Summer Sessions Special Event: Nihil Is Me/Amiina
A crossover between experimental cinema, visual art and live music, curated by Andrea Lissoni and Carlos Casas
Parades summer sessions are an ongoing experiment on the parade and its extension, an incentive to rethink the potential feedbacks between experimental film, visual arts and live music curated by Andrea Lissoni and Carlos Casas.
A parade may be a model for a movie? There is a film-parade? What happened in this sense in the history of experimental cinema? What about the soundtrack and its function? How the most interesting and radical Italian young musicians deal with these issues?
Wednesday 17th June Session program was the result of a collaboration with Ragnar Kjartansson, artist chosen to exhibit on Iceland’s behalf at the 53rd Biennale in Venice 2009. This gave birth to the unique combination of the two concerts Nihil Is me/Amiina.
Program:
9 pm: Nihil Is Me plays Flaming Creatures by Jack Smith, 16mm, b/n, 43’, 1963
10.30 pm: Amiina+Kippi and Maggi live
Sounds from nothing. Ex Cheswick, Ok No, With Love. Currently Squadra Omega and Be Maledetto Now! Rarely live we are all dead. Very rarely. Let’s go musician, play it full on. [www.myspace.com/nihilisme www.otouv.org]
Sólrún, María, Edda and Hildur four Icelandic women in their mid twenties collectively known as amiina first decided they wanted to write music together in 2004. They gathered together every last instrument they could find and piled them into their car. They then filled every available bit of space with food. This, they maintain, was a very, very important part of the process. But it was also very nearly the act that prevented the birth of amiina. Their overloaded car was unable to struggle up the steep mountainous incline to the studio they had chosen, and had a local farmer not towed them to their destination with his tractor amiina might never have come to be.The quartet's music is made with a great number of instruments. It contains elements of minimalistic style, contemporary classical, ambient, and electronic loops.In amiina there are no specific assignments: no official bass player, drummer, guitarist or singer [www.kippikaninus.com].
In collaboration with: Visual Arts Graduate Programme, Iuav University of Venice, directed by Angela Vettese
Next sessions:
June 24th: invernomuto in collaboration with Andrea Caputo
July 8th: Stefano Pilia
For more information about the project, look at our youtube channel on the parades!
UOVO PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL
A Milano, dal 18 al 21 marzo 2010, la Triennale di Milano, Teatro Franco Parenti, Teatro dell’Arte, DiD studio presentano l’ottava edizione di Uovo performing arts festival, festival internazionale che presenta le espressioni più curiose e innovative delle performing arts, privilegiando artisti che promuovono un approccio indisciplinare e indisciplinato alla creazione artistica.
Dalla sua prima edizione nel 2003, Uovo performing arts festival ha presentato oltre 250 artisti, per un totale di 75 spettacoli, 46 prime italiane e 16 compagnie per la prima volta in Italia, provenienti da più di 15 paesi (Italia, Spagna, Portogallo, Francia, Svizzera, Belgio, Gran Bretagna, Austria, Olanda, Danimarca, Norvegia, Svezia, Islanda, Giappone, Stati Uniti, Canada, Iran, Thailandia).
12 artisti provenienti da Gran Bretagna, Germania, Francia, Croazia, Belgio, Svezia, Italia; 8 prime italiane; 3 coproduzioni: sono i numeri dell’ottava edizione di Uovo.
Leggi qui il programma!
Per informazioni: info@uovoproject.it / t. +39 348 8039149
ASPETTANDO...L'ARTE COME IDEA
Ciclo di tre workshop sull’arte contemporanea, per conoscerla, distinguerla e comprendere i temi del nuovo dibattito artistico, organizzati dall’associazione Amici del Gradenigo in collaborazione con fondazione march e il comune di Piove di Sacco, presso l’Auditorium Giovanni Paolo II di Piove di Sacco con cadenza settimanale nelle serate di mercoledì 10, mercoledì 17 e venerdì 26 marzo dalle ore 21.00 alle ore 22.30.
Gli incontri sono rivolti a tutti: curiosi, operatori culturali, associazioni, enti pubblici e privati, e più in generale a tutti gli appassionati d’arte.
Leggi qui il programma delle singole serate!
Per informazioni: amicigradenigo@libero.it /
info@fondazionemarch.org / t. +39 049 8808331
IMPRESSIVE ART MADE WITH TAPE
Using duct, electrical, and vinyl tape, Rebecca Ward symmetrically aligns each color line.
Notes from the artist’s statement: “My installations are site-specific works dependent upon the space they occupy. Utilizing existing lines, beams, and angles, each piece I create is informed by the individual site and its unique linear movement. Thus, my installations are inherently architectural. I choose patterns and shapes according to detailed measurements of the installation site. Ideally these patterns are numerically symmetrical or somehow numerically balanced, producing a dialogue between line and space. I initially began working with tape because of the broad range of colors in which it is available. Additionally, I have always been drawn to its unique textural qualities”.
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Lo-fi Contest 01
Lo-Fi Architecture, a cura di Mario Lupano, con Luca Emanueli e Marco Navarra. Bando di selezione per il primo Lo-fi contest. Guest curator: Salottobuono - Deadline: 25 marzo 2010.
"Questo non l'ho mai letto a nessuno"
Secondo appuntamento con Gianfranco Bettin - giovedì 11 marzo, ore 21.00
Il volto delle parole
Mostra fotografica a cura di Graziano Arici - Inaugurazione giovedì 11 marzo, ore 20.00
Terza edizione "Questo non l'ho mai letto a nessuno"
Primo appuntamento con Enrico Palandri, giovedì 25 febbraio - ore 21.00
