Thanks Marco,
this sounds very interesting - close to what I am engaged with...
marc
Digicult presents:
Italian Conversations
Art in the Age of Berlusconi. Discovering contemporary art in Italy
by Alessandra Saviotti
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"Fucking Good Art" is a publishing project conceived by Rob Hamelijnck
and Nienke Terpsma, two Dutch artists mainly working in Rotterdam and
Berlin. Fucking Good Art focuses on new modalities of aesthetic
journalism, on counter cultures and sub culture, to forms of self
organisation and activism as models beyond the art market.
Their first magazine was published in 2003: it was like a handbook
centred on the contemporary art in Rotterdam. Since then, Rob and
Nienke have been examining different European contexts by observing
them as outsiders, and without having never read up on the towns they
visited, and therefore analysed, because they believe that being free
from prejudices and completely opened to communication with their
speakers has a great potential. Indeed, from their postulate we can
infer that their working process is centred on active practices, by
considering oral history, ethnography and self-organisation's
essential aspects, which are in turn alternative patterns to the art
market, and new ways to examine and describe the contemporary situation.
By daily following this path, after visiting and analysing Rotterdam,
Munich, Berlin, Dresden, Copenaghen, Riga, Switzerland and Bruxelles,
last year Rob e Nienke, encouraged by Nomas Foundation's
(http://www.nomasfoundation.com/) curators Cecilia Canziani and
Ilaria Gianni, have published their investigation of Italy, "Italian
Conversations -- Art in the age of Berlusconi", the result of an
almost one-year-long itinerant residence. You can purchase the book
online here: http://www.post-editions.com/?page=fga
More:
http://www.digicult.it/news/italian-conversations-art-in-the-age-of-berlusconi-discovering-contemporary-art-in-italy/
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Marco Mancuso
Digital Art, Design & Culture
Digicult Director | Critic, Curator and Professor
Largo Murani 4, 20133, Milan (Italy)
Mob. +39.340.8371816 | Skype. Sostakovich
http://www.digicult.it <http://www.digicult.it/>
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