Independent art network
October 27–November 6, 2016
Circuit Off
different venues in Turin
Head Quarter
Q35, via Quittengo 35
The festival is part of the broader project NESXT, the international network aimed at the non-profit art scene, including associations, artist run space and collective.
NESXT is the new interdisciplinary project that debuts in Turin in a format that expresses, indeed its name suggests, its triple identity: NET as a network in the making, NEXT as future for a critical and shared observatory and NEST as an open house to welcome all most contemporary practices in the visual arts, performing, sound and contamination between genres.
The complex kaleidoscope of experiences that make up the artistic and cultural independent italian production is the microcosm in which the NESXT project decides to take action from this first year, proposing a festival, a circuit and a network of project partnerships to meet and get to know the players in the emerging scene and the most avant-garde.
The Circuit Off involved over 20 cultural spaces of the city in a series of exhibitions and events spanning Turin and tell in its historical and contemporary identity of laboratory.
They are: Almanac Inn, Arteco- temporary art space, Autofocus/VANNI, Barriera, Diogene, blank-spazio espositivo e/static, Fusion Art Gallery + Edizioni Inaudite, Galleria Moitre, Galo Art Gallery, Laboratorio Artistico Pietra | PASAJ (Istanbul), Libreria Bodoni/Spazio B, Jest, Ncontemporary – TPS, Officina 500 | Galerie ambulante – Association ART’ccessible (Marsiglia), Phos, Spaziobianco, Spazio Buonasera, Spazio Ferramenta, Teatro Baretti, Teatro “Gar(a)bato” o “piccolo piccolo,” Torino Graphic Days, UltraSpazio coworking.
At the headquarters of Q35, via Quittengo 35, there are three sections.
Show presents 20 Italian spaces, selected through a call by a curatorial board formed by Olga Gambari, Lorenzo Balbi, Pietro Gaglianò, Andrea Lacarpia, Roberta Pagani, Giangavino Pazzola e Marco Scotini.
They are: BOCS (Catania), Carico Massimo (Livorno), Cose Cosmiche (Milan), Current (Milan), Frequente (Milan), Giuseppefraugallery (Gonnesa – CI), Le Dictateur + B-tomic (Milan), Localedue (Bologna), Museo d’Inverno (Siena), N38E13 (Palermo), Ramdom (Lecce), RAVE East Village Artist Residency (Trivignano U.se – UD), SPAZIENNE (Milan), Spazio Y (Rome), Studio Corte 17 (Prato), Werkbank Lana (Bolzano), Museo Wunderkammer (Trento), Wunderbar+Peninsula (Rome/Berlin), Zentrum (Varese), /77 (Milan).
Graphic is dedicated to graphic art, a focus with a selection of free and visionary projects by collectives and Italian independent publishers: Chicken Broccoli (Rome), Costola (Genova) + Fame (Rome), Elyron (Turin), Fondo A.A.V.V. (Biella), Presidio Artistico Circolare (Turin), Print About Me (Turin), Tuta (Turin), Venti Dita Studio (Turin).
Finally Live, with the theme Bodyteller, curated by Francesca Arri, is a live program at 360 degree, with performances, concerts, talks, visual, DJ sets, videos and workshops.
Those involved are: Sabrina Casadei (Rome) Clarinde Wesselink (Amsterdam), Mare di Dirac (Turin), Le DIctateur+B-tomic+Larsen (Milan/Turin), Emanuele Vesci (Rome/Berlin), EX NUNC (London/web), Vivian Chinasa Ezugha (Nigeria/UK), VestAndPage (Gemany/Italy), Le Ragazze del Porno (Italy), Tweeedo e Dario Timpani (Turin), Gandalf e High Files (Turin), Ambra Gatto Bergamasco e Edegar Fernando Starke (Dublin/Berlin), NoizyKnobs (Turin).
NESXT is conceived and produced by ArteSera and realized with the support of the Foundation for Modern and Contemporary Art CRT, with the patronage of the City of Turin and GAI.