saturday 19 > sunday 27 june
Margherita Morgantin
COSINUS (Venti cosmici)
Other wind species.
Cosmic winds measured by ALMA:
Stellar Winds irc 10011 d = 740 au;
Stellar Winds irc 10529 d = 760 au;
Stellar Winds gy Aql d = 152 au;
Stellar Winds w Aql d = 312 au;
Stellar Winds r Aql d = 230 au;
Stellar Winds n 1 Gru d = 197 au;
Stellar Winds u Her d = 752 au;
Stellar Winds r Hya d = 165 au;
Stellar Winds v Psa d = 278 au.
Margherita Morgantin inserts in the area of the gardens Orti Boschetto Lungo Reno, a public work of art that marks the space, creating a new visual reference point for visitors, sensitive to changes in the wind. COSINUS (Venti cosmici) is an outdoor wind-socks installation. The wind sock (or anemoscope) is a recurring sensitive and symbolic element in the artist’s research. Sewn in different materials and and installed in various contexts, they find here an evolution in a communitarian key. The materials and colours that make up the wind chimes will vary over time, as will the form they take in relation to the weather conditions.
During Live Arts Week X, under the mobile shade of the windsocks, at the invitation of Margherita Morgantin the artists of the WRG collective and their guests will meet for cross actions, while her book Sotto la montagna, Sopra la montagna (nottetempo editions, 2021) will be presented in the open fields, on sunday 20 at june 6 pm by Lucia Amara, along with other meetings and dialogues with her companions of research for the VIP = Violation of the Pauli exclusion principle project.
VIP = Violation of the Pauli exclusion principle, SOTTO LA MONTAGNA, SOPRA LA MONTAGNA is a research path that starts from the observation of some images of subnuclear and astroparticle physics in relation to artistic imagination, practiced through personal sensitivity as a form of scientific data. The title borrows the name of one of the particle physics experiments that has been running for years in the Gran Sasso underground laboratories of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare: VIP is the acronym that names the experimental search for ‘impossible atoms’, whose appearance would represent a violation of Pauli exclusion principle, still considered one of the cornerstones of our scientific understanding of the universe and matter. In VIP, the artist’s body and experience are part of the scientific tools used for field research.
Margherita Morgantin, a visual artist based in Milan, was born in Venice where she graduated in Architecture at the I.U.A.V., studying methods of forecasting of natural light. Her work is articulated through different languages that range from drawing to performance, moving along a thread that connects language, philosophy, mathematics and visual culture. Contact and cohabitation, observation and imagination are the open intervals that characterise Morgantin’s work. She has participated in contemporary art exhibitions in Italy and abroad, and carried out actions and special projects in different contexts. She has published books of texts and drawings with nottetempo and Quodlibet. She is part of the Diotima women philosophical collective. She teaches artistic anatomy, scientific illustration, and performance techniques at Accademy of Fine Arts in L’Aquila. www.margheritamorgantin.eu
Lucia Amara lives and works in Bologna. Her research focuses on vocality, on performative languages and on some irregular forms of literary languages. Lucia Amara is a scenic art theorist who is particularly interested in experimenting between theory and practice. With a background in classical literature, semiology, performing arts and post-doctoral research (DAMS Bologna, University of Florence, Paris VII with Julia Kristeva, Ecole des Hautes Etudes with Georges Didi-Huberman, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) she carried out research on ancient democracy,the physics of movement, glossolalie, gambling, the archives of speech and voice. She has written essays on Artaud, De Certeau, Wolfson, Deligny. In 2005 she was among the critics called by Romeo Castellucci to the Venice Biennale Teatro. Among her latest publications: Teatro Infantile. L’arte scenica davanti agli occhi di un bambino with Chiara Guidi, and Utopie Vocali on Michel De Certeau. She has collaborated with performance artists such as Kinkaleri, Claudia Triozzi, Michele Di Stefano, Margherita Morgantin and Cristina Rizzo, with whom she conceived the long-running performance Loveeee. She has taught Theory and Practice of Performance at the Free University of Bolzano, and has been teaching Drastic Art for some years at the Scuola Conia, directed by Claudia Castellucci. She has collaborated with magazines such as Art’o, Culture Teatrali, Doppiozero, and contributed to F.I.S.Co. and Live Arts Week books (Xing), continuing as an involved observer for this 10th edition of Live Arts Week.
installation (2021)
production Xing/Live Arts Week
presented in the frame of ART CITY Bologna 2021
winner of Italian Council (VIII edition, 2020), the program aimed at supporting Italian contemporary art in the world promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture .
Partners: Accademia di Belle Arti L’Aquila, Ca’ Pesaro Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Gran Sasso Science Institute, MAXXI L’Aquila, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary Trevi, Serralves Museu de Arte Contemporanea Porto, La Salle de bains Lyon. Sponsor: nottetempo.