Exhibitions, Italy, Milano, 27 January 2010
Thought and action. They wouldn’t be two consequential phases of the same process, but rather two instruments intended for a single purpose. If they were plotted on a Cartesian graph, the space created by their intersection is that of Radical Intention. A place where to act, today, starting from the roots; where to subvert, tomorrow.
Radical Intention # 01 defines an agenda and a method. First the role, then the goal, then the task. In order for the map to become a diagram, for illustration to give way to speculation, for the project to render itself reality.
Radical Intention # 01 enhances a series of active and participative discussions, meetings, connections and exchanges. Everything happens in the liminal space of a home/laboratory on Via Malaga 4, Milan. Among ambiguous spaces, heterotopias and roads that we don’t own, the private house becomes again a political site: a place where so many movements have been born and so many others buried forever.
From January to June 2010, artists are invited to deal with this space (its formal and structural characteristics, the emotional and mnemonic functions of the objects it contains) while critics, curators, practitioners and activists are called upon to maneuovre between points of view and methodologies of intervention they pursued in relation to a certain problem.
Radical Intention # 01 turns the house/studio on Via Malaga 4 in to a space of “potential”, where artists shape raw material according to their practice. Their intervention is free. Recommended tools are dislocation and de-contextualization.
There are only three rules:
– The intervention has a temporary nature, its reversibility is the starting point of the project (interventions that result in permanent change are not allowed);
– The interaction should take place only with the original objects in space;
– The length of stay is up to 3 days and at the end of the agreed time the space opens up to visitors and interacts with the public, regardless of the project’s state of elaboration.
The creation process is documented step by step.The work is not be intended as formally defined, but as a survey undertaken and a methodology employed.
Invited artists: Francesco Bertelè, Sanja Lasic, Liquid Cat, Margherita Morgantin, Mirko Smerdel.
In parallel, critics, curators, actors and activists provoke public conversations and debates. The focus is the innumerable spatial realities that surround us, public spaces, education spaces, collective and exhibition spaces: to identify substantial changes associated with places, and explore some radical contributions to the concept of space on the edge of the artistic context.
The documentary material will constitute an archive of interventions the Radical Intention blog.
Be responsive.
Things can change quickly.
— R.I.
Radical Intention # 01 defines an agenda and a method. First the role, then the goal, then the task. In order for the map to become a diagram, for illustration to give way to speculation, for the project to render itself reality.
Radical Intention # 01 enhances a series of active and participative discussions, meetings, connections and exchanges. Everything happens in the liminal space of a home/laboratory on Via Malaga 4, Milan. Among ambiguous spaces, heterotopias and roads that we don’t own, the private house becomes again a political site: a place where so many movements have been born and so many others buried forever.
From January to June 2010, artists are invited to deal with this space (its formal and structural characteristics, the emotional and mnemonic functions of the objects it contains) while critics, curators, practitioners and activists are called upon to maneuovre between points of view and methodologies of intervention they pursued in relation to a certain problem.
Radical Intention # 01 turns the house/studio on Via Malaga 4 in to a space of “potential”, where artists shape raw material according to their practice. Their intervention is free. Recommended tools are dislocation and de-contextualization.
There are only three rules:
– The intervention has a temporary nature, its reversibility is the starting point of the project (interventions that result in permanent change are not allowed);
– The interaction should take place only with the original objects in space;
– The length of stay is up to 3 days and at the end of the agreed time the space opens up to visitors and interacts with the public, regardless of the project’s state of elaboration.
The creation process is documented step by step.The work is not be intended as formally defined, but as a survey undertaken and a methodology employed.
Invited artists: Francesco Bertelè, Sanja Lasic, Liquid Cat, Margherita Morgantin, Mirko Smerdel.
In parallel, critics, curators, actors and activists provoke public conversations and debates. The focus is the innumerable spatial realities that surround us, public spaces, education spaces, collective and exhibition spaces: to identify substantial changes associated with places, and explore some radical contributions to the concept of space on the edge of the artistic context.
The documentary material will constitute an archive of interventions the Radical Intention blog.
Be responsive.
Things can change quickly.
— R.I.
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