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F.I.S.Co.
F.I.S.Co. (Festival Internazionale sullo Spettacolo Contemporaneo) was an international festival that showcases examples of the convergence taking place across the contemporary arts (dance, theatre, performance, visual and plastic arts). F.I.S.Co. was conceived and created by Xing (cultural organization), Xing a cultural network based in Bologna. In 2012 the experience of F.I.S.Co. (11 editions from 2000 to 2011) merged into a new project by :en:Xing_(cultural_organization), xing: Live Arts Week Editions 11 editions of the festival took place under the title : * CORPO SOTTILE (2001) * NON IO (arte in mancanza di soggetto) (2002) * DOING (2003) * YOUR PRIVATE SKY (2004) * DEFICIT! (2005) * FIGURA N° (2006) * TODAY IS OK (2007) * UNIVERSAL COSMIC MURMUR (2008) * TRIBU' (2009) * ( color cane che scappa ))))(2010) * segue (2011) Locations *In Bologna: GAM Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Ex Bologna Motori, Ex Conservatoria Registri Immobiliari, Raum, Ebo-Urban Center Esposizio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xing (cultural Organization)
Xing is a cultural organization based in Bologna, Italy, dedicated to the production and support of experimental practices within the arts. Xing was founded in 2000 by Daniele Gasparinetti, Silvia Fanti, Andrea Lissoni, Giovanna Amadasi and Federica Rossi. Their research focuses in particular on the field of live arts, performing arts and electronic arts. Activities From 2000 to 2011, Xing organized in Bologna the festivals Netmage - International Live Media Festival, dedicated to electronic art and live media, and F.I.S.Co., F.I.S.Co Festival Internazionale sullo Spettacolo Contemporaneo, dedicated to performing arts. Since 2012, the two festivals merged in the project Live Arts Week, an annual event dedicated to live arts, taking place in different locations in the city for ten editions (2012-2021). In 2021 Xing launched a vinyl-only record label of works by both Italian and international personalities linked to live performativity, entitled Xong. Since 2003, Xing has been cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
:en:Xing (cultural Organization)
Xing is a cultural organization based in Bologna, Italy, dedicated to the production and support of experimental practices within the arts. Xing was founded in 2000 by Daniele Gasparinetti, Silvia Fanti, Andrea Lissoni, Giovanna Amadasi and Federica Rossi. Their research focuses in particular on the field of live arts, performing arts and electronic arts. Activities From 2000 to 2011, Xing organized in Bologna the festivals Netmage - International Live Media Festival, dedicated to electronic art and live media, and F.I.S.Co Festival Internazionale sullo Spettacolo Contemporaneo, dedicated to performing arts. Since 2012, the two festivals merged in the project Live Arts Week Live Arts Week is a project by Xing, born in 2012 out the fusion of the experiences of the two Bologna festivals (2000>2011): Netmage - International Live Media Festival and F.I.S.Co. - Festival Internazionale sullo Spettacolo Contemporaneo. Live ..., an annual event dedicated to live arts, taking place i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live Arts Week
Live Arts Week is a project by Xing, born in 2012 out the fusion of the experiences of the two Bologna festivals (2000>2011): Netmage - International Live Media Festival and F.I.S.Co. - Festival Internazionale sullo Spettacolo Contemporaneo. Live Arts Week takes place in Bologna, Italy, once a year, and it is developed throughout one week in different locations and settings in town. Mission Event dedicated to live arts, it hosts a blend of artworks and productions that revolve around the presence, performance and perceptual experience of sounds and visions, with a program of live works (performances, environments, concerts, live media, expanded cinema) presented by important personalities in the international and contemporary research scene. The set-up suggests a citywide event, involving several spaces, organizations and institutions active in the field of contemporary arts in Bologna. History Edition 2012 Venues: Palazzo Re Enzo • Teatro Duse • Spazio Carbonesi • Hotel P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nationalities. Its metropolitan area is home to more than 1,000,000 people. It is known as the Fat City for its rich cuisine, and the Red City for its Spanish-style red tiled rooftops and, more recently, its leftist politics. It is also called the Learned City because it is home to the oldest university in the world. Originally Etruscan, the city has been an important urban center for centuries, first under the Etruscans (who called it ''Felsina''), then under the Celts as ''Bona'', later under the Romans (''Bonōnia''), then again in the Middle Ages, as a free municipality and later ''signoria'', when it was among the largest European cities by population. Famous for its towers, churches and lengthy porticoes, Bologna has a well-preserved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darren O'Donnell
Darren O'Donnell (born 1965) is a Canadian novelist, essayist, performance artist, playwright, director, actor and urban planner. He is the artistic director of the Mammalian Diving Reflex theatre company, has written many plays including ''A Suicide-Site Guide to the City'', ''White Mice'', ''Who Shot Jacques Lacan?'', ''Radio Rooster Says That's Bad'', ''Over'', '' oxhead' and ', and has published one novel entitled ''Your Secrets Sleep With Me''. In addition to the novel he has published five other books with Coach House Books: ''Inoculations'', ', ''Social Acupuncture,'' '' oxhead' and ''Haircuts by Children and Other Evidence for a New Social Contract''. O'Donnell holds a M.Sc. in Urban Planning from the University of Toronto (2014) and a B.F.A in Acting from the University of Alberta (1988). Performances and published works ''Social Acupuncture'' is both the title of his book and a wing of Mammalian Diving Reflex where O'Donnell creates work that engages the public and cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Kopp (artist)
Jan Kopp (born May 26, 1970, in Frankfurt/Main, Germany) is a German visual artist. He has lived in France since 1991. Overview After graduating in 1996 from National School of Fine Arts of Paris / École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts/, France, he became assistant to the artists :fr:Jochen Gerz and :fr:Esther Shalev Gerz. In 1997 he co-founded the independent art-space GlassBox in Paris, one of the first artist-run-spaces in the French capital. Jan Kopp has been in several international artist-in-residence programs such as PS1/Moma with the ''Clockwork 2000: P.S.1 & Clocktower National and International Studio Program 1999-2000'' in New York and Hors les Murs/Institut Français in Brazil with "Niemeyer dancing, playing with modernity, run the streets" as a subject of his residence in 2014. Work Jan Kopp uses different medias – drawing, sound, video, sculpture, performance, - without favoring one or the other. He resists to any temptation of specialization or c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Rhode
Robin Rhode (born 1976) is a South African artist based in Berlin. He has made wall drawings, photographs and sculptures. Education Rhode was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He studied fine art at Technikon Witwatersrand in Johannesburg (now the University of Johannesburg), followed by postgraduate work in 2000 at the South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance. Work Rhode is represented by Lehmann Maupin. In November 2009 he provided stop-frame video animations for a performance by Leif Ove Andsnes of Mussorgsky's ''Pictures at an Exhibition'' at the Lincoln Center in New York. In 2014 he directed a music video for the U2 single "Every Breaking Wave"; it includes stop-frame animation stencil drawings, and figures which interact with them. Exhibitions and performances * ''Fresh'', South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (2000, Performance) * ''The Score'', Artists Space, New York (2004, Performance) * ''Street Smart'', Rubell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Signer
Roman Signer (born 1938 in Appenzell, Switzerland) is principally a visual artist who works in sculpture, art installations photography, and video. Early life and career Born in Appenzell, Switzerland, Signer started his career as an artist later in life at the age of 28, after working as an architect’s draughtsman, a radio engineer apprentice, and a short stint in a pressure cooker factory. He holds degrees from arts institutions in Switzerland and Poland. He studied at the Schule für Gestaltung in Zurich and Lucerne between 1966 and 1971. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland from 1971-1972. Work Signer's work has grown out of, and has affinities with both land art and performance art, but they are not typically representative of either category. It is often being described as following the tradition of the Swiss engineer-artist, such as Jean Tinguely and Peter Fischli & David Weiss. Signer’s "action sculptures" involve setting up, carrying out, and reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romeo Castellucci
Romeo Castellucci (born August 4, 1960) is an Italian theatre director, playwright, artist and designer. Since the 1980s he has been one part of the European theatrical avant-garde. Biography Romeo Castellucci graduated with a degree in painting and stage design from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna. In 1981, jointly with Claudia Castellucci and Chiara Guidi, he founded Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio. Since then he has produced numerous plays as an author, director and a designer of sets, lighting, sound and costumes. His works, which combine multiple arts to achieve a holistic effect, have been presented in more than 50 countries. Castellucci’s dramatic lines challenge the primacy of literature. His theatre is a visual, complex art rich in vision. He has developed a language that is comprehensible in the same way as music, sculpture, painting and architecture can be. Since 2006, Castellucci has been working individually. His productions are regularly invited to the worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Etchells
Tim Etchells (born 1962) is an English artist and writer based in Sheffield and London. Etchells is the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, an experimental performance company founded in 1984. He has published several works of fiction, written about contemporary performance and exhibited his visual art projects in various locations. Etchells' work spans performance, video, photography, text projects, installation and fiction. He is currently Professor of Performance and Writing at Lancaster University Biography Etchells is currently Professor of Performance at Lancaster University and has been teaching extensively in a variety of contexts. In 2006, he convened ''The Presence Project'', a series of workshops at Stanford University. Etchells' publication, ''Vacuum Days'', based on his year-long web-based project of 2011, was published by Storythings in 2012. Etchells has published several works of fiction, ''Endland Stories'', ''The Dream Dictionary for the Modern Dre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
