Outside Project / Florence 08

July 16 – 30

Daily Schedule

Wednesday, July 16

Arrival to Florence, accomodation.

14.30 Meeting at SACI Aula Magna, lunch in the garden.

17.30 SACI Aula Magna

Jadranka Tolic: Mape opservacija i grad

Firenca je grad koji je duboko obelezen svojom istorijom. Skoro da ne postoji niti jedan, cak i mali deo grada u kojem se ne nalazi neki trag, neki ostatak njene istorije, ponekad materijalni, ponekad samo u vidu ideja koje su cesto prisutne i u savremenom svakodnevnom zivotu. Prisustvo istorije i istorije koja je prekrajala prethodnu istoriju nalazimo svuda u gradu. Naizgled random poredak istorijskih tragova govori najcesce o ovoj drugoj, o istoriji koja je sledeci svoje razloge preoblikovala svedocanstva prethodnih vremena. Zato je na mapi ovog grada moguce upisati niz raznovrsnih mreza koje se preplicu i preslojavaju i koje opisuju niz istovremeno postojecih kontrasta ili sukcesiju promena.

Na primeru urbanistickog i demografskog razvoja grada Firence, tacnije na primeru ostataka nekih istorijskih slojeva i njihove alternacije i prozimanja, zatim na primeru eliminisanja nekih od njih - moguce je pokazati jedan od mogucih macina belezenja opservacija u vidu mapa. Jedan od najuocljivijih sadrzaja u planu grada jesu ostaci viseslojnih srednjevekovnih zidina koje govore o kontinuiranom razvoju i prosirivanju grada od rimskog castruma do devetnaestovekovne prestonice Italije. Unutar i izmedju njih nailazimo na kuce-kule iz ranog srednjeg veka isprepletene sa kasno srednjevekovnim, renesansnim i palatama iz novijeg doba ili na imena ulica koja podsecaju na mesta nekadasnjih vrtova i vinograda.

Primer o kojem se radi je sasvim naucnog, istorijsko-arheoloskog tipa, ali je prikladan da se na njemu pokaze kako je moguce zapaziti beskrajno mnogo slojeva i znacenja jednog lokaliteta, skrivenih, poluskrivenih ili neskrivenih, koji zatim mogu da budu koristeni kao elementi umetnickog rada, pre svega one vrste instalacija i intervencija koje se bave kontekstom mesta u kojem nastaju i koja nastaju kao reakcija na njega, vrsta rada relativno cesta kod umetnika u poslednjih nekoliko decenija.

Thursday, July 17

10.00 Meeting at San Miniato al Monte

Nikola Suica: City Watching. Vision of the city from a hidden and distinctive legacy of St Minias and the Benedictine order, and a tradition that stretches from the late Roman to the early Christian period in a haunting facade and a basilica structured Church.

15.00 SACI Aula Magna

Presentation of workshops

Elisa Biagini, Chris Prickett, Jelena Miskovicic, Ria Higler, Dejan Atanackovic

18.00 SACI Aula Magna

Isole Comprese Teatro. Presentation of the work by Elena Turchi and Alessandro Fantechi. Teatro sociale. Workshops and projects with people with mental nad physical disabilities.

Friday, July 18

10.00 SACI, Aula Maga

Elisa Biagini: Looking for words in the city (1)

Intro on the British presence in Florence (social-historical overview; lecture on British 19° century poetry); on the “English Cemetery”

(The English Cemetery is in Piazzale Donatello, Firenze. In 1827 the Swiss Evangelical Reformed Church purchased land outside the medieval wall and gate of Porta a' Pinti from Leopoldo II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, for an international and ecumenical cemetery.)

10.00 Graduate Studio

Dejan Atanackovic: Fragmented City (1)

Fragmented City workshop is dedictad to the observation and visual / verbal notification of places, itineraries, encounters as well as personal experiences that are thus formed. Technologies for manipulation of images, video or sound, just like any form of notes or drawings are recommended as a way to a detailed observation of the city and its characteristics. The workshop includes talks on artistic practices and ideas applicable for the understading of a contemporary urban gaze: the experience of a city, the experience of travel, memory, public space, personal space, home, body. Florence certainly represents a very particular context with all of its contrasts – cultural heritage vs. mass-consumption of culture, public vs. private, open vs. closed. Poetic approach and media are to be chosen individually by each student, however certain methods will be proposed: a choice of location to observe and document; a choice of an itinerary to be walked and inscribed in a personal map; encounters with local inhabitants, recording conversations or organizing interviews; observation of gestures; the use of public space. Students have at disposal technologies for creating and editing images, videos and sound. Specialized assistants are available during the work process. Multimedia Lab is equipped with Mac and Windows platforms, video camera, digital sound recorder, video projectors and other equipment. The studio space in Via Ginori (Graduate Studio) may be used for manual work, drawing, painting, making of objects.

Visual themes: city map; lines of walking; fragmented gaze (details of various nature); inhabitants; gestures; inscriptions on the walls; emptiness; private space; public space.

14.00 Lucia Giardino: Florence toward Modernism

During the brief but intense moment of Florence as the capital of the newborn Italian state (1865-1870), the city underwent radical urban transformations and architectonic restyling, which still profoundly mark its character today.

16.30 Lucia Giardino: Visit to the museum Casa Siviero.

Meeting with Attilio Tori, museum conservator. He will illustrate the figure of the Tuscan Rodolfo Siviero not only as a collector of Renaissance and contemporary art alike, but also as a key figure for the preservation of the Italian artistic patrimony during World War II.

21.00 Castello dell’Acciaiolo, Scandicci

Exhibition: Bad Boys, Gangs and Urban Tribes, curated by Pietro Gagliano’. Meeting with the curator. Visit to Teatro Studio di Scandicci.

Saturday July 19

11.30 Meeting with the gallerist Sergio Tossi; views on contemporary art market.

Sergio Tossi Arte Contemporanea, Via Pindemonte 63 (area Porta Romana)

exhibition by Ester Jansen: EverGreen & Misty Rose

14.30 Giardino di Boboli (entrance from p.zza Porta Romana)

15.30 Visit to Palazzo Pitti, with Nikola Suica

Sunday July 20

Evening:

Nikola Suica: Pictorial enchantments, two artistic comprehensions of the world. The heritage of Ghirlandaio and Buontalenti; profane and sacred; orders of realities; public artistic documentarism in frescoes; challenges the Warburg's interpretation of late Renaissance festivities by Buontalenti; relations to contemporary society of spectacles.

Monday July 21

10.00 Elisa Biagini: Visit to the “English Cemetery,” outdoor writing exercises (2)

10.00 Ria Higler / Jelena Miskovic / Bogomir Doringer: Workshop at La Corte Arte Contemporanea (1)

The goal of the workshop is to present and trough actual work manifest a need for emancipated artistic expression by using and analyzing different historical perspectives, understanding the common elements and significant constitutive elements rooted in performative arts, the recognition and to a large extent manipulation of traditional objectivities, structures, aesthetics, meanings, historical, political and personal aspects. 
Selfportet is always a challenging assignment that gives many opportunities for research and for an intimate and personal approach. It will be inspiring to use our present situation in Florence to rediscover personal identity in a highly historically charged environment. 
In the beginning we will show materials connected to Commedia dell'arte, DADA and Contemporary performance that are expected to give more different clues in treatment of the assignment. 
This assignment may be approached directly and indirectly. It is possible to think about it in terms of one's own body in any available media: performance, collage, drawing, video, sound, photography. We will encourage multimedia research and clear attitude in presentation. Bogomir Doringer, Jelena Miskovic and Ria Higler will be available for consultation and advise according to personal schedule made on the spot according to particular needs of each student. 
Ria Higler will help students increase their consciousness about time-space element in their work and help increase presence and self awareness in communication and in understanding the process and the result.

14.30 Visit to Palazzo Vecchio, Florence City Hall. Meeting with the City Councellor for Public Education, Daniela Lastri. Visit to the Palazzo Vecchio museum.

17.00 SACI, Aula Magna

Dejan Atanackovic: Golem Project and other body related works (2)

Tuesday, July 22

10.00 Visit to San Marco museum and monastery, Nikola Suica

11.30 Meeting at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts for visiting professors only.

18.00 SACI, Aula Magna

Letizia Renzini, presentation of the artist, with Maria Anonia Rinaldi

(Multimedia Lab hours: 14.00 – 20.00)

Wednesday, July 23

10.00 Ria Higler / Jelena Miskovic / Bogomir Doringer: Workshop at La Corte Arte Contemporanea (2)

16.00 Elisa Biagini: More on British Writers in Florence (more on the social-historical overview and on British 19° century poetry); on the “Stibbert Garden”; visit to Casa Guidi.

Federico Stibbert (1838-1906), the collector who lived in the villa on the hill of Montughi, belonged to the refined world of writers and men of letters, English art amateteurs and others who entered the life of Florence during the l9th century. When the original villa became too small for the collections that Stibbert kept with great passion, probably already thinking of a museum, varlous additions were made by famous artists like the architetto Giuseppe Poggi, the painter Gaetano Bianchi, the sculptor Passaglia, who contributed to the present day appearance of one of the most precious examples of l9th century museums. Even the vast park surrounding the villa was reorganised with a new final arrangement that renders it one of the most beautiful gardens in Florence.

Casa Guidi: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browing’s home since 1847, now a museum.

(Multimedia Lab hours: 9.00 – 12.00)

(Studio hours: 10.00 – 15.30)

Thursday, July 24

10.00 Ria Higler / Jelena Miskovic / Bogomir Doringer: Workshop at La Corte Arte Contemporanea (3)

16.00 Jadranka Tolic: Visit to the Uffizi Gallery

1. group 16.00 / 2. group 16.30

(Multimedia Lab hours: 14.00 – 20.00)

(Studio hours: 10.00 – 15.30)

Friday, July 25

10.00 Elisa Biagini: Stibbert Garden, visit to the museum and outdoor writing exercises. (4)

10.00 Ria Higler / Jelena Miskovic / Bogomir Doringer: Workshop at La Corte Arte Contemporanea (4)

(Multimedia Lab hours: 9.00 – 12.00)

(Studio hours: 10.00 – 15.30)

Saturday, July 26

(Multimedia Lab hours: 14.00 – 19.00)

(Studio hours: 10.00 – 23.00)

Sunday, July 27

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Monday, July 28

Final exhibiton of students projects: La Corte Arte Contemporanea and ex-church of San Carlo dei Barnabiti??

15.00 Capella Brancacci

Tuesday, July 29

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Wednesday, July 30

14.00 Departure from Florence