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CURATORIAL PROJECTS
SOFTCORE
A group show including a sound and performance event, SOFTCORE brings together six international young artists working in London and takes place in the heart of the UK capital, just under Piccadilly Lights.
The show explores contemporary experimental ways of envisioning music, sound, and performance art, with a focus on millennials and Gen Z conditions and multidisciplinary collaborative work as a response to the capitalist pace and lifestyle.
SOFTCORE uncovers the polarity between industrial and gentrified, peripheral and central areas of the city, through mixed media such as video, installation, and painting, while exploring how bodies, visceral feelings, infrastructure – but also neoliberalism language and entertainment – merge nowadays.
Performance schedule - PV 12 May 2022:
· Hypereyess 7.15 pm
· Naz Balkaya & Giulio Dal Lago 7.45 pm
· Jesse Tadini Rybolt [Aanthropocene] 8.15 pm
· Sister Punch [Giulio Dal Lago & Gianna T] 8.45 pm
Photos © Anya Shilonos
Special thanks to Art Haxhijakupi for supporting me and the artists during this project.
The show explores contemporary experimental ways of envisioning music, sound, and performance art, with a focus on millennials and Gen Z conditions and multidisciplinary collaborative work as a response to the capitalist pace and lifestyle.
SOFTCORE uncovers the polarity between industrial and gentrified, peripheral and central areas of the city, through mixed media such as video, installation, and painting, while exploring how bodies, visceral feelings, infrastructure – but also neoliberalism language and entertainment – merge nowadays.
Performance schedule - PV 12 May 2022:
· Hypereyess 7.15 pm
· Naz Balkaya & Giulio Dal Lago 7.45 pm
· Jesse Tadini Rybolt [Aanthropocene] 8.15 pm
· Sister Punch [Giulio Dal Lago & Gianna T] 8.45 pm
Photos © Anya Shilonos
Special thanks to Art Haxhijakupi for supporting me and the artists during this project.
MEATSPACE
MEATSPACE is a group exhibition that challenges our understanding of the body, rethinking its notion by blurring the taxonomies and norms based on binary structures. Bodies appear to have become fixed entities; tied to default mechanisms and structures designed to nurture the capital. Yet this exhibition alienates itself from this foundation by addressing the body as an indefinite container of experiences, encounters, wounds, gestures, and, more importantly, as a tool for shaping a new culture of collective care.
Meatspace constitutes the exhibition as a living body that mutates steadily through unforeseen rituals of relation. The term Meatspace, born in cyberpunk literature back in the 80s, refers to the revival of real life’s instincts over the mechanical basis of virtual spaces. In this regard, the show investigates how our bodies act and counteract in relation to labour, physical and digital spaces shaped on behalf of the neoliberal system.
Mixed media and performative interventions inhabit the gallery space as vivid organisms and invite the spectator to interact viscerally with their surroundings. This way, the exhibition becomes an inclusive space for dismantling the capitalist conception of the individual’s self-assertion - seeking to build up a communal and cooperative nurturing space of coexistence. By disclosing fictional narratives and interrogating the ethics of real foundations, artworks explore and uphold radical concerns of our world that urgently need to be perceived, and actively addressed, differently.
Performance schedule - PV 23 Sept 2021:
· Swimming in My Own Ocean, Gianna T 6.50 pm
· Room 303, Naz Balkaya 7.30 pm
Photo © Rocio Chacon
Meatspace is supported by Arts Council England.
Meatspace constitutes the exhibition as a living body that mutates steadily through unforeseen rituals of relation. The term Meatspace, born in cyberpunk literature back in the 80s, refers to the revival of real life’s instincts over the mechanical basis of virtual spaces. In this regard, the show investigates how our bodies act and counteract in relation to labour, physical and digital spaces shaped on behalf of the neoliberal system.
Mixed media and performative interventions inhabit the gallery space as vivid organisms and invite the spectator to interact viscerally with their surroundings. This way, the exhibition becomes an inclusive space for dismantling the capitalist conception of the individual’s self-assertion - seeking to build up a communal and cooperative nurturing space of coexistence. By disclosing fictional narratives and interrogating the ethics of real foundations, artworks explore and uphold radical concerns of our world that urgently need to be perceived, and actively addressed, differently.
Performance schedule - PV 23 Sept 2021:
· Swimming in My Own Ocean, Gianna T 6.50 pm
· Room 303, Naz Balkaya 7.30 pm
Photo © Rocio Chacon
Meatspace is supported by Arts Council England.
HOLD ON
Hold On is both a reflection on the ethics of the encounter and a critique of language, its mediums, and neoliberal strategies of communication. The acceleration of information exchange and the pressures of semiocapitalism constantly force our actions and attitudes into a punishing cycle of productivity, focused on short term stability, not sustainability. How do we envision our future from within this system? How do we channel our energies and desires into nurturing a healthy social body, rather than perpetuating an individualist fantasy?
Aiming to reverse the inherently isolating demands of capitalism, these Generation Y artists and curators explore collaboration as a healing and regenerative process, wherein alternative forms of resistance can flourish. From this specific generational perspective, the viewer is encouraged to join a public dialogue and experience the gaps between the conformation of norms and their reconsideration through various aesthetic, performative, audio, video, and visual interventions in the space.
Performance Schedule - PV 10 Jan 2020:
· Did you know?, Roby Wroe 6.30 pm
· To Bean, Daria Blum 7 pm
· Daisies, Panicattack Duo 7.45 pm
Photo © Rocio Chacon
This show culminated with a publication that was launched via an online event in February 2021. It included interviews with the artists and photo documentation of the exhibition.
HOLD ON is supported by Arts Council England.
Aiming to reverse the inherently isolating demands of capitalism, these Generation Y artists and curators explore collaboration as a healing and regenerative process, wherein alternative forms of resistance can flourish. From this specific generational perspective, the viewer is encouraged to join a public dialogue and experience the gaps between the conformation of norms and their reconsideration through various aesthetic, performative, audio, video, and visual interventions in the space.
Performance Schedule - PV 10 Jan 2020:
· Did you know?, Roby Wroe 6.30 pm
· To Bean, Daria Blum 7 pm
· Daisies, Panicattack Duo 7.45 pm
Photo © Rocio Chacon
This show culminated with a publication that was launched via an online event in February 2021. It included interviews with the artists and photo documentation of the exhibition.
HOLD ON is supported by Arts Council England.
ROAR Vol. I
Roar explores the political implications of sound within our visual-saturated daily life. Through conversations, spoken word or live performances, artists, theorists and mediators will exchange thoughts, practices and debates questioning the automatisation of language and behaviours, while investigating the non-functional nature of human voice.
In a moment where our relationships with others, behaviours, and language have been translated into connective mechanisations, Bifo Berardi stresses how the embodied singularity of the voice endures and sustains the principle of conjunction, by remaining outside of nowadays’ operational tendencies. The shift from conjunction to connection, he continues, has brought us to act uniformly under the economical and ideological premises of capitalism and neoliberalism.
'The voice is the bodily singularity of the signifying process, and cannot be reduced to the operational function of language.'
Franco Bifo Berardi, The Uprising. On Poetry and Finance, 2012
Taking as a departure point Berardi's discourse, Roar emerges as a platform to question and rethink the functionalisation of human behaviour and systems of communication. Roar aims to explore the political implications of sound and potential of the voice in collaborative exchanges with a number of artists, theorists and mediators. As a result, all the events will be recorded without including any visual aftermath, aiming to divert our longing for visual language and empathising with the inherent nature of the voice.
In a moment where our relationships with others, behaviours, and language have been translated into connective mechanisations, Bifo Berardi stresses how the embodied singularity of the voice endures and sustains the principle of conjunction, by remaining outside of nowadays’ operational tendencies. The shift from conjunction to connection, he continues, has brought us to act uniformly under the economical and ideological premises of capitalism and neoliberalism.
'The voice is the bodily singularity of the signifying process, and cannot be reduced to the operational function of language.'
Franco Bifo Berardi, The Uprising. On Poetry and Finance, 2012
Taking as a departure point Berardi's discourse, Roar emerges as a platform to question and rethink the functionalisation of human behaviour and systems of communication. Roar aims to explore the political implications of sound and potential of the voice in collaborative exchanges with a number of artists, theorists and mediators. As a result, all the events will be recorded without including any visual aftermath, aiming to divert our longing for visual language and empathising with the inherent nature of the voice.
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