From 09th May to 13th June 2012

CHARACTERS

New people, new video identifications
Videoart selection by Giorgio Fedeli (Italy)

CHARACTERS
New people, new video identifications "The video device has represented a privileged medium in contemporary art history to identify the anthropological coordinates of mankind, thanks to its ability in slipping into the spaces of living and shooting both the most ordinary and the hidden identities in our walks of life, thus bringing the "different", the marginalized, the '"other"ones to light.
For over forty years the videocamera has become the bearer of possible visions of the world and its actors by operating from some vantage point directly inside, in contact with or as an emanation of the real: in such a way, it has steadily coped with the problem of attributing identity to people who are actually in constant and unpredictable mobility of roles and designations.
What are therefore the possible characterizations of our and other’s self nowadays, when the traditional biological and social labels seem to have been torn and the physical and cultural traditions of our identity in some way been altered by an incessant technological and social melting pot? The answer is likely to lie in a delicate balance between the will to bring back our human specificity and the proactive attention to the most plausible suggestions of all new issues that are behind our doors or already in our homes."
Giorgio Fedeli


Videos presented:

Francesco Arena
Respiri - 2008

Anita Calà Testarossa
Uomini e donne - 04'30" 2009

Pascal Caparros
Man&Woman - 06’00" 2010

John Criscitello
Il bacio azzurro - 05'41" 2010

Mauro Folci
Esodo/Exodus - 01'37" 2011

Silvia Camporesi
SIFR - The Canonical Distance - 04'12" 2010

Valentina Ferrandes
The Oyster Effect - 16:9 12'49" 2010

Slawomir Milewski
Ecstasy of St. Agnes - 20'30" 2010

Matteo Pasin
Prison phone - 02'58"

Mauro Romito
Man/Wo - 04'08" 2006

Rita Casdia
Minibaby - 01'17" 2009

Alessia Zuccarello
Emo - 8'00" 2009

Jacopo Jenna
Dove c'è molta luce l'ombra è più nera - 11'00" 2009

Antonella Spatti
The Show /Red Carpet - 07'00" 2011

Christian Niccoli
Planschen - 2008

Valentina Miorandi
Cross Broadway - 07’34" 2009

Marzia Moretti
Azione sovversiva minima 4 - 00'41" 2009

Liuba
The Finger and the Moon #2 - 12'38" 2009-2010

Albert Merino
The hidden mud - 07' 42" 20109

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