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UNIDEE2007 is over!
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UNIDEE in PROGRESS – the press release
UNIDEE – University of Ideas and Cittadellarte- Fondazione Pistoletto
presents
Saturday 27 October 2007 – at 17.00 (free entrance)
UNIDEE IN PROGRESS 2007
The four month residency at Cittadellarte from July to October facilitates the exploration of the relationship between art and society. It promotes investigation into the methods of creative intervention and assists in realizing projects influencing responsible transformation in society.
Saturday 27 October 2007, starting at 5:00 pm., the studio of UNIDEE – University of Ideas opens to the public. The residents will present to visitors their ongoing projects and the culmination of their time at the foundation.
Since July 4th, 17 artists and researchers from all over the world have shared space, ideas, knowledge, and projects working along side the local context in their development. The experience for the residents was informed by the encounters between diverse fields from architecture to economy, visual art to music, and literature to design. In the development of group or individual projects the residents engaged a number of social issues and creative solutions. Coming from all over the world they have shared ideas, knowledge, and projects while at the same time working in the local context to develop their artistic practice.
During the months of UNIDEE, the residents had the opportunity to draw inspiration from a program of meetings focused on methodologies of intervention. The heads of the various offices of Cittadellarte which are made up of experts in economy, communication, and business led workshops and communal discussions all under the artistic direction of Michelangelo Pistoletto.
UNIDEE In progress – Program
17.00: Opening Hosted by the residents of UNIDEE
19.30: Beyond Arepa, a buffet in collaboration with the Cafeteria glocal restaurant of Cittadellarte. Polenta is transformed to Colombian bread, arepa, from Medellin to Cittadellarte (in collaboration with Juan Pablo Jimenez Carvajal with the participation of Gayle Chong Kwan)
21,30 – Auditorium: Concert SURREALISTIC LIZARDS, a project to promote music free from copyright curated by Andres Torca and the Restaurant of Cittadellarte, with the collaboration of Se.Li.Li, (Free Licence Service), a project by the Polytechnical University of Turin and Region of Piedmont to provide information in the area of ‘Free Licensing’
The Residents of UNIDEE 2007
Rei Dishon – Israel/ Wafaa Yasin – Palestine/ Chelsea Knight – United States / Ika Peraic – Croatia / Juan Pablo Jimenez Carvajal – Colombia / Marthe Van Dessel – Belgium/ Lieven Paelinck – Belgium / Nerita Oeiras – Brasil / Francesca Montà – Italy / Sakshi Guptà – India / Zofia Wollny – Poland / Vicentiu Gârbacea – Romania / Natalia Pershina – Russia / Andres Torca – Spain / Jason Waite – United States/ Fiona Whitty – Ireland / Rotimi Babatunde – Nigeria.
Their participation in UNIDEE in Residence is possible due to the grants provided by: Ermenegildo Zegna Foundation, University of Antioquia, UniCredit Group, Snait Foundation, Qattan Foundation, Inlaks, Hangar, Pacefuturo Association, Illy, IFPC-UNESCO, Fulbright, DeBuren and the Provence of Biella.
Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto – via Serralunga 27 – 13900 Biella (Italia) – tel.: +39 015 28400; fax: +39 015/2522540 – Website: www.cittadellarte.it – e-mail: unidee@cittadellarte.it (Director: Cristiana Bottigella) – Press Office: ufficiostampa@cittadellarte.it ; tel.: +39 015 0991454(Francesca Fossati).
CITTADEL-ARTist Lecture Series 2007: Roman Dziadkiewicz
“Kidnapping a Curator”, Video Still, 2004
Roman Dziadkiewicz
October 21, 2007
Lecture: Dictionary of Participatotory Strategies
Sunday, October 21, Pistoletto Performance Theater, 18.00
Roman Dziadkiewicz (1972) is an artist and co-founder/leader of the SAOZ Association (1999-2002) and 36.6foundation. He Conducts long-term studies and workshop projects bordering on artistic practices, social investigations, curatorial strategies and testing of forms of participations. Dziadkiewicz is Interested in the processes of the entanglement of art and creative processes in political and cultural contexts, the disintegration/disappearance of a work of art and the reconstruction and redefinintion of historical and multicultural traditions.
The transfiguration of physical spaces and cultural moments in Grimberg’s work produces uneasy performances of absence that question the meaning of memory, place, and attachment. The result is the realignment and play of the structure of fiction and space itself in a psychologically fractured world, in which the connection between secure meanings and official narratives is often distorted or lost.
Dziadkiewicz has realised a number of workshops, lectures and educational projects, e.g. at The Hungarian Art University (2007), The Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (2006), The Cleveland Institut of Art (2005), Technical University in Krakow (2007) and within World Social Forum Mumbay (2004). The author and editor of publications (poems, essays, visual essays) e.g. Tissues (1996), Group Think or Modern Masters (in: Zniewolony Umysl 2, 2006), Agora-Solidarnosc-SFX-Creative Commons-Publicznosc (2005). Selected art realisations: Imhibition (National Museum Krakow, 2005-2007), Robinson Crusoe or Stranger than Paradise (Spaces Gallery, Cleveland 2005), Luminescences/Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors (CCA Kiev, Ukraine & Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin 2006), Books/Apperception (Rauma Biennale 2006).
The Cittadel-Artist Lecture Series is part of the UNIDEE in Residence Program at the Pistoletto Foundation,
Biella, Italy. For more information, please contact Chelsea Tonelli Knight at chelsea@chelseaknight.com.
CITTADEL-ARTist Lecture Series 2007: Eiko Grimberg
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Eiko Grimberg
Fri, October 12, 2007
Studio Visits: TBA
Eiko Grimberg is a Berlin-based artist working in video and photography. His work shifts and detaches images and stories from their role as signifiers of cohesive histories. In Grimberg’s video of a deserted Wall Street in Post 9/11 New York (The Years to Come, 2005), the space of the image is folded into a mismatched historical narrative about a similar but changed series of events, and produces a sensation of dislocated anxiety.
The transfiguration of physical spaces and cultural moments in Grimberg’s work produces uneasy performances of absence that question the meaning of memory, place, and attachment. The result is the realignment and play of the structure of fiction and space itself in a psychologically fractured world, in which the connection between secure meanings and official narratives is often distorted or lost.
Eiko Grimberg received his MFA from the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB) in 2003 and is assistant professor at HGB.
The Cittadel-Artist Lecture Series is part of the UNIDEE in Residence Program at the Pistoletto Foundation,
Biella, Italy. For more information, please contact Chelsea Tonelli Knight at chelsea@chelseaknight.com.
TRAILER 31 – fri 29 sept -> 2 oct 2007
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Very welcome,
to camp with Trailer 31, in between Cittadellarte and Casa del Mago,
in Italia, Biella, near the mountains, nature, ….
Anyway, join the campsite during their stay!
Bring your tent, your thoughts and skills to Trailer 31!
A bit of planning:
In that weekend – I heard – there will be a party on friday?
Hope so, Where? maybe in Casa Del Mago… !
Hopefully the streaming works: Watch UNI-TUBE!
Saturday, we will do a test run of 
ubliActie: (dutch only)
Wablief? What? Everybody who is interested in chaos, politics, networks, tools, technology, open source design tools and how to publish in university of ideas… (Recipy)
Art, archive, produse! with pancakes?
Join us at 14:30
Monday, Uni-topia or CITTADEL-ARTist Lecture Series 2007,
the visitors of Cittadellarte will give an informal presentation.
Tuesday, some more…
On the program “on going”: experiments in renewable-energy, self-sustaining, inflatable shelters, mesh environments, …
in collaboration with www.ooooo.be code31.lahaag.org www.bilug.it
(we provide shower, electricity supply, wireless network, wood and recycle workshop)
Reinstated UNIDEE
Michelangelo Pistoletto, Woollen – The Reinstated Apple (2007), visible at Casa Zegna, Trivero (Biella) – Italy
«The Reinstated Apple is a major emblem of the reconciliation between nature and artifice represented by the new myth of the Third Paradise. According to tradition, the bite out of the apple represents man’s detachment from nature. The Reinstated Apple, on the other hand, is a symbol of a re-conjunction of the artificial and natural spheres. Wool, which in this work gives shape to the apple, is a continually renewable natural element, it is the undressing of an animal to dress humans – to the benefit of both».
Michelangelo Pistoletto
TRIALOGO – Instructions for an intensive dialogue
«For the Trialogo Festival Marthe Van Dessel initiated a project based on creating a digital game score. The basic idea was to add a visual dimension to the event, a world music experimental concert. The digital media came to augment this performance and to enhance its interaction with the public. The whole creative process came to be a dialogue, a collaboration between sound and image, in a larger context of communication between cultures, resulting in a experimental creative event. How can we create a dialogue between people coming from so different parts of the world, with so different backgrounds? Does the idea of creating a dialogue means peace? And if so, might dialogue be also fundamental for peace?»
Explore the digital game score project by Marthe during Trialogo events in collaboration with UNIDEE
TRIALOGO Festival at Cittadellarte and Milan
UNIDEE residents take part to the second concert of TRIALOGO Festival, on Saturday, July 14th at Cittadellarte and to the third appointment of the event, on stage on Monday, July 16th in Milan’s Teatro Franco Parenti.
TRIALOGO is a project by Israeli music player and composer Yuval Avital , focused on building cultural bridges using music as a poweful connection tool between different backgrounds.
UNIDEE artists transform the concert in a multi-media artistic experience, with video projections, installations and performances.
Read the TRIALOGO II press release (PDF document, Italian only).
A multi-media documentation of the two events will be soon available on this blog.
