NowHere Europe

NowHere Europe
10 Haziran - 10 Temmuz 2005, Polo Museale Veneziano Alla Misericordia, Venedik

"NowHere Europe", the final output of the project "Trans:it. Moving Culture through Europe", curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, proposes thematical itineraries based on contemporary art practices in the urban context, which suggest possible common definitions of European cultural and public space.

The event constitutes the final phase of the research project Trans:it. Moving Culture through Europe: a recognition across Europe of creative practices in art, architecture and the urban dimension that are re-defining the concept of public space. Through documentation of over 50 artists (from Mario Airò to Lucy Orta) and projects (from Nouveaux Commanditaires in France to Nuovi Committenti in Italy), a common sentiment emerges which, from Norway to Turkey, from Spain to Bulgaria, from Cyprus to Romania, offers a shared context in which artist, institution and civil society experiment with new relationships and seek new forms of cohabitation, comprehension and vision of the urban space.

Furthermore, the exhibition will also be the occasion for the presentation of the book the [un] common place. art, public space and urban aesthetics in Europe, published by Actar-Barcellona, in two versions, Italian and English, which also contains the DVD with a cycle of three documentaries that are an integral part of the Trans:it project.

Three itineraries in 11 European cities, with interviews with artists, curators, critics and intellectuals, which describe the contexts in which the interventions were realized and offer an introductory panorama of the issues dealt with in the book. The three documentaries will be shown along with a selection of videos and documentaries on the artists’ projects.

Trans:it
Advisory Board (since 2003)
Ruxandra Balaci, Iara Boubnova, Anselm Franke, Germana Jaulin, Katerina Koskina, Marco Scotini, Nina Vagi

Ruins for the Future (second documentary)
Advisory Board (since 2004)
Ruxandra Balaci, Iara Boubnova, Anselm Franke, Mihnea Mircan, Marco Scotini, Nina Vagic´

Fluid Cities (third documentary)
Advisory Board (since 2004)
Germana Jaulin, Katerina Koskina, Pelin Tan

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