CONTESTED SPACE

CONTESTED SPACE

A-1 53167 Anibal Lopez,
Cantieri Isola,
Gustavo Artigas,
Andrea Abati,
Marc Bijl,
Stefano Boccalini,
Bureau d'Etudes,
Paola Di Bello,
Meschac Gaba, Rainer Ganahl, Carlos Garaicoa, Jeroen Jongeleen, Armin Linke, Armando Lulja, Teresa Margolles, Gianni Motti,
Multiplicity, Giancarlo Norese, Ogi:noknauss, Park Fiction, Robert Pettena, Radek Community, Paula Roush (msdm), Santiago Sierra, Stalker, Superflex, Bert Theis, Enzo Umbaca, UnDo.Net, Alejandro Vidal e Wayruro.
Superflex.

Contested Space
curated by Marco Scotini

Contested Space has been promoted by Regione Toscana, Tra-Art Regional Network for Contemporary Art, and by the Municipalities of Florence, Leghorn, Monsummano Terme, Prato, Siena. It has been conceived as an 'urban action day' at the Stazione Leopolda in Firenze, as the closing event of the entire project ''Networking/ The cities of people'', curated by Marco Scotini.

''Networkingcity'', published by m&m Maschietto Editore, is the occasion through which Contested Space intends to convey and concentrate in the same place and at the same time a variety of experiences on an international level, on resistance, creation and activism. Contested Space is like a one day display in which a number of researches will be presented. Their aim is to analyse the relationship between art and social transformation departing from the ''Networking'' Lab. and side by side with international experiences of public or community-based projects. Networking first proposed itself as a territorial laboratory, organised in a number of events (conferences, debates, workshops, exhibitions, artistic participation). With this further stage ''Networking'' offers itself as a debating and contesting platform on which conflict is taken on as a privileged space of the portrayal of the current situation. Themes such as the daily negotiated space and the space of inequalities and contradictions will be dealt with through the works of 30 international artists and 70 young artists operating in Tuscany.

In addition to the ''NetworkingCity'' group, the following artists have been invited:

A-1 53167 Anibal Lopez, Gruppo A12, Cantieri Isola, Gustavo Artigas, Andrea Abati, Marc Bijl, Stefano Boccalini, Bureau d'Etudes, Paola Di Bello, Meschac Gaba, Rainer Ganahl, Carlos Garaicoa, Jeroen Jongeleen, Armin Linke, Armando Lulja, Teresa Margolles, Gianni Motti, Multiplicity, Giancarlo Norese, Ogi:noknauss, Park Fiction, Robert Pettena, Radek Community, Paula Roush (msdm), Santiago Sierra, Stalker, Superflex, Bert Theis, Enzo Umbaca, UnDo.Net, Alejandro Vidal, Wayruro.

On this occasion the Alcatraz space will be turned into an open and informal platform which foresees the dynamic succession of operative spaces and a simultaneous multiplication of events: projections, performing actions, meetings, alternative markets and workshops. Along with the exhibition and during the entire length of the event there will be an arena for debates where philosophers and/or theoreticians will follow critics, artists and representatives of popular activism.

From green guerrilla to hypotheses of counter-town planning, from homelessness to the violence of the suburbs, from power maps to hidden towns (still to be mapped), from parades to sit-ins, from hunger strikes to forms of popular activism, from illegal interventions in the town network to the activation of parallel or informal economies, from counter-information to hardcore aesthetics: these are some of the themes that will give life to the CONTESTED SPACE area through the work of 100 artists and intellectuals.

The artists of the ''NetworkingCity'' group are:

Katia Alicante, Anonymous Art Studio, Michele Aquila, Arabeschi di latte, Giacomo Badiani, Gianni Barelli e Paola Baldassi, Filippo Basetti, Giacomo Bazzani, Eri Bezhani, Jary Biscardi, Sladzana Bogeska, Leonardo Bossio, Sandro Bottari, Andrea Bruscoli, Andras Calamandrei, Vittorio Cavallini, Barbara Ceccatelli, Dimitri Civilini, Cristiano Coppi, Vincenzo Ferrara, Giovanna Fezzi, Stefania Filizola, Ilaria Giaconi, Zoe Gruni, Michele Guidarini, Irene Jorgensen, Irena Kalodjera, Gruppo Koroo, Kata Kozlovic, Jonela Llaci, Paolo Lonzi, Luca Malgeri, Federica Mannella, Gabriele Manganiello, Filippo Manzini, Melanie Marxer, Marco Michelini, Ljljana Mihaljevic, Sandra Miranda, Domenico Montano, Agata Monti, Elisabetta Mori, Francesca Nesi, Giovanna Nicosia, Nguyen Nhu My Ngog, Valentina Pacini, Francesca Pisaneschi, Christian Posani, Tasos Protopsaltis, Niccolò Poggi, Giulia Giada Pucci, Salvator Qitaj, Giacomo Ricci, Michael Rotondi, Mauro Sanpaolesi, Angelo Sarleti, Gabriele Sedda, Anna Stankiewicz, Svarnet, Stefano Tondo, Tommaso Tancredi, Eugenia Vanni, Matteo Voliani, Ergin Zaloshnja, Catia Zizzi.

The Stazione Leopoda S.R.L., the Milano/Genova ARTRA art gallery and PROMETEO Associazione per l'Arte Contemporanea of Lucca generously collaborate for the making of the entire event.

(dica do Blog do Itaulab)