Month: May 2016

The exhibition at Del Infinito, which presents three projects by Straschnoy from the period 2003-2006, will close in a few days.

In a time when curators and art historians are beginning to write the history of the early 2000s in Buenos Aires, The Great Morning / Winds of long ago / Blow through the pine-trees places Straschnoy’s work in context. The exhibition highlights the way in which Straschnoy ́s projects proposed new forms of dialogue between the forces in struggle in the arts and in the political arena on those years. Taking a cue from the projects on display, the exhibition merges two ways of dealing with objects from the past, most of which were never meant to be exhibited but which are now the only leftovers from the projects they belong to: it is a retrospective from a curatorial viewpoint, as well as an artistic project on how to present pieces that were never realised. It is old and new work at the same time. It deals with the ideas of revisionism, rewriting, reconstruction and conservation: it is an exhibition about time and its dialogues.

Presented at Del Infinito, curated by Javier Villa

Av. Quintana 325 P.B, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

From 12 May to 12 June 2016
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For more information about Axel Straschnoy please click here.

English

On Monday May 30 Gabriela Galati will present ECCENTRIC to students of the MA in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies and of the Academic Master in Photography and Visual Design.
The lecture / presentation will focus on the process of development of the project, and its specific traits, namely, the unavoidable relationship between art & research.

After the presentation, there will be time for questions and discussion.

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Italiano

Lecture / Presentazione: Lunedì 30 maggio Gabriela Galati presenterà ECCENTRIC presso la NABA-Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano

Lunedì 30 maggio Gabriela Galati presenterà ECCENTRIC presso la NABA-Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano agli studenti del biennio in Arti Visive e Studi Curatoriali e del Master in Photography and Visual Design. La conferenza / presentazione si concentrerà sul processo di sviluppo del progetto e le sue caratteristiche specifiche: il rapporto imprescindibile tra arte e ricerca.

Dopo la presentazione, ci sarà tempo per domande e dibattito.

Image caption: Axel Straschnoy, Kilpisjärvellä (in Kilpisjärvi) / Planetarium Still Series (2012). Framed inkjet print; 100 x 100 cm. Edition of 5+2 AP.

Ivana Adaime Makac’s Le Banquet is on view at the exhibition All Around Us at Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, until June 19.

This exhibition stands in awe of the quintillions of bugs that have inhabited our planet for millions of years and the complex relationship they maintain with our species. The works included here transform our tiny cohabitants superpowers into human-scale experiences, in an attempt to examine our conflicting relationship with insects. – Ali Momeni, Curator

Participating artists:  Jennifer Angus,  Daniel Campos, Garnet Hertz, Ivana Adaime Makac, Robin Meier & Andre Gwerder, Nathan Morehouse, Daniel Zurek& Sebastian Echeverri, Matthijs Munnik, Stephanie Ross, Jeff Shaw of Burghs Bee, Susana Soares, Bingrui Tang+CMU CREATE Lab

Wood Street Galleries
601 Wood Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15222

+1 (412) 471-5605
Info@woodstreetgalleries.org

For more info on All Around Us, please click here.

For more info on Ivana Adaime-Makac and Le Banquet, please click here.

PIANONIGHT – MASSIMILIANO VIEL

“Costellazioni”

M. VIEL, K. STOCKHAUSEN

Versione per pianoforte solo di “Tierkreis” di Stockhausen e prima assoluta per pianoforte ed elettronica di “Costellazioni” di Viel. In collaborazione con Corriere della Sera.

MASSIMILIANO VIEL – COSTELLAZIONI, per pianoforte e live electronics. Costellazioni è uno studio sullo stato dell’opera d’arte nell’epoca dell’incorporazione tecnologica e sensoriale. Nonostante si tratti di una partitura notata con precisione, Costellazioni è scritto in modo da cambiare a seconda del tempo e del luogo di ciascuna performance perndendo come riferimento la posizione delle stelle che si trovano sopra l’orizzonte nel luogo e nell’istante dell’esecuzione. KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN – TIERKREIS, versione per pianoforte di Massimiliano Viel. Tierkreis è una collezione di 12 piccoli brani, ognuno dedicato a un segno zodiacale, composta da Stockhausen nel 1975. La brevità, ogni brano dura circa un minuto, l’astrattezza della struttura in forma di melodia e accompagnamento e la scelta dell’organico originario, 12 carillon uno per ogni brano, ne fanno una sorta di “arte della formula”, ovvero un compendio di tecniche con cui il compositore a partire dagli anni ’70 ha realizzato le “formule”, i principi ordinatori di gran parte dei brani che Stockhausen ha composto fino alla soglia del 2000. “Tierkreis” è un brano “variabile”: ogni interprete ha la libertà di scegliere l’organico, il numero di ripetizioni per ogni segno e le modalità di sviluppo di ogni brano, così che ad oggi si tratta forse dell’opera di Stockhausen più eseguita, ma anche più mistificata. La versione per pianoforte di Massimiliano Viel, cerca pur nel rispetto delle strutture compositive originarie, una prospettiva che partendo dalle diverse versioni realizzate dallo stesso Stockhausen, interagisca con esse in un dialogo musicale e spirituale.

BIO
Massimiliano Viel è compositore, musicista e ricercatore. Ha collaborato come compositore, tastierista e sound designer con ensemble, orchestre, teatri e con compositori come K.Stockhausen, L.Berio e F.Romitelli, in concerti, eventi e tour europei ed extraeuropei. Oltre alla realizzazione di partiture per strumenti acustici ed elettronici, dallo strumento solista alla grande orchestra, si è interessato alla relazione tra musica e le altre forme espressive, realizzando performance e installazioni in stretto contatto con il teatro, le arti visive e la danza. È membro del collettivo di pratiche audiovisive Otolab e insegna presso il Conservatorio di Bolzano.

Sabato 21 maggio, ore 2:30

BASE Milano: Via Bergognone, 34-20144, Milano.

Per maggiori informazioni su Massimiliano Viel si prega di cliccare qui.

Per maggiori informazioni su Piano City Milano si prega di cliccare qui.

Axel Straschnoy‘s film La Figure de la Terre (2012) will be screened at EMAP 2016, which will take place in Seoul from May 24 through the 29.

EMAP 2016
9th Ewha International Media Art Presentation
May 24(Tue)-May 29(Sun)
Ewha Womans University Campus

EMAP, Ewha Media Art Presentation, is since 2001 an open-air sound and moving image festival of high international standard in a central area of Seoul. Occurring each May, at the height of the Korean spring season, EMAP uses the beautiful and varied sceneries of the campus area of Ewha Womans University to stage an event equally directed to the large audience of students as well as a general public of thousands. This year, when Ewha Womans University celebrates its 130 year anniversary, it has been important to create an event of unprecedented scale and quality. The history, scale, and content of EMAP has established it as an international event, carving a seal in the art world next in line to the Gwangju and Pusan Biennials, and to the Seoul Media Art Biennale.

At EMAP some of the finest Korean artists from the field of sound and moving image meet a rich selection of established as well as young international artists. During an intense festival week, the Ewha Womans University Campus is turned into crossroad for artistic exchange where the enthusiasm of audience responses is forged with acclaim from art professionals.

For more information on the program please click here.

For more information on Axel Straschnoy please click here.

CPR FILM FESTIVAL

MAS CERCA DEL BORDE (CLOSER TO THE BORDER) curated by Tainá Azeredo.
The experience of traveling, the moving across the boundaries, the innumerable invisible lines that define what is on that or the other side. Más Cerca del Borde (Closer to the Border) takes the shape of a film cycle that touches marginal issues, and It’s here, at this border where structures, languages, conducts, politics, histories, dreams and traumas are defined. The sequence of videos translates the impossibility of staying in both sides of the line at the same time. The complexity of this action of passing from one side to the other is hard to identify just with the eyes, which cannot escape from the fact that they are looking from the inside out. There is no center; the line is invisible to whom is trying to see it, but extremely real for those who are in one or the other side.

The film by the Argentinian artist Axel Straschnoy, La Figure de la Terre, is based on the homonymous book wrote by the French scientist Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, that describes the scientific expedition conducted by him in 1736 through the River Tornio Valley to prove the real shape of the Earth. On the film, 19th century and contemporary elements are placed in parallel, bringing different aspects that cross themselves geographically and temporally.

SUNDAY, MAY 22 – 4PM. CPR Film Festival
Closer to the Border, Curated by Tainá Azeredo (Brazil)

A selection of six films address the limits by which structures, language, values, policies, stories, desires and traumas are defined. Azeredo, a participant in CPR 2015: Eastern and Northern Europe, was invited to curate this Film Festival for the 25th anniversary edition of arteBA. Artists: Jaan Toomik (Estonia); Axel Straschnoy (Finland / Argentina); Regina Parra (Brazil); Marge Monko (Estonia); Minna Långström (Finland). Moderated by Jorgelina Dacil Infer, Director of Development. Presented by Carmen Ferreyra, CPR Director. With the support of Fundación Iberoamericana de Finlandia.

SUNDAY, MAY 22 – 5PM                 First screening
SUNDAY, MAY 22 – 6.30PM            Second screening

CPR Film Festival is a series of film and video exhibitions around the world, by curators who have participated of the programs. Featuring works by artists living in cities visited during our Core Programs, CPR Film Festival is one of the platforms that CPR provides for the professional development of our curators in residence.

For more information about Axel Straschnoy please click here.

For more information about CPR Festival please click here.

Please scroll down for English summary.

Il volume Mondi altri. Processi di soggetivazione nell’era postumana a partire del pensiero di Antonio Caronia, a cura di Amos Bianchi e Giovanni Leghissa è in stampa e sarà disponibile a brevissimo.
Il giorno mercoledì 11 maggio 2016 si terrà una prima presentazione del volume presso la NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano, via Carlo Darwin 2o.

Mondi altri intende, attraverso contributi mirati, riattualizzare il pensiero di Antonio Caronia e i suoi temi di interesse per fornire alla comunità scientifica e, in generale, a chi abbia a cuore la performatività del pensiero critico, una serie di saggi accomunati dall’ambizione di fornire un’agenda di temi di riflessione per il periodo a venire. Fine dell’Antropocene, uscita dal Neolitico, postumanesimo, il cyborg, gli eccessi di potere, il mondo delle reti, lo statuto contemporaneo dell’arte, Dick, Ballard, Foucault: se c’è una specificità nell’impianto di fondo della presente proposta teorica specificità che connette l’interrogazione del presente al percorso di riflessione inaugurato da Caronia l’analisi dei percorsi di soggettivazione va inserita sullo sfondo di una deep history che prenda in esame anche gli invarianti antropologici, che sappia cioè sottrarre il discorso sul bios alle derive fascistoidi della psicologia evolutiva o della sociobiologia (le quali non a caso sono sistematicamente affini al discorso economico neoliberale dominante). Il tema del postumano, articolato a partire dal riconoscimento che non siamo ancora usciti dal neolitico, non aspira a instaurare un’estetica dell’esistenza, buona solo per creare una nuova forma di distinzione (nel senso di Bourdieu). Più in profondità, si tratta di cogliere a partire da quale svolta antropologica radicale sia possibile costruire utopie concrete, basate su inedite forme di socializzazione.

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English

The book Mondi altri. Processi di soggetivazione nell’era postumana a partire del pensiero di Antonio Caronia, edited by Amos Bianchi and Giovanni Leghissa, is currently in print and will be available very soon.

A first presentation of the book will be held on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan, in Via Carlo Darwin 20.

For more information on the presentation please click here.

The exhibition at Del Infinito presents three projects by Straschnoy from the period 2003-2006, a period which roughly begins with his invitation to take part in the exhibition Ex-Argentina and ends with his move to Helsinki and the closing down of his studio. What is peculiar to The Builder (2003),  Studio (2005), and The Projects Medley Studio Dra (2006) is that, even if they take the form of projects, their subject matter is the artist’s studio. Furthermore, the first two were never realised and while parts of The Builder appeared in previous exhibitions this is the first comprehensive presentation of both projects.
The three projects were conceived in a peculiar socio-political and cultural context. At the beginning of the 2000s —just after the major crisis of 2001—two ideological ways of approaching art were in confrontation: on the one hand, project artists dealing with socio-political issues mostly in the public space; on the other, the artists of the Centro Cultural Rojas defending the ornamental object produced inside the studio. Straschnoy emerged in the context of a new generation that pushed forward the new premise that the categories of political projects and the production of studio-based objects should be ignored or merged. In either way, the antagonism that marked Argentine art since the early avant-gardes was rendered inoperative.
In a time when curators and art historians are beginning to write the history of the early 2000s in Buenos Aires, The Great Morning / Winds of long ago / Blow through the pine-trees places Straschnoy’s work in context. The exhibition highlights the way in which Straschnoy ́s projects proposed new forms of dialogue between the forces in struggle in the arts and in the political arena on those years. Taking a cue from the projects on display, the exhibition merges two ways of dealing with objects from the past, most of which were never meant to be exhibited but which are now the only leftovers from the projects they belong to: it is a retrospective from a curatorial viewpoint, as well as an artistic project on how to present pieces that were never realised. It is old and new work at the same time. It deals with the ideas of revisionism, rewriting, reconstruction and conservation: it is an exhibition about time and its dialogues.

Straschnoy’s work will also be on view in Buenos Aires between May 18 and 22 at arteBA, the local art fair, in: Oasis, Dixit 2016, curated by Lara Marmor, Sebastián Vidal Mackinson, and Federico Baeza; CPR Film F estival, curated by Tainá Azeredo (Sunday 22 May at 15:00); and Del Infinito’s booth (C4). He is also participating in Bosquejar Esbozar Proyectar {tomo II], at Galería Quimera, curated by Santiago Bengolea and Javier Aparicio.
The exhibition is jointly produced by Kolme Perunaa and Del Infinito.

Presented at Del Infinito, curated by Javier Villa

Av. Quintana 325 P.B, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

From 12 May to 12 June 2016
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For more information about Axel Straschnoy please click here.