The Ferrara Galleries of Modern and Contemporary Art and Xing present ART FALL ’10 Contemporary Ferrara at the Contemporary Art Pavilion and the adjacent Museo Giovanni Boldini.

This third edition of the event will focus on the performance practices of Italian and foreign artists, who over the course of 2 weekends will be guests of Living Room chamber performances, with two different performance programs on Saturday, Dec. 11 and Saturday, Dec. 18 at 7 p.m. Art Fall ’10’s choice to give space to live art is based on a contemporaryist vocation, which recognizes and exalts the ability of today’s artists to cross different mediums to best express what they want to say, crossing performative, plastic, visual, musical, writing or editorial practices with extreme ease. If performance is a reformulation of the codes of representation, historically born as the enfranchisement and deconstruction of the theatrical space, today in these living spaces transformed over time into exhibition venues, the goal is not to make something unformed happen like the happening, but to give rise to physical-spatial writings that challenge formalization, canons, and genres, in a conscious act of rewriting and over-impression. The situating of materials in a context, for a transformation of stylistic categories. There is no performance without “conquering” a space: adaptation or invasion. In these two sessions of Living Room one leaves the framework of representation and paradoxically re-enters it with a new consciousness: performer and narrated stories become one spectacular body that also integrates the viewer, to different degrees, with different intensities. Living Room is a format dedicated to the production of performers, choreographers, visual and sound artists: performance events designed and created to create close contact with the public. Conceived by Xing for the spaces of Raum in Bologna, and tested over 8 years until expanding to other contexts, it represented an anomalous moment in the Italian scene. Living Room was born out of the choice to practice theater and dance in forms less rigid than those imposed by conventional theaters – pandering to a generational need – to experiment with non-classical forms of stage presentation and to seek immediate and colloquial types of performance. A physical and mental space of which to share processes as well as outcomes. At Art Fall, Living Room takes shape through six creations by artists who practice scenic research in different directions: new and established artistic subjectivities. Kinkaleri, Sara Manente, Dewey Dell, followed by Nicole Beutler, Antonio Rinaldi and Antonia Baehr will employ the spaces of the Contemporary Art Pavilion and the Salone d’Onore of the Boldini Museum, where architectures, overlooks and impediments will design the material visions of the performances.

Kinkaleri with Rise & Fall second and third acts performs the Brechtian spectacle by translating it into the form of a one man show that unfolds on the surface of a table as a whole world; the mimetic presences of Lawaai means Hawaai by Sara Manente create choreographies for circumstances and open spaces to a polyphonic reality; the company Dewey Dell with Kin Knight King declares childhood nightmares, African neuralgia and gothic cartoons, rewriting a new fiction temporarily laid bare. Nicole Beutler revisits the ballet of Les Sylphides bringing it closer to the viewer to emphasize the performative act: the original elements are retraced in a subtle remix of scratches and loops, scratched gently to peel back the patina of beauty; Antonio Rinaldi presents the fifth of the Special moments in Jeffrey’s life, in which writing will be at work: work that rejects the definite and ethically and politically espouses the confused; Antonia Baehr presents Laugh a selection of laugh scores, a performance on laughter and laughter: in front of a score and with his hands on the turntable, he explores this expression as a higher entity, detached from its causal heritage – the jokes, the tickling, the stories, the merriment – observing instead the thing itself.

Edited by.

Silvia Fanti / Xing

Organizers

Gallerie d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea del Comune di Ferrara in collaboration with Xing and with the support of the Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Ferrara