BIO
FRANCESCA FINI
mixed media, video, performance
Francesca Fini is an Italian artist working with mixed media, video and performance art. Her live projects, always addressing social and political issues, are mixed with lo-fi technology, homemade interaction design devices, live audio and video. She hacks and cracks everyday objects such as surveillance cameras, wii-mote sensors and therapeutic electrodes, mostly used to give to her work an ironic flavor. “Technology is interesting, but rather than call your smartphone I prefer to twist your stomach talking to you through plastic cups connected with string”. In december 2012 she has been invited to take part to the first “Venice International Performance Art Week”, featuring artists such as Yoko Ono, Jan Fabre, Valie Export and Hermann Nitsch. She recently won the “Fonlad Performance Art Residency” to prepare a new performance in Coimbra, Portugal, with the support of Istituto Italiano di Cultura. She is exhibiting her work in galleries and museums worldwide.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS:
2013 - Rapid Pulse Performance Art Festival - Chicago - Usa
2013 - 100X100=900 International Video Art Project - Cinema Aquila - Rome
2013 - Fonlad Art Residency solo Exhibition - Space for Arts, Media & Performance - Coimbra - Portugal
2013 - Visioni d’Arte Video Art Program- Auditorium Santa Margherita - Venice
2013 - Save the Beauty - Mondrian Suite Contemporaryartspace - Rome
2013 - MAD DONNA - Museo Emilio Greco - Sabaudia - Italy
2013 - Magmart Video Art Festival (among winners of 2013 edition with the video “Wombs”) - Naples - Italy
2013 - Voci di Arte Contemporanea - MLAC Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea - Rome
2013 - Cologne OFF 2013 - Aferro Gallery - Usa
2013 - Time is Love 6, International Video Art Program - Mori + Stein Gallery - London
2013 - XII Festival Internacional de la Imagen - Colombia
2013 - Time is Love 6, International Video Art Program - SAZMANAB Platform for Contemporary Arts - Teheran
2013 - Fonlad Best Off 2005-2012 - Coimbra - Portugal
2013 - Five actions with red gloves solo exhibition - Opera Unica Art Gallery - Rome
2012 - Venice International Performance Art Week - Palazzo Bembo - Venice
2012 - Cyberfest At Heaven’s Door - St Petersburg - Russia
2012 - FAD Festival De Arte Digital - Belo Horizonte - Brasil
2012 - File Electronic Language International Festival - Sao Paulo - Brasil
2012 - Festival of Migrant Film - Ljubljana - Slovenia
2012 - Cinemed Montpellier (finalist with the video “Parnasus”) - Montpellier - France
2012 - Sardinia Film Festival (finalist with the videos “Mediterraneo” and “Parnasus”) - Sardinia - Italy
2012 - LPM 2012 (Live Performers Meeting) - Teatro Valle Occupato - Rome
2012 - Athens Video Art Festival - Athens
2012 - Magmart Videoart Festival (among winners of 2012 edition with the video “Blood”) - Naples
2012 - 10 Ragazze per Freud - Palladium Theatre - Rome
2012 - Sound in the Art - Sassetti Art Gallery - Milan
2012 - Norme per la rivoluzione Video Art Program, Volksbühne Berlin and Cinema Massimo of Turin
2012 - Digital Marrakech - Centre Culturel Atlas - Marrakech
2012 - TakeS Video Art Program - Bernardo Museum - Portugal
2012 - Berlin Directors Lounge Video Art Festival - Berlin
2012 - Oslo Screen Festival - Oslo
2012 - LOW LIVES:OCCUPY! - Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics - New York
2011 - Women’s glance Video Art Program - PAN Palazzo delle Arti - Naples
2011 - Pixelpops 2011 - Paris
2011 - Celeste Prize 2011 (finalist in the Live Media and Performance Art Section) - Invisible Dog Art Gallery - New York
2011 - RobotFestival 2011 - Bologna - Italy
2011 - Visioni Acustiche - MACRO Contemporary Art Museum - Rome
2011 - Alterazioni 2011 - Castello Aldobrandesco di Arcidosso - Italy
2011 - Now & After 2011 - Moscow Museum of Modern Art - Moscow
2011 - Proyector Festival - Madrid
2011 - Miden Film Festival 2011 - Greece
2011 - OMISSIS Contemporary Performing Arts Festival - Gradisca D’isonzo - Italy
2011 - ADD Digital Art Festival - MACRO Contemporary Art Museum - Rome
2011 - LPM 2011 (Live Performers Meeting) - Cinema Aquila - Rome
2011 - Fonlad Digital Art Festival - Coimbra - Portugal
2011 - WRO Biennal Alternative Now 2011 - Wroclaw - Poland
2011 - No Performance’s Land? Performance Art Festival - Lisbon - Portugal
2011 - Arte Laguna International Art Prize (finalist in the Performance Art Section) - Arsenale di Venezia - Venice
2010 - Sguardi Sonori - Museo della Civiltà Romana - Rome
2010 - Temps d’Images Video Art Program - Palladium Theatre - Rome
2010 - Escrita na Paisagem Videoperformance Festival - Portugal
2010 - Contravision Film Festival - Berlin
2010 - Biennale Marsica 2010 - Italy
2010 - Premio Termoli 2010 - Museo Civico di Termoni - Italy
2010 - Art Shake Festival - Mondo Bizzarro Art Gallery - Rome
2010 - Art Shake Festival - 91mQ Art Project Space - Berlin
2010 - Currents 2010 - Santa Fe’ Biennal - USA
2010 - Magmart Video Art Festival (among the winners of 2010 edition with the video “Cry me”) - Naples
2010 - MOVES10 Movement On Screen Festival - FACT (Foundation for Creative Art & Technology) - Liverpool
LECTURER:
2013 - Coimbra University - Portugal
2013 - ESAD University - Caldas da Rainha - Portugal
2012 - Effetti Collaterali - Oxer - Latina - Italy
2011 - Istituto Quasar - Rome
MOST IMPORTANT PRINTED PUBLICATIONS:
2013 - “This Performance Will Be Televized”, by Francesca Fini - essay for “No Performance’s Land?” research - Portugal
2013 - Intercultura Documentary Project - Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca - Rome
2011 - “QOS Quasar Outer Space” by Carlo Prati - Palombi Editori
2010 - “Imago” by Miriam Mirolla - Premio Termoli di Arte Contemporanea - Lampi di Stampa - Rome
2010 - “Substance” by Lorenzo Canova - exhibition catalogue
2006 - “Così parlò Mickey Mouse” by Francesca Fini - novel - Ediesse Rome
LINKS AND CONTACTS:
web site - www.francescafini.com
blog - http://francescafini.tumblr.com/
facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/francescafiniperformance
videos - http://vimeo.com/channels/francescafini
ArtStack profile - http://theartstack.com/f-fini
e-mail - mail@francescafini.com
mixed media, video, performance
Francesca Fini is an Italian artist working with mixed media, video and performance art. Her live projects, always addressing social and political issues, are mixed with lo-fi technology, homemade interaction design devices, live audio and video. She hacks and cracks everyday objects such as surveillance cameras, wii-mote sensors and therapeutic electrodes, mostly used to give to her work an ironic flavor. “Technology is interesting, but rather than call your smartphone I prefer to twist your stomach talking to you through plastic cups connected with string”. In december 2012 she has been invited to take part to the first “Venice International Performance Art Week”, featuring artists such as Yoko Ono, Jan Fabre, Valie Export and Hermann Nitsch. She recently won the “Fonlad Performance Art Residency” to prepare a new performance in Coimbra, Portugal, with the support of Istituto Italiano di Cultura. She is exhibiting her work in galleries and museums worldwide.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS:
2013 - Rapid Pulse Performance Art Festival - Chicago - Usa
2013 - 100X100=900 International Video Art Project - Cinema Aquila - Rome
2013 - Fonlad Art Residency solo Exhibition - Space for Arts, Media & Performance - Coimbra - Portugal
2013 - Visioni d’Arte Video Art Program- Auditorium Santa Margherita - Venice
2013 - Save the Beauty - Mondrian Suite Contemporaryartspace - Rome
2013 - MAD DONNA - Museo Emilio Greco - Sabaudia - Italy
2013 - Magmart Video Art Festival (among winners of 2013 edition with the video “Wombs”) - Naples - Italy
2013 - Voci di Arte Contemporanea - MLAC Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea - Rome
2013 - Cologne OFF 2013 - Aferro Gallery - Usa
2013 - Time is Love 6, International Video Art Program - Mori + Stein Gallery - London
2013 - XII Festival Internacional de la Imagen - Colombia
2013 - Time is Love 6, International Video Art Program - SAZMANAB Platform for Contemporary Arts - Teheran
2013 - Fonlad Best Off 2005-2012 - Coimbra - Portugal
2013 - Five actions with red gloves solo exhibition - Opera Unica Art Gallery - Rome
2012 - Venice International Performance Art Week - Palazzo Bembo - Venice
2012 - Cyberfest At Heaven’s Door - St Petersburg - Russia
2012 - FAD Festival De Arte Digital - Belo Horizonte - Brasil
2012 - File Electronic Language International Festival - Sao Paulo - Brasil
2012 - Festival of Migrant Film - Ljubljana - Slovenia
2012 - Cinemed Montpellier (finalist with the video “Parnasus”) - Montpellier - France
2012 - Sardinia Film Festival (finalist with the videos “Mediterraneo” and “Parnasus”) - Sardinia - Italy
2012 - LPM 2012 (Live Performers Meeting) - Teatro Valle Occupato - Rome
2012 - Athens Video Art Festival - Athens
2012 - Magmart Videoart Festival (among winners of 2012 edition with the video “Blood”) - Naples
2012 - 10 Ragazze per Freud - Palladium Theatre - Rome
2012 - Sound in the Art - Sassetti Art Gallery - Milan
2012 - Norme per la rivoluzione Video Art Program, Volksbühne Berlin and Cinema Massimo of Turin
2012 - Digital Marrakech - Centre Culturel Atlas - Marrakech
2012 - TakeS Video Art Program - Bernardo Museum - Portugal
2012 - Berlin Directors Lounge Video Art Festival - Berlin
2012 - Oslo Screen Festival - Oslo
2012 - LOW LIVES:OCCUPY! - Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics - New York
2011 - Women’s glance Video Art Program - PAN Palazzo delle Arti - Naples
2011 - Pixelpops 2011 - Paris
2011 - Celeste Prize 2011 (finalist in the Live Media and Performance Art Section) - Invisible Dog Art Gallery - New York
2011 - RobotFestival 2011 - Bologna - Italy
2011 - Visioni Acustiche - MACRO Contemporary Art Museum - Rome
2011 - Alterazioni 2011 - Castello Aldobrandesco di Arcidosso - Italy
2011 - Now & After 2011 - Moscow Museum of Modern Art - Moscow
2011 - Proyector Festival - Madrid
2011 - Miden Film Festival 2011 - Greece
2011 - OMISSIS Contemporary Performing Arts Festival - Gradisca D’isonzo - Italy
2011 - ADD Digital Art Festival - MACRO Contemporary Art Museum - Rome
2011 - LPM 2011 (Live Performers Meeting) - Cinema Aquila - Rome
2011 - Fonlad Digital Art Festival - Coimbra - Portugal
2011 - WRO Biennal Alternative Now 2011 - Wroclaw - Poland
2011 - No Performance’s Land? Performance Art Festival - Lisbon - Portugal
2011 - Arte Laguna International Art Prize (finalist in the Performance Art Section) - Arsenale di Venezia - Venice
2010 - Sguardi Sonori - Museo della Civiltà Romana - Rome
2010 - Temps d’Images Video Art Program - Palladium Theatre - Rome
2010 - Escrita na Paisagem Videoperformance Festival - Portugal
2010 - Contravision Film Festival - Berlin
2010 - Biennale Marsica 2010 - Italy
2010 - Premio Termoli 2010 - Museo Civico di Termoni - Italy
2010 - Art Shake Festival - Mondo Bizzarro Art Gallery - Rome
2010 - Art Shake Festival - 91mQ Art Project Space - Berlin
2010 - Currents 2010 - Santa Fe’ Biennal - USA
2010 - Magmart Video Art Festival (among the winners of 2010 edition with the video “Cry me”) - Naples
2010 - MOVES10 Movement On Screen Festival - FACT (Foundation for Creative Art & Technology) - Liverpool
LECTURER:
2013 - Coimbra University - Portugal
2013 - ESAD University - Caldas da Rainha - Portugal
2012 - Effetti Collaterali - Oxer - Latina - Italy
2011 - Istituto Quasar - Rome
MOST IMPORTANT PRINTED PUBLICATIONS:
2013 - “This Performance Will Be Televized”, by Francesca Fini - essay for “No Performance’s Land?” research - Portugal
2013 - Intercultura Documentary Project - Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca - Rome
2011 - “QOS Quasar Outer Space” by Carlo Prati - Palombi Editori
2010 - “Imago” by Miriam Mirolla - Premio Termoli di Arte Contemporanea - Lampi di Stampa - Rome
2010 - “Substance” by Lorenzo Canova - exhibition catalogue
2006 - “Così parlò Mickey Mouse” by Francesca Fini - novel - Ediesse Rome
LINKS AND CONTACTS:
web site - www.francescafini.com
blog - http://francescafini.tumblr.com/
facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/francescafiniperformance
videos - http://vimeo.com/channels/francescafini
ArtStack profile - http://theartstack.com/f-fini
e-mail - mail@francescafini.com
Fair and Lost, by performance artist Francesca Fini @ Rapid Pulse Performance Art Festival
Dates:
Sat Jun 01, 2013 12:35 - Mon Jun 10, 2013
Location:
Chicago,
Illinois
United States of America
United States of America
The 6th of June Italian artist Francesca Fini will perform her work “Fair and Lost” at Rapid Pulse International Performance Festival. The event will take place at 7pm at the Defibrillator Art Gallery in Chicago.
the RAPID PULSE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL (1-10 june 2103) aims to represent a range of styles and forms in order to provoke thought and stimulate discourse surrounding performance art.
http://rapidpulse.org/
The 2013 edition of the Festival will show the works of the following artists:
Arahmaiani (Indonesia) | Andrew Barco (US) | Anna Berndtson (Sweden/Germany) | Wafaa Bilal(Iraq/US) | Jeffery Byrd (US) | Pate Conaway (US) | Jess Dobkin (Canada) | Zackary Drucker (US) |Arianna Ferrari (Italy) | Francesca Fini (Italy) | Beverly Fre$h (US) | Anna Felicity Friedman (US) | ArtiGrabowski (Poland) | Fausto Gracia (Mexico) | Allison Halter (US/Germany) | Sara Holwerda (US) |Elana Katz (US/Germany) | Elena Katsulis & Erin Peisert (US) | Joshua Kent (US) | Mehdi-Georges Lahlou (Belgium) | Carlos Salazar Lermont (Venezuela) | Miller & Shellabarger (US) | Şükran Moral (Turkey) | Mothergirl (US) | Boris Nieslony (Germany) | Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz (US) | Jefferson Pinder (US) | Emilio Rojas (Mexico/Canada) | Kambui Olujimi (US) | Rooms (US) | Fereshteh Toosi (US) |Alice Vogler (US) | Dolores Wilber + Sarah Wilber (US) | Julie Wills (US) | Zierle & Carter (UK)
Fair and Lost
"During the performance I'm wearing electrodes on both arms and I try to wear makeup. Involuntary muscle contractions caused by electric shock are very strong so that I cannot control the hands and the makeup spreads all over my face. We hear the chorus of Nabucodonosor by Giuseppe Verdi, which has a very strong symbolic value in the history of my country, bringing along the ghosts of old struggles for freedom that no one remembers anymore. “My country, fair and lost”. The hysterical, uncontrollable, movement of the hand represents the disease of social habit, which reveals its fragility when the system appears on the point of collapsing: the deep conflict between a conscious behaviour and external social conditioning. Even crying is involuntary, caused by the black pencil and mascara entering my eyes since I cannot calibrate the movement of the hand. A mechanical cry that is automatically transmitted to the audience, in a sort of empathic conditioned connection, unconscious and therefore completely useless".
The performance is part of a larger project: http://withanhelmet.blogspot.it/
Link to video of performance: https://vimeo.com/62669680
Francesca Fini is an Italian artist working with video and performance. Her live projects, always addressing social and political issues, are mixed with lo-fi technology, homemade interaction design devices and video. She hacks everyday objects such as surveillance cameras, wi-mote sensors and therapeutic electrodes, mostly used to give to her work an ironic flavor. “Technology is interesting, but rather than call your smartphone I prefer to twist your stomach talking to you in a plastic cup connected to a string”. In 2012 she took part to the first “Venice International Performance Art Week”
web: http://francescafini.tumblr.com/
follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/francescafiniperformance
the RAPID PULSE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL (1-10 june 2103) aims to represent a range of styles and forms in order to provoke thought and stimulate discourse surrounding performance art.
http://rapidpulse.org/
The 2013 edition of the Festival will show the works of the following artists:
Arahmaiani (Indonesia) | Andrew Barco (US) | Anna Berndtson (Sweden/Germany) | Wafaa Bilal(Iraq/US) | Jeffery Byrd (US) | Pate Conaway (US) | Jess Dobkin (Canada) | Zackary Drucker (US) |Arianna Ferrari (Italy) | Francesca Fini (Italy) | Beverly Fre$h (US) | Anna Felicity Friedman (US) | ArtiGrabowski (Poland) | Fausto Gracia (Mexico) | Allison Halter (US/Germany) | Sara Holwerda (US) |Elana Katz (US/Germany) | Elena Katsulis & Erin Peisert (US) | Joshua Kent (US) | Mehdi-Georges Lahlou (Belgium) | Carlos Salazar Lermont (Venezuela) | Miller & Shellabarger (US) | Şükran Moral (Turkey) | Mothergirl (US) | Boris Nieslony (Germany) | Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz (US) | Jefferson Pinder (US) | Emilio Rojas (Mexico/Canada) | Kambui Olujimi (US) | Rooms (US) | Fereshteh Toosi (US) |Alice Vogler (US) | Dolores Wilber + Sarah Wilber (US) | Julie Wills (US) | Zierle & Carter (UK)
Fair and Lost
"During the performance I'm wearing electrodes on both arms and I try to wear makeup. Involuntary muscle contractions caused by electric shock are very strong so that I cannot control the hands and the makeup spreads all over my face. We hear the chorus of Nabucodonosor by Giuseppe Verdi, which has a very strong symbolic value in the history of my country, bringing along the ghosts of old struggles for freedom that no one remembers anymore. “My country, fair and lost”. The hysterical, uncontrollable, movement of the hand represents the disease of social habit, which reveals its fragility when the system appears on the point of collapsing: the deep conflict between a conscious behaviour and external social conditioning. Even crying is involuntary, caused by the black pencil and mascara entering my eyes since I cannot calibrate the movement of the hand. A mechanical cry that is automatically transmitted to the audience, in a sort of empathic conditioned connection, unconscious and therefore completely useless".
The performance is part of a larger project: http://withanhelmet.blogspot.it/
Link to video of performance: https://vimeo.com/62669680
Francesca Fini is an Italian artist working with video and performance. Her live projects, always addressing social and political issues, are mixed with lo-fi technology, homemade interaction design devices and video. She hacks everyday objects such as surveillance cameras, wi-mote sensors and therapeutic electrodes, mostly used to give to her work an ironic flavor. “Technology is interesting, but rather than call your smartphone I prefer to twist your stomach talking to you in a plastic cup connected to a string”. In 2012 she took part to the first “Venice International Performance Art Week”
web: http://francescafini.tumblr.com/
follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/francescafiniperformance
LOW LIVES:OCCUPY!
Dates:
Sat Mar 03, 2012 18:05 - Sun Mar 04, 2012
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
LOW LIVES: OCCUPY!
Event Date: Saturday, March 3, 2012
Event Time: 6:00 - 10:00 pm (EST)
Online: http://www.occupywithart.com/llo-live-channel/
February 17, 2012 (New York, NY) – Low Lives has partnered with Occupy with Art and The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics to present “Low Lives: Occupy! a unique one-night-only program of live performance art, happenings, and public actions, simulcast to presenting host venues around the world. Low Lives: Occupy! will take place on Saturday, March 3, 2012 from 6 -10 pm (EST). Low Lives: Occupy! partner Mark Read of the 99% Bat Signal / The Illuminator, will contribute a special projection and performance in conjunction with Low Lives: Occupy!
Jorge Rojas, Founding Director of Low Lives, comments: “Over the past four years Low Lives has developed a platform that invites and enables artists, audiences, and presenting venues to “plug in and participate” from anywhere an internet connection exists. This technological platform which brings a history of supporting artists’ full creative freedom to imagine new worlds, is ideally suited to be the support structure to enable artists, activists and Occupy groups from around the globe to present work in solidarity with #OWS. Low Lives: Occupy! recognizes the powerful opportunity that is the presentation of performances from around the world, within which artists are invited to facilitate the process of opening eyes and minds – and present a radical re-imagining of possible ways of existing and relating. The Occupy Wall Street protests have given us The People’s Mic and The People’s Stage. Thanks to a partnership with Occupy with Art and The Hemispheric Institute, Low Lives: Occupy! has the potential to become the The People’s Virtual Stage.”
The Low Lives: Occupy! program will include thirty-five performance artists, Occupy groups, and artist collectives located worldwide in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy movement for the 99%. Participants will expand the reach and visibility of the Occupy protests by broadcasting to an international audience community. Thirteen co-presenting organizations in eight countries including U.S., México, Spain, Colombia, Brazil, Northern Ireland, France, and Argentina, will project Low Lives: Occupy! in their own venues and public spaces. The Occupy protests, and the myriad of perspectives and experiences related to this unique movement, will be amplified, explored, and experimented with, through Low Lives’ internet-based creative platform.
The Hemispheric Institute, presenting partner and official New York City venue for Low Lives: Occupy! will present one live performance during the March 3 event, and screen all other selections in real time using live-streaming technology. Presenting partner and event organizer, Occupy with Art, will host the live simulcast at OccupywithArt.com, providing the means for viewers around the world to access the program online. Co-presenting partners of Low Lives: Occupy! will present the simulcast in their venues and public spaces.
Presenting Partners
Occupy with Art / Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics / Low Lives /
Co-Presenters
99% Bat Signal - The Illuminator (NYC, US) / Antena Mutante (Bogotá, CO) / Casa Brandon- Ciudad Autónoma (Buenos Aires, AR) / La Casa de la Cultura Comunitaria “Guuze´ Benda” (Oaxaca, MX) / Co-Lab (Austin, TX, US) / Dimanche Rouge (Paris, FR) / GT Gallery (Belfast, NIR) / Guerrero Project (Mexico City, MX) / Kaxinawá Occupy. Som, Música e Poesia (Greater Rio de Janeiro, BR) / Museo de Arte Efimero de Cartago, MAEC (Cartago, CO) / Nau Còclea (Girona, ES) / Performance Exchange at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago SAIC (IL, US) / Zona de Tolerancia (Hidalgo, MX) /
Participating Artists and Artist Collectives
99% Bat Signal - The Illuminator (NYC, US) / Alejandro Chellet (Cancun, MX) / Alejandro Guzman (NYC, US) / Alternative Art College (London, UK) / Angela Alegria + Lucía Andújar + Dani d’Emilia (Lisbon, PT) / Antena Mutante + ChicoBauti (Bogotá, CO) / Arun Storrs (Oregon, US) / Astrid Menasanch (Madrid, ES) / Bados Earthling (Melbourne, AU) / Christina Sukhgian Houle (Alabama, US) / The Civilians (NYC, US) / Egg No Ego (Bucharest, RO) / Emerge Collective (NYC, US) / Francesca Fini (Rome, IT) / Ginna Vélez (Bogotá, CO) / Guerrero Project (Mexico City, MX) / Heather Warren-Crow (Wisconsin, US) / Justine Marrion Massey (Buenos Aires, AR) / Kanene Ayo Holder (NYC, US) / Kaxinawá Occupy. Som, Música e Poesia (Greater Rio de Janeiro, BR) / Lukas Avendaño (Oaxaca, MX) / Miles Pflanz (NYC, US) / Minipimer.tv (Barcelona, ES) / Moe Beitiks (Illinois, US) / Nyugen E. Smith New Jersey, US) / Occupy Your Spirituality (NYC, US) / The People Staged (NYC, US) / Proyecto 21 (Mexico City, MX) / Revolutionary Games (NYC, US) / Second Front (Second Life) / The Super Art League (DC Universe) / Tempest Productions + Pilgrim Theatre + Bread and Puppet + Occupy Boston’s CASA working group (Massachusetts, US) / Tara Raye Russo (New Jersey, US) / Tutu-Marambá: Pesquisas das Artes do Corpo (Sao Paolo, BR) / Victoria Gibson (Vancouver, CA) /
About Low Lives
Founded in 2009, Low Lives is an international platform for live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time through online broadcasting networks. These networks provide a new alternative and efficient medium for presenting, viewing, and archiving performances. Low Lives celebrates the transmission of ideas beyond geographical, political, and cultural borders, and opens multicultural and intergenerational dialogue through visual language, new technologies, and contemporary expressions.
Interested co-presenters can contact Low Lives at lowlivesoccupy@gmail.com before March 1. For information on presenter requirements, visit lowlives.net
Watch the live simulcast on March 3 at http://www.occupywithart.com/llo-live-channel/
For further information, contact:
Jorge Rojas
Founding Director, Low Lives
www.lowlives.net
lowlivesoccupy@gmail.com
Event Date: Saturday, March 3, 2012
Event Time: 6:00 - 10:00 pm (EST)
Online: http://www.occupywithart.com/llo-live-channel/
February 17, 2012 (New York, NY) – Low Lives has partnered with Occupy with Art and The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics to present “Low Lives: Occupy! a unique one-night-only program of live performance art, happenings, and public actions, simulcast to presenting host venues around the world. Low Lives: Occupy! will take place on Saturday, March 3, 2012 from 6 -10 pm (EST). Low Lives: Occupy! partner Mark Read of the 99% Bat Signal / The Illuminator, will contribute a special projection and performance in conjunction with Low Lives: Occupy!
Jorge Rojas, Founding Director of Low Lives, comments: “Over the past four years Low Lives has developed a platform that invites and enables artists, audiences, and presenting venues to “plug in and participate” from anywhere an internet connection exists. This technological platform which brings a history of supporting artists’ full creative freedom to imagine new worlds, is ideally suited to be the support structure to enable artists, activists and Occupy groups from around the globe to present work in solidarity with #OWS. Low Lives: Occupy! recognizes the powerful opportunity that is the presentation of performances from around the world, within which artists are invited to facilitate the process of opening eyes and minds – and present a radical re-imagining of possible ways of existing and relating. The Occupy Wall Street protests have given us The People’s Mic and The People’s Stage. Thanks to a partnership with Occupy with Art and The Hemispheric Institute, Low Lives: Occupy! has the potential to become the The People’s Virtual Stage.”
The Low Lives: Occupy! program will include thirty-five performance artists, Occupy groups, and artist collectives located worldwide in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy movement for the 99%. Participants will expand the reach and visibility of the Occupy protests by broadcasting to an international audience community. Thirteen co-presenting organizations in eight countries including U.S., México, Spain, Colombia, Brazil, Northern Ireland, France, and Argentina, will project Low Lives: Occupy! in their own venues and public spaces. The Occupy protests, and the myriad of perspectives and experiences related to this unique movement, will be amplified, explored, and experimented with, through Low Lives’ internet-based creative platform.
The Hemispheric Institute, presenting partner and official New York City venue for Low Lives: Occupy! will present one live performance during the March 3 event, and screen all other selections in real time using live-streaming technology. Presenting partner and event organizer, Occupy with Art, will host the live simulcast at OccupywithArt.com, providing the means for viewers around the world to access the program online. Co-presenting partners of Low Lives: Occupy! will present the simulcast in their venues and public spaces.
Presenting Partners
Occupy with Art / Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics / Low Lives /
Co-Presenters
99% Bat Signal - The Illuminator (NYC, US) / Antena Mutante (Bogotá, CO) / Casa Brandon- Ciudad Autónoma (Buenos Aires, AR) / La Casa de la Cultura Comunitaria “Guuze´ Benda” (Oaxaca, MX) / Co-Lab (Austin, TX, US) / Dimanche Rouge (Paris, FR) / GT Gallery (Belfast, NIR) / Guerrero Project (Mexico City, MX) / Kaxinawá Occupy. Som, Música e Poesia (Greater Rio de Janeiro, BR) / Museo de Arte Efimero de Cartago, MAEC (Cartago, CO) / Nau Còclea (Girona, ES) / Performance Exchange at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago SAIC (IL, US) / Zona de Tolerancia (Hidalgo, MX) /
Participating Artists and Artist Collectives
99% Bat Signal - The Illuminator (NYC, US) / Alejandro Chellet (Cancun, MX) / Alejandro Guzman (NYC, US) / Alternative Art College (London, UK) / Angela Alegria + Lucía Andújar + Dani d’Emilia (Lisbon, PT) / Antena Mutante + ChicoBauti (Bogotá, CO) / Arun Storrs (Oregon, US) / Astrid Menasanch (Madrid, ES) / Bados Earthling (Melbourne, AU) / Christina Sukhgian Houle (Alabama, US) / The Civilians (NYC, US) / Egg No Ego (Bucharest, RO) / Emerge Collective (NYC, US) / Francesca Fini (Rome, IT) / Ginna Vélez (Bogotá, CO) / Guerrero Project (Mexico City, MX) / Heather Warren-Crow (Wisconsin, US) / Justine Marrion Massey (Buenos Aires, AR) / Kanene Ayo Holder (NYC, US) / Kaxinawá Occupy. Som, Música e Poesia (Greater Rio de Janeiro, BR) / Lukas Avendaño (Oaxaca, MX) / Miles Pflanz (NYC, US) / Minipimer.tv (Barcelona, ES) / Moe Beitiks (Illinois, US) / Nyugen E. Smith New Jersey, US) / Occupy Your Spirituality (NYC, US) / The People Staged (NYC, US) / Proyecto 21 (Mexico City, MX) / Revolutionary Games (NYC, US) / Second Front (Second Life) / The Super Art League (DC Universe) / Tempest Productions + Pilgrim Theatre + Bread and Puppet + Occupy Boston’s CASA working group (Massachusetts, US) / Tara Raye Russo (New Jersey, US) / Tutu-Marambá: Pesquisas das Artes do Corpo (Sao Paolo, BR) / Victoria Gibson (Vancouver, CA) /
About Low Lives
Founded in 2009, Low Lives is an international platform for live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time through online broadcasting networks. These networks provide a new alternative and efficient medium for presenting, viewing, and archiving performances. Low Lives celebrates the transmission of ideas beyond geographical, political, and cultural borders, and opens multicultural and intergenerational dialogue through visual language, new technologies, and contemporary expressions.
Interested co-presenters can contact Low Lives at lowlivesoccupy@gmail.com before March 1. For information on presenter requirements, visit lowlives.net
Watch the live simulcast on March 3 at http://www.occupywithart.com/llo-live-channel/
For further information, contact:
Jorge Rojas
Founding Director, Low Lives
www.lowlives.net
lowlivesoccupy@gmail.com
