ArteVisione Focus

To celebrate 35 years of activity, Careof presents ArteVisione Focus, two days of in-depth exploration of moving images between visual arts and cinema, held at Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan.

ArteVisione supports creative talent, transdisciplinarity, and interdisciplinarity, creating connections between artists, filmmakers, curators, programmers, institutions, festivals, museums, and academies and universities in Italy and abroad. It is a hybrid and far-reaching project, built on a circular structure that encourages the creation of networks, supports the development of new artistic productions, and offers mentoring and tutoring services.

Announced through a national open call, it gathers video projects by artists under 40, either Italian or residing in Italy, which are either unreleased or in early stages of development, in any genre or theme. The 6 selected finalists are offered a workshop with professionals from the audiovisual field, internationally renowned curators, and visiting professors such as Hito Steyerl (2022), Gianluca and Massimiliano de Serio (2020), Barbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca (2019), Jordi Colomer (2018), Omer Fast (2017), Adrian Paci (2016). The winner, selected by a jury of experts, receives a production award, support, and mentoring. The completed work is subsequently promoted through a touring circuit of partner museums, art spaces, and festivals.

In its eleven years of activity, ArteVisione has supported the production of works by Yuri Ancarani, Francesco Bertocco, Fatima Bianchi (in progress), Giuseppe Fanizza, Riccardo Giacconi, Martina Melilli, Caterina Erica Shanta, Giulio Squillacciotti, The Cool Couple, Luca Trevisani, and ZimmerFrei, and promoted the work of over 80 artists.

ArteVisione Focus expands the boundaries of the project while simultaneously narrowing its field.

On Friday, September 30 and Saturday, October 1, 2022, at Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan, Careof organizes two days of public symposiums with international professionals and presents the work of Hito Steyerl through a talk and screening of selected works.

With AV Focus, Careof attempts to redefine—after the pandemic and in light of the current times—the role, potential, and symbolic (even before economic) value of our work as professionals investigating the main idiosyncrasies of contemporary human beings through moving images.

The method is based on exchange, openness, and horizontal dialogue, and the preferred format is in-person, where bodies and individualities merge into a collective magma, to discuss the current situation and the modes of development, production, and exhibition of moving images, as well as possibilities for education and training.

This year’s visiting professor and special guest of ArteVisione Focus is artist Hito Steyerl, featured in a talk and screening on September 30, 2022 at 9:30 PM at Cinema Anteo. Free admission subject to availability; reservation required via Eventbrite.

Always engaged as an artist and theorist of the video medium and its aesthetic and political implications, in November (2004) and Lovely Andrea (2007), Steyerl offers a reflection—at times ironic, at times biting—on the production and circulation of images in the revolutionary movements of Kurdistan and in Japan’s bondage industry. Her works propose a polyphony of elements that leave viewers stunned: who is constrained? Who is manipulated? What is the role of images and what agency do they hold in a technologically evolving globalized world?

ArteVisione Focus is part of the Vapore d’estate program and is closely linked to the exhibition You Will Find Me If You Want Me In The Garden, which since July has transformed the Cattedrale spaces of Fabbrica del Vapore into a site of hybridization between plant, human, and artificial bodies, and will host the AV Focus panels.

AV Focus gives voice to the story Careof has been writing since 1987: the discovery and promotion of the work of young artists, the production and exhibition of artworks, and their inclusion in the Archivio Video—recognized as of National Historical Interest by the Ministry of Culture and currently holding over 9,000 titles available to the public.

Full program and details here.