katalogos
27 / 29 november, 2014
viafarini / docva
fabbrica del vapore
milan
Katalogos
second part of A Natural Oasis / Summer School
curated by Alessandro Castiglioni and Simone Frangi
27 / 29 November, 2014
28th November 2014, 7 p.m.
In the framework of Katalogos, a three-day workshop curated by Alessandro Castiglioni and Simone Frangi
dedicated to the development of the biennial research project A Natural Oasis - Provoc’Arte 1991, Hypothesis for an archive promoted by the Republic of San Marino in collaboration with the City of Milan
Viafarini DOCVA and /Little Contellation/ Network for contemporary art in geo-cultural micro-areas and small states of Europe present
DOCVA - Documentation Center for Visual Arts
Fabbrica del Vapore
Via Procaccini 4
20154 Milano
Viafarini DOCVA, in collaboration with Little Constellation, organizes Katalogos, a three-days workshop dedicated to the development of the projects of the artists selected by A Natural Oasis Summer School - Provoc’arte 1991, Hypothesis for an archive, which took place last summer in the municipality of Montegiardino in the Republic of San Marino. The goal of the workshop Katalogos is to verify the development of A Natural Oasis, a stage-based path in relationships, study, travel and research, which after San Marino will continue at the Garrison Library of Gibraltar – UK and at Saint James Cavallier in the Republic of Malta. The aim of this project is the production of a special work for the XVII Biennial of Young Artists, MEDITERRANEA17, which will take place in Milan in October 2015.
In these three days of work at Viafarini DOCVA in Milan, the young artists selected and involved in the project - Sarah Capesius, Martina Conti, Viola Conti, Lito Kattou & Leontios Toumpouris, Alessandro Di Pietro, Katrín I. Jonsdóttir Hjördísardóttir Hirt, Nico Macina, Francesca Mangion, Orestis Mavroudis, Mnemoscape (Elisa Adami, Alessandra Ferrini), Michela Pozzi, Giacomo Raffaelli, Jacopo Rinaldi coming from Cyprus, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Iceland, Luxemburg, Malta and San Marino -will have the opportunity to expand and renew their educational paths.
Therefore, Katalogos is an intermediate step in A Natural Oasis and will refer to the process of collection, enumeration and organization of archive material and documents for the construction of systems and, more generally, of narrative possibilities. This focus can be included in the more comprehensive practices of archive analysis and display, which are, in a wider sense, the analysis goal of the entire project.
promoted by
Republic of San Marino
Ministries for Culture and Youth Policies
Social and Cultural Activities Offices
Little Constellation Network – Contemporary Art in geo-cultural micro-areas and Small States of Europe
in collaboration with
Municipality of Milan
Ufficio Creatività Giovanile
Fabbrica del Vapore
Aimed at the production of A Natural Oasis. Provoc’arte 1991. Hypothesis for an archive
Special project for
XVII Biennial of Young Artists, MEDITERRANEA17
Milan, October 2015
Programme
Wednesday 26 November
Arrival and accommodation of the artists at the residences of the Ufficio Creatività Giovanile - Fabbrica del Vapore and Viafarini DOCVA
Thursday 27 November
From 4.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m.
Lecture by Francesco Bertocco on the exhibition Francesco Bertocco - Alberto Grifi curated by Simone Frangi in the venue of Viafarini DOCVA from 25 November 2014 to 23 January 2015.
Themes:
1 – Introduction to work by Alberto Grifi. The pretended body, and the concept of the readymade in cinema. The readymade as appropriation and legitimization inside art history and found footage as a grammar practice of cinema. This part, although presented as historiographic, will be actually used to outline a definition of found footage, which will help me to introduce the points linking my work to Grifi’s.
2 - Allegory by Francesco Bertocco and The pretended body by Alberto Grifi. The linking elements between the two works where The pretended body by Alberto Grifi is taken as an investigation model in my work. In this context, Bertocco will explain how this film was conceived and what my research is about.
3 – The body and the archive. A section dedicated to three “re-found” bodies of contemporary history brought together and related to three films, with which they directly or indirectly construct a network of references.
a) The (Hollywood) mythology of the Black Dahlia and the (dying) myth of Kennedy, in The Extraordinary Report by Bruce Connor. A broken body and a structural film which reconstructs the dying body. In both cases body exhumation and transcendence are present in artistic appropriation. The surrealistic inspiration behind the killing of the Black Dahlia (cadavre exquis) and the eternal return of the event through the cornerstone of film language: editing.
b) The finding of the Riace Bronzes and the found footage of the ruins. The intact body of ruins stands as a paradox in time experience. The exceptional finding of the Bronzes acts as an eternal ruin inserted in historical awareness. In no place it remains by Maria Giovanna Cicciari is a film which represents itself as found, shot now but destined to propose itself as indefinite and anachronistic. A film set in the ruins of the Calabria region where the Bronzes themselves act towards us to preserve our modernity.
c) A conclusion on the possible relationship between the body and the archive and its real contemporary representations in emerging or historical/experimental audiovisual performances.
Friday 28 November
From 10.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. (lunch break from 1.00 p.m. to 2.00 p.m.): Workshop by Basma Alsharif
From 7.00 p.m.: Public lecture and screening by Basma Alsharif
Basma Alsharif is a nomadic artist/filmmaker of Palestinian origin, based in Paris. She received her MFA in 2007 from the University of Illinois at Chicago and her films have screened at YIDFF, TIFF, the Berlinale, Videobrasil, and Manifesta 8. Alsharif won a Jury Prize at the 9th Sharjah Biennial, she was awarded the Fundacion Botin Visual Arts grant, and received the Marion McMahon Award at the Images Festival in Toronto. She’s represented by Galerie Imam Fare and she’s currently resident artists at Palais de Tokyo – Le Pavillion .
Saturday 29 November
From 11.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. (lunch break from 1.00 p.m. to 3.00 p.m.)
Specific activities within A Natural Oasis. Provoc’arte 1991
Two themes:
- The update of the new findings in the Provoc’arte 1991 collection, among which are the videos of the event and other documents.
- The discussion and organization of A Natural Oasis at the Garrison Library - UK in June 2015.
The day will end with an exchange of views between the curators and the artists to check the development of the various works of the artists selected and taking part in the projects.
Sunday 30 November
Check out by 2pm
Departure
Links:
Francesco Bertocco
http://www.italianarea.it/artista.php?artista=FRBE&let=
Basma Alsharif
http://basmalsharif.com/home.html
Katalogos is promoted by
Republic of San Marino
Ministries for Culture and Youth Policies
Social and Cultural Activities Offices
Little Contellation/ Network for contemporary art in geo-cultural micro-areas and small states of Europe
BJCEM - Biennale des jeunes créateurs de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée
in collaboration with
Municipality of Milan
Ufficio Creatività Giovanile
Fabbrica del Vapore
VIAFARINI DOCVA
Fabbrica del Vapore
Milan
27 / 29 november, 2014
viafarini / docva
fabbrica del vapore
milan
Katalogos
second part of A Natural Oasis / Summer School
curated by Alessandro Castiglioni and Simone Frangi
27 / 29 November, 2014
28th November 2014, 7 p.m.
In the framework of Katalogos, a three-day workshop curated by Alessandro Castiglioni and Simone Frangi
dedicated to the development of the biennial research project A Natural Oasis - Provoc’Arte 1991, Hypothesis for an archive promoted by the Republic of San Marino in collaboration with the City of Milan
Viafarini DOCVA and /Little Contellation/ Network for contemporary art in geo-cultural micro-areas and small states of Europe present
DOCVA - Documentation Center for Visual Arts
Fabbrica del Vapore
Via Procaccini 4
20154 Milano
Viafarini DOCVA, in collaboration with Little Constellation, organizes Katalogos, a three-days workshop dedicated to the development of the projects of the artists selected by A Natural Oasis Summer School - Provoc’arte 1991, Hypothesis for an archive, which took place last summer in the municipality of Montegiardino in the Republic of San Marino. The goal of the workshop Katalogos is to verify the development of A Natural Oasis, a stage-based path in relationships, study, travel and research, which after San Marino will continue at the Garrison Library of Gibraltar – UK and at Saint James Cavallier in the Republic of Malta. The aim of this project is the production of a special work for the XVII Biennial of Young Artists, MEDITERRANEA17, which will take place in Milan in October 2015.
In these three days of work at Viafarini DOCVA in Milan, the young artists selected and involved in the project - Sarah Capesius, Martina Conti, Viola Conti, Lito Kattou & Leontios Toumpouris, Alessandro Di Pietro, Katrín I. Jonsdóttir Hjördísardóttir Hirt, Nico Macina, Francesca Mangion, Orestis Mavroudis, Mnemoscape (Elisa Adami, Alessandra Ferrini), Michela Pozzi, Giacomo Raffaelli, Jacopo Rinaldi coming from Cyprus, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Iceland, Luxemburg, Malta and San Marino -will have the opportunity to expand and renew their educational paths.
Therefore, Katalogos is an intermediate step in A Natural Oasis and will refer to the process of collection, enumeration and organization of archive material and documents for the construction of systems and, more generally, of narrative possibilities. This focus can be included in the more comprehensive practices of archive analysis and display, which are, in a wider sense, the analysis goal of the entire project.
promoted by
Republic of San Marino
Ministries for Culture and Youth Policies
Social and Cultural Activities Offices
Little Constellation Network – Contemporary Art in geo-cultural micro-areas and Small States of Europe
in collaboration with
Municipality of Milan
Ufficio Creatività Giovanile
Fabbrica del Vapore
Aimed at the production of A Natural Oasis. Provoc’arte 1991. Hypothesis for an archive
Special project for
XVII Biennial of Young Artists, MEDITERRANEA17
Milan, October 2015
Programme
Wednesday 26 November
Arrival and accommodation of the artists at the residences of the Ufficio Creatività Giovanile - Fabbrica del Vapore and Viafarini DOCVA
Thursday 27 November
From 4.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m.
Lecture by Francesco Bertocco on the exhibition Francesco Bertocco - Alberto Grifi curated by Simone Frangi in the venue of Viafarini DOCVA from 25 November 2014 to 23 January 2015.
Themes:
1 – Introduction to work by Alberto Grifi. The pretended body, and the concept of the readymade in cinema. The readymade as appropriation and legitimization inside art history and found footage as a grammar practice of cinema. This part, although presented as historiographic, will be actually used to outline a definition of found footage, which will help me to introduce the points linking my work to Grifi’s.
2 - Allegory by Francesco Bertocco and The pretended body by Alberto Grifi. The linking elements between the two works where The pretended body by Alberto Grifi is taken as an investigation model in my work. In this context, Bertocco will explain how this film was conceived and what my research is about.
3 – The body and the archive. A section dedicated to three “re-found” bodies of contemporary history brought together and related to three films, with which they directly or indirectly construct a network of references.
a) The (Hollywood) mythology of the Black Dahlia and the (dying) myth of Kennedy, in The Extraordinary Report by Bruce Connor. A broken body and a structural film which reconstructs the dying body. In both cases body exhumation and transcendence are present in artistic appropriation. The surrealistic inspiration behind the killing of the Black Dahlia (cadavre exquis) and the eternal return of the event through the cornerstone of film language: editing.
b) The finding of the Riace Bronzes and the found footage of the ruins. The intact body of ruins stands as a paradox in time experience. The exceptional finding of the Bronzes acts as an eternal ruin inserted in historical awareness. In no place it remains by Maria Giovanna Cicciari is a film which represents itself as found, shot now but destined to propose itself as indefinite and anachronistic. A film set in the ruins of the Calabria region where the Bronzes themselves act towards us to preserve our modernity.
c) A conclusion on the possible relationship between the body and the archive and its real contemporary representations in emerging or historical/experimental audiovisual performances.
Friday 28 November
From 10.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. (lunch break from 1.00 p.m. to 2.00 p.m.): Workshop by Basma Alsharif
From 7.00 p.m.: Public lecture and screening by Basma Alsharif
Basma Alsharif is a nomadic artist/filmmaker of Palestinian origin, based in Paris. She received her MFA in 2007 from the University of Illinois at Chicago and her films have screened at YIDFF, TIFF, the Berlinale, Videobrasil, and Manifesta 8. Alsharif won a Jury Prize at the 9th Sharjah Biennial, she was awarded the Fundacion Botin Visual Arts grant, and received the Marion McMahon Award at the Images Festival in Toronto. She’s represented by Galerie Imam Fare and she’s currently resident artists at Palais de Tokyo – Le Pavillion .
Saturday 29 November
From 11.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. (lunch break from 1.00 p.m. to 3.00 p.m.)
Specific activities within A Natural Oasis. Provoc’arte 1991
Two themes:
- The update of the new findings in the Provoc’arte 1991 collection, among which are the videos of the event and other documents.
- The discussion and organization of A Natural Oasis at the Garrison Library - UK in June 2015.
The day will end with an exchange of views between the curators and the artists to check the development of the various works of the artists selected and taking part in the projects.
Sunday 30 November
Check out by 2pm
Departure
Links:
Francesco Bertocco
http://www.italianarea.it/artista.php?artista=FRBE&let=
Basma Alsharif
http://basmalsharif.com/home.html
Katalogos is promoted by
Republic of San Marino
Ministries for Culture and Youth Policies
Social and Cultural Activities Offices
Little Contellation/ Network for contemporary art in geo-cultural micro-areas and small states of Europe
BJCEM - Biennale des jeunes créateurs de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée
in collaboration with
Municipality of Milan
Ufficio Creatività Giovanile
Fabbrica del Vapore
VIAFARINI DOCVA
Fabbrica del Vapore
Milan