December 2011
2 posts
Let's take a position is now part of Centro...
After two weeks Let’s take a position had to find another place to stay. Enrico Vezzi and Anna Santomauro - from neon>campobase - have decided to donate the installation to the multicultural association Centro Zonarelli. On December 10, together with people from San Donato neighborhood, we moved the benches from Parco John Lennon Charlie Parker to the Centro Zonarelli garden, which...
November 2011
2 posts
August 2011
1 post
LINK: August 12 - October 14, 2011, Brussels
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Place Fontainasplein (Fontainas square) is a site of intersection between different neighbourhoods, cultures and social groups. It is situated between the Anspach and Lemonnier Boulevards, the major boulevards that succeed each other to connect the North with the South, and the adjacent Fontainas Park, which forms the only public green space in this North-South axis.
Due to its location,...
July 2011
12 posts
what can we learn from nature?: GREEN DAYS... →
whatcanwelearnfromnature:
Here are some pictures from the Green Days Workshop in Cluj-Napoca (Roumania), hosted by Fabrica de Pensule, from 18 to 21 July 2011.
Presentation of Fabrica de Pensule, tour of the Factory and the area, talks about the local context.
Visit to the Mihai Viteazu Market, talks by…
An inspiring theory we would like to share with... →
Green Days Workshop Cluj Program (July 19th –...
Tuesday, July 19
10.00 - 11.30
meeting @ Fabrica de Pensule breakfast get-together Presentation of Fabrica de Pensule, tour of the Factory and the area, talks about the local context (neighborhood, neighborhood development, etc.). 11.30 - 14.30 Mihai Viteazu Market Ramona Duminicioiu - local producers, organic agriculture in Romania, consumer - producer Bogdan Rakolcza – Mihai Viteazu Market,...
Green Days Workshop Cluj (Fabrica de Pensule) on...
Fabrica de Pensule invites you to the Green Days workshop in Cluj, an urban exploration in various spaces of the city. The workshop will include bike tours in the city, parks, green spaces, meetings and discussions with artists, arhitects, urbanists, sociologists, with guests from Italy, Belgium and England. Green Days is an international multidisciplinary project that proposes a reflection on the...
June 2011
10 posts
Green Days Workshop Loughborough, UK. ‘How is the...
Introduction Idyllic representations of the countryside consistently arise problematic in a metropolitan-based discourse of contemporary art. Artist Georgina Barney grew up in the village of Wymeswold between Loughborough and Nottingham. A concern with the rural continues to guide her practice, for example in working recently with curator Alice Carey, on Farming Fiction. For Green Days, we aim to...
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Green Days Workshop Bologna - Program (June 24th -...
June 24th h 6:30 pm Workshop presentation at Scuola di Pace del Quartiere Savena. Visit to the market in collaboration with Campi Aperti. June 25th h 9:00 am Bike Tour - Orti dei Prati di Caprara, Parco Talon, Parco John Lennon Charlie Parker h 4:00 – 7:00 pm Brainstorming and collective work, with the contribution of Snark, at Parco John Lennon Charlie Parker June 26th h 9:00 am...
Green Days Workshop Bologna (June 24th - 27th)
After the event made in January and called “What Can We Learn From Nature?”, and after the workshop organized by AAA Audiovisual Artists Anonymous in Brussels, on June 24th Green Days workshop starts also in Bologna. The workshop will be held by Enrico Vezzi in collaboration with Anna Santomauro and the association neon>campobase (Vincenzo Estremo and Gino Gianuizzi). A three days workshop...
May 2011
2 posts
what can we learn from nature?: Green Days |... →
whatcanwelearnfromnature:
Challenging and inspiring. In a nutshell, that’s how we could describe Green Days Brussels. Green Days explores the possibility of “imitating” nature by using biomimicry in visual and performing arts in public space. AAA organised a four-day program of walks, talks and workshops in Brussels…
February 2011
12 posts
"Urban Ecosystem" by Les Saprophytes
the city would be like a vast poetic ecosystem where Man, space and nature move in a perpetual interaction.
each city space, each interstice, each person and each little plant, seemingly insignificant, take sense as an essential element of the system.
extracted from nature, this metaphor includes nature as element. and it seems to me that, at different scales, nature would speak about...
"What is nature?" by Daniel Knorr
This text is a compilation of my thoughts that I collected in the last years and is in no way a scientific text. It is driven by feelings and experiences and a subjective view.
Nature for me is everything. I don’t see delimitation in its definition. “What is nature?” is a question that needs a different point of view. In that case we don’t have the possibility of changing the point of view. The...
Scenocosme
Introduction: Alliance between nature and digital technology In our artwork, we create hybrids between plants and digital technology. Plants are natural sensors and are sensitive to various energy flows. Digital technologies permit us to establish a relationship between plants and sound. We display the effects of random data flow and plant interaction. The data is modified as the spectator...
Excerpt from "...it..." by Per Hüttner
The following chapter is an excerpt from the unfinished novel entitled …it…by Per Hüttner. Mudslides is one of the recurring themes in the story, inspired by the writer’s journeys in north east China summer 2010 where flooding and mudslides were occurring due to heavy rain and badly planned and realized new infrastructure projects.
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The driver drops them at the small parking place at the top...
"Nature doesn't exist" by Enrico Vezzi
Timothy Mortonin Ecology without Nature sets out a seeming paradox: to have a properly ecological view, we must relinquish the idea of nature once and for all. Slavoj Zizek says in a conference about Morton’s book: We know Jacques Lacan’s motto, “The big Other doesn’t exist.” I think we should extend this to nature. The first premise of a truly radical ecology should be,...
Paper by Francesca Dainotto
In their history, humans have always tried to imitate nature in oder to advance in science, philosophy, art. Today, as opposed to the past, people have in their hand more and more powerful tools through which they can observe nature in its macro and micro aspects, so that they have the chance to imitate it and they can learn from it, however
The presence of vegetation around people is so obvious...
Paper by Andrea Caretto / Raffaella Spagna
Some proposals: To review the relationship between form and substance of things. To abandone an hylomorphic model that conceives an inert and passive matter* as overpowered by an aprioristic form imposition from an agent endowed with a predefined project in mind. (*organic, inorganic matter, systems of ojects, landscapes…) To imagine the shape of things as something that springs from “fields...
"The tipping point, or what can we learn from...
In climate change research the ‘tipping point’ describes the point when the global climate changes suddenly and irreversibly from one stable state into another. After passing a ‘tipping point’ a transition will occur. This transition can be a slow one, but will have dramatic consequences. Our society, our ecology, our economy, everything will be affected by it. A difference that will lead to a new...
Paper by Ettore Favini
I spent the whole last year with a recurring thought: how will the places we know become after we are gone? I started this inquiry after listening on the radio to a review of a book I never found, of which I don’t remember the title nor the author, but it doesn’t matter, the story was what I found intriguing. The story was about an autogrill in the middle of the jungle in Latin...
"Looking Back to Look Forward" by Nick Slater
In this paper I want to focus on some of the key concerns amongst a group of artists whose work promotes a closer relationship to nature. Central to this type of practice is not only a belief that current society has become detached from nature, but that we can learn lessons from our past, and that we should look back in order to look forward. The paper takes the title and asks if to learn from...
WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM NATURE?
January 21st h 16.00 - 20.00 / January 22nd h 10.30 - 13.00
Urban Center / Sala Borsa - Piazza Nettuno Bologna
A project by Viviana Checchia and Anna Santomauro / neon>campobase
supported by
Partners:
neoncampobase (Bologna), AAA - Audiovisual Artists Anonymous (Brussels), Eastside Projects (Birmingham), Fabrica de Pensule (Cluj-Napoca)
What Can We Learn From Nature? is the meeting that...
January 2011
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GREEN DAYS
Green Days is a multidisciplinary project based on the relationship between urban environment and nature, and on the possibility to “imitate nature” through biomimicry applied to the visual and performing arts in public space. The project involves four european non profit organisations devoted to contemporary art: neoncampobase (Bologna), AAA - Audiovisual Artists Anonymous...
