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CRISI/KRISIS
videoinstallation & group exhib
8 TV videoinstallation by Luca Serasini
Photos by Nico Malvaldi
Installation and partecipative installation by Luca Serasini & Nico Malvaldi
Technical coordination by Massimo Giannoni
July 6-14, 2013
Cantiere Nuovo cultural association – Marina di Pisa
[EN]
In 2013 Cantiere Nuovo debuted with an exhibition on a decidedly topical topic such as the economic crisis, extremely tangible especially in Italy and European countries.
Elaborating the concept of crisis, the exhibition also develops on fronts such as that of systemic problems, analyzing popular insurrections in the world and such as that of the crisis of values, addressing the theme unfortunately always very much on the agenda of respect for women. In the latter, CRISI/KRISIS sees Luca and Nico meet GasArti, a local association very active in artistic and theatrical performances inspired and involved with current social issues.
Il Cantiere Nuovo faces this adventure of CRISI/KRISIS using an artistic language of a contemporary nature such as performance as well as the figurative one that has led us to some very interesting collaborations. The idea for the exhibition is inspired by Nico Malvaldi’s photos of damaged car details. With a decidedly abstract character and colorful composition, these images lend themselves to a very explicit metaphor of a changed reality. Transformed. A reality in crisis, but also of choice and change, as the word itself originally had (krisis in Greek). Visitors welcomed in the halls of the Cantiere Nuovo were given a hammer and were asked, but certainly not imposed, to intervene and modify; to transform with an act, with a violent gesture, some parts of the car present in the room. A gesture that physically involves the visitor to be an active and integral part of the experience of the exhibition itself. The second room is dedicated to the multi-channel video installation CRISI/KRISIS by Luca Serasini, where on 8 TV monitors the modification, violent transformation, asked of visitors is proposed.
To talk about the crisis, the use of performance art as the maximum moment of involvement between words, gestures and movements could not be missing. For the inauguration on 6 July, Malvaldi and Serasini return to work together with their first performance LA MIA CRISI, LA TUA CRISI, where one in front of the other, together with other actors in the making, confront this current and difficult theme.
[IT]
Nel 2013 Cantiere Nuovo esordisce con una mostra su un argomento decisamente attuale come la crisi economica, estremamente tangibile sopratutto in Italia e nei paesi Europei.
Elaborando il concetto di crisi, la mostra si sviluppa anche su fronti come quello delle problematiche di sistema, analizzando insurrezioni popolari nel mondo e come quello della crisi di valori, affrontando il tema purtroppo sempre molto all’ordine del giorno del rispetto per la donna. In quest’ultima, CRISI/KRISIS vede Luca e Nico incontrare GasArti, associazione locale molto attiva nelle rappresentazioni artistiche e teatrali ispirata e coinvolta con temi sociali di attualità.
Il Cantiere Nuovo affronta questa avventura di CRISI/KRISIS utilizzando un linguaggio artistico di carattere contemporaneo come la performance oltre a quello figurativo che ci ha portato ad alcune collaborazioni di spessore molto interessanti. L’idea della mostra prende spunto dalle foto di particolari di auto danneggiate di Nico Malvaldi. Dal carattere decisamente astratto e dalla composizione colorata, queste immagini si prestano ad una metafora molto esplicita di una realtà modificata. Trasformata. Una realtà in crisi, ma anche di scelta e di cambiamento, come in origine la parola stessa aveva (krisis in greco). Ai visitatori accolti nelle sale del Cantiere Nuovo e’ stato porto un martello e gli e’ stato chiesto, ma certamente non imposto, di intervenire e di modificare; di trasformare con un atto, con un gesto violento, alcuni pezzi di auto presenti nella sala. Un gesto che coinvolge fisicamente il visitatore ad essere parte attiva ed integrante dell’esperienza della mostra stessa. La seconda sala è dedicata alla videoinstallazione multicanale CRISI/KRISIS di Luca Serasini, dove su 8 monitor TV viene proposta quella modifica, trasformazione violenta, chiesta ai visitatori.
Per parlare di crisi non poteva mancare l’utilizzo dell’arte performativa come massimo momento di coinvolgimento tra parola, gesti e movimenti. Per l’inaugurazione del 6 luglio, Malvaldi e Serasini tornano a lavorare insieme con la loro prima performance LA MIA CRISI, LA TUA CRISI, dove uno di fronte all’altro, insieme ad altri attori in divenire si confrontano con questo tema così attuale e così difficile.
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“Crisi/Krisis” – Luca Serasini
The multi-channel video installation Crisi/Krisis follows the action that began in STAGE #1 with the modification of the car sheets carried out by the public through a mallet. This video installation re-proposes that gesture, those sounds, in a choral set of images of metal sheets that are dented and modified. The action, however, since the man who performs it is not present, is ousted, annulled. We only see the effect (the dented sheet metal where it was not before) and the sound. The only witnesses of the action are the clubs, one for TV, made for the occasion. The video installation is completed by a photograph of the whole on aluminum in 3 specimens, also modified, dented.
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“La mia crisi, la tua crisi” – Luca Serasini and Nico Malvaldi
In a dark, large, huge room, personal, existential, work, emotional crises, all of them are staged. At least all those that are told by the actors present and, if desired, by the visitors/spectators, in Italian, in other languages. This is the performance created by Nico Malvaldi and Luca Serasini, with the technical support of Massimo Giannoni. Under 7 light spots anyone was able to express themselves, let off steam, talk about their crises, sometimes laying themselves bare… And the spectators also had to be laid bare who, in order to hear the non-shouted but only whispered words of the “actors” had to approach and therefore, they too put themselves on the line…