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6/5/2010

Border Transits

91mQ art project space, Berlin

curated by Valeria De Simoni / Massimiliano Messieri

For one week, 91mQ in Berlin will host Border Transits and become the scanario for a dialogue between visual art and music. The event is conceived by the two curators as a sort of festival or working week. A group show of Italian artists will be presented along with two concerts, workshops and lectures. As the title recalls the event is dedicated to the concept of border, or better, of border trascending with a particular attention to border crossers and to that specific area known as border zone where access is rather prevented or encouraged, that area where border is a point of contact.

In the upcoming Autumn of 2010 the group exhibit Border Transits will be hosted in the neighbourhood of San Salvario in Turin as part of the 6th edition of the Paratissima event. The conceptions of border are many and they are continually subject to change.

As developed in the 19th century border referred to a limit, a barrier, and was specifically related with topography, geography and law. Originally border was intended as a visible line of separation between political, social, cultural and economic spaces. During the years many fields of application developed this concept, from philosophy to mathematics, from psychology to art, with different implications and connotations. Borders develop in our every day lives and discourses and therefore are to be considered very dynamic phenomenons with a transitorial character. Often we find ourselves in cross border regions where the lines of separation are not clearly defined; they emerge, disappear and re-emerge. Although in the last decades we conceived a borderless world as part of a globalization theory, borders are all around us.

What is our grade of permeability?

Culture and art have a fundamental role in tracing these lines of demarcation and at the same time in renegotiating them. Through narratives and symbolic forms culture and art represent the passages for crossing, unvealing both the subjective dimensions, the personal experiences, as well as the perceptions and interactions of society.

The group exhibit Border Transits brings together the work of ten artists as a dialogue about cultural boundaries from a variety of perspectives and through different forms of expression such as photography, video, painting, drawing and installation.
The artists focus on the symbolic, abstract borders, on the mental barriers and metaphorical landscapes. They investigate sub-sets of conceptual borders, like temporal, epistemological or textual barriers. It emerges a need to express themselves, as well as the a desire for clarification and for a deeper understanding of human existence.
The venue becomes a special space for encounter and transformation, a contact zone between the real and the imaginary.

Group show with works by: Alessandra Baldoni (photography), Daniela Carati (photography), Juan Carlos Ceci (painting), Silvia Chiarini (installation), Francesco Lauretta (painting), Nico Macina (video), Elisa Monaldi (video), Silvia Noferi (photography), Michela Pozzi (video), Micheal Rotondi (drawing)


Program:

May 7 - from 7.00 pm
Vernissage
Opening of the group show with: Alessandra Baldoni, Daniela Carati, Juan Carlos Ceci, Silvia Chiarini, Francesco Lauretta, Nico Macina, Elisa Monaldi, Silvia Noferi, Michela Pozzi, Michael Rotondi

May 8 – 6.30 pm
Concert by Duo Messieri/Selva
Saxophone and live electronics
Music by J.C. Risset, M. Messieri and F. Rossé

May 10 – 5.30 pm
Lecture by Stefano Lombardi Vallauri
Not all has been said

May 12/14 – 4.00 pm
Workshop by Massimiliano Messieri
The border of sound

May 13 – 6.30 pm
Drone
Live performance based on the concept of Drone, applied to electronic, classical music and images by Marco Giani (laptop electronic and video) and Cecilia Ferron (violin)

May 15 – 6.30 pm
Concert by Nicola Baroni
XXI Century the Italian cello
Music by J. Harvey, C. Benzi, M. Messieri, A. Costantini, C. Cardew, S. Bussotti and G. Scelsi

IL CONFINE MEDIATICO by Antonio Prenna
http://antonioprenna.wordpress.com/category/il-confine-mediatico/page/5/

In collaboration with:
91 mQ – art project space, Berlin
DAC – De Simoni Arte Contemporanea, Genova
MASK, San Marino
Gruppo PARA, Torino

Opening reception: Friday 7 from 7.00 pm

91 mQ
Landsberger Allee, 54 - Berlin
Opening hours: every day 4 - 8 p.m.

November 3 - 7 2010
Paratissima 6, Sei quello che sei
San Salvario, Turin, Italy
http://www.paratissima.it

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