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UNIDEE2007 is over!
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Wolkengestalt (The Form of Clouds)
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Saturday 20 October 2007, h.18:00
SCREENING at UNITOPIA:
“Wolkengestalt” (a cinétract by Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson)
The screening will be followed by a debate at the UNITOPIA space
Goethe’s meteorological observations from September 11, 1819 descend on the clouds of the present day from an ambivalent outside, an off-screen dissociated and plagued with doubt. Under the constant menace of global war, the word has withdrawn into itself and the images-temps become an opaque, ineluctable overcast, clouded by abrasive, endlessly echoing sounds.
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)
How to participate in UNI-TOPIA
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UNI-TOPIA logo
Uni-topia is an open program of exchange between Unidee Residents; Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto staff; Visiting Artists, Curators, and Guests; and the Public.
A lecture, workshop, screening, field-trip, or demonstration in 20, 40, or 60 minute blocks can be proposed by anyone usually who would is interested in sharing their knowledge, skill, or experience with the larger community.
To reduce email clutter please send your proposed program to one or all of the following address the day before the program is scheduled. It will be compiled with the other proposals for the day, translated into italian, and placed on the website. One email per day is sent out to the community with the list of events to help facilitate people’s scheduling for the day.
Send email the day Before with proposal to:
jasonhwaite@gmail.com, prowi_zorka@poczta.onet.pl , lieven.paelinck@gmail.com
Include in Proposal
Title
Your full name
Time: 20, 40, or 60 min.
Location
Short Description
Thank you for your participation.
Staff of Information Ministry of Unidee 2007
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
Mirroring myself – a contribution by Vicentiu
Starting from Michelangelo Pistoletto’s mirrors, Vicentiu exposes his impressions and thoughts after the experiences of the very first days of residence.
Photo and text courtesy of Vicentiu Garbacea
Browse Vicentiu’s personal blog
“Hit reset, reset, time and time again”
Biffy Clyro – Convex, Concave/Blackening Sky (2002)
The man responsible for the UNIDEE thing is the Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto world renowned in the art world for his trademark mirror installations which mix painting, photography and sculpture in a compelling manner. The concept of the mirror is somehow central for what happened to me in relation with UNIDEE in Residence program and Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto. From the very first moment when I took the courage to apply for this residency without being an artist or having an ‘artistic’ background everything was in a way or another a process of retrieving and observing myself. Once while in Biella I took this photo reflecting myself into a fashion clothing vitrine. And the next morning I was listening and conversing with Michelangelo Pistoletto who was explaining us, to the UNIDEE residents, the concept of mirror in his work. Jacques Lacan re-built psychoanalysis by re-defining some of its central issues. The problem of viewing oneself in a mirror is a central point in the development of one’s personality and libidinal instincts. Pistoletto stressed in the presentation that as mirrors and observers of the world people cannot see themselves. Unless and until they meet another mirror. That means meeting the other, or the hell as Sartre would put it. In a mass society people are always keen on avoiding responsibility by placing themselves within a system that protects and keeps them within certain limits. Few of them take responsibility in assuming the existential demands of the very fact of living. I had the chance in the very first days spent in Cittadellarte to meet people coming from so different parts of the world. At every meal and in every moment of the day I had conversations, from funny and casual to pretty deep and serious ones about art, social involvement, responsibility and the meaning of life in diverse ways. Every of these moments put me in the situation to re-define myself, to re-actualize my thought and my feelings.
What is art? This question was raised when we first met officially Mr. Pistoletto at the round table. His answer came naturally: “art always has to be re-defined”. So I reckon that the central experience is the one of re-actualizing, re-defining and re-constructing. Art, thoughts, science, politics, personality. I personally do not believe. I can think, but I do not believe in any constructed system. Be it religious, political, social and so forth. If there is any idea I have about the man who lives at the beginning of the third millennium of so-called civilized world is that he has to re-define and re-invent the everything for himself. Lyotard was writing three decades ago about the decay of grand narratives and the rise of informational societies and cultures. What about now? In a world where a child dies almost every second because of poverty or war while the richest people in the world get even richer? Where can we find a stable point? What to look for? God, technology, economics, politic or social power or art-world recognition? Is capitalism good or bad? Is communism good or bad? Is the Internet good or bad? These are narrowing questions. Still problems in societies and cultures around the globe are put this way. I do not have an answer for them. I can only look for answer for myself. If I am anything I am a peaceful person who believes only in the power of every man and woman around the globe to find answers for hers/his own questions. Not to expect solutions from others. And not to try to tell others what is good for them.
Mirroring myself is the name that I gave to the photo with my reflection in the vitrine of the fashion clothing store. Mirroring myself is the process I am going trough. Within it I am always in a relationship with the mirrors I meet during my existence. The others. I will use my time while living this experience to create personal answers for my issues. If they would positively affect anyone means that I am not living an egoistic life. And there’s nothing wrong with this.
first inter-action: hugging a tree
Creativity can be the social interface between the artist and the context around him. How can an artist get in touch with the surrounding reality, leaving a trace with a social meaning, is an open question. The possible answers are multiple, and above all, they are subjective.
To get in first touch with the local reality, Nerita chose some wool yarn, a very sunny afternoon and the public swimming pool in Biella. To tie around a tree trunk with the yarn is a simple intervention, but in a public space it can assume the meaning of a social message.
