Researcher Fine Art
01.01.11 – 31.12.12
Al-rumûl: forms-of-life and dwelling
In 1955, a trial took place in Beirut whose memories and oblivions continue to vibrate. The name assigned to it was Al-rumûl, the Sands, after the area involved in property quarrels, but most of all confronting two different ways of intending a possible habitation of the lands. On the one hand, private property (the conformation of a striated space), on the other, the mouchaa (indivisible lands, the possibilities of a smooth space). The memories and the call to a present unfold in a constellation of images, nomadic distribution resonating with the historical and territorial possibilities of the place itself. Writing for notes / fore-text, borrowed by literature, reveals itself as the possibility for the story to take shape in images-in-movement. A new interpretation of the story-board as filmic annotations will be stretched to the point of ad-figuring an antE-film.
Taking distance from the biographical, as well as the documental and the journal (diary), how does the making of an antE-film relates with the taking place and shape of a life? Which are the forces at play between the possible making of a film, the articulation of thinking and the images emerging from the historical and political field of The Sands?
How does the idea of a nomadic distribution can operate on the elaboration of images-in-movement? How can a process of writing a film in annotation affect the sequential structuring of images-in-movement? Does the antE-film converge in the filmic or will it demand to remain announced, as it can be in the shape of a story-board?
Novara, IT
MRes in Art History. Department of Visual Studies and Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London, London, GB.
MA Visual Arts Production. Università IUAV di Venezia, Venice, IT.
Auditor. Universität der Künste, Berlin, DE.
Degree in History and Preservation of Architectural and Environmental Goods (CdLSC). Università IUAV di Venezia, Venice, IT.
Teaching assistant. Laboratory of Visual Art, BA Visual Arts and Theatre, Università IUAV di Venezia, Venice, IT.
Videomaker and video-editor of Chiara Fumai’s performance at Persona in meno.
Jury member for the Bienniale of Young Artists from Europe and Mediterranean (BJCEM) for the video documentary Veneto regional commission.
Videomaker and video-editor of the opening days at the Biennale di Venezia for Domus web archive. With Rene Gabri. Venice, IT.
Local coordinator for the installation AirXY: From immaterial to rematerial by E. Adigard, M-A-D and C. Salter. 11th Architecture Venice Biennale, Venice, IT.
Editorial coordination and editor. Società Editrice Umberto Allemandi & Co, Venice, IT.
Member of the student’s jury for the Casa Rossa prize. Bellaria Film Festival 2006.
Assistant coordinator for the M+B Studio at the Visual Arts and Architecture Biennials in Venice at the Danish, Scottish and Swedish pavilion, Iceland and Singapore. Venice, IT.
Concept and organisation of the workshop si misura. With LATTEX group. Università IUAV di Venezia, Venice, IT.
Advanced course in Visual Arts. With Walid Raad. Fondazione A. Ratti, Como, IT.
Honorable mention Europan 7. With Gruppocacao. Monza, IT.
Limitazioni temporanee. (17 October). Milan, IT: Scighera.
Z come zero in condotta. (24 March). Seminar. Venice, IT: Università IUAV di Venezia.
Truth and media. (13 March). In: Laboratory 5 of artistic expression. Seminar. Venice, IT: Università IUAV di Venezia.
(Untitled). (6 March). Screening and discussion. With Oleg Tcherny. Venice, IT: Università IUAV di Venezia.
Ontology. How to make the ethics react with the exercise of politics? Self published.
Philos e Xenia part 1. Self published.
(Untitled). In: 21ème Festival international du documentaire de Marseille - FID Marseille 2010. Marseille, FR.
(Untitled). In: Gemine Muse - percorsi di giovani artisti nelle città italiane tra storia e arte [Pathways of young artists in Italian cities between history and art]. Verona, IT: Electa Mondadori.
(Untitled). In: A horse is a camel designed by a committee (attempts at rewriting the wor(l)d). Milan, IT: Mousse Publishing.
(Untitled). In: Daniel Birnbaum (Ed.). 50 Moons of Saturn. T2 Torino Triennial. Milan, IT.
(Untitled). In: Europan 7. Sub-urban challenge, urban intensity and housing diversity. Rotterdam, NL: NAi Publishers.
Sconfinando. Gli jenisch in Svizzera tra marginalità e riconscimento etnico [Straying. Jenisch in Switzerland between marginality and ethical identification]. Photographic project for the essay by B. Leiter. In: Zapruder, 21.
The two obstructions. In: Janus, 20.
Maybe tomorrow. In: Workout, special edition.
Interview. In: Anthropofolies. Printed journal edited on the occasion of the parallel screening Anthropofolies at FID Marseille.
Model court. An ecology of the courtroom. In: Model court. Distributable counterpart of the exhibition Model court. Glasgow, GB: Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA).
Ontology. How to make the ethics react with the exercise of politics? (26 September). In: The blast of the possible / Möglichkeitsraum I, Transnationale Raum Montage. Berlin, DE: Skulpturenpark.
In corpore vili. Worthless bodies and biopower. In: Taking the body seriously. (7 July). With Chantal Marazia. Durham, GB: Durham University.
Ontology. How to make the ethics react with the exercise of politics? (4 July). In: Corso aperto. Como, IT: Fondazione A. Ratti.
21st Marseille international documentary film festival. FID Marseille 2010. (5 – 13 July). Participant in the parallel screening session Anthropofolies. Marseille, FR: Montrand Gallery.
Möglichkeitsraum I (The blast of the possible). A transnational space montage. In: Wunderland exhibition series. (26 – 27 September). Screening and roundtable discussion. Berlin, DE: KUNSTrePUBLIK e.V.; Berlin, DE: Skulpturenpark.
Corso aperto. (4 July). Performances, screenings, lectures. Como, IT: Fondazione A. Ratti.
11. Mestre film festival. Young directors from the metropolitan area. Venice, IT.
Imaginaria independent cinema festival. (20 – 26 July). Conversano, IT.
Mednarodne filozofske poletne šole Dubrovnik 2006. Dubrovnik, HR.
The blast of the possible/Möglichkeitsraum I, Transnationale Raum Montage. (26 September). Berlin, DE: Skulpturenpark.
Philos e Xenia. (25 November). In: Italy-Lebanon. Peace path’s through cinema. Venice, IT.
Niente di personale. Amnesie dall’album U.F. (24 May). Milan, IT: Limitazioni Temporanee.
Bilderatlas (omaggio a Aby Warburg). In: Gemine Muse edition 2010. (15 May – 18 July). Novara, IT.
Cairo award. (23 October – 1 November). Milan, IT: Museo della Permanente.
A camel is a horse designed by a committee (attempts at rewriting the wor(l)d). (16 October – 8 November). Venice, IT: Fondazione Claudio Buziol.
Research architecture exhibition. (22 September – 1 October). London, GB: Goldsmiths University of London.
This land is your land. (6 – 25 July). Glasgow, GB: Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA).
The everyday of history. Verona, IT: Circolo Malacarne.
Torino triennale. 50 moons of Saturn. (6 November 2008 – 1 February 2009). Turin, IT. (Exh. Cat).
Esplorazioni. (8 – 10 April). Venice, IT: Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa.
Le plis. Où va la vidèo? (6 June). In: Summer student festival 2008. Padova, IT.
Ontology. How to make the ethics react with the exercise of politics? MiniDV, sound, 39’, printed pictures transferred to digital.
Il caso. MiniDV, sound, 43’.
Kikinnos. Toward endings of speech-elements. MiniDV, sound, 14’44”.
Philos e Xenia part 2. MiniDV-super8 to digital b/w-colour, 59”.
Philos e Xenia part 1. MiniDV-super8 to digital 35mm to digital b/w-colour, 16’29”.
Passages de vie en quelques fragments. MiniDV-35mm to digital, b/w and colour, 26’27”.
I love my camera. 35 mm. to digital, b/w, 6’17”.
Economy of art. MiniDV, colour, 17’20”.
(Untitled). (19 December). Two screenings and a discussion. Beirut, LB: Zico House.