Italiano
Alex Hai is known as the first female gondolier in Venice, Italy. With the collaboration of the artist Yamada Hanako, he made a photographic series to tell about himself
Arte Tag: minoranze
A Queer Culture Illustrated Guide
A Queer Guide is a for-dummies encyclopedia about LGBT world, terms and icons. It’s a fun way to learn and find the things you need to know to fight against ignorance and discrimination. The Guide is open to contribution and to be updated every time someone has something to add.
A Queer Guide is also a little printed booklet. You can purchase it as a nice gift to your loved one, homophobic neighbours, Santa Claus, your parents, and straight friends who constantly ask you “…what’s the deal with you?”
Anna Ramasco
Anna Ramasco inscena performances collettive volte a superare la diffidenza verso i “diversi” grazie a turbini leggeri, ironici e positivi che li vedono protagonisti. Ha particolare attenzione alle disabilità, soprattutto alla sordità. La performance “50 segnanti” si è svolta a Palazzo Grassi nel Maggio 2014 all’interno dell’atmosfera straniante di un’opera di Doug Wheeler.
Nella performance individuale “La fioraia” ArtVerona 2013 una sessualità a tratti drammatica, morbida o kitch viene festeggiata in una danza in cui falli fatti a mano o acquistati vengono inseriti in vasi di piante fiorite.
Sergio Racanati
The center of my work is given by an interest in the social history of man in relation to its urban environment, political and architectural. I analyze the lateral elements forgotten by history; reflecting the relationship between the urban landscape and civil development of man; I question the story of architecture and political community’s behavior studying the relationship between individual memory and collective memory.
A body’s work, but not intimate diary, which eschews any narrative intent to favor an analytical perspective, which aims to build a repository of cultural memory, where to draw references and exemplary to critically review the present time. A research tends towards a critical reading of power systems and the complex reality of the globalized economy. An artistic vision and life that moves within “subcultures of resistance” that intends to resist the massification of urban life, the destruction of the environment and landscape. It’s also act politically through the language of art , when politically assumes the meaning of organization, employment and management of the common, social and collective space.
The contexts that are most involved in my artistic research are “residual”, contexts placed at the edge of the great knowledge production and industrial use as result of ‘”illegal power” and the struggles of speculation about life itself.
The political significance responds to the demands of the “multitude of people” who request the policy of reviewing the dichotomy between public / private, individual vision / collective vision, the same subjects that inspire the contemporary art debate called “public”.
Chiara Trivelli
My artistic practice starts out from the assumption that art may be understood as a direct intervention on cultural transmission processes. It concerns public spaces, disappearing communities and forgotten places. My work concerns the questioning of identities and languages.
It is not an individual work, but based on a participatory approach, it treats the immaterial.
Memory, environment, marginality and social transformation. Activating a sharing process forces us to set aside our own egos, and this is the hard part of the work I do. Expounding a relational critique thus becomes something intrinsically artistic, a process of collective growth.
I try to tell the real stories I collectively compose through videos, installations, audio works and performances. After adopting a different point of view than the fact, I develop site-specific methods to rewrite contexts.