58 (+1) INDICES ON THE BODY
Emulation as mimicry of transit within performance art. Empathy and
conflict between identity and otherness.
Index N.17_Proximity and Distance
Performance by AMAE/DE PINTO
Kommunales Kino im alten Wiehrebahnhof,
Freiburg (D)
Urachstr. 40 - 79102 Freiburg
Sunday 16 June 2013, 11 a.m.
http://www.koki-freiburg.de/heute.php
Urachstr. 40 - 79102 Freiburg
Sunday 16 June 2013, 11 a.m.
http://www.koki-freiburg.de/heute.php
On the occasion of the meeting with the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, the
philosopher, psychosomatic doctor, psychotherapist Martin Dornberg and the students of the
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg.
The themes preferred by the
collective Amae and by De Pinto such as transience, transfer, otherness,
virtuality, Queer Theory will be the very soul of the project, which it will
take charge of a method of creative presentation leading into a series of 58 (plus
one) performances. The performances will focus on the idea of body from the
physical, philosophical, biological, psychological, emotional, social,
educational, economical and cultural point of view.
Amae and De Pinto will
literally fuse their bodies, not only to demonstrate the occupied/achieved
contiguity/interruption by each body, but in order to bring to life a
body/corpus unicum: here the physical, philosophical and psychological
extension of the body in action will find its shape. These will be bodies put
into a condition of mutation and transience: a technological, biological and
political introduction will allow:
- to stimulate discussion around the idea of the contemporary body itself in pursuit of a new awareness of the agents engaged with the project.
- to communicate the cultural change required to broaden the under standing of the word “body”.
- the various agents to bravely explore their own selves, in order to be able to engage with the discourse about the contemporary social human being.
- to put together an enormous quantity of data, collected and synthesised into a text (corpus), which must give due consideration to all facets from which the contemporary human being is built.
The long series of
performances will cause the active visitor to be themselves author of those
thoughts, of those actions and integrate them all.
During 58 (+1) INDICES ON THE
BODY the body Amae/De Pinto will put the public into a condition of active
interaction with the performers through the use of technologies and softwares
that were originally created for commercial and/or scientific purposes and now
exploited for a brand new artistic practice. Among them we remind: QR codes, as
viral diffuser of messages, texts, animations and videos. The use of video and
audio-interactive installations, as well as softwares for augmented reality.
The project is part of Ivan
Lupi’s studies. The proposal for his research took its shape in twelve years of
artistic practice (as a member of the AMAE collective of artists) internationally
developed within collaborations (Rome, Detroit, Barcelona, Hong Kong, London,
Bellinzona) investigating the body trough ongoing projects, public and online
performances and commissioned installations.
His MA in Queer Theory Arts
and Culture explored the Foucaultian notion of “Technology for the care of the
self” in relation to self-performing, self-fashioning and self-harming of queer
bodies versus themselves or an audience both physical or virtual.
(Butler-Halperin-Jones).
This opened several questions
on the relation between the audience’s body and the performer’s and how the
audience could critically engage with performance art in current times of
augmented reality. This application for a PhD program with Prof. S. Golding has
the aim to take these questions further proposing a method that gives priority
to the practice of performance art from which theoretical support on the
notions above will be developed in second instance.
The research and his
development will include some texts and quotes from some of the philosophers,
sociologists and theorists who have worked and are working on the body and
soul, identity, gender, religion, performance art, new technologies and
augmented reality. Some of them are: Jean-Luc Nancy, Amelia Jones, Judith Butler,
David M. Halperin, Robin George Collingwood, Mario Perniola, George Edward
Moore, Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer, Simon Woods, Karl Popper, Peter
Frederick Strawson, John Harwood Hick, Clive Staples Lewis, Antony Garrard
Newton Flew.
Key Areas - Intersubjectivity and transfer in performance
art. Inheritance and mimicry of behaviour. Mimicry against emulation.
Identification and conflict. Primary society and contemporary society. Time and
space of assimilation of empathetic behaviours. Behaviours towards otherness.
Transient bodies. Augmented reality.
WHO (WHAT) IS AMAE
Amae's research contaminates
traditional languages of art communication, such as poetry, video, sound,
photography, installation, performance, with mass media and makes an attempt on
cultural and social stereotypes. As well as photographic works and performances
which are often broadcast live on the web, since 2002 Amae has stood out
internationally in the video and performance domain: Videoakt Loop09
(Barcelona, 2009); Hackney Wicked Festival (London, 2007); The Eyes Are the
Objects (Hong Kong, 2005); M.O.N.A. International Video Festival (Detroit,
2005), performances and poetry. MACT/CACT Arte Contemporanea Ticino,
Switzerland (2013).
AMAE’s research recently
approached Queer Theory with a group of works developed with the support of
Birmingham City University. The works explore the theory of the Self, the
perception of sexuality and the therapeutic influence of art in the
construction of identity.
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WHO IS PIER GIORGIO DE PINTO
1968, Born in Italy, lives
& works between Bellinzona (CH), Basel (CH) and Florence (I). He is a
trans-disciplinary artist, performer, curator, theorist and media trainer.
De Pinto strongly uses new
media as a “thinking medium” in which he involves the audience, creating
performative experiences and immersive environments. His projects usually focus
on collaborations with other authors, like musicians, choreographers and
artists from different cultural backgrounds, styles and identity genres.
These collaborations enable De
Pinto to undertake new and radical experimental projects, capable of
stimulating discussion about stereotypes and prejudices, asking awkward
questions in the areas of culture, politics and religion.
Studies & Trainings
After having taken his
vocational school diploma in Florence, he went on studying and taking part in
courses, workshops and seminars, carrying on a steadfast study of contemporary
culture languages: from the study of plastic arts, of videos, of computer
graphics & digital art and photography, to the study of body considered as
a performative element, taking courses in oriental disciplines, in
communication, form and behavioural relationship and undergoing training
sessions in dubbing and acting at a School of Cinema and a School of Theatre.
Recently, he took part to a
workshop in Spatial Data Art, Urban computing, Geo-Mapping, Social patterns
with Prof. Mauro Martino of MIT in Boston (Barabási Lab at Center for Complex
Network Research; Harvard University, Boston) in collaboration with i2A
International Institute of Architecture, Vico Morcote (CH).
He attended in November 2011 a
Course in Fundraising with Brainard Carey, Co-founder and Director of The
Artworld Demystified in New York.
De Pinto speaks fluently
Italian and English. He has a good knowledge of French and currently he is
attending a German course.
Collaborations
Since 2010 he is collaborating
with MACT/CACT Arte Contemporanea Ticino in Bellinzona, Southern Switzerland,
as coordinator/curator, graphic designer and media trainer.
In October 2012 he began a
collaboration with Ivan Lupi of the AMAE project in London, in collaboration
with the Birmingham City University and MACT/CACT Arte Contemporanea Ticino.
Art Residencies
2012 Guest artist at Kunst,
Atelier und Gewerbehaus Oslo, Basel (CH).
Thanks to Christoph Merian
Stiftung for iaab - international artists Exchange and studio program Basel,
Switzerland.
Links
PIER GIORGIO DE PINTO
www.depinto.it
www.depinto.it
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