Douglas Park, born: 23-01-1972, United Kingdom, visual artist, writer (of literary prose and critical essays, both mostly art connected), sometime exhibition curator (and increasingly all practices and roles combined), currently U.K based and internationally active
Blackout is Nosadella.due residency
autumn program, curated by Elisa Del Prete, with the participation of two
artists: Nico Dockx (B) and Andreas Golinski (D).
The invitation to Nico Dockx, selected by Andrea Viliani, involved by Nosadella.due as MAMbo curator,
generated a brand-new collaboration project, a supportive overlap towards a
single method of action (even if temporary and occasional) between different
subjects such as Nosadella.due, MAMbo –
Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna and neon>campobase,
a historical Bologna artistic experimentation platform.
MAMbo – the only contemporary art museum in Bologna
– extending the collaboration to neon>campobase – with whom Nico Dockx was
already planning a project – encouraged the confrontation among different
artistic situations in town and made itself Nosadella.due partner, hosting
the first round table to present the two artists in residency.
Neon>campobase and Nosadella.due, promoters of a contemporary research and
production of not easily fruition for public institutions, planned together
the production of Through time & today by Nico Dockx:
the first one mainly in the exhibition stage, the other one in the research
process.
Nosadella.due, on top of Nico Dockx, hosts also
Andreas Golinski, young German artist selected for the residency by Daniela Cascella (journalist
and independent curator from Rome). In his work is very clear the common root
of the research made by the two artists in Bologna. Memory is the main theme
of the whole Blackout exhibition
hold at Nosadella.due, transforming past loaded rooms through a cognitive
process which has to be understood and shared by the audience.
The residency program also includes two special
events: the round table dived in two sections (Memory value and
Collaboration meaning) and the talk Lay of the Land.
The round table, hold at MAMbo on the 13th December
2007, presents the two artists in residency work and it is also an
opportunity to delve into their research path, thanks to professionals’
contribution and participation such as Cecilia Canziani (independent curator and founder member
of 1:1 project),Milovan Farronato (ViaFarini art director), Flavio Favelli (artist)
and Andrea Lissoni (XINGassociation
member, for whom curates Netmage Festival).
On the 30th January, Bologna
Instituto di Cultura Germanica invites Andreas Golinski to
present his work Lay of the Land, as part of the program Appuntamenti
con l’arte, where the artist opens a debate about urban environment and
its past traces, through sounds and signs still able to evoke its history.
Andrea Viliani is MAMbo curator and
former-curator assistant at Castello di Rivoli-Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (Rivoli-Torino).
In 2005 he curated the group exhibition (and its still open research
project) No Manifesto at GAMEC in Bergamo. In Bologna he presented a
program dedicated to contemporary inheritance analysis of the 1960’s and
1970’s institutional critique, organizing artists’ projects both inside and
outside museums. As part as +Museo –Mostre program, he
curated exhibitions for the group Building Transmissions, Paolo Chiasera, Ryan
Gander (Esprit Nouveau Pavilion), Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda (Caducean City), Markus Schinwald (Museo di
Palazzo Poggi and Biblioteca Universitaria of Bologna). For the same program
he also organized exhibitions for Ibon
Aranberri, Adam Chodzko, Trisha Donnelly, Wade Guyton & Kelly Walker, Seth Price, Natascha Sadr-Haghighian, Bojan Sarcevic. In 2006 and 2007
(together with Gianfranco
Maraniello) he curated a retrospective for Poor Art artist Giovanni Anselmo and the last
exhibition hold at GAM before its closure, dedicated to the American Christopher Williams. Among the 60
players of Lyon Biennial 2007, Viliani regularly writes for «FROG» and «Flash
Art».
Daniela Cascella lives and works in London.
Journalist and curator, she deals with experimental music and intersections
between sound research and visual arts.
Between 2000 and 2008 she was editor for monthly
magazine «Blow Up», Rome editor for «Contemporary» (2004-2008) and she
published several articles on «The Wire» and «Alias/Il Manifesto». She wrote
artists and musicians’ presentation essays on Italian and foreign catalogs
and magazines, such as «MusicWorks» and «Res Magazine». She curated quite a
few exhibitions and shows related to her research specific area, as Eco
e Narciso (2006) together with Rebecca De Marchi for Turin Province. Between 2004 and 2008
she curated Tracks at
British Academy in Rome: monthly meetings and concerts about contemporary
sound culture. She also published two books: Scultori di Suono,
TuttleEdizioni, 2005 and The Edge of the World, Arcana Edizioni,
2008.
Nico Dockx (Antwerp, 1974) is not just an
artist, a musician, a curator and an editor, but he’s also a real group
memory collector, able to transform every occasion into a discovery to learn
and develop a common life diary.
«Artist, archivist, film producer, librarian,
curator, graphic designer, translator… it is a long list but all these
definitions can be used individually or together to describe Nico Dockx’s
creative activity» (Elena
Filipovic)
Some of Nico Dockx’s works are displayed in international
important museums such as MuHKA in
Antwerp,CCA in Kitakyushu
and Centre International d’art et du
paysage in Vassiviere. The artist has also been a guest at Venice Biennial 2003 and in 2007 he
won a residency at Künstlerhaus
Bethanien in Berlin. After a first exhibition in Bologna at neon>campobase, he has his second
one in 2006 together with the group Building Transmissions, in occasion of GAM closure.
Through time & today project, showed in two different
ways at Nosadella.due and at neon>campobase (as part of the residency
program Blackout he attends together with Andreas Golinski), is the development of a
work the artist has been doing for almost ten years. As a collection of a
life archive, the research investigates the impossibility to reach a unique
solution for the interpretation of events arose by situations, dialogs,
images, relationships, exchanges and different points of view intertwining.
At neon>campobase, Dockx presents a triple version of Through
time & today video, which shows three different possible narrative
approaches. Three good styles for the same situation- the video final version
already screened, the one previously discarded and the one showing the
original shooting process – suggest time flowing and a defined coding
impossibility.
At Nosadella.due, Through time & today develops
during the two months experience in Bologna and turns into an artist’s book
written with Helena Sidiropoulos
(Belgian writer and artist who collaborated with Dockx for several projects)
which illustrates a double view of materials belonging to a common time but
also to a different perception and experience. A book with others’
contributions (Andrea Viliani,
Elisa Del Prete, Gino Giannuizzi) which become new
experience documents and with Dougles
Park’s participation, as special reader who had already collaborated
with Nico Dockx and who is able to offer a connection with the audience
during his double performance at the opening.
During the exhibition, together with the publication, in
Nico and Helena private space at Nosadella.due it is publically screened a
collection of images chosen and organized by two different approaches to
re-lived things reality, through the two artists’ archive material.
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