event of Art Saturday, July 13, 2013 - 17.30

Lombard Castle of San Barbato - Manocalzati (Avellino)

The event will be opened by the Mayor of Manocalzati Dr. Pasquale Tirone and the ‘Department of Culture Dr. Gaetano Cierzo

This will be the founder of the Movement Adolfo Giuliani

Speakers: Lucia Basile-Journalist Dominic Raio Carlo and Roberto Sciascia - Art Critics

Collaborators Carmela Zara - Lucy Iovino - John Ariano Weekdays and Holidays 17.00 20.00

PERFORMING ACTS ON PHOTOGRAPHY May 19 - August 26. 2012

The Unknown Artist Virtual Museum, in partnership with the Fonlad Festival present the on line show “Performing Acts on Photography), a photographic show centered on the relation between new technologies, art and the body.

Fotografia Photography

Adrian Lis (Roménia Romania), Aristotelis Triantis (Grécia Greece), Benvinda Araújo (Portugal), Draga Jovanivic (Canadá Canada), Eva Lewarne (Polónia Poland), Francesca Fini (Itália Italy), Khalil Charif (Brasil Brazil), Lorraine Field (Canadá Canada), Marija Barkidija (Croacia), Osvaldo Cibils (Uruguai), Paz Tornero (Espanha Spain), Pedro Polónio (Portugal), Pit Kinzer (Alemanha), Sabriye Celik (Turquia Turkey), Takeshi Furuya (Japão Japan), Tom Estes (Irlanda Ireland)

Performing Acts on Photography

The multidisciplinary performing arts are continuously instigated by new technologies. If the body were originally the relationship with the public and the unexpected major components of performative action, with time became constant the embodiment in every work of art - including photography. However, the characteristic ambiguity of photography, this is not expressed in a single form of performance art. In this context, we can identify four types of events: the documental, the creation of a photographic subject as a result of a performative action, the performance in portrait photography and the application of the concept of everyday performative photography as an object.

Over fifty artists representing fifteen different countries for a total of over one hundred and twenty works on display will be visible in three different locations. These are the numbers of the third edition of AMBIENTARTE, this year curated by Massimo Nicotra.

The exhibition, which fits in the “Med Yacth Festival”, kicks off April 21, 2012, is organized by “Association 900”, “cgroups,” Municipal Art Gallery diGaeta “. We exhibit artists from countries around the Mediterranean such as Albania, Greece, Palestine, Syria and Turkey Iseaele just to name a few. The artists will discuss on the topic of water intended as a union but also of unity among peoples, the liquid mass that can serve simultaneously as a glue separation factor. The exhibition not only within the Med Yacht festival venues will have as the Art Gallery and the headquarters of the 900, cha will be the backdrop for paintings, installations, sculptures and video art products that are compared to demonstrate that culture is unique. The exhibition is sponsored by the city of Gaeta, Lazio Region, "Med Yacht Festival.”, Municipal Gallery of Contemporary Art “John of Gaeta.”

GEORGE MACIUNAS AND BEYOND: FLUXUS NEVER STOPS

http://www.bienale.lt/2011/?p=371&lang=en

Curator: Keith A. Buchholz. Local producer: Vėjūnė Sudarytė. Initiator: Ed Carroll.

As part of the USA Government’s culture week in Lithuania, Kaunas Biennial marks the 50th anniversary of the 1st Happenings of George Maciunas in New York. A group of 220 contemporary Fluxus artists mark his unique contribution to contemporary art practice. Location: Kaunas City Trolleybus with performances by Leard Reed Altemus III, Melissa Rose McCarthy and Mary Campbell (USA).

 

In the time it took to organize this show, major shifts occurred – shifts in location, works to be shown, participants, activities, and ideas of what Fluxus was, is , and could be. A call for works was put out to the “Eternal Network” of Artists, Non-Artists, Poets, Flux people, and Friends to interpret the idea of Fluxus, and in doing so, honor the legacy of George Maciunas, the founder of Fluxus, who was born in Kaunas and emigrated with his family to the United States.

The premise for the show was simple – interpret the concept as you like, using the idea of Textile as a point of departure. Both Flux people and Mail Artists share the inherent love of found materials, and alternative processes. Works range from Found and altered objects, to postcards, boxes, digital images, film, publications, poetry, E-mail, and performance scores. The works often have some handmade quality, and in the process of curating the show, nothing is edited. Some unwritten rules of the network are: “Show everything that you receive” and “All artists are given equal billing”. As you explore this exhibition, feel free to handle the objects, open and close the boxes, and interact with the works. Fluxus works are tactile works – Meant to Communicate and Inform.

When Fluxus started, roughly 50 years ago this year, Maciunas brought together a wide variety of artists who were working outside the boundaries of what was seen as art by the general public. In Al Hansen’s “On Fluxus” (which has been republished in a pamphlet form as part of this exhibition), he states that “Fluxus rejected what was felt to matter in the New York and European art machinery.” In many ways it still does.

Recent institutional interest in Fluxus has changed some things, as the cheaply made multiples (intended to derail the value of art) have become fetishized. Values of early Fluxus works have risen dramatically, and an expanding crop of Curators and Collectors have enshrined works made during Maciunas’ lifetime, drawing and end date on Fluxus at 1978 with George’s death. With most Movements in art this would be easy, but Fluxus, a fluctuating group of international artists, has never considered itself a “Movement”. Artists have continually been drawn to Fluxus, and have taken up its banner since the exit of its chairman, sometimes with the blessing of its early participants, sometimes bravely on their own, building networks that eventually interweave with others to form the broad spectrum seen in this exhibition. It can be guaranteed that no matter how remote, these artists, by minimal degrees of separation, can draw a path back, directly to George.

In the words of Dick Higgins, a member of that first circle of George’s, “Fluxus has a life of its own, apart from the old people in it. It is simple things, taking things for themselves and not just as part of bigger things. It is something that many of us must do, at least part of the time. So Fluxus is inside you, is part of how you are. It isn’t just a bunch of things and dramas, but is part of how you live. It is beyond words.” George’s gift for organizing and developing such a network, which has been described as “An Attitude”, “Way of Life”, and “An extended family”, is bigger than anything a date or label can contain. We salute George best by continuing on this path. Ben Vautier may have said it best, “Fluxus Never Stops!”

http://www.bienale.lt/2011/?p=371&lang=en

Artists List / Kaunas Biennial / George Maciunas and Beyond : Fluxus Never Stops

Robert Tucker, JAV/USA

Mike Dickau, JAV/USA

Cordula Kagemann, Vokietija/Germany

Maria Jose Silva Mize, Portugalija/Portugal

Horst Baur, c/o Zhu Zhaohni, Kinija/China

Battistella Eliza, Italija/Italy

Mandeep Singh Manu, Indija/India

Simon Warren, Jungtinė karalystė/United Kingdom

Cem Demir, Turkija/Turkey

Luc Fierens, Belgija/Belgium

Ryosuke Cohen, Japonija/Japan

J.F. Chapelle, Prancūzija/France

Silvano Pertone, Italija/Italy

John M. Bennett, JAV/USA

Serse Luigetti, Italija/Italy

Belka and Strelka ( Svetlana Pesetskya & Victoria Barrenko ), Rusija/Russia

Stefano Pasquini, Italija/Italy

Kathleen Susan Nash Logan, Ispanija/Spain

Adamandia Kapsalis, JAV/USA

Guido Capuano, Sicilija, Italija/Italy

Yasuyuki Uzawa, Japonija/Japan

Ernst Gabelor, Vokietija/Germany

Chris Day, JAV/USA

Silvio de Gracia, Argentina/Argentina

La Toan Vinh, Kanada/Canada

Helder Coelho Diaz, Portugalija/Portugal

Christine Tarantino, JAV/USA

Rod Summers / VEC, Nyderlandai/The Netherlands

Carlyle Baker, Kanada/Canada

Vittore Baroni, Italija/Italy

Tiziana Baracchi, Italija/Italy

Domenico Severino, Italija/Italy

Norbert Koczorski, Vokietija/Germany

Giovanni Bonanno, Italija/Italy

Torma Cauli, Vengrija/Hungary

Samuel Montalvetti, Argentina/Argentina

Roberto Scala, Italija/Italy

Michel Della Vedova, Prancūzija/France

Alejandro Thornton, Argentina/Argentina

John Held Jr., JAV/USA

Joel Cohen ( Stickerdude ), JAV/USA

Lancillotto Bellini, Italija/Italy

Angela Behrendt, Vokietija/Germany

Doyle Dean, JAV/USA

Claudio Grandinetti, Italija/Italy

Valentine Mark Herman, Prancuzija/France

Yves Maraux, Prancūzija/France

Achille de Moewald, Prancūzija/France

Periklis Costopoulos, Graikija/Greece

Alexandru Jakabhazi, Rumunija/Romania

Jarmo Sermila, Suomija/Finland

Vaiva Kovieraite, Lietuva/Lithuania

Monica A. Gonzalez, Argentina/Argentina

Esteban Valdes, Puerto Rikas/Puerto Rico

Dorian Ribas Marinho, Brazilija/Brazil

De Villo Sloan, JAV/USA

Felipe Lamadrid, Ispanija/Spain

Petala Eytihia, Graikija/Greece

Lubomyr Tymkiv, Ukraina/Ukraine

Theodore Lalos, Graikija/Greece

Edward Kulemin, Rusija/Russia

Dobrica Kamperlic, Serbija/Serbia

Antonio De Marchi-Gherini, Italija/Italy

Katerina Nikoltsou, Graikija/Greece

Osvaldo Morales Barraza, Čilė/Chile

Christian Vettrus, JAV/USA

Matthew Rose, Prancūzija/France

Adriano Bonari, Italija/Italy

Marci Katz, Kanada/Canada

Lezcano Cerelia, Argentina/Argentina

Diane Bertrand, Kanada/Canada

LuAnn Pallazzo, JAV/USA

Carmela Rizzuto, JAV/USA

Thierry Tillier, Belgija/Belgium

Miguel Jiminez, Ispanija/Spain

Vincent Pons, Prancūzija/France

Jennie Hinchcliff, JAV/USA

Manfred Heinze, Vokietija/Germany

Marina Salmaso, Danija/Denmark

Gregory Scheckler, JAV/USA

Patrick Anderson – McQuoid, Airija/Ireland

Walter Ciansuicci, Italija/Italy

Judith Railton, Anglija/England

Mailarta Queen of Poste, Kanada/Canada

Bruno Neiva, Ispanija/Spain

Piet Franzen, Nyderlandai/The Netherlands

Marianne Midelburg, Australija/Australia

Don E. Boyd, JAV/USA

Plagium 2000, Vengrija/Hungary

Rupert Loydell, Anglija/England

Bibiana Padilla Maltos, JAV/USA

Thom C. Courcelle, JAV/USA

Francisco Sanchez Gil, Ispanija/Spain

Jaromir Svozilik, Norvegija/Norway

Judy Mangiameli, JAV/USA

Nula Horo, Ispanija/Spain

Reid Wood / State of Being, JAV/USA

Paul Tillia, Suomija/Finland

Lisa Iversen, JAV/USA

C. Mehrl Bennett, JAV/USA

Lome Lorenzo Menguzzato, Italija/Italy

Inez Olude da Silva, Belgija/Belgium

Mailart Martha, Jungtinė karalystė/United Kingdom

Alexandre Holownia, Vokietija/Germany

Mary Campbell, JAV/USA

Kommisar Hjular & Mama Baer, Vokietija/Germany

Allan Revich, Kanada/Canada

Ginny Lloyd, JAV/USA

Vittore Baroni, Italija/Italy

Kelly Courtney, JAV/USA

Snappy, Kanada/Canada

Mack McFarland, JAV/USA

Daniel De Culla, Ispanija/Spain

Caterina Davino, Italija/Italy

Douglas Galloway, JAV/USA

Serena Rossi, Italija/Italy

Alexandra Pharmakidis, JAV/USA

Roland Halbritter, Vokietija/Germany

Kiera Pannell, Kanada/Canada

Diane Keys, JAV/USA

Yvette Jansen, Nyderlandai/The Netherlands

Test Tower, JAV/USA

Mariano Filippetta, Italija/Italy

Dewi Johan, Kanada/Canada

Evie Satajadi, Indonezija/Indonesia

Terry Reid, Australija/Australia

Alison Knowles, JAV/USA

Maria Damon, JAV/USA

Sharul Sahee, Malaizija/Malaysia

Laura Sherritt Ligon, JAV/USA

Monica Michelotti, Italija/Italy

Pedro Bericat / Mute Sound, Ispanija/Spain

Tina Festa, Italija/Italy

Ted Moss, JAV/USA

Miche – Art – Universalis, Belgija/Belgium

Rosa Gravino, Argentina/Argentina

Anne Braunschweig, JAV/USA

Elke Grundmann, Vokietija

Cheryl Penn, PAR/South Africa

Claudia Kipps Aulita, Argentina/Argentina

Angie Cope, JAV/USA

Monica Rex, JAV/USA

Marcia Cirillo, JAV/USA

Suzlee Ibrahim, Malaizija/Malaysia

Angela Caporaso, Italija/Italy

Barrie J Davies, Jungtinė karalystė/United Kingdom

Costis, Graikija/Greece

Jorge Artajo, Ispanija/Spain

Reed Altemus, JAV/USA

Bifidus Jones, JAV/USA

Ernie Bar, Vokietija/Germany

Marcela Peral, Argentina/Argentina

Ptrzia TICTAC, Vokietija/Germany

Helen Aymes, Australija/Australia

Cory Peeke, JAV/USA

Merry Rozzelle, JAV/USA

Carlos Zurck, Brazilija/Brazil

Melissa McCarthy, JAV/USA

Cecil Touchon, JAV/USA

Darlene Domel, JAV/USA

Joshua Rutherford, JAV/USA

Marina Miletic, Airija/Ireland

Picasso Gaglione, JAV/USA

Gary A. Bibb, JAV/USA

Jim Leftwich, JAV/USA

Clemente Padin, Urugvajus/Uruguay

Allen Bukoff, JAV/USA

Alice Bradshaw, Jungtinė karalystė/United Kingdom

Vladimir Jakushonok / Bolderaja group Fluxus, Latvija/Latvia

Jokie X. Wilson, JAV/USA

Neosho, JAV/USA

Saeri Kiritani, JAV/USA

Aaron Flores, Meksika/ Mexico

Narvis Bracamonte & pedro ( Pez ) Lopez, Venesuela/Venezuela

Echo June Vincent / EJVA NSVA, Kinija/China

Jamie Newton, JAV/USA

R. F. Cote, Kanada/Canada

Anna Boschi, Italija/Italy

Sharon Zimmer, JAV/USA

Jon Johnson, JAV/USA

David K. Thompson, JAV/USA

Jeff Sass, JAV/USA

Michelle Sass – Hake, JAV/USA

Jennifer Kosharek, JAV/USA

David Dellafiora, Australija/Australia

Ex Post Facto, JAV/USA

Litsa Spathi, Nyderlandai/The Netherlands

Pal Csaba, Vengrija/Hungary

Susana Picasso, Argentina/Argentina

Carol Starr, JAV/USA

Maurizia Carantani, Italija/Italy

Sun Young – Jin,Belgija/Belgium

Darko Alexovski, Makedonija/Macedonia

Aaron Almieda Holmquist, Venesuela/Venesuela

Keyla Holmquist, Venesuela/Venesuela

Robert Znajomski, Lenkija/Poland

Kathlyn Tilton, JAV/USA

Tulio Restrepo, Kolumbija/Colombia

Keith A. Buchholz, JAV/USA

Monica Gonzalez, Argentina/Argentina

Matt Taggart, JAV/USA

Judith Mangianelli, JAV/USA

Ruud Janssen, Nyderlandai/Netherlands

Angela Ferrara, Brazilija/Brazil

Mark Bloch, JAV/USA

Rein Rain, JAV/USA

Susan Shulman, Kanada/Canada

William Evertson, JAV/USA

Ria Van Eynde, Belgija/Belgium

Patrick Lichty, JAV/USA

Tara Verheide, JAV/USA

Jonas Mekas, JAV/USA

Chris “ Mudhead ” Reynolds, JAV/USA

Demetrios Coutarelli, Graikija/Greece

Konstantin Kalendaroff, Rusija/Russia

Viv de Dada, JAV/USA

Doyle Dean, JAV/USA

Caterina Davinio, Italija/Italy

The Kinsena’s – Jean Kusina / Tammy Kinsey, JAV/USA

Jonas Lozoraitis, JAV/USA

Olchar Lindsann, JAV/USA

Marco Giovenale, Italija/Italy

Ed Varney, Kanada/Canada

Ana Garcia, Portugalija/Portugal

Aristotelis Triantis, Graikija/Greece

Warren C. Fry, JAV/USA

Jonathan Leiter ( aka- Reuben Sandwich ), JAV/USA

Reid Wood, JAV/USA

Al Hansen, JAV/USA

Echo June Vincent, Kinija/China

Geof Huth, JAV/USA

Perry Garvin, JAV/USA

Brandstifter, Vokietija/Germany

05. August – 05. September 2010

Organizer: Association of visual artists of Serbia – section of the extended media

Exibition space:

• Art Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzurić – Belgrade

• Student Cultural Center Belgrade

• Postal Museum Belgrade

• Gallery Ikar Zemun

• Art Salon Trstenik

FROM THE HEROIC AVANT-GARDE TO POSTVANGARDE IN ELECTRONIC ERA

OPEN CONSCIOUSNESS – OPEN WORLD

INTERNATIONAL TRIENNIAL OF THE EXTENDED ART MEDIA BELGRADE 2010

OPEN MIND – OPEN WORLD

International Triennial of Expanded Artistic Media

Belgrade, 5th of August – 20th of September 2010

After the first Fluxus festival in Wiesbaden in 1962 and the exciting transformation of the contemporary art on planetary scale, the odyssey of expanded artistic media began by publication of Fluxus Expanded Arts Diagram and Diagram of Historical Development of Fluxus and all the other four dimensional, sonic, optical, smelling and tactile artistic forms of George Maciunas in 1973, where among other things one can find the notion of expanded cinema, which made Mr. Bozidar Zečević, a Serbian film critic, introduce this notion and expanded artistic media to this country.

In the very begining, in 1974, during the third April Meeting of Students in Student Cultural Center of Belgrade, when the contest for works of expanded artistic media was announced, there already were various understandings and interpretations of this phenomenon. Thus, Biljana Tomic, while writing about the assumptions of total art gave three definitions of expanded media: 1) expanded media as expansion of artistic language 2) expanded media – art in function of art and 3) expanded media – towards the total art. Matko Mestrovic writes about a catalytical interaction, as well as phenomena of artistic interventions and conceptions that cause „unpredictable reactions in a social space“ as Bozidar Zecevic writes about the notion of game, namely the rennaisance of game and new forms of consciousness, and he elaborates these thesis in an article on radical evolution in all areas. Jesa Denegri writes about possibilities of formation of new approaches to art, that could in a further stream of development lead to global change of substantial phisionomy of art, when an artist will use the widest possible register of expressive techniques, disregarding the boundaries of a format and material, in communication with the audience he/she will count on activation of all mental and sensual capabilities of people. Probably the furthest analysys belongs to Vladan Radovanovic, who studies the relation between artistic media, their collision and interaction having in mind the research and discovering of new aesthetical possibilities of shaping of environment in accordance with the level of science and technology – suggesting the removal of borders between arts, but also between art and users, advocating the unity of expandable and expanded.

It took a decade since then to form the Expanded Media Section within the Association of Visual Artists of Serbia (ULUS) following the concept of Cedomir Vasic, as simultaneously in Zagreb a specific gallery named Expanded Artistic Media Space began to work under auspices of HDLUZ.

Since the 1970’s and the millenium switch in contemporary art, many important changes took place, art evolved in many ways and the process of desacralization of artistic expressions and forms and defetishization of not just art but also the artists themselves is still in progress. The Trienial is the meeting point of old and new artistic tendencies, the departing and upcoming actors of contemporary artistic practice. The Trienial invited protagonists of historical avantgardes and neoavantgardes, begining with futurism, DADA, surrealism, Fluxus, situationism, action and combined painting, pop art, conceptual art and contextualism untill the ones who bear the new tendencies and media like electronic and interactive art, experimental poetry, retrofuturism and neoism, cinetic art, cyber and web art, digital art, video art, performance, mail art… However, it does not mean that the concept of the Trienial includes and favors just the evolution of contemporary artistic forms with no regards to content of artistic works. Therefore, the issue is not about formalism par excellence or the idolatry of artistic forms, „which is the real soul of each avantgardism“ (Galvano della Volpe) but the concept assumes the OPEN MIND of artists and the OPEN WORLD, not only for the matter of artistic media.

Although it sounds like antiutopia, our aim is to show that the Trienial demonstrates not only the transfiguration of modern art as an OPEN PROCESS, but it questions the transfiguration of the entire World into a more human and more tollerant world compared to the one that we have known so far. In relation to the so called consumers of art, the ordinary people as we experience them, art should not any longer be a corpus mysticum of a tiny stylistic drills, estranged and non-understandable activity of the chosen few, it should exit not just the gallery and museum spaces but to achieve other aims and intentions of contemporary artists, such as for example, the removal of hardly bearable dychotomy LIFE-ART.

Dobrica Kamperelic

Saturday, July 18, 2009 in Arcevia (AN) opens the second edition of the AR (t) CEVIA International Art Festival, even richer than the previous one with the difficult task of overcoming itself, considered without fear of denials, if not the longest, definitely one of the longest art events in Italy.

Thanks to the Province of Ancona, to the Cohabitat project and to the Municipality of Arcevia, it opens its doors, always curated by CGROUP, after a prologue on 12th July with two interesting exhibitions, the second edition of the Festival of contemporary art strongly wanted and dreamed from CGROUP, loosely based on what was the utopian project of the 70s of the "existential community of artists".

During the "white night of Arcevia" four important initiatives will be set up:
the first, perhaps the most anticipated, the solo exhibition of the Roman artist Roberto Perini: "Spare parts" twelve great works to the Cuban life, here united and exhibited for the first time.
At the same time always open at 19 hours the personal exhibition of Pietro Morbidelli.
At about 10 pm in the Magazzini of Palazzo Pianetti in Via Ramazzini, the international exhibition of Mailart will be held, where about 600 works from all over the world will be exhibited. The mailart exhibition is the one that most represents the philosophy of CGROUP: free art, art that talks and that is still able to amaze us. A pure art without a market, without constraints, open to all, where there are no investments to make, but only the need to communicate.
Finally, at 24.00, the second part of the mosaic of the artist Salentino Orodè opens in Piazza Crocioni, a mosaic started in 2008 that represents a work in progress, a kind of wish to continue the festival over the years.

This is just the beginning of a series of events that the city of Arcevia and its villages will host until 10 October, events that will culminate with the opening of the collective of August 28: three days of celebration with theatrical performances, as those of Antonio Rezza and Stefano Lucarelli, performances and theater shorts, an evening where various groups will alternate for 15 minutes each, On 4 September Pasquale Mirra will present "Moderatamente solo" at the Teatro Misa, a concert for vibraphone and toys. Among the many innovations, an evening dedicated to the art cuisine "I sapori dell'arte" in collaboration with the Slow Food Castelli di Jesi Convivium and so on until the end of the festival with the evening of AR (t) RIVEDERCI which will close the series of events.

Arcevia is therefore increasingly at the center of cultural exchanges, which offers its territory to unique artistic experiences, increasingly at the center of cultural interests; a place where artists love to exhibit and work; a place where culture and art are integrated with the landscape and the population in an attempt to go beyond the museum area and the art of living room, to give an ideal continuum to the project of Ico Parisi.
This at least is the intent of the curator Massimo Nicotra and CGROUP

https://artceviablog.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/2009-ii-edizione-artcevia/