Events Index
sensitive timelines
Exhibition
360 degrees, Lars Arrhenius, Flavio Favelli, Silvia Giambrone, Mariana Castillo Deball, Gülsün Karamustafa, M+M, Liliana Moro, Matteo Fato, Andrea Liberati, Marie Losier, Ciprian Muresan, Vassilis Salpistis.
Opening:
28 May 2008 at 19:00
28 May 2008 - 30 Jun 2008
26cc - via castruccio castracane 26
In Paris, September 1959, both Burroughs and Gysin were in residence at 9 Rue Git le Coeur (the famous "Beat Hotel"). It was there that Brion Gysin, while mounting some drawings, accidentally sliced through a pile of old New York Herald Tribunes, which he was using to protect his table. He observed that where a strip of text had been cut away, the print on the next page linked up and could be read across, combining different stories from other pages. Later Gysin showed the discovery to Burroughs. Having himself recently completed the avant-garde novel The Naked Lunch, Burroughs pronounced the technique a project for "disastrous success."
Even if the subversion of narrative structures is a recurring element in 1900 culture, the great crisis of narrations is clearly marked in post-modern times as a consequence of the transformations of “the rules of the game of science, literature and arts”. Art, where narration was banned for a long time, seeking to an ‘absolute form’, returned in the Nineties to an interest in the world and its stories.
Beyond the blazing – and a bit deceitful – declaration by Borroughs, some artists seek, through the upset and contamination of narrative structures, a diverse and more akin perspective on the fragmented reality of the world.
Sensitive Timelines is an articulated project that wants to explore the use of narrative structures in the languages of contemporary arts and the different practices through which this use is put into forms.
Started in March, with presentations and meetings with Carola Spadoni, Clemens von Wedemeyer and Keren Cytter and the realization of a documentative space – where it is possible to consult videos, films, texts, catalogues and audio – on time, storytelling and narration, the project concludes with an exhibition and a screening that gazes at the diversity and richness of contemporary narrative methods.
With works by: 360degrees, Lars Arrhenius, Mariana Castillo Deball, Flavio Favelli, Gülsün Karamustafa, M+M, Liliana Moro.
Video screening: Silvia Giambrone, Matteo Fato, Andrea Liberati, Marie Losier, Ciprian Muresan, Vassilis Salpistis.
Even if the subversion of narrative structures is a recurring element in 1900 culture, the great crisis of narrations is clearly marked in post-modern times as a consequence of the transformations of “the rules of the game of science, literature and arts”. Art, where narration was banned for a long time, seeking to an ‘absolute form’, returned in the Nineties to an interest in the world and its stories.
Beyond the blazing – and a bit deceitful – declaration by Borroughs, some artists seek, through the upset and contamination of narrative structures, a diverse and more akin perspective on the fragmented reality of the world.
Sensitive Timelines is an articulated project that wants to explore the use of narrative structures in the languages of contemporary arts and the different practices through which this use is put into forms.
Started in March, with presentations and meetings with Carola Spadoni, Clemens von Wedemeyer and Keren Cytter and the realization of a documentative space – where it is possible to consult videos, films, texts, catalogues and audio – on time, storytelling and narration, the project concludes with an exhibition and a screening that gazes at the diversity and richness of contemporary narrative methods.
With works by: 360degrees, Lars Arrhenius, Mariana Castillo Deball, Flavio Favelli, Gülsün Karamustafa, M+M, Liliana Moro.
Video screening: Silvia Giambrone, Matteo Fato, Andrea Liberati, Marie Losier, Ciprian Muresan, Vassilis Salpistis.
Related Project:
sensitive timelines
A project about narration and time
Carola Spadoni, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Keren Cytter, 360 degrees, Lars Arrhenius, Flavio Favelli, Silvia Giambrone, maya Schweizer, Mariana Castillo Deball, Gülsün Karamustafa, M+M, Liliana Moro, Matteo Fato, Andrea Liberati, Marie Losier, Ciprian Muresan, Vassilis Salpistis
From March on until May, 26cc will host Sensitive Timelines, a project about narration and time that will develop into a series of multidisciplinary events.
The project starts from a reflection about narrative structures and their use within video art, then to extend the topic to other languages and disciplines; the discussion will spread through elaboration spaces, that wo...
