AGM 03 PERFORMANCES [CURATING, ARTISTIC PRACTICE]

The first AGM was a three-days performance event on the relationship between body and space. It took place October 2003 in Trento (Italy), hosted and supported by Sconfinart, a private partnership that organised an art expo in the former agricultural fair of the city of Trento. The theme of body and space reflected significantly the former destination of the fair site, where the ‘body’ of the agricultural economy of the region for decades was exhibited through a showcase of animals, machines and farm products; Only recently the fair event relocated to a newer site. Artworks and artists participating: 1) "Light" theatre-performance by post theatre group (Berlin/New York); 2) "Gypsum Make-up/Spaghetti/Belly Dance" performance by Nezaket Ekici (Turkey); 3) "ENTER.NET" performance by A. Cramerotti and I. Bentzen (Italy/Denmark). Co-curated with Iben Bentzen, with the support of Claudio Cavalieri and Paul Sark. More info and detailed at http://www.annualgeneralmeeting.net Images from left to right as above respectively.


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ENTER>NET, 2003

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ENTER>NET You are not placing yourself according to a stage You are the stage. You are not only looking at the performer You are the performer. You are not situating yourself outside a network You are part of the network created. You connect You get connected. You disconnect You get disconnected. You break up You get broken. You are we. Something happened in that room. You got sewn together, separated, challenged, intimidated maybe. You were in the spotlight: objectified and objectifying. You saw the others and got seen. Eyes were following while the threat silently went through your jacket and connected to a a pair of jeans, a jumper, or the surrounding walls. In the meantime an abstract, diagrammatic structure occurred on the floor and your voices, laughs and unspoken words -combined with the noise from the loudspeakers- generated a sound scape. ENTER>NET is about human relations. Sometimes the closest seems the most distant and vice versa.