little constellation book
contemporary art in geo-cultural micro areas and small states of europe
edition mousse publishing
motto distribution
size 24 x 17 cm
foliation 312 pages
cover with 350 g 5-colour printed matte coated paper flaps
no. 240 colour full-page images
print run 2,500 copies
code EAN: 9788896501078
ediz. english / italian
price € 30,00
2010
Artists Contents
Interviews
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nua@omniway.sm
contemporary art in geo-cultural micro areas and small states of europe
edition mousse publishing
motto distribution
size 24 x 17 cm
foliation 312 pages
cover with 350 g 5-colour printed matte coated paper flaps
no. 240 colour full-page images
print run 2,500 copies
code EAN: 9788896501078
ediz. english / italian
price € 30,00
2010
Artists:
Pier Giorgio Albani & Lorella Mussoni
Danil Akimov
Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson
Barbara Bühler
Canarezza & Coro
Nina Danino
Oppy De Bernardo
Sandrine Flury
Barbara Geyer
Irena Lagator
Ingibjörg Magnadóttir
Mark Mangion & Pierre Portelli
Christodoulos Panayiotou
Paradise Consumer Group
Quino
Matteo Terzaghi & Marco Zürcher
Axsinja Uranova
Martin Walch
Trixi Weis
Texts by:
Rita Canarezza & Pier Paolo Coro, Roberto Daolio, Svetlana Racanovic´, Louli Michaelidou, l. Mallart i Casamajor & J. Domingo i Coll, Noah Stolz, Mario Gorni and Chiara Agnello, Alessandro Castiglioni
How is the practice of making art experienced today in certain geocultural micro-areas and small states of Europe? “Little Constellation” began in 2004 as a research project focused on contemporary art, but not with the attempt to answer this question by finding a label that could be attached to “small states”, or to provide a full, systematic picture of the art that can be found today in Andorra, Cyprus, Iceland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino and in other significant cultural micro-areas such as Canton Ticino, Ceuta, Gibraltar or Kaliningrad.
Instead, the project has developed and taken shape—through the story of many different relationships, ideas, experiences—via the diffusion of information, placed in a continuous current that generates possibilities for interaction, and as a device shared by artists, curators, institutional representatives from museums, centers, and research collectives, to stimulate proposals and the development of a platform of knowledge focused on contemporary artistic practice in these countries, within the sphere of the international artistic debate.
This book collects and illustrates the main steps in this journey, which from 2004 to 2010—through texts, images, video interviews, meetings, workshops, a website and exhibitions—not only offers a connection between the relational potential and autopoietic1 observation that characterize countries of particular geocultural complexity, but also brings together, for the first time, the theoretic and critical contributions that have come out of the contact between the works, ideas, and evolving thoughts of the people who encountered each other along the way.
Rita Canarezza & Pier Paolo Coro
NOTE
1. “A living system is autopoietic because it is self-reproducing: it cannot be characterized in terms of input and output, none of its transformations can be explained as a function of the stimuli of its environment, it modifies itself on the basis of its organization, with the aim of keeping its organization itself constant: this process of constant adjustment is the cognitive process”. H. R. Maturana, F.J. Varela, Autopoiesis and Cognition. The Realization of the Living, Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland, 1980.
Table of Contents
Pier Giorgio Albani & Lorella Mussoni
Danil Akimov
Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson
Barbara Bühler
Canarezza & Coro
Nina Danino
Oppy De Bernardo
Sandrine Flury
Barbara Geyer
Irena Lagator
Ingibjörg Magnadóttir
Mark Mangion & Pierre Portelli
Christodoulos Panayiotou
Paradise Consumer Group
Quino
Matteo Terzaghi & Marco Zürcher
Axsinja Uranova
Martin Walch
Trixi Weis
Texts by:
Rita Canarezza & Pier Paolo Coro, Roberto Daolio, Svetlana Racanovic´, Louli Michaelidou, l. Mallart i Casamajor & J. Domingo i Coll, Noah Stolz, Mario Gorni and Chiara Agnello, Alessandro Castiglioni
How is the practice of making art experienced today in certain geocultural micro-areas and small states of Europe? “Little Constellation” began in 2004 as a research project focused on contemporary art, but not with the attempt to answer this question by finding a label that could be attached to “small states”, or to provide a full, systematic picture of the art that can be found today in Andorra, Cyprus, Iceland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino and in other significant cultural micro-areas such as Canton Ticino, Ceuta, Gibraltar or Kaliningrad.
Instead, the project has developed and taken shape—through the story of many different relationships, ideas, experiences—via the diffusion of information, placed in a continuous current that generates possibilities for interaction, and as a device shared by artists, curators, institutional representatives from museums, centers, and research collectives, to stimulate proposals and the development of a platform of knowledge focused on contemporary artistic practice in these countries, within the sphere of the international artistic debate.
This book collects and illustrates the main steps in this journey, which from 2004 to 2010—through texts, images, video interviews, meetings, workshops, a website and exhibitions—not only offers a connection between the relational potential and autopoietic1 observation that characterize countries of particular geocultural complexity, but also brings together, for the first time, the theoretic and critical contributions that have come out of the contact between the works, ideas, and evolving thoughts of the people who encountered each other along the way.
Rita Canarezza & Pier Paolo Coro
NOTE
1. “A living system is autopoietic because it is self-reproducing: it cannot be characterized in terms of input and output, none of its transformations can be explained as a function of the stimuli of its environment, it modifies itself on the basis of its organization, with the aim of keeping its organization itself constant: this process of constant adjustment is the cognitive process”. H. R. Maturana, F.J. Varela, Autopoiesis and Cognition. The Realization of the Living, Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland, 1980.
Table of Contents
001 Preview
033 Contemporary Art in Little Constellations –
033 Rita Canarezza & Pier Paolo Coro
033 Rita Canarezza & Pier Paolo Coro
034 Istitutions
Critical Contents
042 Little (Big) Constellation - Roberto Daolio
044 Bubbles in the foam -Svetlana Racanovic´
047 Captain Storm and the Glocal Village - Louli Michaelidou
051 Small Communities with big complexities in the Sphere of
051 Interaction - L. Mallart i Casamajor & J. Domingo i Coll
051 Interaction - L. Mallart i Casamajor & J. Domingo i Coll
053 Text by Noah Stolz
058 Small Geographies - Mario Gorni and Chiara Agnello
060 Towards a border that does not exist -
060 Alessandro Castiglioni
060 Alessandro Castiglioni
Artists Contents
062 Pier Giorgio Albani & Lorella Mussoni
064 Danil Akimov
070 Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson
074 Barbara Bühler
078 Canarezza & Coro
082 Nina Danino
086 Oppy De Bernardo
090 Sandrine Flury
094 Barbara Geyer
098 Irena Lagator
104 Ingibjörg Magnadóttir
108 Mark Mangion & Pierre Portelli
116 Christodoulos Panayiotou
120 Paradise Consumer Group
124 Quino
128 Matteo Terzaghi & Marco Zürcher
132 Axsinja Uranova
136 Martin Walch
140 Trixi Weis
Interviews
145 Everything said is said by an Observer –
145 Rita Canarezza & Pier Paolo Coro
145 Rita Canarezza & Pier Paolo Coro
148 Carme Tinture and with Noemí Agustí
150 Josep Maria Ubach
152 Marco Franciolli
158 Bruno Garrido Luiz
164 Yiannis Toumazis
172 Gino Sanguinetti
178 Christian Schoen
182 Halldór Björn Runólfsson
186 Evgeny Umansky
194 Friedemann Malsch
198 Enrico Lunghi
202 Claire Zerafa, Marcelle Teuma, Adrian Grima
202 and Georgina Portelli
202 and Georgina Portelli
207 Francis Zammit Dimech
208 Mirjana Dabovic Pejovic
216 Leonardo Casadei
Projects
225 Description of the description of the description
226 Project 1: Going Beyond the Countries’ Art
232 Project 2: Video Sensitive Postcards
240 Project 3: BBKL-LABOR
244 Project 4: Piccolo Stato Neon Campobase
257 Italian texts
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