Quarto Pianeta Festival IL PIEDE
Scultura teatrale di Dario Bellini ex O.P., via Giovanni Maggio 4 – Genova Quarto
Aula 7
sabato 22 ottobre 2022, ore 19:00
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Il Piede di Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, andato in scena al teatro Dal Verme di Milano nel 1915 e mai più rappresentato, aveva, secondo le ricostruzioni, la quarta parete aperta su un baratro spazio-temporale.
Riapparso in sogno con tutti i dettagli della messa in scena all’autore nel 2015 costituisce il primo dei quattro livelli di una scultura teatrale di Dario Bellini.
Primo livello: Il piede, appunto, inedita e plausibile pièce di Marinetti;
Secondo livello: l’interazione polemica col pubblico;
Terzo: arte sull’arte, annoso meta-testo tra la pressione degli eventi e le ragioni dell’arte;
Infine quarto livello: gli slogan, i diktat inamovibili cui siamo incatenati.
Il piede, così concepito, è una commedia con un epilogo patetico e senza alcuno sviluppo.
Il pubblico è diviso in due per ricostruire idealmente un confronto tra il pubblico della prima rappresentazione nel 1915 e il pubblico di oggi.
Ciascuno vede solo una parte dello spettacolo, ma sente le voci di entrambi i lati.
Il primo livello è diretto da un regista (Andrea Manni), il secondo ed il terzo da un altro regista (Dario Bellini). Il quarto livello è gettato nelle probabilità del caso.
La scultura teatrale descrive mediante le parole un profilo nell’aria come si trattasse di una normale scultura.
Il profilo si delinea coi pensieri. Non è teatro! Sembra, teatro, ma non è teatro. Non è 900! Sembra, 900, ma non è novecento. Continua a leggere→
Il 29 Ottobre alle 18:30 verrà proiettato il documentario “Ontologia dell’arte all’acqua di rose“, di Alberto D’Amico, riprese e montaggio di Nicola De Simone.
Il progetto, ideato da Alberto D’Amico ed elaborato insieme a Lisa Giombini, Bruno Lo Turco, Roberta Melasecca, si prefigge di perimetrare la nozione di arte in modo irregolare, ascoltando le suggestioni che arriveranno dalle persone intervistate.
Today marks the end of WKR‘s composer trio residency at @prohelvetia_venice with @alan_alpenfelt and @alberto_barberis. The residency is part of NEW ECHO SYSTEM program curated by @enricobettinello. For our residence, we collaborated with @helicotrema_festival @giulia.morucchio. We have come up with two sessions to flesh out the work we are doing. In the afternoon we will have a panel discussion with guests Carola Haupt, Paolo Zavagna, @francescobergamo_ and @liberavoler. In the evening from 21:00 you can come to Palazzo Trevisan and stay in and with the composting process. _
A San Cataldo, a pochi passi da Caltanissetta, c’è una collezione di oltre 500 tra rari volumi e riviste d’arte, dagli anni ’60 del Novecento sino a oggi
Come giustamente sostiene Aleida Assmann, che ha compiuto studi fondamentali sull’antropologia e sulla memoria culturale e comunicativa, “controllare gli archivi è controllare la memoria”. Ciò equivale a dire che questi luoghi, bene al di là della funzione più propriamente conservativa, si configurano per la presenza simultanea dell’”aspetto politico e quello mnestico”. Chi è preda del furore archivistico e dello slancio tassonomico, ha –> continua qui
WALTER GIERS Electronic Art ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe October 15, 2022–April 16, 2023
Walter Giers was a pioneer of electronic art and one of the most important exponents of media art in Germany, who produced light and sound works in the tradition of kinetic art and Op Art from the late 1960s onwards. With an interest in tinkering with radios, he embarked on making nonfunctional objects out of electronic components in 1969, which he initially referred to as “Schalt-Elemente-Objekte” [switch element objects], “electronikals,” and “elektronische Spielobjekte” [electronic playthings]. From 1974, he used the term »electronic art« to describe his works.
Giovedì 27 ottobre 2022, ore 18:30 Corrado Costa, Immaginare Ravenna presentazione del libro con il curatore Giovanni Fontana Fondazione Sabe per l’arte Via Giovanni Pascoli 31, Ravenna anche in diretta streaming
L’ambiente ravennate suscita in Corrado Costa l’esigenza di crearsi una propria idea della città, concretizzata nel 1980 nelle pagine di Immaginare Ravenna, una raccolta tanto criptica, quanto affascinante, giocata sulla poetica del frammento, sul significato del vuoto e del silenzio, sul senso dell’assenza e l’assenza del senso, sull’ironia sottile di processi di alterazione minimi e minimalisti. Non sappiamo quante tavole siano state composte da Costa. L’insieme è andato disperso. Ne conosciamo soltanto una parte, oggi conservata da Roberto Peccolo, già gallerista livornese che ha dedicato tutta la sua vita alla scrittura verbo-visiva e al libro d’artista, inventandosi iniziative espositive memorabili e editando pubblicazioni che nel settore fanno storia, come la collana «Memorie d’Artista», che ci ha regalato opere preziose di autori come Henri Chopin, Jean-Luc Parant, Lamberto Pignotti o Arrigo Lora Totino, Irma Blank o Elisabetta Gut, Villeglé, Orlan, Nanda Vigo, Ugo La Pietra, Sergio D’Angelo, Lindsay Kemp.
In occasione della presentazione, saranno esposti 30 disegni originali di Corrado Costa contenuti nel volume.
LINDSAY CAPLAN Arte Programmata Freedom, Control and the Computer in 1960s Italy University of Minnesota Press, 2022
Tracing the evolution of the Italian avant-garde’s pioneering experiments with art and technology and their subversion of freedom and control In postwar Italy, a group of visionary artists used emergent computer technologies as both tools of artistic production and a means to reconceptualize the dynamic interrelation between individual freedom and collectivity. Arte Programmata traces the multifaceted practices of these groundbreaking artists and their conviction that technology could provide the conditions for a liberated social life.
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Lindsay Caplan’s Arte Programmata offers a compelling account of a group of lesser-known artists affiliated with the Italian Arte Programmata movement, whose experimental art and design practices, emerging in the nascent years of computerization, pointedly (and presciently) engaged with political questions around freedom and control, individuality and collectivity. Beautifully written, sharply analytic, and free of jargon, Caplan’s incisive study should find a place on the bookshelves of anyone interested in the roots and impacts of technological change.
— Janet Kraynak, author of Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life
THE CONSULTANT Paik’s Papers 1968–1979 Curator: Kim Yoonseo Nam June Paik Art Center 10 Paiknamjune-ro, Giheung-gu, Yongin-si Gyeonggi-do October 13, 2022–March 26, 2023
Nam June Paik left behind various documents in different languages, including letters, scores, essays, proposals, and reports. One of these, a 1974 report somewhat grandly titled “MEDIA PLANNING FOR THE POST INDUSTRIAL AGE: Only 26 years left until the 21st Century,” seems more like a policy research document than an artist’s note. Instead of simply sharing bold ambitions, the report contains detailed and concrete plans for implementation. The text shares a vision akin to what has been realized today with the internet, stressing the urgency of being able to transmit ideas in real time through “electronic super highway,” just as the building of highways in the 1930s had enabled the movement of goods and the achievement of an economic revival. Emphasizing that “Mind pollution is as bad as air pollution,” Paik also urges caution in ensuring that media communications are not monopolized by technology experts or some “mysterious power complex.”
Paik actually did carry the title of “consultant.” While he was based in New York, he carried out his work with Rockefeller Foundation Art Grants in “Television/Video/Film” and for a roughly 20-year period beginning in the mid-1960s, he served in official and unofficial advisory roles, playing a leading part in emphasizing the importance of supporting medial field and proposing directions for its development. During this time, his video art and the video community were broadcast on television channels, discussed in scholarly contexts, and exhibited, collected, and proliferated by art institutions. His proposal expressed his bold ambitions of solving social problems through the medium of art, with immediate implementation plans laid out in considerable detail: digitalization to record and preserve human cultural history, video exchanges as a tool for learning and resolving our lack of understanding toward different cultures, the creation of electronic superhighways as communication systems connecting the world, and the continued pursuit of diverse representation in public broadcasting content.
As its title suggests, The Consultant: Paik’s Papers 1968–1979, a special exhibition commemorating the 90th anniversary of Paik’s birth, takes the artist’s reports as its starting point. Rather than emphasizing his individual achievements and the aesthetic context for his video art, it considers Paik as a “policymaker” based on reports that he wrote in English between 1968 and 1979: “EXPANDED EDUCATION FOR THE PAPERLESS SOCIETY” (1968), “MEDIA PLANNING FOR THE POST INDUSTRIAL AGE” (1974), and “HOW TO KEEP EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO ON PBS NATIONAL PROGRAMMING” (1979). Compared with his achievements focusing for a lifetime on the medium of video art, relatively little is known of how Paik investigated the raisons d’e^tre for social infrastructure and art and suggested new avenues for them. As it examines his work through the lens of Paik’s papers, the exhibition urges the viewer to see Paik in a new light, while showing how the realization of his artistic vision was underpinned not only by institutional support from the government, but also by collaboration with and support from private foundations, patronage funds, public schools, laboratories, broadcasters and art institutions.
The exhibition’s aims lie in taking a detour from the historic highway of regarding Paik as the “father of video art” and seeing him in a different light on a different sort of path.leaving behind the crossroads of preexisting knowledge and experience to find new opportunities for liberation. Exploring Nam June Paik as an analyst, a media consultant, and an agent of change for social infrastructure and technology during the social transitional period of the 1960s is a way of uncovering new tasks that have heretofore received little attention in studies of the artist, while also creating new points of contact with his works of electronic art. As we stand amid a different kind of digital shift and social change today, Paik’s media consulting is a work that is still in progress.
