Rome



Correspondences 2.2

21 maggio – 4 giugno 2009
26cc spazio per l'arte contemporanea
Via Castruccio Castracane 26 - Roma
Tue – Sat 16.00 – 19.30
Free admission

curated by Michela Gulia e Gabriella Arrigoni

Correspondences 2.2 is the first project curated by Harpa Project (Michela Gulia and Gabriella Arrigoni) and involves 14 couples of artists, invited to answer a provocative question -“Who is, between the two of you, the dominant figure in your artistic work?”- through an epistolary exchange, writing a dialogue sprung out from this question itself. To communicate with the partner, therefore, matches the double meaning of “correspond” as exchanging letters, and as a way to be similar or fit together. The initial question engages with this provocative linguistic game in order to develop a reflection upon themes like power, hierarchy, gender, the mechanisms of the creative process, and especially about the idea of authorship in our contemporary age, within a dimension that is different from a collective, and also different from the relational model of public art, but rather a dialectic dimension based on the minimal plural unit, that of 2. A sort of “connective intelligence”( Derrick de Kerckhove), appealing to the manifold but taking its starting point from the dialectic dimension of the couple, and reminding us that in every time, but especially nowadays, knowledge and creativity often come from an expanded identity, rather than a singular one.

The exhibition, hosted by 26cc, presents a work (mainly videos and installations) by each of the involved couples.


Participating artists:

A Constructed World
Alessandro Mancassola e Barbara Ceriani Basilico
Allsopp&Weir
Conceptinprogress
Funckarma
Gianluca e Massimiliano De Serio
Globalgroove
Karen Donnachie & Andy Simionato
Moio&Sivelli
Premiata Ditta
Santomatteo
Suicase.org
Swod
The Grossi Maglioni Magic Duo

Harpa Projetcs is an independent curatorial platform with the aim to develop artistic projects starting from a research and interdisciplinary perspective. For this reason, and because of our wish to keep an open dialogue with the artists and every other interlocutor, our projects tend to be structured through process-oriented participation dynamics and multifaceted channels. The website, besides, is a space where it is possible to experiment new kinds of fruition and circulation of contemporary art. Harpa Projects came out of Undo.net , shares its philosophy and fundamental aims, and acts in strong collaboration with it.
Harpa Projects is: Gabriella Arrigoni (Genova, 1980) e Michela Gulia (Roma, 1978)

Opening 21 maggio 2009 h.18.30
Performance by The Grossi Maglioni Magic Duo h. 19.30

Contacts:
Harpa Projects
www.undo.net/harpa
harpa.projects@gmail.com
+39 339 7492378