CONVERSATIONAL BODIES
Art Performance - Pescara, Museum of Arts - Castello di Nocciano
22 May - 13 June 2021
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After ten years of activity CORPO - Festival of performing arts becomes CORPO.doc │ performance and visual arts: an opening of the exhibition towards languages ​​closely related to Performing Art.
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The project, curated by Ivan D’Alberto, is organized by the Archiving and Promotion Center of Performing Art (CAPPA) of Pescara and will be held from 22 May to 13 June 2021 at the Museum of Arts - Castello di Nocciano.
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The wording .doc indicates the three sections that make up the cultural project, namely documents, horizons, and communities. The document section offers in-depth moments on artistic experiences made in the past in the context of Performing Art; an archival and bibliographic approach enriched by critical reading through the involvement of experts in the sector. The horizons section aims to raise awareness of the work of young performers to discover new talents. Finally, the last section, community, refers to the idea of ​​"network" that the CORPO.doc review aims to achieve through the involvement of public and private institutions.
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The first edition of CORPO.doc │ performance and visual arts will have a woman's body as the theme. For the document section, an exhibition is proposed with historical works by Regina José Galindo, Nan Goldin, and Donna Ferrato, enriched by an installation by the Abruzzese artist Lea Contestabile, on the theme of child brides. The talk with Guido Costa of the Guido Costa Project gallery in Turin follows the screening of the film I’ll be your mirror, published by the BBC and made by Nan Goldin in 1995; and the film A Portrait of Domestic Violence, published by Time and made by Donna Ferrato in 1982, with related talk together with Doriana Gagliardone, president of the Ananke Association of Pescara created to combat violence against women. The historian and theorist of contemporary art Teresa Macrì present her latest book Slittamenti della performance, published by Postmedia book, while Regina Josè Galindo realizes, thanks to the partnership with the Prometeo Gallery in Milan, the choral performance El Último Aplauso, at the cemetery municipal of Nocciano.
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For the horizons section, a photographic exhibition by the artists Francesca Rao and Annalisa De Luca are proposed. Also for this section, in December 2020, CAPPA launched an international open call for the involvement of young performers: Darko Taleski and Ferdi Bulut, Macedonian artists presenting the Conversational Bodies action; Cai Yingfei, a Chinese artist who creates the Fabric action and Andrea Matarazzo, an artist from Campania, with the Mother action.
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The community section took shape through the various partnerships signed for the first edition of the exhibition, made possible by the support of the Municipality of Nocciano, the Almacis company and the Cilli Pubblicità, ICO, and Belle Arti e Mestieri companies and through the involvement of the Montesilvano (Pe), the Ananke Association, the Guido Costa Project and Prometeo Gallery art galleries and the students of the Liceo Artistico Musicale e Choreutico MiBe in Pescara.
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