchamp, Man Ray, Dalí, then Manzoni with Klein and Fontana undertook the path which find its thoroughness both in the Conceptual and in the Arte Povera anvironment, as well as in Fluxus of the following decade. Allan Kaprow’s theorizations, Abramovic and Gina Pane’s actions, Nitsch and Muehl’s expressive violence, Acconci and Oppenheim’s body discipline, Ontani e Lüthi’s trasformism, Agnetti, De Dominicis and Nauman’s rigorous intellectual action, Kounellis and Calzolari’s theatrical behaviour, the use of their own face as expressive matter in Boetti, Penone and Zorio, and moreover, up to the overtaking of the disciplinary limits with the new music of Cage, Chiari and La Monte Young, the dance with Monk and Trisha Brown or poetry with Lora Totino, Spatola and Isou.

In a part of the exhibition Matter of Action, Italian artists have been invited to present in Milan a performance already made in their past, through two different ways: live performances with Italo Zuffi, Simone Berti, Giovanni Morbin, Christian Frosi & Diego Perrone, Dafne Boggeri, Nicola Ruben Montini, Michele Bazzana, Igor Muroni, as well as through some videos, with documents by Cesare Pietroiusti, Elisabetta Benassi, Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio, Cesare Viel, Patrick Tuttofuoco, Davide Savorani, Sissi (…). This part hasn’t the historical ambition to cover everything that has been happening in Italy during the last years, but it freely dots a temporal lapse through the actions of some artists who have occasionally or constantly used the performance in their research. These appointments draw possible trajectories and paths between historical experiences from the 60s and 70s up to contemporary episodes.

Over forty years after the publication of the text “Intermedia”(February 1966) by Dick Higgins in “The Something Else Newsletter”, the curators of this exhibition have borrowed this title which best expresses the need of contemporary culture to 'shuffle the cards,' to break down the strict barriers between disciplines and to consider art and its ways of expression as one singular creative process. The cycle of exhibitions develop through themes and segments: the first appointment of the cycle, ‘10 - a generation of artist's books, 1999-2009’ was held in September 2009 and the second ‘SUPERARCHITETTURA RADICALE books, posters, magazines’ in April 2010.

Performances:
venerdì/ Friday 11 feb. Nicola Ruben Montini
lunedì/Monday 14 feb. Igor Muroni
venerdì/ Friday 18 feb. Dafne Boggeri
lunedì/Monday 21 feb. Giovanni Morbin
venerdì/ Friday 25 feb. Michele Bazzana
lunedì/Monday 28 feb. Simone Berti
venerdì/ Frida y 4 mar. Diego Perrone & Christian Frosi
lunedì/Monday 7 mar. Italo Zuffi
All performances will be held at O’ via Pastrengo 12, Milano, 8.30 pm

Videos by: Moira Ricci, Cesare Pietroiusti, Giancarlo Norese, Luigi Negro, Emilio Fantin, Luigi Presicce, Cesare Viel, Nico Vascellari, Orthographe, Invernomuto, Giovanna Ricotta, Patrizio di Massimo, Sissi, Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio, Alessandro Ceresoli, Elisabetta Benassi, Alessandro Sciarroni, Patrick Tuttofuoco, Francesca Grilli, Michael Fliri, Davide Bertocchi, Paola Anziché, Marco Vaglieri, ZimmerFrei, Enzo Umbaca, Marcella Vanzo, Davide Savorani, Filippo Berta.

info:
O’, o AT o-artoteca DOT org
Giorgio Maffei, info AT giorgiomaffei DOT it

O'
via pastrengo 12, 20159 milano
www.on-o.org