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“WHAT IS CONTEMPORARY? ARTISTS AND CURATORS TELL”
May 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th and June 5th, 12nd
5.30 p.m. – CAL 1 classroom Maldura Palace – via Beato Pellegrino, 1
June 19th
9.30 p.m. – Fronte del Porto Filmclub – via S. Maria Assunta, 20 Padova
Lectures on Contemporary Art curated by fondazione march, with the collaboration of the History of Visual Arts and Music Department of the Humanities and Philosophy School – University of Padova, supported by Padua City Council and Esu.
Main partner: Porsche Italia
Technical partners: copisteria Copifor, Hotel Giotto, K Focaccia & Champagne, Soget Est Traduzioni.
fondazione march for contemporary art presents a cycle of lectures entitled “What is Contemporary? Artists and curators tell”: a series of meetings on contemporary art, directed to the Humanities and Philosophy School students of the University of Padova and to the public.
The aim of fondazione march is to present a series of meetings to promote the knowledge sharing and to stimulate the audience to compare contemporary themes and tendences, through focusing on several aspects others than common university lessons. Conference relators will be international curators and well-known mid-career artists, to answer the question “What is contemporary?” through a presentation of their researches and practices.
The collaboration with the University of Padova is clearly one of the main proposals of the Fondazione, in line with the mission: to promote and encourage an open debate on contemporary art, through a direct exchange between experts and the public, enabling them to get in touch with artistic realities of international level.
open call for video competition
for the Summer Student Festival 2008@Padua
The selection
The jury constituted by Silvia Ferri De Lazara, Caterina Benvegnù, Ana Maria Bresciani, Antonio Cataldo, Marco Anesi, having met on Saturday 24th of May at fondazione march, has carefully studied the materials received has establishing the following video selection:
"Sometimes I think I should stop thinking" - Pietro Mele
"Gone with the wind" - Nine Budde
"Sinfonia delle crociere" - Marxz Rosado
"Oh Tannenbaum" - Lucilla Pesce
"Tre minuti di mia madre" - Roberta Galassini
"Aguamiel" - Katri Walker
The criteria for the selection has focused on a particular way on the qualità of the work presented, the coherence of the latter in respect to personal research and on those elemento of possibility that the work contains. The works selected constitute signs, embryo of research, and have been distinguished by their possibility to open toward the use of the video means. With different paths and forms each work attempts to esperiment at best some caracteristics peculiar to new expressive means linked to the audio-visual elaboration.
Downloads the presentations works
tThe competition
Which direction is the artistic research of young videomakers pursuing?
Où va la vidéo?
In the eighties, Cahiers du cinéma series first raised this question, to investigate and create the history of this new expanding media, which was revolutionizing the visual imaginary and the way people approached reality.
The new “cheap and easy to manage” video recording media opened the doors to a new way of seeing things and analising the visual.
Today, after nearly half a century of experimentation and institutionalisation, the same media seems to be well consolidated and integral part of the common vision.
Which are the new forms of experimentation connected to this medium, permanent part of every-day life?
We don’t want to raise this question through looking back to the history of video, but we want to start from the video-researches of those artists who nowadays are setting up a personal way to see (and make people see) reality.
Où va la vidéo is an open call to young artists, with no limits of age and nationality, who intend their work as a research for a new way of relating with the video medium.
The initiative will be presented during the SSF08 - Summer Student Festival 2008 (May 31st – June 6th), organized by ASU in the city of Padua.
An (ebook) catalogue will be realised after the event, with essays and interventions on the competition. Artists will be asked to send images, technical information and details useful to the comprehension of the works.
A further event will be organised to present the whole project.
For more info about Où va la vidéo? click here
For more info about Summer Student Festival click here
