Biography
Maria C. Bada is an Italian artist actually in London, UK. Actually, she is the London Network Co-ordinator for You Are Home (YAH) Itinerant Eco-village and she is working on art and environment, climate change, green economy, self-resiliancy and sustainability, Post-humanism and Isolation, Recycling Art, Eco-Art.
Her doctoral thesis on Endangered Languages won the third award at the X. Edition of the International Competition Price "Studi Scientifici sul Plurilinguismo" organised by Ufficio Bilinguismo e lingue straniere di Bolzano.
WRITING ACTIVITIES:
Winner of the XI. Edition of the Biennal of Young Artist from Europe and the Mediterranean (Bjcem) in 2003 and of various national prices for poetry.
Among her publications:
- Maria Claudia Bada, “Il sepolcro”, in Luisa Gasbarri (ed.), Quattordici giorni a domani, Teramo, Demian Edizioni, 2006, pp. 27–34.
- Grossi Enza - Bada M. Claudia - Manselli Claudia, Tracce vol. 72-73, Pescara, Tracce, 2006.
- Maria Claudia Bada, “Hi, virus”, La Luna di Traverso. Laboratorio di narrazioni: Incontro, 8/21, Parma, MUP Editore, 2008, pp. 25–27.
- Maria Claudia Bada, “Segni di un nuovo tempo romano”, La Luna di Traverso. Laboratorio di narrazioni: Times New Romani, 8/22, Parma, MUP Editore, 2008, pp. 28-29.
CURATING PROJECTS
Pescara (Italy)
With NoHayBanda, a film-makers independent network and cultural association, she has curated and organised the following events:
- January 2003–September 2003: Censorship and movies, a day of film and debate on censorship inside the Festival delle Letterature, 1st edition, sponsored by the Assessorato alla Cultura, Citta' di Pescara.
- May 2004 – May 2008: Video Italienes Autoproduites, inside Primotempo, organised by T.S.I. Florian.
- August 2004: Raccolta video Differenziata - I colori del territorio - provincia di Pescara
- December 2006: Documentary filmfest – Docupe, 1st edition, Cinema Massimo, Pescara.
Summer 2007: Matta Estate, Rassegna Internazionale Di Cinema Sperimentale e Videoarte, Ex Mattatoio, Pescara.
- August 2008: La notte dei musei, VideoNuit au Musee Cascella/VideoNotte al Museo Cascella
Bamberg (Germany)
- November 2007: Organiser and curator (with Rapahela Schneider) of Bandalarga, a night for the Italian short-films produced by NoHaBanda, Roten Salon, LICHTSPIELKINO, Bamberg, Germany.
London (UK)
- October 2010: Soundscapes Gallery interdisciplinary project “Batting the Trees” Community Project to explore environmental balance, biodiversity and landscape change, Bodrum Café (downstairs), 61 Stoke Newington High Street, London N16 8EL.
- February 2013–June 2013: Curator (with Irini Papadimitriou) and Organiser of “SHAPE THE FUTURE: Living and Design the City” (9 May –5 June 2013) Recycled Art Contest and Exhibition at Watermans Arts Centre, London.
EXHIBITIONS
- 22 April 2009, Giornata culturale della Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, University dell' Estremadura, Caceres, Spain -“Liturgie” cycle.
- 8 August 2009, Festival dei giovani artisti Vengo a cercARTI, 3rd edition, Civitella Rovereto (AQ), Italy: selected artist.
- 11–12 September 2009, Bitonto Art Festival Contest - Id-entita' ri-tratte: selected artist for the exhibition;
- 12 – 16 October 2009, contest “Il 14esimo mistero: passatofuturo”: selected artist, Galleria Limiti Inchiusi ex Onmi Campobasso, Italy.
- 13 – 21 November 2010, HOMELESS GALLERY: Part of Photomonth - East London Photography Festival 2010 (“Autodafe” photography project)
- 14 February – 06 March 2011
, „Von der Dunkelheit ins Licht“ Ausstellung (photography and paintings), BISTUMHAUS St.Otto, Heinrichsdamm 22, Bamberg, DE.
- 26 March–26 May 2013, Member of ISOCULTURE Project, Watermans Arts Centre, London. Exhibition production: Teras 0.1. (book format/text and drawings), Teras world(s) dictionary.
Arts & Cultural categories:
New media & digital arts, arts & ecology, arts in a social context, Literature & Publishing, e-literature, fiction, novel, poetry, translation, Multidisciplinary Arts , painting, photography
Thematic scope:
Artistic Practice, Cultural Funding, Cultural Networking
