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OPEN CALL for DEEP TRASH ITALIA#4 Carnivalism

Posted on dicembre 15, 2014 by - Club Night, Open Call, Performance

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DEADLINE WED24DEC 2014
at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, London (Saturday 31 January 2015)

CUNTemporary is now accepting proposals for the fourth episode of the unique exhibition and performance club night “Deep Trash Italia”, recently nominated Live Art Associate UK by the Live Art Development Agency.

Calling for performances, performative lectures, dance, videos and interactive artworks to be shown on Saturday 31 January 2015. “DEEP TRASH ITALIA#4 Carnivalism” will take place at the East London venue Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club in support of Archivio Queer Italia – the first Italian platform for queer art, theory and activism.

We accept proposals by artists of any artistic background and nationality. We are also keen to hear from writers responding to the call either in a written form (theory, auto/biography, poetry or fiction) or through a performative lecture. A collection of texts from this and all other Deep Trash Italia exhibition/club nights will be published in 2015.

Coinciding with the start of the Carnival in Venice, this event’s themes may include, respond to, be affected by, but not restricted to:

  • Feminist reflections on “womanliness as masquerade”
  • How masquerade generates non-binary ideas of gender and sexuality
  • Carnivalism and the disruption of power structures
  • Sonic anarchies: mash-ups and appropriations as critique of neo-liberal culture
  • Subversive drag and anti-drag queens
  • Dissident travesties: strategies for subverting normative discourses
  • Neopaganism and creative synthesis in artistic practices
  • Reconsidering the sacred and the profane in contemporary artwork
  • Carnivalistic misalliances: working through contradictions and paradoxes
  • Non-sense and chaos as carnivalesque strategy

To apply please email Giulia Casalini at info@archivioqueeritalia.com with the heading “DEEP TRASH APPLICATION” and include the following information:

1)      Name and surname
2)      Place of birth (city and country)
3)      Place of residency (city and country)
4)      A written proposal (no more than 500 words) and, if available, images of the work
5)      Website of the artist/collective or portfolio
6)      Up to 5 high res images with credits (for press use)
We will aim to respond to all applications as soon as possible. Selected artists will be notified by Sunday, 28 December 2014. Deadline is Wednesday, 24 December 2014.

About Archivio Queer Italia
The Archivio Queer Italia (AQI) project was founded by Giulia Casalini (co-director of CUNTemporary) with the support of CUNTemporary in London. AQI is the first Italian platform for queer art, theory and activism. The two strands of this project consist of:

  1. The incorporation of a database to create a virtual archive of artistic, theoretical and activist expressions related to Italy.
  2. Creating spaces and mobile events for the display of such activities (e.g. art fairs, museums, institutions, street interventions).

Parallel to these activities AQI regularly publishes news on queer and feminist issues and lists events and activities taking place in Italy. AQI also organises “Teoremi”, a bi-annual itinerant performance festival against sexual and gender discriminations in Italy.

Contact information
info@archivioqueeritalia.com
www.archivioqueeritalia.com/
FB EVENT https://www.facebook.com/events/901230889911583/

Nuova ONLINE performance su Archivio Queer Italia Online Project Space

Posted on dicembre 1, 2014 by - Online Project Space

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Per vedere la performance in diretta andate su Archivio Queer Italia Project Space.

Purisme (Purismo) – Trittico

Nel 2012 VDREY Feat SCHULTZ hanno prodotto una performance per La Chaux de Fonds (Svizzera) in coincidenza con il compleanno e il luogo di nascita di Le Corbusier. La performance è stata chiamata Purismo come riferimento allo stile artistico che il famoso architetto creò durante la sua vita.

VDREY risponde all’idea di purismo integrando il corpo femminile come oggetto di desiderio all’interno di una cultura che vede la donna come essere ‘puro’ – soltanto finchè essa non viene corrotta dal piacere sessuale che si sviluppa durante la pubertà.

Nell’Ottobre 2013 questa performance – in 3 parti – è stata ricreata per una trasmissione in live streaming per la galleria Tulsa Living Arts (Oklahoma, U.S.A.).

VDREY Feat. SHULTZ hanno presentato le loro performance in tutta Europa (incluso Italia) dal 2006.

Lo spazio Project Space di Archivio Queer Italia è una galleria temporanea online che mostra un lavoro proposto da un artista per un tempo limitato. Per fare richesta di partecipazione alla galleria online contattare CUNTemporary all’e-mail info@cuntemporary.org. 

DEEP TRASH ITALIA#2 – Eurosex Edition

Posted on luglio 29, 2014 by - Club Night, Fundraising

DEEP TRASH ITALIA#2 - Eurosex Edition

Saturday 30 August 2014
DEEP TRASH ITALIA #2 Eurosex Edition
at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, East London
£6 adv. / £8 door
h 18:00-02:00 (last entry midnight)

Following the success of our first event, the Deep Trash Italia fundraiser exhibition-cum-performance-club night gets regular at the Bethnal Green Working Men’s club (back every 3 months with different themes!).

For ONE NIGHT ONLY we will fly you on our special SUMMER TOUR across the best and worse of EUROSEX culture: a ‘Bad Porn Cinema’ room, trashy TV and ‘sex sells’ commercials, dirty games, kitsch and campy aesthetics, vintage soft-porn that will make you LOL, diva fashion, melting popsicles and bikinis… and all the dance and pop music that everybody secretly loves! Get wet and wild for a hot summer night with:

DJs Fantoni & LoGatto and The Coolness pumping the beats of international hits and Italian camp and trash classics, from Disco to the present.

PERFORMANCES (starting at h 19:00): Theatrestate’s Fanny Hill Project, Juntee & Nikko, Giulia Tommasi, Emma Allegretti & Hanna Junti, Jennifer Picken & AnnaMaria Pinaka, VDREY Feat SHULTZ, Leaky Vessels and grand finale with A Man To Pet!

VIDEO, WORKS and INSTALLATIONS: Laura Arend, Lorenzo Belenguer, Alex Brew, Emma Grüner, Lora Hristova, ideadestroyingmuros, Chara Kolaiti, Katie McDougall, Eden Mitsenmacher, Emily Mulenga, Emely Neu, Tatiana Pancewicz, and Klaus Pinter, Yole Quintero and Jasmin Reif.

Time Out (Critics’ Choice) says:
“Pizza. Silvio Berlusconi. Italy’s contributions to history have been
both awesome and… not-so awesome, and this fun-filled night
invites you to celebrate both categories in brilliantly trashy style…
So, head to Bethnal Green and find out what it’s like to live la dolce vita!”

Deep Trash Italia – Eurosex Edition is in support of Archivio Queer Italia – a sister organization of CUNTemporary (London) – the first Italian platform on queer art, theory and activism. Curated by Giulia Casalini with CUNTemporary Team.

Tickets  http://www.workersplaytime.net/TICKETS.htm

Facebook event  https://www.facebook.com/events/834056279947666/

Contact information
info@cuntemporary.org  |  www.cuntemporary.org 

Venue information
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club
42-44 Pollard Row, London, E2 6NB
0207 739 7170  |  info@workersplaytime.net  |  www.workersplaytime.net

KICKSTART per TEOREMI

Posted on aprile 3, 2014 by - Annunci importanti, Fundraising

Kickstart il TEOREMI Performance Art Festival http://kck.st/1fLSNcd (deadline 1 Maggio 2014 a mezzanotte)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0vtE5O7ulY&feature=youtu.be

Teoremi è il primo festival di performance italiano contro le discriminazioni di orientamento sessuale e d’identità di genere. Al Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Genova Villa Croce nelle serate di giovedì 12, venerdì 13 e sabato 14 giugno 2014.

Il festival Teoremi si offre come momento di riflessione partecipativo sugli aspetti discriminatori della realtà italiana, focalizzandosi in specifico sulle problematiche omofobiche e transfobiche che affliggono il nostro Paese. Prendendo spunto dal noto film di Pier Paolo Pasolini, il titolo del festival si riferisce alla possibilità di riformulare quei postulati – o “teoremi” appunto – etico-comportamentali che in Italia legano tuttora fattori di cultura e “valori tradizionali” a continue discriminazioni interne alla propria comunità. Il festival si colloca inoltre in un periodo di rilevante interesse storico e sociale – essendo quest’ultimo protagonista di manifestazioni dedicate alla visibilità e al rispetto dei diritti LGBT in tutto il mondo fin dal 1968. Il 17 Maggio è la data dell’International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) e in tutto il mondo, dal mese di giugno, si tengono gli eventi dei più noti “Pride” (quello di Roma avrà luogo il 7 giugno 2014).

In tre giornate di performance, il festival metterà in luce i lavori di artisti che riflettano da una prospettiva italiana le problematiche affrontate: canecapovolto, Tiziana Contino, exvUoto teatro, Hard-Ton & Gaia Brigida, Kyrahm & Julius Kaiser, Ruben Montini & Alexander Pohnert, Mona Lisa Tina.

Il festival Teoremi è ideato e organizzato da Roberta Orlando, artista visiva e ricercatrice in studi di genere, Giulia Casalini, curatrice e fondatrice del progetto Archivio Queer Italia, in collaborazione con il team di CUNTemporary (organizzazione no-profit con sede a Londra).

Please Kickstart it! [click qui per il link]