SPAZI APERTI 2008
opening / 11th of June 2008 / 19:30

performace multisensorial Sign of Sound / 11th of June / 21:30
electronic musica performace by Carsten Nicolai / 11th of June / 22:30

video / installation /  performance / painting / sculpture / architecture / photography / printmaking / music / dance / and more

On the 11th of June 2008 the Romanian Academy in Rome is pleased to announce the 6th edition of the summer show entitled Spazi Aperti.

This year’s edition, curated by Mirela Pribac, is centered around site-specificity and video art. Although untitled the exhibition could thematically be labelled as the Metanoia of Video and the Corruption of Site. In other words video and site-centered works are seen as media embracing realms of interpretation beyond their stereotypical limitations. Through the rhetorical sense of metanoia the works will, more than ever before, corrupt and invade the exhibition space.

Spazi Aperti 2008 is searching to discuss and play with video art, a medium generally extirpated from the place of its production, and understand it as site and as a platform for site-specificity. Video art, agressively and opulentely insterted into alternative niches of the otherwise traditional space of the Romanian Academy, will search to create a site or stage onto which other seeds of site-specific works are able to germinate. Moreover video works will be given peculiarly specific spaces that simulate the privacy of each environment they should exist in. This approach will offer a different perspective of how video can be installed, seen and used by artists as well as a view of the osmotic relationships between video and other site-centered media.

Artists are invited to physically interact with the space by creating performances and site-specific installations. Rather than approaching the vast space of the Romanian Academy as a traditional exhibition space, we are seeking to approach it organically and motivate artists to generate site-specific interventions that are, in most part, ephemeral or on view for the very first time.

The artists who are part of the exhibition will come as close as possible to site specificity, making interventions in the entire space of the academy.