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Alfredo Cramerotti: Aesthetic Journalism, 2011
talk, seminar, debate (Italian only)
Public talk at Villa delle Rose, Via Saragozza 228-230, 40135 Bologna, Italy
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Thursday 7 July 2011, 7 pm
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As part of the Studio of Ælia Media, a project by Pablo Helguera, winner of the International Award for Participatory Art, Alfredo Cramerotti will present his research about aesthetic journalism and the consequences for artistic practices.
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Alfredo Cramerotti’s curatorial approach does not consist in creating (new) “knowledge” about something, but in sharpening the existing ways of production and circulation of knowledge. That means he encourages artists to create relations of mutual influence with other systems that govern or facilitate our life, like mass media, science, law, architecture and other activities and planning methods. It means to constantly change the perception of society with artistic means. In one of his recent projects, the European biennial of contemporary art Manifest 8 that took place in the Region Murcia in Spain, Alfredo opened a space for information exchange for the participating artists, a suspicious and spiteful terrain compared with the “certainties” of art.
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During his conversation at Villa delle Rose, Alfredo will cast light on this kind of approach, from the concept to the realization, and he will invite the audience to discuss the modalities of hybrid practices which – like bio-politics, development of sustainability, virtual reality and other processes that sum up various disciplines – recreate individual and society on an everyday base.
The essence of Things - Followed by 'Curator-in-Action’ @ Eco-tone: Object Space Entanglements, 2011
talk, seminar, debate, curator-in-action
Lecture on the environmental responsibility of artists and curators: - - - - - -
What are the roles of contemporary artists and curators when confronted with the emergence of problematic environmental situations? What are the cultural, political and social contexts that form the interdisciplinary research under which their activities and observations take place? Socio-political? Meta-projects instigated by data flows, results of scientific research? Aesthetic factors? Radical imaginary situations or attitudes? New forms of journalism? What forms of international, accessible and open platforms of dissemination can be made available to such practice in order to best facilitate its impact on social,legal, scientific, cultural and geopolitical activity?
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Following up, Alfredo Cramerotti and Mary Conlon acted as 'curators in action', picking up on ideas and link across them as the day progressed. The curator session at the end of the day provided an opportunity to reflect on how the activity of the day might be advanced as a future event as symposium/exhibition.
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more info at:
http://www.insidespace.org.uk/Eco-tone/Object_Space_Entaglements.html
Aesthetic Journalism. Four questions on evidence and imagination, 2011
talk, seminar, debate
Aesthetic Journalism. Four questions on evidence and imagination. Lecture by Alfredo Cramerotti at M.A. in Contemporary Art Sotheby's Institute of Art - London
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1. Does an integration of art and journalism emancipate art from a closed sphere of discourse allowing it a more social and political dimension?
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2. Does the use of an investigative methodology within contemporary art practice shift an understanding of truth and subjectivity?
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3. What challenge or validation is made to artworks through their appearance in an exhibition or on a news channel?
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4. By borrowing from forms of news media, what new modes of exhibition practice are artists, curators, and writers enabling to develop cultural relationships between the global relevance to local issues?
Alfredo Cramerotti: ArtEZ Honours Programme Lecture – Artistic Research, 2011
talk, seminar, debate
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Lecture at ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de kunsten, Deventer, the Netherlands, 27 April 2011
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The lecture is centred on the necessity for artists to ‘connect’ with other sectors/systems in society, such as mass media, science, law or else, and not to think and act only within the art system. This is crucial for an artist’s career, especially one that wants to make a difference. Here, the notion of artistic research plays a major role.
Alfredo Cramerotti: Public Lecture, DAI Dutch Art Institute, 2011
talk, seminar, debate
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ArtEZ MFA
Dutch Art Institute
Kortestraat 27
6811 EP Arnhem
The Netherlands
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Thursday March 24 2011, 19:30 – 21:00
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Negotiating Equity presents a lecture by writer and curator Alfredo Cramerotti. Alfredo will introduce his book 'Aesthetic Journalism'. In the book, he draws parallels between the artist-researcher and the investigative journalist. One aim in the book is to still employ fiction as a subversive but meaningful and effective agent of reality. By challenging the aesthetic dogma of what truth looks like, Aesthetic Journalism can tempt mainstream journalism to reconsider its approach.