AlbumArte
Presents
ARKAD
Publication edited by Lori Adragna, Gandolfo Gabriele David and Andrea Kantos
Graphics Studio Analogique
Postmedia Books (2022)
Produced thanks to the support of the Italian Council (7th edition, 2019) program to promote contemporary Italian art in the world of the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture.
Texts by:
Lori Adragna, Analogique, Sonia Andresano, Francesca Arri, Arteria Mediterranea, Christian Caliandro, Iole Carollo, Casa Sponge, Eleonora Chiesa, Coast Guard Girrls, Cristina Dinello Cobianchi, Dimora OZ, Gianluca Collica, Andrea Cusumano, Gandolfo G. David, Gianluca D’incà Levis, Modesta di Paola, Mauro Filippi, Andrea Kantos, Maria Giovanna Musso, Santa Nastro, Isabella Pers, Tiziana Pers, Leandro Pisano, Pixelache, Georges Salameh, Pier Paolo Scelsi, Michele Vaccaro
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2023 6:30 PM
Sonia Andresano, Giovanni Gaggia and Mona Lisa Tina will speak with the curators.
AlbumArte | Via Flaminia 122, Rome
On Wednesday, March 15, 2023, at 6:30 p.m., AlbumArte will present the publication ARKAD, which grew out of the art project of the same name, curated by Dimora OZ, articulated as an open, traveling residency that included numerous curators, artists, events, exhibitions, performances, installations, interventions, talks, institutions, places and countries. Both ARKAD and Dimora OZ have expressed themselves as fluid vectors of shared experience and encounter. Dimora OZ is an art-curatorial group based in Palermo. The group’s production explores areas of curating, producing and promoting art through a multidisciplinary approach. ARKAD and all its processes have been promoted by KAD Kalsa Art District Palermo, supported by the Italian Council and have been part of the programming of Manifesta 13, Les Parallèles du Sud in Marseille and BURN__ Festival in Finland.
ARKAD, which flowed into this book, represents the natural development of some artistic practices and research born within Dimora OZ and in particular from 2018 during Manifesta 12 in Palermo. The book edited by Lori Adragna, Gandolfo Gabriele David and Andrea Kantos, with graphic design by Studio Analogique, is published byPostmedia Books, with the contribution of Mic with regard to the support for artistic promotion of the programItalian Council.
The publication collects about two years of projects, talks, exhibitions, and performances that occurred mainly during Manifesta 13 Les Parallèles Du Sud. And so it is that the Kin Line Legacy derived from Donna Haraway’s statement (Making Kin), reflections on OOO (Oriented Object Ontology) or sections such as Performative Resistance and Alliances, represent important suggestions of an ever-present reality capable of accommodating multiple truths. In the contemporary world, now launched toward the creation of analog and digital, hybrid and meticulous bodies and works that seek sap, fluidity and representation, ARKAD, similarly to Dimora OZ, stands as an imaginary place in which to try to resist together. ARKAD presents experiences and contributions made in the context of Manifesta 13, Pixelache Festival, A.R.T Rethinks Transformation, and finally the Italian Council, which, through the support of the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, has enabled all stages of research, development and publication of the project.
Texts:
Lori Adragna, Analogique, Sonia Andresano, Francesca Arri, Arteria Mediterranea, Christian Caliandro, Iole Carollo, Casa Sponge, Eleonora Chiesa, Coast Guard Girrls, Cristina Dinello Cobianchi, Dimora OZ, Gianluca Collica, Andrea Cusumano, Gandolfo G. David, Gianluca D’incà Levis, Modesta di Paola, Mauro Filippi, Andrea Kantos, Maria Giovanna Musso, Santa Nastro, Isabella Pers, Tiziana Pers, Leandro Pisano, Pixelache, Georges Salameh, Pier Paolo Scelsi, Michele Vaccaro.
Artists, curators e critics:
Lori Adragna, Analogique, Sonia Andresano, Andrea Aquilanti, Francesca Arri, Elena Bellantoni, Peter Bracke, Stefan Bressel, Simone Cametti, Barbara Cammarata, Alessandro Chemie, Eleonora Chiesa, Cristina Dinello Cobianchi, Gandolfo Gabriele David, Daniele Di Luca, Gianluca D’incà Levis, Gino d’Ugo, Église (Iole Carollo, Francesco Cucchiara, Giuseppe Tornetta, Simona Scaduto, Michele Vaccaro), Koen Fillet, Pietro Fortuna, Giovanni Gaggia, Andrea Kantos, Riikka Kevo, Margherita Merega, Juan Pablo Macías, Vera Mormino, Marjatta Oja, Isabella Pers, Tiziana Pers, Giacomo Rizzo, Georges Salameh, Daniela Spaletra, Tomasz Szrama, Michele Tiberio, Mona Lisa Tina, Massimo Uberti, Leena e Oula Valkeapää, Virginia Zanetti.
Partner:
aA29 Project Room, AlbumArte, Analogique, BAPS, Casa Sponge, CREA, Dolomiti Contemporanee, Église, Fourteen ArTellaro, GAD, KAD, KaOZ, Liminaria, MeNO, Museo di Santa Croce in Genova, Oratorio Santa Maria (Selàa), Orto Botanico di Palermo, PUSH, Pixelache, RAVE, Rizzuto Gallery, Scuola Popolare Villa Romana.
Media Partner: Artribune
Biographical notes of participants:
Lori Adragna is a curator and art critic, founder of BAPS, Bridge Art Performance Studies, a project for the production, research and promotion of contemporary art with a focus on the Performing arts. She writes for numerous journals in the field in Italy and abroad. She recently published Il Corpo delle Donne, Inside Art editions, and Performative Habitats with Egle Oddo, a winning project of the 8th Italian Council, resulting in the book published by Postmediabooks, 2022. She was a consultant for the Ministry of Cultural Heritage in the editing of Memorabilia, Laterza; collaborator-author for the Treccani Italian Encyclopedia Institute and content editor at Editalia Arte IPZS. Sonia Andresano Born in Salerno in 1983, she lives and works between Rome and Milan. She attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and graduated in Art History at the University “La Sapienza” in Rome. In his works the internal movement of an action can be a snapshot of a becoming crystallized in a moment, erected as a symbol of a wide range of experiences. Digging into his own history, he documents gestures and movements, isolating fragments traceable to the before or after of a journey. Identity and nomadism delineate the pair of an emotional poetics, an eventful logistics translated through objects, gestures and actions that inevitably lead to a new departure. His works range from sculpture to photography, from video to sound art. Recent exhibitions include: (2020) Allegra ma non troppo, AlbumArte – Rome, curated by Daniela Cotimbo; (2020) Permesso di sosta e fermata, Atelier d’Artista, Mercati di Traiano – Museo dei Fori Imperiali – Rome, curated by Maria Francesca Guida; (2021) BARCODE, curated by AlbumArte, Dimora OZ and Analogique, part of the ARKAD project collateral event of Manifesta 13 Marseille – Les Parallèles du Sud and collateral event of FUORI – Quadriennale di Roma; (2021) NUNC EST BIBENDUM NUNC PEDE LIBERO PULSANDA TELLUS, BienNolo – Milano, a cura di Matteo Bergamini, Rossana Ciocca e Gianni Romano; (2021) THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME, ex fabbrica Chinotto Neri – Roma, a cura di Giuliana Benassi; (2022) Alla Consolle, Sound Corner 62, Auditorium Parco della Musica – Roma, a cura di Anna Cestelli Guidi, testo di Claudio Libero Pisano. Gandolfo G. David is a visual artist and performer, working between Palermo and San Sebastian. In his research he investigates and elaborates ecological and social issues through a multidisciplinary and participatory artistic practice. His works engage with the material and immaterial heritage of the communities involved and the territories in which he intervenes, finding personal insight through the tools of drawing and painting. His artistic research is supported by several private foundations, public institutions and art spaces and is presented in numerous international events. A promoter of various socio-cultural activities, he is co-founder and coordinator of Dimora Oz. He recently published The Bread House for the joint Dimora Oz and Postmediabooks editions, which collects his decades of experience in community projects centered on bread. Giovanni Gaggia In 2008, he founded “Casa Sponge,” a place of hospitality and refuge for artists. In 2016 he published the book “Inventarium,” which was presented in many Italian institutions. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions, residency projects and conferences on social and political issues. His performances have been presented in theaters, galleries and festivals. In 2019 he opens the Beverly Pepper pavilion, collateral of the 58th Venice Biennale, with one of his performances. In 2020 he creates the image for the 16th Day of the Contemporary promoted by AMACI for the MUSMA Museum of Contemporary Sculpture in Matera. One of the four covers of ESPOARTE 110 to celebrate the magazine’s 20th anniversary is dedicated to him. Since 2021 The Omero State Tactile Museum in Ancona has permanently hosted his multi-voice project “What was supposed to happen”: that is, art as civic memory. The entire process is recounted in the artist’s book of the same name, NFC editions. In the same year, “Mauro Uliassi meets/meets Giovanni Gaggia” comes out for the Effusioni di Gusto series, Maretti editore, and he makes two solo shows “Ho visto un’alba blu” at the Museum of Ceramics in Savona and “Il tempo se ne va” at MUSMA Museum of Contemporary Sculpture in Matera. In 2022, he exhibited works made over the past 10 years on the theme of the Ustica massacre at the RISO Museum in Palermo. He is the co-founder of the new Gaggia-Dubbini formation, with which they will win the Sculpture Prize and also the overall winner of the seventh Arteam Cup award. Mona Lisa Tina lives and works in Bologna, Italy. Born in Francavilla Fontana (BR) in 1977, she graduated in 2005 in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and specialized in 2012 in Art Therapy at Art Therapy Italiana. She is the teaching referent of the Three-Year Course in Art Therapy at LE NUOVE ARTI TERAPIE – address Visual and Performing Arts held in Bologna, Florence, Rome and Milan, Director Oliviero Rossi. Mona Lisa Tina places at the center of all her reflections the Body as a place of continuous psychic and physical transformative processes. Within the performative actions she promotes a symbolic dimension of self-awareness and a real reappropriation of identity. The artist intends to propose an “alternative” physicality that breaks free from standardized models of beauty, exhibiting it as an open symbolic space and a vehicle for meaningful communication on multiple planes of interpretation. He has exhibited at museums in Italy and abroad, and in galleries and contemporary art research spaces. She conducts seminars and workshops on the foundational aspects of her artistic investigation, as well as edited and participated in many publications dealing with the expressive language of performance and the centrality of the body.
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