Waiting for the Accident to Happen

Mostra Residenza 2015

Waiting for the Accident to Happen

CURATED BY
Antonella Croci

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

WITH THE SUPPORT OF
DE.MO./MOVIN'UP I sessione 2015

MONASH University Istituto Italiano di Cultura a Melbourne Creative Victoria

Screen Space, Melbourne

From 5.11.2015 to 21.11.2015

Waiting for the Accident to Happen is the result of the collaboration between Careof and Screen Space. In 2014, the directors of Screen Space, Simone Hine and Kyle Weise, presented the exhibition Moving Pictures / Expanded Space at Careof, taking part in the FDV Residency Program. In 2015, Antonella Croci, having won an open call launched by the two organizations, presented the exhibition Waiting for the Accident to Happen, with works from the Archivio Video di Careof. Both exhibitions explore the nature, interpretation, and validity of the archive.

Waiting for the Accident to Happen includes works by nine artists, from the Archivio Video di Careof and beyond, who reflect on the fragmentary nature of the archive. The video archive, built over more than 25 years, primarily by its founders Mario Gorni and Zefferina Castoldi, is the result of unique and varied contributions that reflect personal and professional histories as much as the history of video art, and includes over 8000 video artworks. The Archivio Video di Careof is an example of the unpredictable nature of the archive and its construction, rather than a clear reflection of reality. Starting from this idea, the included works play on the boundary between documentation, reality, and fiction.

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