Patrizia Monzani ad ARTE ACCESSIBILE

Visualcontainer Italian Videoart Platform è stata invitata a partecipare alla quarta edizione di Arte Accessibile Milano dal 12 al 15 Aprile 2012 

AAM2012 

Via Monte Rosa 91, Milano 

Area Visualcontainer c/o PricewaterhouseCoopers screen 

INGRESSO GRATUITO 

Lo staff di Visualcontainer sarà presente in fiera durante i giorni di apertura per incontrare artisti, curatori e appassionati di videoarte per approfondimenti sulla situazione della videoarte italiana ed internazionale. In questa occasione presenteremo al pubblico VisualcontainerTV international Videoart Web channel e [.BOX] Videoart project space di Milano, realtà conosciute a livello internazionale per la qualità dei progetti supportati e che hanno contribuito all'identificazione di visualcontainer come uno dei più importanti network di riferimento per la videoarte. 

C/o PricewaterhouseCoopers screen, presenteremo due ressagne video curate appositamente per AAM 2012 

Screening Video 12 – 13 Aprile2012 Spaces - Spazi del mondo, spazi del video 

Artisti presentati: Luca Christian Mander, Global Groove, Elena Arzuffi, Sabrina Sabato, Cristobal Catalan, Barbara Brugola, Daniela Di Maro DDM, Iginio De Luca, Alfred Dong Glocal, Maria Korporal, Pietro Mele, Albert Merino, Patrizia Monzani, Riccardo Arena, Sabrina Muzi, Tomoko Nagao, Alessandra Arnò, Natalia Saurin, U.S.O. + Selfish, Angelina Voskopoulou, Rebecca Agnes 

Screening Video 14 – 15 Aprile2012 Characters - Nuovi individui, nuove individuazioni video 

Artisti presentati: Francesco Arena, Anita Calà Testarossa, Pascal Caparros, John Criscitello, Mauro Folci, Silvia Camporesi, Valentina Ferrandes, Slawomir Milewski, Matteo Pasin, Mauro Romito, Rita Casdia, Alessia Zuccarello, Jacopo Jenna, Christian Niccoli, Marzia Moretti, Liuba, Albert Merino, Valentina Miorandi, Antonella Spatti. 

Arte Accessibile Milano 2012 si concretizza e colloca come una fiera d’avanguardia che desidera un rapporto continuativo con i suoi espositori e il suo pubblico, ponendo l’accento sull’aspetto sociale, sulla gente e il suo rapporto con l’arte. Obbiettivo è quello di colmare il divario che allontana l’arte contemporanea dal suo fruitore. La quarta edizione di AAM significa quattro giorni non-stop all’insegna di una “contaminazione” artistica capillare e sempre più orientata verso le esigenze del mercato esterno, distribuita lungo i 3800 mq degli spazi all’interno del palazzo disegnato da Renzo Piano e oggi sede del Sole 24 Ore, per una manifestazione di alto livello che racchiude l’essenza di una progettualità moderna e dinamica. 

www.arteaccessibile.com

Stadt-Fisch at CALLING IZMIR

CALLING IZMIR 

Special Guest: Italian Videoartists 

A project of: Nail Ozlüsoylu 

c/o Izmir University of Economics 

Gallery 20/20 

IZMIR, Turkey 

9/14 January 2012 

Video selection: 

By Visualcontainer (Giorgio Fedeli) 

Elena Arzuffi 

Domestic parkour


04' 32"
2007 

Supported by a narrative array where the real world combines with evocative animation, this work enthrals from the very beginning with an appealing resolving of visual associations and complementary soundtrack. In the end, after pleasing the senses with a development which traps with no possible escape, the video does bring along a time for reflection about very open interpretations on the meaning of the characters, their stories and settings. 

Maria Korporal 

Passing by


07' 39"
2008 S

The video begins with a shot of the crowd strolling by and shopping on a Saturday afternoon in Rome. Movements and the sound of traffic keep accelerating till they melt into a soft and vague reality with indistinct sounds. This is the scenery in front of which a second environment arises, a sort of parallel world: a realm of animals – some monkeys, a giraffe, a turtle – involved in their daily activities. Everything seems pleasant and quiet. The shopping crowd is nothing but an abstract and faded background, yet at different times it intervenes through irritating fragments of images and sounds. In the meanwhile, some tickets come slowly falling to the ground. A wise and quiet turtle makes her way through the crumpled pieces of paper which come gathering on the ground. A horn suddenly disturbs the overall serenity: the overbearing rushing of cars takes back to the stage and obliterates all the rest. 

Pietro Mele 

Ottana


11' 46"
2008 

Daybreak. A group of men riding on horseback is slowly swallowed by a poisons factory. This work ponders upon the environmental and socio-anthropological effect of the massive industrial plant in Ottana, a desert area within the Barbagia territory in Sardinia. The video wants to emblematically play the synthesis of the opposed matching between rural life and industry. 

Patrizia Monzani 

Stadt-Fisch


05' 00"
2006  

Three people skim one another without ever meeting, their thoughts and voices overlap, their strophes keep repeating. They suppose to be lonely in a strange and hostile city as they are simply unaware of what’s around them. 

U.S.O. + Selfish 

Girl Running


9' 00"
2009 

In the track Girl Running, a dialogue is established between the sounds synthesized with Xenakis' UPIC and the sound outputs of invisible electronic objects. By carrying these magnetic fields into the audible range, the sounds have been suspended, intimately researched, orchestrated, in order to cross the physical borders of aural perception.

[.box]

Opening 18/19/20 May 2010

18.30 - 21.00

Via Confalonieri 11
Milano isola
Cortile interno - ring 43

Screening Video: 31 artists Vs 20mq

This project origins from the will of sharing with the Milan environment (and beyond) the international projects and events that we have produced with our partners all over the world, as well as from our pleasure in promoting Italian artists.

[.box] is the space that offers a special eye over the Italian and international videoart circuit, an interface with passionate and professional videoart followers joining the Milan area with the vaste international network dedicated to video and new media art.

SCREENING VIDEO

31 artists Vs 20mq

Rebecca Agnes
Barbara Agreste
Francesco Arena
Riccardo Arena
Alessandra Arno'
Elena Arzuffi
Barbara Brugola
Anita Calà Testarossa
Silvia Camporesi
Pascal Caparros
Daniela Di Maro DDM
Iginio De Luca
Nicola Giunta
Maria Korporal
Luca Christian Mander
Pietro Mele
Patrizia Monzani
Sabrina Muzi
Tomoko Nagao
Christian Niccoli
Matteo Pasin
Cristina Pavesi
Mauro Romito
Sabrina Sabato
Natalia Saurin
U.S.O. + Selfish
Lino Strangis
Enzo Umbaca
Dubravka Vidovic
Angelina Voskopoulou
Alessia Zuccarello

for info:
www.visualcontainer.org

How Much

International Contemporary Art Exhibition

Nicosia - North Cyprus, Turkey
17th March - 3rd April 2010

C/o
Cyprus International University
Faculty of Fine Arts
Nicosia, North Cyprus,
Turkey

An international exhibition will take place entitled “How Much” as a contemporary art project between the dates March 17- April 3, 2010.
This project questions the change in the process of modernization and the mood of thinking and the daily life. In the meantime, it creates play areas for human.
Curator: Nail Ozlusoylu
Supported by the Department of Culture (North Cyprus) and Cyprus International University.
In collaboration with Visualcontainer, Curator: Giorgio Fedeli

Artists:

Elena Arzuffi
Domestic parkour
04' 32"
2007

Maria Korporal
Passing by
7'39"
2008

Pietro Mele
Ottana
11'46"
2008

Patrizia Monzani
Stadt-Fisch
05' 00"
2006

U.S.O. + Selfish
Girl Running
9' 00"
2009

MICROWAVE International New Media and Arts Festival - Italian Selection

14th November - 24th November 2009

Hong Kong

Visualcontainer in collaboration with Videochannel presents:
MEMORY/IDENTITY
A project by Visualcontainer Italian Videoart Distributor and Promotion

Memory and identity have been major issues in video-art investigation in the last decade of the 20th Century. Since the inception of the “new-economy”, “post-modern” and “virtual reality” era, artists have suffered from a lack of identification and placement within the world, having all the traditional assertions of gender, religion and biological property been cancelled, infringed or mixed-up.
Urged by the cyborg and bioengineering promises, during the late 90’s the electronic eye investigated the problem of giving an identity to objects and people within an unpredictable changeableness of roles and denominations, in most cases by simply shooting everyday life just as it was. At the beginning of Y2K era, challenged also by economy crises, terrorism and immigration flows in and out of mass participation, identity has still to be steadily and continuously looked for in ordinary life.
In the last ten years the global world has gotten used to most of the ever-shocking technological and biotechnological innovation: we all have learnt to face blurring biological boundaries on TV programs and to resort to “fluid” ways of existence and interrelationship thanks to the Internet and daily tech facilities. Apparently, we are more confident with our tools and with our new way of approaching ourselves and the others both physically and – more often – virtually.
Yet, something is missing, some part of our self-identification eventually lacks in the complicate puzzle of our (post) modern, contemporary construction. The video-art world has never dropped the urge for addressing such a topic and now calls for attention in an only apparently less anxious bunch of outcomes. By Giorgio Fedeli

Artists:
PATRIZIA MONZANI - Stadt Fish 2006
CHRISTIAN NICCOLI - Escalating perception/the gaze 2004
MATTEO PASIN - Disapperar 2006
CRISTINA PAVESI - Ore 13 2006
SABRINA SABATO - Il dondolo 2002
ENZO UMBACA - Soffri 2002
ALESSANDRA ARNO’ - Play 2008
ELENA ARZUFFI - Domestic parkour 2007
BARBARA BRUGOLA - Zone Lost 2008
PASCAL CAPARROS - Corpus 2008
IGINIO DE LUCA - Autofocus 2006
PIETRO MELE - Ottana 2008

In Collaboration with VideoChannel - an online and physical space platform focused on film & video.
Chief curator,founder and director of VideoChannel, Wilfried Agricola de Cologne has invited curator Giorgio Fedeli to select this programme of works. A selection by Visual Container/Milan;
Curated by Giorgio Fedeli
Chief curator Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

MICROWAVE International New Media and Arts festival
VIDEOCHANNEL

Italian Selection on VIDEOCHANNEL

During September 2009, VideoChannel will feature a selection of art videos by Visualcontainer/Milan - Italian video artists, curated by Giorgio Fedeli

Curatorial statement:
Memory and identity have been major issues in videoart investigation in the last decade of the 20th Century. Since the inception of the “new-economy”, “post-modern” and “virtual reality” era, artists have suffered from a lack of identification and placement within the world, having all the traditional assertions of gender, religion and biological property been cancelled, infringed or mixed-up. Urged by the cyborg and bioengineering promises, during the late 90’s the electronic eye investigated the problem of giving an identity to objects and people within an unpredictable changeableness of roles and denominations, in most cases by simply shooting everyday life just as it was.
At the beginning of Y2K era, challenged also by economy crises, terrorism and immigration flows in and out of mass participation, identity has still to be steadily and continuously looked for in ordinary life. In the last ten years the global world has gotten used to most of the ever-shocking technological and biotechnological innovation: we all have learnt to face blurring biological boundaries on Tv programs and to resort to “fluid” ways of existence and interrelationship thanks to the Internet and daily tech facilities. Apparently, we are more confident with our tools and with our new way of approaching ourselves and the others both physically and – more often – virtually. Yet, something is missing, some part of our self-identification eventually lacks in the complicate puzzle of our (post)modern, contemporary construction.
The videoart world has never dropped the urge for addressing such a topic and now calls for attention in an only apparently less anxious bunch of outcomes. Many are the artists within VisualContainer’s archive who have in fact chosen to face the several disguises of everyday life, trying to ask questions about their – and our – identity right now and in a near future.
Of course, no unique answer can be found from their works but an identifying line of poetical approach – a weapon as we may call it, for the most of them – seems to be fitting to the theme of memory. Again, memory is the mirror in which the artists dare search for their face and body, their ultimate inner skeleton and sensing to the outer world.
Memory can thus become a revelatory physical matching with a parent, a more dramatic real match with a facing counterpart or just a heaping up of faces at the rhythm of most contemporary audio-video practises. Nevertheless, identity can also be sought in the presentation of the past after mixing up with current landscapes, or just through the contact to our very self imprisoned by the jail of our own body or by a crowd. A blink of identity can also suddenly peep in from an astonishing resolution of an ordinary event.
All in all, where we eventually get to is not what/where we initially were at the “identification start” before playing the video: if not a solution at all, this is at least a good place to gather forces and dig into our presence.
Giorgio Fedeli

selected artists:

ALESSANDRA ARNO’
ELENA ARZUFFI
BARBARA BRUGOLA
PASCAL CAPARROS
IGINIO DE LUCA
PIETRO MELE
PATRIZIA MONZANI
CHRISTIAN NICCOLI
MATTEO PASIN
CRISTINA PAVESI
SABRINA SABATO
ENZO UMBACA

VideoChannel came alive when Agricola de Cologne started his global networking project [R][R][F]200X–>XP in 2004, as a project environment focussed on new forms of video within the thematical context of “memory & identity”.

In 2005, VideoChannel started the first screenings of selections from the comprehensive video collection in collaboration with media art & video festivals around the globe.

One basic aspect of VideoChannel represents the invitation to curators from all parts on the globe for preparing a curatorial contribution of videos. Meanwhile 18 curators from as many countries joint VideoChannel and their selections form the basis of an extraordinary challenging collections of videos on the theme “memory & identity”.

VideoChannel became meanwhile a project environment of itsown including a variety of aspects, but it still belongs one of the most relevant parts of the global networking project [R][R][F]200X–>XP.

VideoChannel is constructed in two parts, a low-tech administrative body, which is containing all textual and documentary information, and a high-tech Flash based body containing basically the videos.

VideoChannel
director & chief curator Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

ITALIAN VIDEO EMERGENCIES

special selection from VISUALCONTAINER

Italian Videoart Distributor

15 september - 30 october 2009
Only on VisualContainerTV - http://www.visualcontainer.tv

VisualContainerTv is happy to present a videoscreening with most challenging Italian video artworks, provided by the archive of the sole Italian distributor. After welcoming some of the most interesting international organisations dealing with videoart, it's high time to show a selection of made-in-Italy videos filing under the distinctive feature of emergency: because of both its urge for expressing and comprehending contemporaneity in Italy and beyond and of its ever-growing need for emerging and circulating, also thanks to the promotion by VisualContainer.
The ExhibitContainer section, usually dealing with video compilations from international videoart festivals and curatorial projects, is now presenting 22 artists who have gained national and international reputation.

Artists:
Rebecca Agnes, Francesco Arena, Riccardo Arena, Alessandra Arno', Elena Arzuffi, Barbara Brugola, Silvia Camporesi, Pascal Caparros, Iginio De Luca, Maria Korporal, Luca Christian Mander, Pietro Mele, Patrizia Monzani, Sabrina Muzi, Tomoko Nagao, Christian Niccoli, Matteo Pasin, Cristina Pavesi, Mauro Romito, Sabrina Sabato, Natalia Saurin, Enzo Umbaca, Dubravka Vidovic

Besides, the monographic section "SpecialOne" is welcoming the video project BREATH/RESPIRI by Francesco Arena.
For this work, Arena has produced a series of 23 videos from 2004 to 2008, each of them being interpreted by a different male or female character, in order to give way to two-colour obsessions of faces breathing behind a glass (which often let themselves go to "forced" yet really touching intimate moods).
Each video has been performed by 23 international musicians coming from several environments, who have specifically composed brand new sound tracks.

* all videos are distributed by Visualcontainer http://www.visualcontainer.org

VisualContainerTv is the first Web Tv interely devoted to the international videoartworld A project by VisualContainer, the first videoart Italian distributor, the channel is welcoming solo and group exhibitions and festivals under the care of artists and curators from all over the world.

For info about VisualcontainerTV contact:
info@visualcontainer.tv

FACE FESTIVAL Festival of Art Creativity Ecoculture

Catona - Ecolandia, Reggio Calabria (Italy)

1/7 August 2009

Visualcontainer has been invited to present a special selection relevant to Italian Artists at FaceFestival.

The Exhibition take place in Catona, Reggio calabria and is organized by a video screening compilation and a video installation project of Francesco Arena, BREATH. 2008

FRANCESCO ARENA
BREATH
Video Installation of 4/23 videos
2008

For the RESPIRI/BREATHS project, the artist has produced a series of 23 videos from 2004 till 2008: each of them is interpreted by a different male or female character, under the wish of expressing two-colour obsessions of faces breathing behind a glass, often brought out to constrained but touching emotional feelings. Each video has been interpreted by 23 international musicians from different areas, who have composed brand new sound tracks for the occasion.

Compilation Video:

Rebecca Agnes
The Big Bean that landed on Earth
Video animazione. Musica di Jermozero.
04' 00" 2008

Barbara Brugola
Finger 2.0
Animazione 2009

Maria Korporal
Passing by
7'39" 2008

Natalia Saurin
Happily even after
3'20" 2008

Alessandra Arnò
Save ours Souls
02'46" 2008

Luca Christian Mander
Eppursimuove
03'40" 2009

Pascal Caparros
CORPUS
06' 04" 2007

Matteo Pasin
Disappear
03' 41" 2006

Patrizia Monzani
Stadt-Fisch
5' 00" 2006

Iginio De Luca
Autofocus
04'10" 2006

The (re)production of space

“The (re)production of space” on VisualcontainerTV

12 - 28 february 2009

“Henri Lefebvre asserted that any society produces a space of its own. Space is a social product, or rather a complex social environment – based upon values and the production of meanings – which involves space relationships and perception.

To film the urban space means to compare the movement of metropolitan structures and people with static architecture, silence with noise, emptiness with fullness, private space with public sharing; but it also means to superimpose images from the emotional memory, sensations and interpretations which do convert the real into mind landscapes.

The selected artists show several interpretations on the social space, that is to say of the urban space: a fragment of the real is set against abstract resolving, levels overlapping, graphic processing and staging. The video-works thus become procedures of action within the spatial triad enunciated by Lefebvre (i.e. the lived, perceived and imagined space): a way of understanding, dreaming and transforming.”

Patrizia Monzani

Patrizia Monzani has followed a cinematographic education and worked as a film director and editor. An author of several videopoems in collaboration with contemporary poets, she is currently involved in the videoart world, also as a curator following cooperations with LOOP festival and Videoartworld.com. She is the starter of the Young Art project Gedanken-strich, for which she and Chiara Trivelli have published a magazine with the same title and curated relevant exhibitions.

Curatore: Patrizia Monzani

Artisti:
Kim Collner
Ho-yeol Ryu
Arne Fehmel
Pascal Fendrich - Bernd Härpfer
Beate Kunath
Martina Wolf
Daniel Urria
Ellen Bornkessel

VisualContainerTV is a project by Visualcontainer.org in collaboration with Streamit HD Web TV