curated by Erik Campanini, Isabella Nardon, Jacopo Noera
Itinerant curatorial project
• 2019
I Have Got an Empty Space is an itinerant curatorial experiment, hosted by public and private entities, which includes site-specific artistic interventions in places that already have their own lives.
The project takes into consideration the pre-existing function of the
host-place, without binding the artists on an aesthetic or formal level.
Collectives and artists will be asked to analyze periodically
the multiple functions and resources that identify the space, to develop a temporary project.
The projects will develop in two or three months of intervention, in which each hosted artist will have the freedom to propose events, talks, and performative activities. The potential of each space and the functional and physical characteristics that arrange it represents the foundation of this experiment.
Empty space as a co-author of everything that is generated and developed in it.
The idea of the project starts from the interest to understand which elements define the possibility to develop ways of interaction between art and society.
What are the limitations and potentialities in the integration between the world of design and the social, institutional, and industrial realities that build a society?
In questioning myself on these points I identified the role of the curator, as guarantor of artistic sensitivity, but at the same time as a supervisor and careful observer of the critical points that allow the research to develop within the folds of social, political, and economic functioning.
In this case, the function of the curator is also to ensure that the identity of the space that hosts the intervention is respected, to allow a dialogue between the idea and the function that aims to explore new ways of application and reasoning on the dynamics which make up the company
and which aspects determine a sustainable trend.
The title of the hosting reality, I Have Got an Empty Space, is appropriated and slightly modified by Alejandro Cerón in response and clear reference to the similarities between host and guest. Indeed, working in collaborative contaminating dialogue, I Have Got and Empty Space and I’ve got and empty space are born together. The grammatical contraction within Alejandro’s title refers however to concrete differences between both, host and guest.
Cineot is an exhibition of itinerant video-art organized by the IGES collective and produced by inkonnection. The event will offer a series of site-specific projections by five different video artists, that, in addition to the elaboration of the videos presented during the exhibition, were asked to reflect on the site-specific nature of the event and its benefits for each video. All the visual and structural components that will form the atmosphere of each event, together with the media used for the communication, are also at the center of the artists' design and collaboration with IGES.
Video Artists:
Elettra Bisogno
Ornella De Carlo
Ina Porselius
Giorgio Varvaro
Gimo Rotti (Dr. Aw )
photography by Jacopo Noera
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