Happy and grateful for the State of The City residency at PAVILJOEN AAN HET WATER in Rotterdam, curated by Kamiel Verschuren and made possible thanks to nctm e l’arte: Artists-in-Residence grant.

The residency was previewed to last from January to March 2020, but because of the pandemic the stay has been longer.

I shared the residency space with my partner and colleague of research Nicola Ciancio. We shared our work in progress on the led sign of the residency place by editing part of our conversations.

I focused on the MaasGod monument and I invited Roberto Fiorentini to collaborate on a sound work together. Our research resulted in MAASGOD VOICE sound-track and in HALFAWAY River listening action.

I’ve preserved my connection to the Nile Monument in Naples creating a conversation between them and the Maasgod within Sunrise Gods’Call video work.

I’m participating to Dust exhibition with the video Hallacas from It Me research.

DUST
exhibition at Tilde

artists: Cesare Calvi, Jérôme de Vienne,
Marisol Malatesta, Simona Da Pozzo.
Video projection and performance

● Spazio Tilde

via Contessa Piazzoni, 7 – Castel
Cerreto, Treviglio (BG)

“Art may not know any boundaries, but the art world certainly does. So how can curators become better networked – and make a stand for their shared values? “

I’ve been invited to have an online conversation about this topic with Hajnalka Somogyi and Gottfried Hattinger for the project Freepost CITY, COUNTRY, EUROPE – HOW THE ART WORLD GROWS TOGETHER by Goethe Institute.

It is a sweet surprise to have my Sometimes images needle around a sound (2017) on the cover of the book Andar x Porte. In 2018 Artcitylab curated Andar x Porte exhibition at Palazzo Archinto, Milan. Now the dearest Gianni Romano edited the catalogue you can find online on Postmediabook website

Artists: Matteo Basilè, Fabrizio Bellomo, Simone Bergantini, Francesco Bertelé, Edo Bertoglio, Tomaso Binga, Yannis Bournias, Danilo Buccella, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Monica Carocci, Maurizio Cattelan, Guendalina Cerruti, Marco Cingolani, Laura Cionci, Gianluca Codeghini, Vittorio Corsini, Cose Cosmiche, Simona Da Pozzo, Davide D’Elia, Carlo Dell’Acqua, Gabriele Di Matteo, Gianluca Di Pasquale, Ylbert Durishti, Igor Eskinja, Bruna Esposito, Franko B, Ettore Favini, Robert Gligorov, Fausto Gilberti, Bruna Ginammi, Alice Guareschi, Diango Hernandez, Debora Hirsch, Zhang Huan, Irina Jonesco, Kensuke Koike, Michele Lombardelli, Claudia Losi, Marco Andrea Magni, Domenico Antonio Mancini, Isabella Mara, Eva Marisaldi, Allegra Martin, Paola Mattioli, Luis Molina-Pantin, Andrej Molodkin, Margherita Morgantin, Niccolò Moronato, Marco Neri, Luca Pozzi, Agne Raceviciute, Pipilotti Rist, Filippo Romano, Maryam Roshanaei, Roberta Savelli, Attila Sz?cs, Sam Taylor Wood, Massimo Uberti, Enzo Umbaca, Sophie Usunier, Arianna Vanini, VedovaMazzei

Friday 22 February 2019
at Hotel NH Collection Torino, piazza Carlina 5.30 p.m.

With the project Incontri Illuminanti con l’arte contemporanea (Enlightening encounters with contemporary art), linked to the 21st edition of Luci d’Artista and realized by the City of Turin in collaboration with the Education Department of GAM-Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, PAV – Parco Arte Vivente / Centro sperimentale d’arte contemporanea and Fondazione Teatro Regio Torino, the aim is to investigate the theme of how light – an element of architectural and perceptive construction – contributes to the regeneration of urban public spaces, actively involving citizens as well.

The appointment on 22 February, organised by the City of Turin with the independent network NESXT, will involve operators, curators and artists who design creative interventions using light (and darkness) as an element to reinterpret and regenerate urban spaces, as well as citizens.
Present will be: Nicola De Maria, author of the work “Regno dei fiori: Nido cosmico di tutte le anime” (Kingdom of flowers: Cosmic nest of all souls), the scenotechnical engineer Silvano Cova(Turin), designer and work director for the setting up of the ‘Luci d’Artista’ works managed by the Teatro Regio of Turin; Francesca Comisso and Luisa Perlo (a. titolo – Turin), the organisation that curates and produces art projects in public space and site-specific interventions; Simona da Pozzo (Borderlight, Milan), a collective whose field of action is the relationship between art, sociality and public space; Marco Trulli and Pasquale Altieri (from Cantieri d’Arte, Viterbo), a platform for public art research active in the field, and Claudio Galligani (Associazione Spichisi, Pistoia) who has been working on urban rediscovery, redevelopment and regeneration since 2013.