Waiting for the Accident to Happen

Mostra Residenza 2015

Waiting for the Accident to Happen

A CURA DI
Antonella Croci

OPERE DI
Francis Alÿs, Meris Angioletti, Ivan Argote, Alice Cattaneo, Brice Dellsperger, Clorinde Durand, Chiara Fumai, Rä di Martino e Adrian Paci

CON IL SUPPORTO DI
DE.MO./MOVIN'UP I sessione 2015

MONASH University Istituto Italiano di Cultura a Melbourne Creative Victoria

Screen Space, Melbourne

Dal 5.11.2015 al 21.11.2015

Waiting for the Accident to Happen è il risultato della collaborazione tra Careof e Screen Space. Nel 2014 i direttori di Screen Space, Simone Hine e Kyle Weise hanno presentato la mostra Moving Pictures / Expanded Space a Careof, partecipando al programma di residenze FDV Residency Program. Nel 2015 Antonella Croci, avendo vinto un'open call indetta dalle due organizzazioni, presenta la mostra Waiting for the Accident to Happen, con opere dall'Archivio Video di Careof. Entrambe le mostre esplorano la natura, l'interpretazione e la validità dell'archivio.

Waiting for the Accident to Happen include le opere di nove artisti, provenienti dall'Archivio Video di Careof e non, che riflettono sulla frammentarietà dell'archivio. L'archivio video, costruito in oltre 25 anni, soprattutto dai suoi fondatori Mario Gorni e Zefferina Castoldi, è il risultato di contributi unici e vari che riflettono le storie personali e professionali quanto la storia della video arte e comprende oltre 8000 opere d'arte video. L'Archivio Video di Careof è un esempio della natura imprevedibile dell'archivio e della sua costruzione, piuttosto che un riflesso chiaro della realtà. A partire da questa idea, le opere incluse, giocano sul confine tra la documentazione, la realtà e la finzione.

ARTISTS BIO

Antonella Croci (b. 1985, Milan) holds a MA in History of Contemporary Art and another one in curating (Contemporary Art and its Exhibition) from the Sorbonne University, Paris. She also earned a BA in Art History (Sorbonne University) and another one in Communication and Management in the Art Markets (IULM University, Milan).

As a curator, she conceived and organized the exhibitions Échos at the Musée Nissim de Camondo, part of the Arts Décoratifs museum in Paris (2011) and Non è un paese per vecchi? (No Country for Old Men?) at Sala Dogana, Palazzo Ducale in Genoa (2013), following a national concourse. In 2013 she won the Prizes for the Jury’s Choice and Crowd Favorite for the virtual exhibition I Close My Eyes in Order To See, presented on Kapsul, a platform created by the Kadist Foundation, San Francisco.

She has been Assistant Curator and Exhibition Coordinator for ART for The World (President Adelina von Fürstenberg), an international ONG linked to the UN, for the exhibitions The Mediterranean Approach at Musée d’art contemporain [mac] in Marseille and at SESC Pinheiros in Sao Paulo, Brazil (2012) and FOOD at the Musée Ariana in Geneva (2012-2013).

In 2014 her proposal for a video exhibition won the concourse Moving Pictures/Expanding Space, an exchange between Careof (Milan) and Screen Space (Melbourne). 'Waiting for the accident to happen', her last exhibition is presented in Melbourne in November 2015.

Screen Space is a not-for profit art gallery that opened in 2010 and which occupies a converted warehouse in Melbourne’s CBD. Screen Space is rent-free for artists and curators and incorporates a purpose-built gallery. The main exhibition spaces have been designed specifically to enable the gallery’s curatorial focus on exhibitions that incorporate screen technology or which engage with screen culture, regardless of medium. The gallery program aims to combine local and international, established and emerging artists at the forefront of moving image practice

Alice Cattaneo, 1 minute 41 seconds, 2007, video, 1’41’’, Courtesy of the artist

Chiara Fumai, The Girl with the Blanket, 2008, one channel video, 4’04’’, Francis Alÿs, If you are a typical spectactor, what you are really doing is waiting for the accident to happen, 1997, Video, 10 min., loop Installation View, Screen Space 2015, photo: Kyle Weise

Meris Angioletti,Il rabdomante, 2006, video, 14’13’’
Installation view, Screen Space, 2015, photo: Kyle Weise

Ivan Argote, Sans titre (Paris), 2010, video, 74’59’’, Installation view, Screen Space 2015, photo: Kyle Weise

Rä di Martino, August 2008, 2009, video, 5’, Courtesy of the artist

Brice Dellsperger, Body Double 2, After “Body Double” (Brian de Palma), 1995. film Hi8 transferred on DVD, colour, sound, 30’’
© Brice Dellsperger, Courtesy Air de Paris, Paris.

Alice Cattaneo, 1 minute 41 seconds, 2007, video, 1’41’’, Installation view, Screen Space 2015, photo: Kyle Weise

Clorinde Durand, Naufrage, 2008, video, 7’’, Production Le Fresnoy 2008

Brice Dellsperger, Body Double 2, After “Body Double” (Brian de Palma), 1995. film Hi8 transferred on DVD, colour, sound, 30, Installation View, Screen Space 2015 , photo: Kyle Weise

Rä di Martino, August 2008, 2009, video, 5’, Installation view, Screen Space 2015, photo: Kyle Weise

Clorinde Durand, _Naufrage_2008 video, 7’’ Production Le Fresnoy 2008, Installation view, Screen Space 2015 , photo Kyle Weise

Chiara Fumai, The Girl with the Blanket, 2008, one channel video, 4’04’’, Courtesy of the artist, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia and Waterside Contemporary, London

Chiara Fumai, The Girl with the Blanket, 2008, one channel video, 4’04’’, Installation view, Screen Space 2015 , photo Kyle Weise

Adrian Paci, Albanian Stories, 1997, video, 7’, Installation view, Screen Space 2015 , photo: Kyle Weise

Meris Angioletti, Il rabdomante, 2006, video, 14’13’’, Courtesy of the artist

Francis Alÿs, If you are a typical spectactor, what you are really doing is waiting for the accident to happen, 1997, Video, 10 min., loop, Courtesy of the artist

Ivan Argote, Sans titre (Paris), 2010, video, 74’59’’, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Perrotin, Paris/New York/Hong Kong

Adrian Paci, Albanian Stories, 1997, video, 7’
Courtesy of the artist and kaufmann repetto, Milano/New York