Biography
Lorenzo Mazza is an artist and curator with a background in anthropology and socio-semiotic. He is interested in the public space as an interactive frame of conflict, relationship and transformation. He holds degrees from Alma Mater Studiorum (Scienze della Comunicazione – Media studies) in Bologna and Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto (Master on Cultural and Sustainable Industry) in Biella.
He started writing and performing poetry in 1999 with L'ora d'aria dei cani, former group of writers and musicians. In 2000 he had his first public show, exhibiting drawings and poems with Gruppo Alterativista in Florence. In 2002 he was a founding member of La Comida, a nomadic laboratory set between Versilia, Rome and Valencia, devoted to visual installation, vjing and loop's narratives, interaction codes and body-machine links. In 2003 he started collaborating with Bau – Contenitore di Cultura Contemporanea in the making off the related assembling magazine. In 2006 he founded Emago, a cultural network devoted to methodologies of didactic in audiovisual languages. In 2006 he graduated in Bologna with a dissertation about art and participation processes in Tuscany. As an artist he partecipated in many exhibition throughout Italy. His production concerns documentary, videoart, installation, visual poetry, performance, collaborative artwork.
Since 2007 he started focusing on curatorial practices, utilizing his writing ang critic skills for projects and exhibitions related to street and urban art, videoart, participatory platforms and creative dynamics in the public space.
