Videopassages
Careof participates in numero zero of inContemporanea, la rete dell’arte, a project by the Provincia di Milano aimed at giving visibility to the rich contemporary art scene in Milan and promoting its knowledge among all citizens.
Videopassages is a project curated by Mario Gorni and Simona Bordone, created with the goal of ‘invading’ the commercial spaces and shop windows of via Torino in Milan. Videopassages transforms the chosen area into a sort of open-air cinema for passersby: from March 29 to April 8, it offers a video art program, bringing to the streets materials normally accessible in museums and art galleries. The shop windows of commercial establishments host works produced by emerging and established artists, selected by curators Chiara Agnello, Simona Bordone, Emanuela de Cecco, Mario Gorni, Francesca Pasini, Roberto Pinto, Alessandra Pioselli, Michele Robecchi, Gianni Romano, Maria Rosa Sossai. The works, concerning themes of civil living, the city, and multiculturalism, focus on eleven viewing points, creating a new path that touches one of Milan’s most beautiful areas, from Piazza Duomo to Carrobbio.
The proposal of Videopassages is that of a gaze and a way of experiencing “the vertigo of the streets,” as Walter Benjamin said in the Passages, suited to a modern flâneur. The “seeing through” a commodity that presents itself only as an image of itself, which is not for sale even if it coexists with what is for sale: a powerful paradigm of our society. These are images, those of the videos in the windows, that present themselves to the eye as fragments, brief short circuits that open to the mind as possible openings to consciousness. “I have nothing to say, only to show.”
Elenco dei negozi che aderiscono all’iniziativa e dei video presentati:
AB/SOUL / selezione a cura di Mario Gorni
Felipa César, Untitled (Romance), 2000, 3’
Susanna Scarpa, The looney plunger 1300 meters, 2002, 1’30”
Sabrina Muzi, Torture 1 2 3, 2001, 10’45”
Paola Sabatti Bassini, Soltanto per piacere, 1999, 6’15”
Lorenzo Casali, Echi di abitazioni 2, 2002, 5’
Café Saint George / selezione a cura di Roberto Pinto
Francesco Lauretta, Condizioni marginali, 2005, 11’24”
Luisa Rabbia, One way, 2002, 1’05” in loop
Ra di Martino, Not 360, 2003, 7’20”
Stefano Romano, Merry Ramadan, 2003, 2’
Margherita Morgantin, Untitled, Milano 2005, 2005, 7’
Energie / selezione a cura di Michele Robecchi
Maria Thereza Alves, B.C.M.O., 2005, 3’05”
Sophie Combes, L’orgue de barberie, 2003–2005, 2’12”
Shezad Dawood, Sunday Morning, 2002, 12’07”
Seamus Harahan, Citygas, 2000, 36”
Joanna O’Callaghan, News Making Processes, 2005, 14’01”
Fnac/ selezione a cura di Alessandra Pioselli
Ed Young, Killing Teddy, 2001, 51”
Valentina Loi, We did it all over again, 2004, 2’ 30”
Kjersti Sundland, Dora, 2002, 5’
Graw & Bockler, Because, 2002, 3’47”
Alessandra Spranzi, In campagna, 2004, 1’
Fotografia Boni / selezione a cura di Simona Bordone
Y Liver, Look…, 2003, 40”
Francesca Cogni, Discorsi zitti, 2004, 3’
Alice Cattaneo, The Singer, 2004, 1’30”
Ruth Sergel, Bruce, 1997, 3’
Alessandra Spranzi, Il viaggio, 2004, 1’30”
Germani Sport / selezione a cura di Gianni Romano
Jeroen Kooijmans, New York is Eating Me & The Cactus Dance, 2001–2005, 37’
La voglia / selezione a cura di Maria Rosa Sossai
Domenico Mangano, Too Much Country, 2005, 3’12”
Eva Marisaldi, Legenda, 2002, 6’
Marinella Senatore, Un-costructing, 2005, 3’ (loop)
Nico Vascellari, Untitled Song, 2004, 3’
Zimmerfrei, Panorama Roma, 2004, 24’
Lucan’s / selezione a cura di Francesca Pasini
Marzia Migliora, Efi, 2002, 3’15”
Simonetta Fadda, Stargate, 2004, 1’16” in loop
Marta dell’Angelo, Nevsky Prospect, 2004, 11’25”
Luca Vitone e Cesare Viel, La partita di pallone, 2001, 2’15”
Alessandro Nassiri, Cinema Take Away, 2005, 6’
Alice Guareschi, Senza titolo, Autunno, 2005, 14”
Marilena / selezione a cura di Chiara Agnello
Jaume Fargas i Coll, Supermarché, 2003, 2’30”
cacciaegrilli, Operazione TN, 2004, 4’30”
Gabriele Picco, Skyler, 2004, 5’40”
Semiconductor, The sound of microclimates, 2004, 8’12”
Goldiechiari, Controcorrente, 2005, 1’50”
Caffè Rubino: Complete Compilation
MM Calzature: Complete compilation
Videos are presented from monday to friday, following hours
monday 15.30–19.00 / tuesday-saturday 10.00–19.00
