FLASH ART EVENT, 2013
Visualcontainer presents:
LIUBA
Guest curator: Mark Bartlett
8 – 10 Febbruary 2013

Vernissage: 7 feb. H 7pm to 10pm
Free entrance
Stand: Visualcontainer G5

Palazzo del Ghiaccio
Via G.B. Piranesi 14
Milano, Italy

Visualcontainer and curator Mark Bartlett, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of multimedia artist and performer Liuba’s career, are pleased to present an exhibition of her most recent photographic, video and performance projects, to be held at Flash Art Fair in Milan between February 7th and February 10th.

The curators have selected works to emphasize Liuba’s exploration of political, social, and religious issues; and the aesthetic and conceptual relationships between her photographs, videos, and performances. Silence, Spirituality, Slowness, Emptiness, Irony are the central themes of her multifaceted projects, and all manifest in her most recent work, The Finger and the Moon. The exhibition highlights this project for two main reasons; first, because of its crucial critical reflection on religion, a cultural and political force that has seen an unprecedented rise in influence on our contemporary global stage; and secondly because, while it is representative of her many other works, it is also and extension of them that suggests new directions her work will take. The works in the exhibition are intended to provide the viewer with a context for her most recent performance work, 4’33 “Chorus Loop, which will premiere during the Flash Art Fair. This work offers a tension between strict limits and pure chance; it will be a performance by a spontaneously generated ‘collective chorus of participants’ who volunteer to take part, allowing the work to change from performance to performance, and to remain open, indeterminant and surprising.

Alessandra Arno, Co-founder of Visualcontainer – Milan
Dr. Mark Bartlett, University of the Creative Arts, UK
4’33 “Chorus Loop – Collective performance by a chorus of chance participants – will be performed at 8pm every day at the Visualcontainer exhibition space G5.

The public is invited to take part in the performance. Interested participants should arrive at a half hour before the performance, at 7:30, preferable dressed in black. No previous performance experience is necessary. Previous advise is preferred.

Liuba is a multi media and site-specific projects artist living between New York and Milan. Her art work is concerned with social, anthropological, geographical, philosophical issues, human behavior, interactivity and chance. Her research is based on the analysis of contemporary society, investigating contradictions and social problems of daily life, always trying to maintain a sincere though sometimes ironic approach. She has presented her performances and works internationally, including Artissima Art Fair, PAC Milan, Venice Biennale, The Armory Show in New York, Art Basel, Scope London and in many Italian and foreign galleries.
www.liuba.net
www.thefingerandthemoon.net

Dr. Mark Bartlett is Associate Editor of animation: an interdisciplinary journal, lecturer in theories and histories of contemporary art, film, new media, and games at University of the Creative Arts, UK, and is widely published in academic journals, catalogs, and arts magazines. He lives in London.

Liuba is distributed by Visualcontainer Italian Videoart Distributor www.visualcontainer.org

Details:
FLASH ART EVENT MILANO, 2013
Palazzo del Ghiaccio
Via G.B. Piranesi 14
Milano,Italy

Apertura al pubblico Flash Art Event:
8 – 9 feb. – h 2pm – 9pm
10 feb. – h 2pm – 7pm

Technical Sponsors: Bernè Stampe d’ Arte/ CB Cornici, Lecco

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FLASH ART EVENT, 2013
Visualcontainer Italian Videoart Distributor presenta:
LIUBA
Guest curator: Mark Bartlett

8 – 10 Febbraio 2013
Ingresso Libero
Stand: Visualcontainer G5

Vernissage: 7 febbraio H 19 – 22
Ingresso libero
Palazzo del Ghiaccio
Via G.B. Piranesi 14
Milano

In occasione dei 20 anni di carriera dell’artista multimediale e performer LIUBA, Visualcontainer e il curator Mark Bartlett hanno il piacere di presentare, alla prima edizione del Flash Art Event di Milano dal 7 al 10 di febbraio, una mostra monografica dedicata alla ultima nuova produzione fotografica, video e performativa dell’artista.
I curatori hanno selezionato dei lavori di LIUBA che sottolineano l’esplorazione di tematiche politiche, sociali e religiose, e le relazioni concettuali ed estetiche che intercorrono fra le sue opere fotografiche, video e performative.

Silenzio, spiritualità, lentezza, vuoto, ironia sono le tematiche centrali dei suoi sfaccettati progetti, e si manifestano tutte nel suo lavoro più recente: The Finger and the Moon Project.
L’esposizione si concentra su questo progetto per due ragioni principali: primo, per la sua cruciale riflessione critica sulla religione, forza culturale e politica che ha visto una sorprendente ascesa di influenza nel mondo contemporaneo a scala globale; e secondo poiché, essendo questo progetto rappresentativo di molti altri progetti dell’artista, è anche un’estensione di essi che suggerisce nuove direzioni future del suo lavoro.

Le opere in mostra hanno anche il ruolo di fornire al visitatore il contesto adatto al suo nuovo progetto performativo, “4’33” Chorus Loop, la cui premiere assoluta sarà durante il Flash Art Event. Questo lavoro offre una tensione dialettica fra le restrizioni dei limiti e la pura casualità. Sarà una performance eseguita da uno spontaneo ‘coro collettivo di partecipanti’ che aderiscono volontari, permettendo quindi al lavoro di cambiare di performance in performance, e di rimanere aperto, indeterminato e sorprendente.

Alessandra Arnò, Co-founder di Visualcontainer – Milano
Dr. Mark Bartlett, University of the Creative Arts, UK

4’33” Chorus Loop – coro collettivo di partecipanti – tutti i giorni ore 20 – stand Visualcontainer G5
Il pubblico è invitato a prendere parte alla performance. Presentarsi mezz’ora prima dell’inizio, preferibilmente vestiti di nero. Non è necessaria nessuna esperienza performativa. Gradita prenotazione.

LIUBA è un’artista multimediale che lavora con performance, video e progetti site specific. Il suo lavoro si occupa di tematiche sociali, geografie antropologiche, questioni filosofiche, comportamento umano, interattività e casualità. La sua ricerca si basa sull’analisi della società contemporanea, indagando le contraddizioni e i problemi sociali della vita quotidiana, cercando sempre di mantenere un approccio sincero e ironico. Ha partecipato a collettive e personali in ambito nazionale e internazionale, ha presentato sue performance e video ad Artissima Art Fair, PAC di Milano, Biennale di Venezia, Art Basel, Armory Show a New York, Scope London e in molte gallerie italiane ed estere. Lavora tra Milano e New York.
www.liuba.net
www.thefingerandthemoon.net

Dr. Mark Bartlett è Associate Editor of animation presso una rivista interdisciplinare sui new media e docente di teorie e storia dell’ arte contemporanea, cinema, nuovi media e games presso l’Università delle Arti Creative del Regno Unito. I suoi testi sono pubblicati in riviste accademiche, cataloghi e riviste di arte contemporanea. Vive a Londra.

I video di Liuba sono distribuiti da: Visualcontainer Italian Videoart Distributor
www.visualcontainer.org

Details:
FLASH ART EVENT MILANO, 2013
Palazzo del Ghiaccio
Via G.B. Piranesi 14
Milano

Opening: 7 febbraio h. 19-22
Apertura al pubblico Flash Art Event:
8 – 9 febbraio – h14.00 – 21.00
10 febbraio – 12.00 – 19.00

Sponsor tecnici: Bernè Stampe d’ Arte/ CB Cornici, Lecco

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LIQUID IMAGE, Videoart Event
from 16th to 17th MAY 2013
c/o TARII CRISURILOR MUSEUM, Oradea, Romania
Curator: Gabriela Diana Gavrilas

in collaboration with:
+ Universitatea Oradea – Facultatea de Arte – Departamentul de Arte Vizuale
+ Muzeul Tarii Crisurilor
+ Asociatia Culturala Conflux
+ Visualcontainer, Milan

This is the 4th year of collaboration between Visualcontainer and University of Oradea –Faculty of Arts, Department of VisualArts + The Muzeul ??rii Cri?urilor. Liquid Image will be present on july at [.BOX] videoart project space based in Milan and on visualcontainerTV international videoart webchannel for all worldwide audiences.

Special thanks to: Prof. Dr. Gabriela Diana Gavrilas, Oradea University – Faculty of Arts, Visual Arts Department
Prof. Dr. Aurel Chiriac, Muzeul Tarii Crisurilor (Oradea, Romania)

Artists:
Anita Calà, Barbara Agreste, Karin Felbermayr, John Criscitello, Sonia Laura Armaniaco, Antonella Spatti, Luca Christian Mander, Alfred Dong, Albert Merino, Giovanni Zaccariello, Di Bernardo Rietti Toppeta, Rebecca Agnes.

Curatorial Statement
The concept of “liquid image” is defined starting from the notion of flow that characterizes the water environment. It can be applied to contemporary artistic image in terms of both varieties of expression and the perspective of its relation to a more and more dynamic reality in the change and transformation process. In this respect, we can represent the contemporary image as having the same fluid properties as the liquid. We are referring to a type of image that, when lacking a pre-established shape, it is endowed with the flexibility to take the fixed shape of container, the receptacle, the context or the concept in which it is poured in or, as applicable, to dissolve the latter.
Moreover, the idea of liquidity, which places us in the financial record of social conventions, involves the same fluid dimension of the transformation of object reality. Thus, liquidity is included in our concept on one hand due to the transformation mechanism of monetary values into products and vice versa and, on the other hand, due to the way in which the economic dimension conditions and directs the image production that can be critically reported to. Critical attitude aims to reshape the image, which is here in the state of subversive vector in relation to the economic receptacle that can coagulate the image in a unidirectional way according to its interests. In conclusion, the contemporary image thought of as a liquid image presents itself as a changing one, hard to spot and under constant reinvention.
The image designed like this can have an ideal interlink with the video art, a medium of expression that defines itself by the variety, reflection, flexibility and fluidity of the temporal succession of the images used. As a consequence, the purpose of the present project is to reveal images of different genres that can be gathered and assembled following the principles of interferences and imaginary jamming. The remodeling of reality by using the imaginary through strategies of decontextualization, formalization and aestheticization, aims at blurring too coarse inputs of the immediate reality. Within liquid realities, the image has no predetermined outline. Space becomes melancholic as it neutralizes and mitigates the reality, changing it at will. The artist becomes a director who sometimes refuses discursiveness sometimes hiding the information provided by clear areas of image and some other times he enhances the functions of real image by overlaps, transparency and ambiguity. In this way, he makes way for a transition image, for a communication space that has often resulted in a hybrid representation. In its whole, the liquid image creates a complex meta-perspective that may include also the dimension of absurd which has as a consequence reality obliteration seen as arid informational clarity and thawing “the migration of shapes” by wrapping them in a “sensory experience”.
Curator: Gabriela Diana Gavrila? – Director departament Arte Vizuale /Conf.univ.

Video Selected

Anita Calà Testarossa
Sublime
5′ 36″
2010

Barbara Agreste
The Chequered Tunnel
05′ 50″
2005

Karin Felbermayr
Person#21
2′ 27″
2011

John Criscitello
Il bacio azzurro
5:41
2010

Sonia Armaniaco
Tale of Suspensus Series #1
4’00”
2011
Antonella Spatti
THE SHOW Trilogiy
The accident
4’35”
2011

Luca Christian Mander
Notturno
2’52”
2010

Alfred Dong
Glocal
3′ 21″
2010

Albert Merino
The city and the other
03′ 10″
2010

Giovanni Zaccariello
Disappear #1 (series of 3)
3’20”
2012

Di Bernardo Rietti Toppeta
Fisiognomica
2’40”
2012

Rebecca Agnes
Gotic
5’24”
2012

http://vizual.arte-oradea.ro/info/liquid-image/
www.mtariicrisurilor.ro
www.visualcontainer.org

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