Mostre, Ancona, 06 June 2013
Mediterranea 16
Young Artists Biennial
Errors Allowed
Mediterranea 16 is the sixteenth edition of the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, born on 1985 and promoted by the International network Bjcem.
Freshly re-designed for the appointment of 2013, the Biennial has a new name and invites for the first time in the history of this event, eight curators with different perspectives and cultural backgrounds: Charlotte Bank, Alessandro Castiglioni, Nadira Laggoune, Delphine Leccas, Slobodne Veze/Loose Associations (Nataša Bodrožić, Ivana Meštrov), Marco Trulli and Claudio Zecchi to work on the awkward relation between the over-national relation of an art Biennial and the radical specificity of the territories that constitute the Bjcem network.
In the actual context where the only common denominator in the Mediterranean appears to be a vivid social, political and economic complexity that strikes in many and sometime dramatic ways the countries on the area, the attempt the curators made has been in the sight to start a listening process and a careful review of the areas and their scenes – even remote – in order to let differences, pushes and needs emerge. Bjcem avoids to make a sketch of plural instances into one organic voice and never takes unsophisticated conclusions. The goal has always been to make differences and needs visible in order to observe and let sediment all that will produce new knowledge and therefore awareness.
With Errors Allowed, the concept at the base of Mediterranea 16, the curators team is promoting a critic reflection on traditional “information regimes” and knowledge and training systems, by questioning their vertical institutionalization. The team also works on the search of those segments – sometime collectives but more often led by individuals – of self-education and informal learning that today are characterizing the more original and more meaningful experiences of knowledge production, ranging from the art and reaching any aspect of sociality, of cultural sectors and of the politics.
The curators designed a grid of contents and in it they inserted the participation of the invited artists thanks to a palimpsest of eleven chapter informed by existential and cultural conditions as well as by the main philosophical currents: Vanishing Utopias, End of Modernism, Sometimes making something leads to nothing, Library, Tiers Paysage, Panorama, Semantic of Emotions, Crisis of Representation, Schizopolis, Actions, Memory of the Present. To these thematic chapters, as much exhibition sections will correspond. Hosted by the Centro Sperimentale di Design Poliarte, further, a Design and Visual Communication section will be added. A special homage to the city of Ancona curated by Manuela Valentini for Visioni Future will exhibit the work of six young Italian artists.
Mediterranea 16 will host more than 200 artists selected thanks to the International Call promoted by Bjcem in close cooperation with all the associated partners in Europe, Middle East and North Africa.
Young Artists Biennial
Errors Allowed
Mediterranea 16 is the sixteenth edition of the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, born on 1985 and promoted by the International network Bjcem.
Freshly re-designed for the appointment of 2013, the Biennial has a new name and invites for the first time in the history of this event, eight curators with different perspectives and cultural backgrounds: Charlotte Bank, Alessandro Castiglioni, Nadira Laggoune, Delphine Leccas, Slobodne Veze/Loose Associations (Nataša Bodrožić, Ivana Meštrov), Marco Trulli and Claudio Zecchi to work on the awkward relation between the over-national relation of an art Biennial and the radical specificity of the territories that constitute the Bjcem network.
In the actual context where the only common denominator in the Mediterranean appears to be a vivid social, political and economic complexity that strikes in many and sometime dramatic ways the countries on the area, the attempt the curators made has been in the sight to start a listening process and a careful review of the areas and their scenes – even remote – in order to let differences, pushes and needs emerge. Bjcem avoids to make a sketch of plural instances into one organic voice and never takes unsophisticated conclusions. The goal has always been to make differences and needs visible in order to observe and let sediment all that will produce new knowledge and therefore awareness.
With Errors Allowed, the concept at the base of Mediterranea 16, the curators team is promoting a critic reflection on traditional “information regimes” and knowledge and training systems, by questioning their vertical institutionalization. The team also works on the search of those segments – sometime collectives but more often led by individuals – of self-education and informal learning that today are characterizing the more original and more meaningful experiences of knowledge production, ranging from the art and reaching any aspect of sociality, of cultural sectors and of the politics.
The curators designed a grid of contents and in it they inserted the participation of the invited artists thanks to a palimpsest of eleven chapter informed by existential and cultural conditions as well as by the main philosophical currents: Vanishing Utopias, End of Modernism, Sometimes making something leads to nothing, Library, Tiers Paysage, Panorama, Semantic of Emotions, Crisis of Representation, Schizopolis, Actions, Memory of the Present. To these thematic chapters, as much exhibition sections will correspond. Hosted by the Centro Sperimentale di Design Poliarte, further, a Design and Visual Communication section will be added. A special homage to the city of Ancona curated by Manuela Valentini for Visioni Future will exhibit the work of six young Italian artists.
Mediterranea 16 will host more than 200 artists selected thanks to the International Call promoted by Bjcem in close cooperation with all the associated partners in Europe, Middle East and North Africa.
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