European Radar project at Telecom Italia Future Centre
Videos, photos, performances, deejays at the
Radar Infopoint
Venice, 8 – 9 September 2004 from 6 pm to midnight
Telecom Italia Future Centre, San Salvador, Rialto
Conclusion of the European Radar project: 30 artists from six European cities meet again in the sixteenth-century cloisters of the Telecom Italia Future Centre, after a year spent working together on the possibility of integrating different cultures in the cities of Europe.
In the same busy week during which the Venice Architecture Biennale opens and the Film Festival ends, a contemporary art happening lasting two nights at the Telecom Italia Future Centre will mark the end of the European Radar Project.
Radar began in March 2003 and ended in July 2004, and during this period 30 artists from six European countries lived and worked together: it became a human lab of young artists from Athens, Krakow, Weimar, Lewisham, Plovdiv and Venice.
The artists spent several months living in each of these cities, organizing exhibitions and events that involved the local population, students and tourists in the process of creating and using works of art. They also took part in the 2003 edition of the Venice Art Biennale and other important artistic events in the various cities involved.
The event taking place on the 8th and 9th of September has been organized in collaboration with Telecom Italia Future Centre, and brings together in Venice the different results of this experience from the cities involved in the project: videos and photos, music and performances, festive and convivial moments involving both the artists and the visitors of the event, and an international meeting on the sharing of the artistic process as a means to improve the quality of life in the cities.
08.09.2004
6 pm: Radar Meeting – exchange of visual artwork from six European cities
7 pm: Radar Spritz Buffet and drinks
8 pm – 12 pm: Radar Infopoint Artwork, videos, photos, performances, music, deejays from Athens, Krakow, Lewisham, Plovdiv, Venice, Weimar Free Admittance
09.09.2004
8 pm: Radar Dinner (with invitation only)
Radar Meeting 08.09.2004 at 6 pm Telecom Italia Future Centre Radar- exchange of visual artwork from six European cities
In the presence of all the artists and the representatives of the European institutional partners of the project, the curator of the Venice phase which was also part of the 2003 edition of the Art Biennale – Angela Vettese, the managers of Telecom Italia Future Centre and Insula, the curators and organizers of artistic institutions, galleries and associations in Venice.
Radar Billboards in collaboration with Insula
Along the Grand Canal and in various squares around the city From the beginning of September, Venice will be covered in giant photographs showing the artists in the places they inhabited during the six months of the Radar project,
apartments and landscapes that convey the atmosphere of each city, its culture, its perspectives: for example, in Athens the artists crowd a street at night, whereas in Plovdiv, a splendid and lusciously green Bulgarian city, they are all connected by telephone to the rest of the world.
These photographs were designed collectively by all 30 Radar artists and were composed by two of them, Boris Missirkov and Georgi Bogdanov, two photographers, graphic and video artists who have already worked in Italy (they collaborated with Fabrica and Rai). These images “cover” the building sites of Insula, the company that manages the great urban renovation program for the safeguard of Venice, and they carry another message: Venice, a living city, is preparing for the challenge with its own future. Indeed, Insula operates in the historic centre and on the islands in the lagoon to protect the city from flooding, to improve the quality of the environmental hygiene, to maintain the navigational depth of the canals, to restore canal banks and containment walls, to organize underground ducts and renovate bridges, all in view of improving the quality of life and guaranteeing a future for Venice.
RADAR INFOPOINT is a FNV and Venice International University project
The artists are: Claudia Losi, Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio, Pennacchio Argentato, Valentina Ferrarese – Italy, Active Men (Franz Hoefner/Harry Sachs), Natascha Rossi, Sigrid Lange, Steffi Jungling – Germany, Alexander Evtimov/Svetoslav Stoyanov, Georgi Linkov, Boris Missirkov/Georgi Bogdanov, Svetlana Mircheva, – Bulgaria, Daniel Banaczeck , Marta Firlet, Marcin Strzelecki,/Magdalena Silberring Strzelecka, Wojciech Kolek – Poland, Anna Tsouloufi, Dionyssis Kavalieratos, Georgia Sagri, Nikos Kanarellis – Greece, Angus Wyatt, Charlotte Ginsborg, Monica Biagioli, Seetha Alagapan/Kenneth Hay – Great Britain.
Institutional Partners: Venice International University, Italy; Comune di Venezia, Italy; FNV, Italy; IUAV/Arts and Design, Italy; Municipality of Athens/Development Agency, Greece; Radar Artists from Krakow, Poland; London Borough of Lewisham Council, Great Britain; Municipality of Plovdiv, Bulgaria; Weimar Universitaet, Germany.
In collaboration with: Telecom Italia Future Centre, Venice; Insula Spa, Venice; Provincia di Venezia, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice
For more information on the project and for requesting pictures:
Laura Scarpa: 347/9706689
Lorenzo Cinotti: 348/4720246
staff@veneziadavivere.com