Francesca Fini videoart, performance art

CologneOFF 2013 Portugal II
CologneOFF – Cologne International Videoart Festival
@ MudasFest Madeira
24-26 May 2013
http://www.urbanistasdigitais.pt/mudasfest

Without Words
Selection curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

Matthias Härenstam (Sweden) – Closed Circuit, 2011, 3:01
Albert Merino (Spain) – The City and The Other, 2010, 3:09
Francesca Fini (Italy) – Oasis in the Desert, 2010, 5:00
Wrik Mead (Canada) – Winter’s End, 2010, 8:00
Nick Fox-Gieg (USA) – Disarmed, 2:42, 2005
Przemek Węgrzyn (Poland) – The Spring, 2011, 3:20
Jym Davis (USA) – Into Eden, 2009, 12:46
Alterazioni Video and Luca Babini (Italy) – Black Rain, 2011, 10:00
Cinzia Sarto (Italy) – Dirty Vacation, 2005, 7:00
Shaun O’ Connor (Ireland) – Exit: Pursued By A Bear: “Amédée”, 2010, 4:17

http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=3394

My video “MUYBRIDGE REMIX # 2” showing at STIFTELSEN 3,14 - International Contemporary Art Foundation
for
TIME IS LOVE.6 [show 5]
International video art program
Curated by Kisito Assangni

7 - 8 June 2013, screening & Talk
STIFTELSEN 3,14
Vaagsallmenningen 12, 5014 BERGEN, NORWAY
www.stiftelsen314.com
http://timeisloveshow.blogspot.com/

Featuring:
Aditi Kulkarni (India) | Anthony Peskine (France) | Bill Millett (UK) | Ciriaca Erre (Switzerland) | Cristina Picchi & Yuval Gerstein (UK) | Danny Germansen (Denmark) | Dellani Lima (Brazil) | Denis Brun (France) | ELASTIC Group (Italy/Spain) | Eugene Perera (UK) | Evelin Stermitz (Austria) | Francesca Fini (Italy) | Gilivanka Kedzior & Barbara Friedman (France) | Isidora Ficovic (Serbia) | Jangyoung Jung (Korea) | Jennida Chase (USA) | Jennifer Abessira (Israel) | Joas Nebe (Germany) | Jonas Nilsson (Sweden) | Joy Whalen (USA) | Kent Anderson Butler (USA) | Kokou Ekouagou (Togo) | Larissa Sansour (Palestine) | Larry Caveney (USA) | Laszlo Laszlo Revesz (Hungary) | Neil Howe (Australia) | Nina Backman (Finland) | Otelo Fabiao (Portugal) | Paul Rascheja (Poland) | Pil & Galia Kollectiv (Israel/UK) | Polina Zioga (Greece) | Rita Casdia (Italy) | Sabrina Osborne (UK) | Sohrab Kashani (Iran) | Tommaso Pedone (Italy) | Tommy Becker (USA) | Tor Jorgen Van Eijk (Norway) | Uma Ray (India) | Yotam Gilad (USA).

TIME IS LOVE Screening is an annual international video art program on the theme of love in hard times. The screening explores forms of artistic expression rising from society and the new media’s use of technology. It wishes to support and promote the new movements and trends in contemporary culture. The project aims to consider the work of these artists as part of the global phenomenon that is contemporary art, and asks the audience to reflect upon how the time that led to the production of these works was formed. Since 2008 TIME IS LOVE has presented the most innovative works that bring to the world a refreshing perspective on video art.

About the curator
Kisito Assangni is a Togolese-born French artist, curator and producer who trained at Lomé and Paris. Currently living between London, Paris and Lomé, his artworks primarily question post-globalisation impact and psychogeography. His projects have been shown internationally, including the Whitechapel Gallery, London; Arnot Art Museum, New York; Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, USA; Musée des Arts Derniers, Paris; Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow; Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland; Lucca Museum, Lucca, Italy among others. In 2012, Assangni attended Museology courses at David Roberts Art Foundation (London) given by Dr Glenn Adamson (Head of research, Victoria & Albert Museum, London) and Prof Carol Siegel (Director, Freud Museum, London). Kisito is the founder/curator of Time is Love Screening and [SFIP] project - Still Fighting Ignorance & Intellectual Perfidy.

MUYBRIDGE REMIX # 2 from Francesca Fini on Vimeo.

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LITTLE PILL BLUES # 2
Francesca Fini, videoperformance, 2013

LITTLE PILL BLUES # 2 is a mixed media work on a 82cm X 142cm wooden board. The main object is a rabbit mask covered with newspaper clippings and fixed on the board by a complex weaving of red woolen thread. On the board are also attached paper clippings that compose a poem. The work is deeply connected to the performative action of creating the poem which is an integral part of the picture. The action has developed cutting out random words from newspaper headlines and then juxtaposing them completely decontextualized, according to the best Dada tradition, following free association of ideas but also the general sense that rose gradually from the text. A sense that is distilled in the idea of a surreal journey in my city: the journey of Alice chasing the white rabbit. A meticulous work that lasted entire days, on the floor of my living room completely covered with newspaper clippings, and that has left out the only decisive and deliberate sentence, “I love you”, addressed to myself. A sentence that I could not track down on these papers, like any conjugation of the verb “to love”, so that I had to compose it letter by letter, as in the messages of the kidnappers in old movies. The performative action witnessing the creation of the work in the form of a videoperformance is contained in the CD also attached to the board. The only sound in the videoperformance is the swish of the scissors and my voice reciting the poem that then switches back again from the analog plane (the paper) to the digital one (the sound mastered in the CD) according to the concept of the”circuit” project to which the work belongs.

CIRCUITI (CIRCUITS) is a series of mixed-media works that assemble and integrate traditional painting, collage, digital manipulation of video stills printed on canvas or paper, performance art “relics” and digital discs (DVDs, miniCDs) used as design elements in the artwork but also containing an original videoperformance where the artwork itself is part of the picture, like a witness or like a reflection in a mirror. A woolen thread ties and holds together all these elements, creating a sort of “connective” drawing which becomes the signature of the project. The main concept of the works lies in this ongoing shift from analog to digital and back, like a needle going in and out while sewing a fabric, so that the artworks are made for the videos that they hold and the videos are made for the artworks they belong, in a way that you can’t establish what is the beginning and the end of the process.
circuiti.tumblr.com/

ELECTRODES AND PAIN to speak about the crysis

The 6th of June Italian artist Francesca Fini will perform her controversial 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 FESTIVAL aims to represent a range of styles and forms in order to provoke thought and stimulate discourse surrounding performance art. http://rapidpulse.org/

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/
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LITTLE PILL BLUES # 2
Francesca Fini, mixed media, 2013

LITTLE PILL BLUES # 2 is a mixed media work on a 82cm X 142cm wooden board. The main object is a rabbit mask covered with newspaper clippings and fixed on the board by a complex weaving of red woolen thread. On the board are also attached paper clippings that compose a poem. The work is deeply connected to the performative action of creating the poem which is an integral part of the picture. The action has developed cutting out random words from newspaper headlines and then juxtaposing them completely decontextualized, according to the best Dada tradition, following free association of ideas but also the general sense that rose gradually from the text. A sense that is distilled in the idea of a surreal journey in my city: the journey of Alice chasing the white rabbit. A meticulous work that lasted entire days, on the floor of my living room completely covered with newspaper clippings, and that has left out the only decisive and deliberate sentence, “I love you”, addressed to myself. A sentence that I could not track down on these papers, like any conjugation of the verb “to love”, so that I had to compose it letter by letter, as in the messages of the kidnappers in old movies. The performative action witnessing the creation of the work in the form of a videoperformance is contained in the CD also attached to the board. The only sound in the videoperformance is the swish of the scissors and my voice reciting the poem that then switches back again from the analog plane (the paper) to the digital one (the sound mastered in the CD) according to the concept of the”circuit” project to which the work belongs.

CIRCUITI (CIRCUITS) is a series of mixed-media works that assemble and integrate traditional painting, collage, digital manipulation of video stills printed on canvas or paper, performance art “relics” and digital discs (DVDs, miniCDs) used as design elements in the artwork but also containing an original videoperformance where the artwork itself is part of the picture, like a witness or like a reflection in a mirror. A woolen thread ties and holds together all these elements, creating a sort of “connective” drawing which becomes the signature of the project. The main concept of the works lies in this ongoing shift from analog to digital and back, like a needle going in and out while sewing a fabric, so that the artworks are made for the videos that they hold and the videos are made for the artworks they belong, in a way that you can’t establish what is the beginning and the end of the process.
circuiti.tumblr.com/

In June I will be performing my work “Fair and Lost” at Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival, Chicago.

http://rapidpulse.org/

THE GOLDEN AGE - Francesca Fini 2013
Live performance in Coimbra, for Fonlad Digital Art Festival opening

Francesca Fini

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