ELAPSING TIME IN EXPANDED ARTWORK: PRACTICES OF THE UNCONSCIOUS THROUGH MEANS OF ACTIVISM
– A weekly residential module led by Aria Spinelli with guest Nuria Güell at UNIDEE - University of Ideas
Deadline for applications
October 10th 2016
Application fee
570,00 € Including accomodation and half-board
Núria Güell, La feria de las flores, 2015, photos of the guided visit
UNIDEE - University of Ideas is an educational programme investigating the relationship between art and the public sphere and combining theory with practice. Through a new programme based on a weekly research and project laboratory under the guidance of a mentor and the active participation of a guest, the residency modules developed for 2016 focus on three new macro topics wich are: research, gift and alteration. Full programme UNIDEE – University of Ideas 2016 available here: http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activities.html
7th / 11st NOVEMBER 2016
ELAPSING TIME IN EXPANDED ARTWORK: PRACTICES OF THE UNCONSCIOUS THROUGH MEANS OF ACTIVISM
Mentor: Aria Spinelli
Guest: Nuria Güell
Where: Cittadellarte, Biella
What is the relationship between emotion and activism?
Focusing on the relationship between emotion and activism, this one-week module looks at how practices of listening and wellbeing enhance collective sensibility within groups.
Spanish artist Núria Güell will not only be a guest on the module but also the initiator of an elapsed time-frame of research in which participants will deeply map the social and political implications of her recent work, La Feria de las Floras (2015).
This workshop ultimately aims at widening the horizon of on-going debates around the relationship between artistic practices and social movements by performing and embodying emotionality in a temporary and communal environment. It will touch upon (but not be limited to) concepts such as emancipation, female subjectivity, performance and protest.
MENTOR
Aria Spinelli is an independent curator and researcher, currently a PhD Candidate at Loughborough University with a project on curatorial practice and the social imaginary. Her primary area of research is investigating the relationship between art and activism. Her research suggests that the ‘assembly’, as both a curatorial format and exhibition display, will possibly activate forms of agonistic politics that can potentially affect the social imaginary necessary for capitalist reproduction. She holds a BA and a MA in Art History, Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies.
Since 2009 she acted as curator at “Isola Art Center”, an open platform of experimentation for contemporary art that has developed in the Isola neighbourhood in Milan, Italy. In 2009, she also founded the art and curatorial collective “Radical Intention” and created long-term research projects on socio-political issues related to art and its practices. Recent projects include: Decompression Gathering Summer Camp with Amy Franceschini (Corniolo Art Platform, FI, Italy); FLOAT residency at Luminary Art Centre, St. Louis (MO, USA); Marfa Dialogues, Pulitzer Art Foundation, St. Louis (MO, USA); Collateral Effects - Beyond a Radical Milan, Homesession, Fundació Tàpies, Sala d’art Jove Barcelona, Spain; Taking Positions-Identity Questioning Fare arte, Milan, Italy w/ACSL-Art and Cultural Studies Laboratory, Yerevan; Milano Radicale, Medionauta/Liceo artistico Caravaggio, Milan/Corniolo Florence, Italy.
Disciplines
Research, art, social movements, imagination, imaginary, visual culture, art history, participation, unconscious, responsibility, dream work, sounds, environment, deep mapping, institutions, alteration.
Link
http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=76
