Here some of these events:
BODIES of WORK #2
Curated by Alessandro Castiglioni, Simone Frangi, Petros Konnaris, Evagoras Vanezis.
This second edition will take place in Nicosia, at the Dance House Lefkosia, from the 6th to the 10th December 2023 and will be curated by the curators and the fellows of the 4th edition of A Natural Oasis? (Alessandro Castiglioni, Simone Frangi with Joachim Aagaard Friis Marie-Nour Hechaime, Marie Hervé, Klodiana Millona, Stefano Mudu, Evagoras Vanezis) and Petros Konnaris, artistic director of Dance House Lefkosia.
With Tewa Barnosa (Libia); Azra Omk (Montenegro); Rebecca Moradalizadeh (Portugal – Iran); Rabindranath X. Bhose (UK)
Sarah Kazmi (Norway).
From Cyprus: Miriam Gatt; Androula Kafa; Nefeli Kentoni
Belinda Papavasiliou; Gervaise Savvias.
Supported by:
Department of Modern and Contemporary Culture – Deputy Ministry of Culture of Cyprus; CPAI – Clube Portugues de Artes e Ideias – Portugal; UKNA – UK New Artists – UK; Fluks – Center for Young Art – Norway; Ministry of Culture – Montenegro
MUSE
Museo delle Scienze
Trento
28 e 29 Ottobre 2023
Teorie dei climi
Metodo ed estetica della poesia scientifica
Masterclass a cura di Alessandro Castiglioni con
Antonella Anedda e Franco Buffoni
https://www.muse.it/nxt-formazione-e-trasformazione/open-call-masterclass-teoria-dei-climi/
https://www.muse.it/events/letture-poetiche-finissage-della-mostra-come-pioggia-2023/
Gathering Spells
A study day on artistic research and structural change
October 21, 2023
FLUKS - Centre for Young Art
University of Kristiansand
Norway
Conference:
Curated by Alessandro Castiglioni and Simone Frangi
h 10:00 – 10:30 am
Welcome speeches
Professor Lisbet Skregelid (University of Agder)
Inger Margrethe Stoveland (FLUKS)
Municipality Kristiansand
Mercedes Giovinazzo (BJCEM)
h 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Panel session
Remoteness, marginality, and smallness in nordic waters: What impact does decentralisation have on the arts?
Moderator Alessandro Castiglioni (DE.a.RE)
Joachim Aagaard Friis (Denmark/Norway)
Jóhan Martin Christiansen (Denmark)
Eva Lín Vilhjálmsdóttir (Iceland)
Eduardo Cassina (Norway)
h 2:30 – 4:30 pm
Panel session
Coloniality and extractivism in the North(s): diasporic and indigenous narratives VS toxic nationalistic rethorics
Moderator Simone Frangi (DE.a.RE)
Giulia Gregnanin (UK)
Sue Jane Taylor (UK)
Sergey Kantsedal (Ukraine/Italy)
Tinne Zenner (Denmark)
Elmedin Zunic (Norway)
h 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Conversations
Can art be a pedagogical strategy for structural change? Defamiliarization as a method: from hegemonic approximations to accurate imaginaires in the plural Mediterranean
Evagoras Vanezis (Cyprus)
Marie Nour Hechaime (Lebanon)
Sustainable art practices at the age of ecological collapse: what to produce?
Giulia Colletti (BJCEM)
Davide Ronco (Denmark)
Screening program with audiovisual contributions from:
Sarah Kamsi, Vlad Plisetskiy, Sue Jane Taylor, Hamid Waheed, Tinne Zenner.
Sarah Kazmi, Test and Taste the Norwegian Water, 2023
Vlad Plisetskiy, What You will do when the War starts?, 2023
Sue Jane Taylor, Beatrice Voices from across the Moray Firth, 2018
Hamid Waheed, History is a Black Circle, 2023
Tinne Zenner, Nutsigassat, 2018
Curated by Alessandro Castiglioni and Simone Frangi
In 2022 - 2023 Member of the Board of Research Advisors of the research platform and project
WE ARE THE FLOOD
MUSE - Science Museum, Trento, ITALY
https://wearetheflood.muse.it/
November 26, 2022
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino
In the framework of the European project DE.a.RE (DEconstruct and REbuild), co-funded by the European Union (Grant Agreement Project 101052900), BJCEM organizes a Conference/Study Day, in collaboration with Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, in Turin on November 26th, 2022.
The conference is the public final moment of Uncivilised Paradigms, a 50-hours free training that involved 50 fellows and more than 20 lectures, tackling socially engaged practices, New Genre Public Art, critical pedagogy, activism, in dialogue with contemporary artistic practices.
9:30 AM – 11 AM
Queering earth(s)
Curated by Simone Frangi
Introduced by Marietta Radomska (online)
With the participation of Evagoras Vanezis, and two fellows of Uncivilised Paradigms: Katerina Kallivrousi and Federico Rudari.
The starting point of the panel is the notion of “flesh of the world” through which late Merleau-Ponty queers the idea of a defined individual body, fluidifies the static massiveness of subjectivity and obliterates the ontological difference between exceptional and masterful human entities (subjects) and the relative ensemble to the other(ed) “things of the world” (objects). Operating on an emergent idea of “interdependent multiples earths” (structured though the contribution of queer phenomenology, deviant ecologies and queer death studies), this panel specifically introduces a deconstructive approach to normative understandings of health, pathology and death in relationship to the current (and not so new) climatic and social deregulation and put forward the necessity of reframing these processes beyond the reductive category of the “owned” individual body.
11:15 AM – 12:45 PM
Learning on a damaged planet
Curated by Denise Araouzou
Introduced by Anna Santomauro
with the participation of Klodiana Millona and one fellow of Uncivilised Paradigms: Iliada Charalambous.
Learning on a damaged planet explores how art institutions can be laboratories for post-disciplinary learning environments at the intersection of ecocentric pedagogies, artistic practices, community-building and climate justice. Artistic practices lend themselves as powerful allies in conceiving and creating tools and narratives for pluriversal worlds. They ‘translate’ information that is more challenging to decipher or embody, from more-than-human worlds and earth system sciences to time and space scales beyond our limited perception. Ours is an entangled world — division and compartmentalisation dynamics of disciplines, institutions, epistemologies and methodologies should be revisited. The act of challenging perceived boundaries often goes hand-in-hand with artistic practices, which is why scholars and educators call for incorporating arts in environmental pedagogies. Where normative education and research practices are not doing enough to elicit transformative action, how can arts contribute and to what end? How can alliances between disciplines be cultivated, what can we learn from them, and what purpose can they serve? What more do we need to know as citizens, communities, and agents of change in this moment of urgency? What skills, knowledge, understanding, and values need to be cultivated? Could methodologies and tools developed within artistic and social collaborative contexts be used to create holistic and ecocentric education models that empower transgenerational learners and doers? What does a cross-pollination of formal and informal pedagogical settings look like? And in what configurations could they be hosted and nurtured within an art institution?
2 PM – 3:30 PM
Museums in crisis museums and crisis
Curated by Alessandro Castiglioni
Introduced by Hekla Dogg Jonsdottir
With the participation of Marie-Nour Héchaime and one fellow of Uncivilised Paradigms: Hoyee Tse
Do the various crises that our time is experiencing make museums institutions still relevant today? Theirs conservative and exhibition infrastructure, Their hybrid public and private agendas, the relationship with powers and the different needs of self-representation, can be rethought together with institutional global events, artistic contributions, regulatory frameworks and solutions shared with the different territories of reference? The session will try to answer these questions through case studies and the direct contributions of artists, curators and museum practitioner.
3:45 PM – 5:15 PM
Building Critique, Making Space for Change, Repairing the World: Agency and Care in Architecture
curated by Svetlana Racanović
With the participation of Sonja Dragović, Marie Hervé, and one fellow of Uncivilised Paradigms: Carrie Foulkes
The session will focus on critical and ethical reexamination of the practice of architecture for making it the agent of environmentally responsible culture. Architecture will be reflected as eco-ethic-aesthetic (re)articulation of space, as theory and practice qualified to exercise “moral imagination” and support political and social engagement, proficient to respect local/global sustainability and grow environments that would bring collective benefit and foster sense of community, social empathy and ecology of care – equal care for the self and for the others, for human and other-than-human, for cultural and for natural surroundings, for social (human) and the ecological (biophysical). The questions are: how to balance professional/technical competences with ethical decision-making, how to design environments responsibly within vital ecological concerns (ethical design criteria through recognition of environmental ethic), how to escape the logic of profit, exploitation of resources and globalised, instrumentalised, technologised and commodified construction?
24 January 2022"Il Paradosso di Zenone. Spazio e Tempo nell'arte pubblica: libertà progettuale e acquisizione nelle raccolte museali". Con Emma Zanella. In occasione di:
Arte e Spazio Pubblico
Giornate Di Studio a cura della
Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea
del Ministero della Cultura e della
Fondazione Scuola dei beni e delle attività culturali.
24, 25, 31 gennaio e 1, 11 febbraio 2022
Spazio ∙ Temporalità ∙ Partecipazione ∙ Committenza
https://www.fondazionescuolapatrimonio.it/ricerca/arte-e-spazio-pubblico/
https://creativitacontemporanea.beniculturali.it/artespaziopubblico/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTTPhTXyjww
16 september 2021
Ocean Space
TBA 21 Academy
Chiesa di San Lorenzo Venezia
https://www.ocean-space.org/activities/san-marino
SURROUNDED BY WATERS
CURATING IN SMALL STATES: A MICRO-TERRITORIAL PERSPECTIVE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
The roundtable will be moderated by Markus Reymann (Director of TBA21–Academy), with the participation of Rita Canarezza, Barbara Casavecchia (Leader of The Current III “Mediterraneans: 'Thus waves come in pairs' (after Etel Adnan)”, Chus Martínez (Curator of Ocean Space), Alessandro Castiglioni (Founder of “A Natural Oasis?” and Senior curator of Mediterranea 19 - “School of Waters”), Simone Frangi (Founder of “A Natural Oasis?” and Senior curator di Mediterranea 19 - “School of Waters”), Giulia Gregnanin (Fellow “A Natural Oasis?” 2018/2020 and Curatorial Board Mediterranea 19 - “School of Waters”), Corinne Mazzoli (artist of Mediterranea 19 - “School of Waters”). TBA21–Academy’ Ocean Fellows Calypso 36°21 (Justine Daquin & Zoé Le Voyer), Ella Navot, Nadia Christidi and mentor Cécile Hummel will also be present in the audience.
16 Settembre 2020
Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Vienna
Stefano Cagol. The Time of the Flood
Exhibition and Performance Lecture
https://iicvienna.esteri.it/iic_vienna/it/gli_eventi/calendario/2020/09/mostra-the-time-of-the-flood-beyond.html
https://www.arshake.com/stefano-cagol-the-time-of-the-flood-a-vienna/
20 December 2019
Athens School of Fine Arts
Organized by Artworks Foundation
A radical history in San Marino contemporary art
lecture by Alessandro Castiglioni
https://www.art-works.gr/en/artworks-news-en/curators-talk-alessandro-castiglioni/
30 November 2019
Triennale Milano
School of Waters
Presentation Mediterranea 19 curated by
Alessandro Castiglioni and Simone Frangi
with the participation of
Federica Candelaresi, Karen Venturini, Rita Canarezza, Davide Quadrio, Lucrezia Cippitelli.
https://www.triennale.org/eventi/school-of-waters-/
October 3 - 6, 2019
Dance House Limassol
Limassol Municipal Art Centre, Cyprus
A project supported by the Cultural Services-Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus and developed in collaboration with BJCEM – Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean.
BOW - Body of Work is a research program based on performative and discoursive practices and it features movement research workshops, sharing sessions and live presentations.
The curatorial team: Artistic Curator Alexis Vassiliou; Artistic Advisors Alessandro Castiglioni and Simone Frangi.
with
Korallia Stergides (Cyprus/UK), Milka Delibasic (Montenegro/China), Christy El Khoury (Lebanon), Hamid Waheed (Norway), Enrico Floriddia (Sicily/France), Ahmad Al Rayyan (Syria/Switzerland), Corinne Mazzoli (Italy), Eleftheria Panousi (Germany/Greece), Christos Mouchas (Greece), Kostantinos Kotis (Greece), Michael Scerbo (Italy/Netherlands). On this occasion, the research group of the project A Natural Oasis?, take part to the activities of the workshop in the frame of their curatorial research.
February 9, 2019
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
Study day:
Institutions, Education And The Curatorial: Beyond The Rhetoric Of The Alternatives
Curated by Alessandro Castiglioni, Simone Frangi, Carolina Rito and Sofia Lemos
with
Theodoulos Polyviou (Cyporys/UK), Denise Araouzou (Cyprus), Panos Giannikopoulos (Greece) Angeliki Tzortzakaki (Greece/ Netherlands), Nicolas Vamvouklis (Greece/Italy), Giulia Gregnanin (San Marino/Italy), Giulia Colletti (Italy/UK)
4 May 2018
University of Arts, Reykjavik, Iceland
Visiting professor
Hekla Dogg Jonsdottir's Visual Arts Course
5 August 2017
la rada, Locarno
INDEX
Screening and talk with Francesco Bertocco
23 June 2017
BASE Milano
ArtLab 17 Milano: Sviluppo, reti, mercati
Become a Curator
"Pratiche curatoriali e ricerca culturale"
A lecture by Alessandro Castiglioni
Introduced by Gianni Romano
7 May 2017
Reja - The Clouds - National Art Gallery, Tirana, Albania
Mediterranea 18 - Biennale of young artists from Europe and the Mediterranean.
http://www.mediterraneabiennial.org/ccollaborative-projects--copy.html
Seminar and presentation of the book "Let us say this again, opaquely" coordinated by Alessandro Castiglioni with Giulia Gregnanin Sergey Kantsedal Maya Tounta Rachel Pafe Valerie Visanich Chiara Cartuccia Erëmirë Krasniqi and Rita Canarezza.
13 - 16 December 2016
(On the) edges of experiences
Mediterranea Meetings
Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano
organized by BJCEM
Workshops and seminars: BJCEM has launched a whole series of residencies, studio visits, collaborations and art development projects during 2016. To build on all this good work, BJCEM Network organized a 4-day event – supported by the City of Milan and by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union – to present the results of the projects completed.
14 July 2016
Fashion and Textile Museum, London
MISSONI STUDY DAY
in occasion of the exhibition MISSONI ART COLOUR
with the participation of:
Maggie Norden, Alessandro Castiglioni, Luca Missoni, Liz Griffith, Dennis Nothdruft, Celia Joicey.
22 March 2016
TAK, Kadikoy, Istanbul
FORMS & FUNCTIONS.
A possible dialogue between Art and Design
A Seminar by Alessandro Castiglioni promoted by Istituto Marangoni
5 November 2015
Banner Repeater, London
THE VOICES OF THE SIRENS
Book Launch and Screening
Alessandro Castiglioni, Mnemoscape (Elisa Adami and Alessandra Ferrini) Rita Canarezza & PierPaolo Coro, Nina Danino.
Screening of : Stabat Mater by Nina Danino (1990) and Winston Churchill Avenue, 2010 by Canarezza and Coro.
25-26-27 September 2015
Prato, Centro Pecci per l'Arte Contemporanea
Forum dell'arte contemporanea 2015
19 September 2015
Muse, Trento
Be-Diversity, a projet by Stefano Cagol
Talk with Jota Castro, Stefano Cagol, Alessandro Castiglioni
18 November 2014
La Triennale, Milano
Are There Geographies. Artistic practice and geographical researches.
https://old.triennale.org/it/calendario/calendario-eventi-list/3682-are-there-geographies-pratica-artistica-e-ricerche-geografiche#.WWJQCtPyiT8
Rita Canarezza e Pier Paolo Coro, Barbara De Ponti, Nataša Bodrožić, Ivana Meštrov, Una Szeemann. Curated by Alessandro Castiglioni
26, 27 e 28 ottobre 2013
QUI. ENTER ATLAS
SIMPOSIO INTERNAZIONALE DI CURATORI EMERGENTI
Condotto da Pierre Bal-Blanc e Mirjam Varadinis
A cura di Giacinto Di Pietrantonio e Stefano Raimondi
Antonia Alampi – Curatrice e Scrittrice, Beirut, Il Cairo
Andrew Berardini – Scrittore e Curatore, Los Angeles
Alessandro Castiglioni – Ricercatore culturale, Museo MAGA, Gallarate e Little Constellation, San Marino
Michele D’Aurizio – Fondatore, Gasconade, Milano
Lara Khaldi – Curatrice, Ramallah/Amsterdam
Sam Korman – Assistente di Direzione, White Flag Projects, St. Louis
Isla Leaver-Yap – Organizzatrice indipendente di progetti e pubblicazioni, Glasgow
Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk – Curatore, The Office for Curating, Rotterdam
Theodor Ringborg – Curatore, Stoccolma / Istanbul
11 October 2013
Mart, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto
"Two paper drops before the sky" di Giovanni Ferrario
Talk e screening
con Renato Troncon, Alessandro Castiglioni e Giorgio Zanchetti
May 18th 2013
National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik
Rita Canarezza & Pier Paolo Coro, Alessandro Castiglioni, Nina Danino , Mark Mangion, Georgina Portelli, Svetlana Racanović, Gino Sanguinetti
7 August 2012
dOCUMENTA(13)
Alessandro Castiglioni, Rita Canarezza, Pier Paolo Coro
Small States on Un-Certain Stereotypes
invited by Critical Art Ensemble for
Winning Heart and Mind programm
Railway Lecture Hall
16 ottobre 2011 ore 10.30
Galleria del Premio Suzzara
27>47 . The History of Suzzara Prize between 1974 and 2011
Emma Zanella, Alessandro Castiglioni, Giovanni Morbin, Sergio Manara, Umberto Cavenago, Nicola Carrino, Alessandro Algardi, Ferdinando Greco.
