Showing posts with label Isola Art Center. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Isola Art Center. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Dal Cielo Alle Strade.
Dal Cielo Alle Strade: Una parata svolazzante del quartiere Isola by Ruggero Asnago with Teatro in scatola and Isola Libri with the support of Isola Art Center.
This year for the 4th birthday of Isola Pepe Verde, we organised a parade with majestical bird marionettes in the Isola neigbhourhood. The project is by artist Ruggero Asnago, Elena from the local bookshop Isola Libri and I assisted him in the workshops held every weekend of April at Isola Pepe Verde. The workshops were open to the public - young and old. It was a beautiful experience working with so many people and getting to know the children of the neighbourhood, and the parade? Well, that was just magical. Just look at the video and see for yourself. Let's do it again next year!
Video by Emanuel Balbinot.
To read more about the events we held on the 14th, see here.
To see more photos, click here.
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Utopia Productions at Vio.me, Thessaloniki
(Mariette Schiltz with the flag designed by Angelo Castucci. Foto: Edith Poirier)
With Isola Art Center and RiMaflow, I attended the 2nd Euromed “Workers ‘Economy’ Meeting from October 28 to 30th, at the recovered factory Viome in Thessaloniki, Greece. This meeting is conceived as part of wider social processes aimed at social change on the basis of equality, solidarity, freedom and self-management.
Utopia Productions is an artistic event dedicated to the struggle of occupied and self-managed factories, which we consider like seeds of utopia in contemporary capitalist society, and as examples of indispensable concrete utopias.
(Here I am giving a short introduction to the videos we screened at the event Foto: Edith Poirier).
Thursday, October 23, 2014
The Vertical Jungle; Salon Orizzonti Occupati - Vienna Secession
Here are some details and a close-up of my drawing that was in exhibition during Isola Art Center's salon in Utopian Pulse – Flares in the Darkroom. The drawing is part of a series of drawings and a story I wrote all under the title The Vertical Jungle. The prototype of the storybook have been in several exhibitions with Isola Art Center such as the exhibition 1:1 at MSUM in Ljubljana. The book is being revised and improved, so more about that in the future.
(The photographs are not exactly the best, if anyone has some tips on how to photograph big drawings).
(The photographs are not exactly the best, if anyone has some tips on how to photograph big drawings).
Utopian Pulse – Flares in the Darkroom
Here are some photographs from our show Occupied Horizons at the Vienna Secession
that ran from 23 -30 September. It was part of the project Utopian Pulse –Flares in the Darkroom curated by Ines
Doujak and Oliver Ressler. In typical Isola Art Center style it functioned like a work in progress and grew as the week went on. A lot more happened then what is shown here, see Isola Art Center's website and Facebook.
View of the first exhibition space
Valentina Montisci and Kristina Borg painting Zanny Begg's Monument to the III International. Next to it the video by Ines Doujak and on the other side
A viewer in front of my work The Vertical Jungle.
working on the piece "Petition to Pope Francis for the Final Abolition of Hell" by Etcetera.
Edith working on her work The time of Anarchy, or the Time of Harmony?
Daniele Rossi printing the posters.
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The Secession with Bert Theis's banner on the façade.
Camilla Topuntoli Rabbit.
Monday, September 22, 2014
Next up: Utopian Pulse – Flares in the Darkroom
A research project by Ines Doujak and Oliver Ressler divided in 7 Salons
in collaboration with a group of 7 artist-curators
September 11–November 2, 2014
Salon Orizzonti Occupati/Occupied Horizons
curated by Bert Theis
September 24-30, 2014, opening Wednesday, September 24 at 19:00
Secession Friedrichstraße 12,
A-1010 Vienna, Austria
A-1010 Vienna, Austria
Isola Utopia - Fragments and Moments for New Utopias with Airfield Aerosuperficie del Sole, Amor Vacui Studio, Luca Andreolli, Aufo, Zanny Begg, Roberto Balletti and Claudio Tancetti, Emanuel Balbinot, Kristina Borg, Antonio Brizzioli, Tania Bruguera, Angelo Castucci, Antonio Cipriani, Francesco Citro, Cooperativa Nuovo Cilento, Comune di San Mauro Cilento, Ines Doujak, Nicola Ferrara, Fornace Falcone, Naima Faraò, Maddalena Fragnito, Igor Francia, Edna Gee, Mariam Ghani, Ghelostudio Architettura, Grupo Etcétera, Heinz-Norbert Jocks, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Isabell Lorey, Gianfranco Marelli, Valentina Montisci, Denis C. Novello, Walter Novello, Philippe Nathan/2001, Nikolay Oleynikov, Creative Olive, Maria Papadimitriou, Dan Perjovschi, Edith Poirier, Vincenzo Onida, Steve Piccolo, Project 2.0., Gerald Raunig, Oliver Ressler & Dario Azzellini, Daniele Rossi, Gak Sato, Mariette Schiltz, Christoph Schäfer, Milena Steinmetzer, Superstudio, Camilla Topuntoli, Transdizipinäres Planungsteam Milliardenstadt, Nikola Uzunowski, Flora Vannini, Jiang Zhi and others.
Info:
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Sunday, August 3, 2014
Friday, August 1, 2014
Isola Utopia
Isola Utopia
Isola Utopia
Fragments and moments for new utopias
Exhibitions, flights, presentations, debates, performances and music,
a project by Isola Art Center,
presented by Creative Olive,
supported by the Comune di San Mauro Cilento, Cooperativa Agricola Nuovo Cilento, Fornace Falcone
5-10 August, 20.00 – 24.00, San Mauro Cilento (Salerno)
Opening 5 August, 20.00
Presentation of the project, 24.7.2014, “Utopia Urbis”, Corte Catalana di Palazzo Pinto, Mercanti street 63, Salerno
Bad Museum, Zanny Begg, Emanuel Balbinot, Kristina Borg, Sarah Giulia Braun, Antonio Brizioli, Paolo Caffoni, Angelo Castucci, Antonio Cipriani, Francesco Citro, Creative Olive Team, Maddalena Fragnito, Edna Gee, Grupo Etcétera, Heinz-Norbert Jocks, Isabell Lorey, Francesco Lomonaco, Gianfranco Marelli, Valentina Montisci, Philippe Nathan, Denis C. Novello & Isola Art’s Club Band, Nikolay Oleynikov, Camilla Pin, Steve Piccolo, Gerald Raunig, Serio Collective (Edith Poirier, Daniele Rossi), Mariette Schiltz, Stefano Taccone, Claudio Tancetti, Bert Theis, Camilla Topuntoli, Nikola Uzunovski, Wei-Ning Yang, Jiang Zhi, Amor Vacui Studio, Laboratorio di Progettazione Ferrara, Ghelostudio Architettura, Project 2.0., the residents of San Mauro Cilento and others...
Press release Program from 5 to 10 August 2014 CreativeOlive 2014
"Only in us does this light still burn, and we are beginning a fantastic journey toward it, toward the implementation of the central concept of utopia. To find it, to find the right thing, for which it is worthy to live, to be organized, and to have time: that is why we go, why we cut new, metaphysically constitutive paths, summon what is not, build into the blue, and build ourselves into the blue, and there seek the true, the real, where the merely factual disappears - incipit vita nova." - Ernst Bloch, The Spirit of Utopia
Utopia! We searched for her continuously, we never met her, but she has always been close to us. When we occupied a former factory in the Isola neighbourhood in Milan and, together with the gardens, we converted it into a new model for a centre for art, philosophy, music, and other activities and events of the district. When we stood up to unscrupulous real estate developers, cynical politicians, turncoat architects and servile journalists. When together with the children of Isola we sang "Il ragazzo di Via Gluck" ("The Boy of Gluck Street") in front of the politicians of the district council, who had listened to us ... without ever understanding. When one night, together with Christoph, we painted his mural Strategic Embellishment created for the news kiosk of Isola. When we threw the seed bombs over the wire fence of a space that was still closed to the neighbourhood ... a space we wanted to open with the name of Isola Pepe Verde. When together with Macao we vacated the Galfa Tower in Milan and there we hung the banner ... "One could even imagine flying". When we tried to raise horizons with Nikola's solar cloud. Until, while flying to San Mauro Cilento in an orange bee-car, we finally met Utopia in one of our daydreams, and she told us:
"Devour the past utopias and your wishes will start to fly! It's true, all the old utopias have failed, or even worse, they have turned into dystopias. It's true; neoliberalism has imposed itself on a global level. It's true; the ‘gap’ between the rich and the poor has never been so wide as it is today. It's true that for many, nowadays, the only possible form of social and economic organisation seems to be the capitalist model, and they are totally reduced to trying to improve only little details, so as to lessen the possible harm. These fools believe that there is no alternative to a society based on the exploitation of nature, human beings and their creativity. They think art can only exist as a commoditised luxury set aside for the very rich.
What a lack of fantasy, what a lack of logical thinking!
For years the movements against specific, individual aspects of capitalism have become more and more widespread: against the closure of factories, companies and hospitals, against cultural and job insecurity, against the destruction of the welfare state, against austerity policies, against the privatization of the public sector, against financial policies favouring banks and multinational corporations, against urban planning that devastates urban and rural areas, against property speculation and against gentrification, against the progressive restriction of democratic rights and individual freedoms, against discrimination and violence against women, against war and injustice... To all this and more, you said 'No!', but it is now the time to get back to thinking about the 'Yes!'. The time of concrete utopias and fulfilling your desires has returned."
This is what Utopia said.
We looked at each other, and without hesitation we decided to dedicate our research project to Her. In fact, we have called it "Isola Utopia". A collective production which includes exhibitions and performances involving artists, students, residents, architects, curators, theorists, musicians, journalists and others, who will be all collecting and producing moments of thought and artworks for new, possible utopias.
In San Mauro Cilento, from 5 to 10 August, we present, through an exhibition “on the road”, the first results of the workshops cross-initiated this summer. Every evening conferences, debates and presentations will take place outdoors, to further explore different aspects of the concept of utopia and some of its concrete achievements. The days will conclude with the musical workshop in the town square, featuring the Isola Arts Club Band.
The project "Isola Utopia" started in San Mauro Cilento will be presented and developed at the Vienna Secession, Austria (24.9-30.9.2014), at the Survival Kit-Utopian City Festival in Riga, Latvia (4.9–28.9.2014), and in 2015 in Isola, the neighbourhood in Milan, as well as other places.
www.isolartcenter.org / tel: 0039 339 6057 111 / facebook Isola Art Center
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Isola Utopia
Program 5–10 August 2014
Tuesday 5 August: Isola Utopia
11.00-13.00 Flight of the Isola Sun Cloud at Piazza Notar Petillo
19.00-24.00 Opening of the exhibition
20.00, 21.00, 22.00 Guided tours departing from the school, via Provinciale 14, Casalsottano
21.00 Printing 4 Utopia, Screen printing workshop with Serio Collective (Edith Poirier, Daniele Rossi)
22.30 Musical workshop with Isola Art’s Club Band and local musicians, Piazza Europa
Wednesday 6 August: Desperately seeking Utopia
11.00-13.00 Flight of the Isola Sun Cloud at Piazza Notar Petillo
19.00-24.00 The exhibition is open to the public
20.00 Guided tours departing from school, via Provinciale 14, Casalsottano
21.30 Desperately seeking Utopia, Piazza Europa
Open debate with Emanuele Braga (choreographer and activist, Milan), Angelo Castucci (architect and artivist, Milan), Antonio Cipriani (journalist Globalist, Milan), Heinz-Norbert Jocks (art critic Kunstforum, Düsseldorf) Philippe Nathan (architect and curator, Luxembourg), Camilla Pin (activist and curator, Milan) Mariette Schiltz (artivist, Milan), Bert Theis (artivist, Milan). Live sketches by Maddalena Fragnito (artivist, Milan) and contributions by: Edna Gee (artivist, Johannesbourg), Isabell Lorey (political theorist, Berlin), Gerald Raunig (philosopher, Vienna)
23.00 Musical workshop with Isola Art’s Club Band and local musicians, Piazza Europa
Thursday 7 August: Isola is not a utopia, and utopia is not an island
11.00-13.00 Flight of the Isola Sun Cloud at Piazza Notar Petillo
19.00-24.00 The exhibition is open to the public
20.00 Guided tours departing from school, via Provinciale 14, Casalsottano
21.30 Book presentation Fight Specific Isola, Piazza Europa
With the authors Antonio Brizioli, Paolo Caffoni, Steve Piccolo. Presentation of the film Damnatio Memoriae (about gentrification process in Milano and Oslo) by Camilla Topuntoli and of the videoclip Culture don’t grow on trees with Emanuel Balbinot
23.00 Musical workshop with Isola Art’s Club Band and local musicians, Piazza Europa
Friday 8 August: Building into the blue
11.00-13.00 Flight of the Isola Sun Cloud at Piazza Notar Petillo
19.00-24.00 The exhibition is open to the public
20.00 Guided tours departing from school, via Provinciale 14, Casalsottano
20.00 Printing 4 Utopia, Screen printing workshop with Serio Collective (Edith Poirier, Daniele Rossi)
21.30 Building into the blue – Utopias of flying, Piazza Europa. Meeting with Bert Theis and Nikola Uzunovski, with the contribution of Engineer Claudio Tancetti, inventor of the flying Ape (small Italian three-wheel delivery car)
23.00 Musical workshop with Isola Art’s Club Band and local musicians, Piazza Europa
Saturday 9 August: Going beyond the Situationism
11.00-13.00 Flight of the Isola Sun Cloud at Piazza Notar Petillo
19.00-24.00 The exhibition is open to the public
20.00 Guided tours departing from school, via Provinciale 14, Casalsottano
20.00 Printing 4 Utopia, Screen printing workshop with Serio Collective (Edith Poirier, Daniele Rossi)
21.30 Ben oltre l’amara vittoria del situazionismo, che fare? - Vicolo 30, via Cappella 30. Debate with Gianfranco Marelli, Stefano Taccone, Bert Theis and the public
23.00 Concert with the Isola Art’s Club Band workshop and local musicians, Piazza Europa
Sunday 10 August: Concrete Utopias
11.00-13.00 Flight of the Isola Sun Cloud at Piazza Notar Petillo
19.00 Guided tours departing from school, via Provinciale 14, Casalsottano
20.00-24.00 The exhibition is open to the public
20.00 Printing 4 Utopia, Screen printing workshop with Serio Collective (Edith Poirier, Daniele Rossi)
21.30 Concrete Utopias – Architecture and Utopia, Piazza Europa. Meeting with Kristina Borg (artivist, Malta), Valentina Montisci (journalist Globalist, Milan), Philippe Nathan (architect and curator, Luxembourg), Amor Vacui Studio, Ghelostudio Architettura, Project 2.0. (Salerno), Lorenzo degli Esposti (AUFO, Milan)
23.00 Music with Isola Art’s Club Band and local musicians, Piazza Europa
Isola Utopia
Fragments and moments for new utopias
Exhibitions, flights, presentations, debates, performances and music,
a project by Isola Art Center,
presented by Creative Olive,
supported by the Comune di San Mauro Cilento, Cooperativa Agricola Nuovo Cilento, Fornace Falcone
5-10 August, 20.00 – 24.00, San Mauro Cilento (Salerno)
Opening 5 August, 20.00
Presentation of the project, 24.7.2014, “Utopia Urbis”, Corte Catalana di Palazzo Pinto, Mercanti street 63, Salerno
Bad Museum, Zanny Begg, Emanuel Balbinot, Kristina Borg, Sarah Giulia Braun, Antonio Brizioli, Paolo Caffoni, Angelo Castucci, Antonio Cipriani, Francesco Citro, Creative Olive Team, Maddalena Fragnito, Edna Gee, Grupo Etcétera, Heinz-Norbert Jocks, Isabell Lorey, Francesco Lomonaco, Gianfranco Marelli, Valentina Montisci, Philippe Nathan, Denis C. Novello & Isola Art’s Club Band, Nikolay Oleynikov, Camilla Pin, Steve Piccolo, Gerald Raunig, Serio Collective (Edith Poirier, Daniele Rossi), Mariette Schiltz, Stefano Taccone, Claudio Tancetti, Bert Theis, Camilla Topuntoli, Nikola Uzunovski, Wei-Ning Yang, Jiang Zhi, Amor Vacui Studio, Laboratorio di Progettazione Ferrara, Ghelostudio Architettura, Project 2.0., the residents of San Mauro Cilento and others...
Press release Program from 5 to 10 August 2014 CreativeOlive 2014
"Only in us does this light still burn, and we are beginning a fantastic journey toward it, toward the implementation of the central concept of utopia. To find it, to find the right thing, for which it is worthy to live, to be organized, and to have time: that is why we go, why we cut new, metaphysically constitutive paths, summon what is not, build into the blue, and build ourselves into the blue, and there seek the true, the real, where the merely factual disappears - incipit vita nova." - Ernst Bloch, The Spirit of Utopia
Utopia! We searched for her continuously, we never met her, but she has always been close to us. When we occupied a former factory in the Isola neighbourhood in Milan and, together with the gardens, we converted it into a new model for a centre for art, philosophy, music, and other activities and events of the district. When we stood up to unscrupulous real estate developers, cynical politicians, turncoat architects and servile journalists. When together with the children of Isola we sang "Il ragazzo di Via Gluck" ("The Boy of Gluck Street") in front of the politicians of the district council, who had listened to us ... without ever understanding. When one night, together with Christoph, we painted his mural Strategic Embellishment created for the news kiosk of Isola. When we threw the seed bombs over the wire fence of a space that was still closed to the neighbourhood ... a space we wanted to open with the name of Isola Pepe Verde. When together with Macao we vacated the Galfa Tower in Milan and there we hung the banner ... "One could even imagine flying". When we tried to raise horizons with Nikola's solar cloud. Until, while flying to San Mauro Cilento in an orange bee-car, we finally met Utopia in one of our daydreams, and she told us:
"Devour the past utopias and your wishes will start to fly! It's true, all the old utopias have failed, or even worse, they have turned into dystopias. It's true; neoliberalism has imposed itself on a global level. It's true; the ‘gap’ between the rich and the poor has never been so wide as it is today. It's true that for many, nowadays, the only possible form of social and economic organisation seems to be the capitalist model, and they are totally reduced to trying to improve only little details, so as to lessen the possible harm. These fools believe that there is no alternative to a society based on the exploitation of nature, human beings and their creativity. They think art can only exist as a commoditised luxury set aside for the very rich.
What a lack of fantasy, what a lack of logical thinking!
For years the movements against specific, individual aspects of capitalism have become more and more widespread: against the closure of factories, companies and hospitals, against cultural and job insecurity, against the destruction of the welfare state, against austerity policies, against the privatization of the public sector, against financial policies favouring banks and multinational corporations, against urban planning that devastates urban and rural areas, against property speculation and against gentrification, against the progressive restriction of democratic rights and individual freedoms, against discrimination and violence against women, against war and injustice... To all this and more, you said 'No!', but it is now the time to get back to thinking about the 'Yes!'. The time of concrete utopias and fulfilling your desires has returned."
This is what Utopia said.
We looked at each other, and without hesitation we decided to dedicate our research project to Her. In fact, we have called it "Isola Utopia". A collective production which includes exhibitions and performances involving artists, students, residents, architects, curators, theorists, musicians, journalists and others, who will be all collecting and producing moments of thought and artworks for new, possible utopias.
In San Mauro Cilento, from 5 to 10 August, we present, through an exhibition “on the road”, the first results of the workshops cross-initiated this summer. Every evening conferences, debates and presentations will take place outdoors, to further explore different aspects of the concept of utopia and some of its concrete achievements. The days will conclude with the musical workshop in the town square, featuring the Isola Arts Club Band.
The project "Isola Utopia" started in San Mauro Cilento will be presented and developed at the Vienna Secession, Austria (24.9-30.9.2014), at the Survival Kit-Utopian City Festival in Riga, Latvia (4.9–28.9.2014), and in 2015 in Isola, the neighbourhood in Milan, as well as other places.
www.isolartcenter.org / tel: 0039 339 6057 111 / facebook Isola Art Center
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Isola Utopia
Program 5–10 August 2014
Tuesday 5 August: Isola Utopia
11.00-13.00 Flight of the Isola Sun Cloud at Piazza Notar Petillo
19.00-24.00 Opening of the exhibition
20.00, 21.00, 22.00 Guided tours departing from the school, via Provinciale 14, Casalsottano
21.00 Printing 4 Utopia, Screen printing workshop with Serio Collective (Edith Poirier, Daniele Rossi)
22.30 Musical workshop with Isola Art’s Club Band and local musicians, Piazza Europa
Wednesday 6 August: Desperately seeking Utopia
11.00-13.00 Flight of the Isola Sun Cloud at Piazza Notar Petillo
19.00-24.00 The exhibition is open to the public
20.00 Guided tours departing from school, via Provinciale 14, Casalsottano
21.30 Desperately seeking Utopia, Piazza Europa
Open debate with Emanuele Braga (choreographer and activist, Milan), Angelo Castucci (architect and artivist, Milan), Antonio Cipriani (journalist Globalist, Milan), Heinz-Norbert Jocks (art critic Kunstforum, Düsseldorf) Philippe Nathan (architect and curator, Luxembourg), Camilla Pin (activist and curator, Milan) Mariette Schiltz (artivist, Milan), Bert Theis (artivist, Milan). Live sketches by Maddalena Fragnito (artivist, Milan) and contributions by: Edna Gee (artivist, Johannesbourg), Isabell Lorey (political theorist, Berlin), Gerald Raunig (philosopher, Vienna)
23.00 Musical workshop with Isola Art’s Club Band and local musicians, Piazza Europa
Thursday 7 August: Isola is not a utopia, and utopia is not an island
11.00-13.00 Flight of the Isola Sun Cloud at Piazza Notar Petillo
19.00-24.00 The exhibition is open to the public
20.00 Guided tours departing from school, via Provinciale 14, Casalsottano
21.30 Book presentation Fight Specific Isola, Piazza Europa
With the authors Antonio Brizioli, Paolo Caffoni, Steve Piccolo. Presentation of the film Damnatio Memoriae (about gentrification process in Milano and Oslo) by Camilla Topuntoli and of the videoclip Culture don’t grow on trees with Emanuel Balbinot
23.00 Musical workshop with Isola Art’s Club Band and local musicians, Piazza Europa
Friday 8 August: Building into the blue
11.00-13.00 Flight of the Isola Sun Cloud at Piazza Notar Petillo
19.00-24.00 The exhibition is open to the public
20.00 Guided tours departing from school, via Provinciale 14, Casalsottano
20.00 Printing 4 Utopia, Screen printing workshop with Serio Collective (Edith Poirier, Daniele Rossi)
21.30 Building into the blue – Utopias of flying, Piazza Europa. Meeting with Bert Theis and Nikola Uzunovski, with the contribution of Engineer Claudio Tancetti, inventor of the flying Ape (small Italian three-wheel delivery car)
23.00 Musical workshop with Isola Art’s Club Band and local musicians, Piazza Europa
Saturday 9 August: Going beyond the Situationism
11.00-13.00 Flight of the Isola Sun Cloud at Piazza Notar Petillo
19.00-24.00 The exhibition is open to the public
20.00 Guided tours departing from school, via Provinciale 14, Casalsottano
20.00 Printing 4 Utopia, Screen printing workshop with Serio Collective (Edith Poirier, Daniele Rossi)
21.30 Ben oltre l’amara vittoria del situazionismo, che fare? - Vicolo 30, via Cappella 30. Debate with Gianfranco Marelli, Stefano Taccone, Bert Theis and the public
23.00 Concert with the Isola Art’s Club Band workshop and local musicians, Piazza Europa
Sunday 10 August: Concrete Utopias
11.00-13.00 Flight of the Isola Sun Cloud at Piazza Notar Petillo
19.00 Guided tours departing from school, via Provinciale 14, Casalsottano
20.00-24.00 The exhibition is open to the public
20.00 Printing 4 Utopia, Screen printing workshop with Serio Collective (Edith Poirier, Daniele Rossi)
21.30 Concrete Utopias – Architecture and Utopia, Piazza Europa. Meeting with Kristina Borg (artivist, Malta), Valentina Montisci (journalist Globalist, Milan), Philippe Nathan (architect and curator, Luxembourg), Amor Vacui Studio, Ghelostudio Architettura, Project 2.0. (Salerno), Lorenzo degli Esposti (AUFO, Milan)
23.00 Music with Isola Art’s Club Band and local musicians, Piazza Europa
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Coming soon: Isola Utopia
End of next week I will be heading south to San Mauro Cilento, (Salerno, Italy) with Isola Art Center. We have been invited by Creative Olive a local association to construct a sort of in progress workshop there. Many things will happen. It also serve as part of an ongoing series of our current discussion on Utopia also in Riga and in September in Vienna. There will be some interesting people and great artists involved. The official exhibition will be from 5 - August.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Saturday, February 1, 2014
ONGOING FIGHT-SPECIFIC ISOLA in Venice
A cura di Valeria Mancinelli e Camilla Pin
Con Emanuel Balbinot, Dafne Boggeri, Emanuele Braga, Antonio Brizioli, Tania Bruguera, Angelo Castucci, Walter Donaldson, Naima Faraò, Giuseppe Fanizza, Maddalena Fragnito, Igor Francia, Fuori Dal Vaso, Edna Gee, Isola Art’s Club Band, KINGS, Andrea Kunkl, Valeria Muledda, Denis C. Novello, Walter Novello, Vincenzo Onida, out, Maria Papadimitriou, Dan Perjovschi, Steve Piccolo, Edith Poirier, Rhaze, Daniele Rossi, Gak Sato, Christoph Schäfer, Mariette Schiltz, Mirko Smerdel, Bert Theis, Camilla Topuntoli, Stefano Topuntoli, Flora Vannini, Daniele Vitale (Archivio Politecnico), Wei-Ning Yang.
La mostra presenta la complessità del percorso di Isola Art Center e dei conflitti urbani che hanno segnato il quartiere, una sperimentazione che dagli anni Settanta a oggi è in continuo mutamento e ha trovato il modo di rinnovarsi e rimanere radicata al territorio. Attraverso pubblicazioni, disegni e installazioni verranno narrate le due modalità di azione di Isola Art Center: i contro progetti alla gentrificazione del quartiere e la creazione di immaginari altri realizzati dagli artisti a sostegno della lotta dai primi anni Duemila a oggi. Parte integrante della mostra sarà anche l’esperienza, tuttora in corso, di Isola Pepe Verde che sta realizzando uno spazio verde autogestito, comunitario e dal basso per il quartiere.
Il giorno dell'inaugurazione alle ore 18 verrà presentato il nuovo lavoro CULTURE DON’T GROW ON TREES. Video di Emanuel Balbinot, Angelo Castucci, Edith Poirier, Mariette Schiltz, Bert Theis, Flora Vannini e Wei-Ning Yang. Musica: Walter Donaldson - Testo: Steve Piccolo - Voce: Naima Faraò, Steve Piccolo - Stilofono: Naima Faraò - Basso: Igor Francia - Chitarra: Denis C. Novello - Percussioni: Walter Novello - Fagotto: Vincenzo Onida - Ukulele: Steve Piccolo - Theremin: Gak Sato.
Dalle ore 19:30 alle 21:30, inoltre, sarà presente il laboratorio di produzione serigrafica con stampe di Maddalena Fragnito, Edna Gee, Dan Perjovschi, Camilla Pin, Edith Poirier, Daniele Rossi.
S.a.L.E. Docks
Dorsoduro 265
Punta della Dogana
Venezia
http://www.saledocks.org
Punta della Dogana
Venezia
http://www.saledocks.org
Silkscreen workshop * Ongoing Fight-Specific Isola in Venice *
Photograph by Leah Corra Messersmith.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Fight-Specific Isola Journal
Contributions by Christoph Schäfer,Maddalena Fragnito,Mara Ferreri, Davide Caselli, Edith Poirier, Dan Perjovschi,Camilla Pin, Edna Gee, Marco Senaldi, Bert Theis, Mariette Schiltz and Daniele Rossi.
Sunday, December 15, 2013
The book Fight Specific Isola coming to South Africa
I will be heading back to South Africa soon, and I can bring with me some copies of the books Fight Specific Isola. It is a great book for those interested in the role of art in urban transformation, urban theory and social movements. It has various contributors: Bert Theis (Isola Art Center), Charles Esche (director,Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven), Gerald Raunig (philospher, Vienna), Christoph Schafer (Park Fiction, Hamburg) Atelier d'Architecture Autogeree (Paris), Tiziana Villani (philosopher, Milan) and so on. A very particular case study worth reading. The book costs 20 euro, so about R 280. If anyone is interested in a copy, send me an email: ednagee@gmail.com
"The publication traces the long history of the Isola area of Milan and the organic, spontaneous progress of the Isola Art Center over the past 10 years and more.
Featuring texts and many images, the book tells the story of an artistic and urban transformation, led by artists, who often had to invent tools and concepts along the way. Fight-Specific Isola serves as an example of how to act on the ground in today’s urban condition.
Different narratives of history, artistic intervention and action allow the reader to trace the complex idea of collectivity, solidarity and “fight-specificity”.
Testing new terms such as “dirty cube” and “dispersed center” this book shows a possible way to respond to the constant pressure of neoliberal development and gentrification".
To see more information:http://www.isolartcenter.org/index_eng.php
The contents:
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Isola Art Center went to Ljubljana
With Isola Art Center I went to Ljubljana, a beautiful city in Slovenia, to participate in the exhibition 1:1 curated by Zdenka Badovinac at the Museum of Contemporary art (MSUM). We spent a week installing and preparing the space to for our Lab Fight-specific Isola. In exhibition was also the prototype of the book I am working on. Some images from the installation and exhibition and workshop we did. There are more photos on Isola Art Center Facebook page and site.
In Ljubljana, from the roof of the museum.
Figuring out the installation and placement
The crew in Milan before departure.
And to finish, a fun video made by Camilla Topuntoli of the week.
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