The VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK is intended to be primarily a gathering reunion among artists and the audience. To experience live art in a context of dynamic, reciprocal exchange is in fact a ritual and a political act in itself. Here art becomes a space of civil negotiation between people, where ideas are shared to generate further thoughts in real time, which is a fundamental prerogative of performance art. Inspired by the concepts of the Gesamtkunstwerk and that life is art and vice versa, this year the live art exhibition project has evolved in its preparation and presentation as an openly accessible people-project, made possible thanks to the commitment of many who believe in this format that wish to re-awaken and re-evaluate the possibilities and ways that pioneer artists already proposed and indicated through their committed and dedicated work. With our concern being firstly human, social and ecologic, likewise for example in the spirit of Joseph Beuys, Tehching Hsieh and Allen Ginsberg, the VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK continues to function outside of commercial and economic schemes and concerns, and concentrates on providing a common ground for encounter, inspiration and creativity. It firmly ponders on the idea that those who work in the arts should dissent to remain unavailable to compromise, intractable to the impositions of the market, free interpreter of his/her own social responsibility. The participating artists in the second edition of the VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK “Ritual Body-Political Body” are among those who continue to oppose through their work the genocide of desires, dreams and utopias, which is one of the causes of the self-serving political sleaziness of today that inevitably carries, within a corruption of fundamental human values and principle, the loss of dignity of human beings and their cultures. Towards the viral superficiality and vanity of thought and behaviour professed by telecracy, the mass media and the hegemony of political parties, we believe that today artists have to respond assuming a sense of responsibility, transparency and a position towards history that speaks of a substantial necessity, a need, a profound urgency. As Lucrezia De Domizio Durini states in her last book Perché. Le sfide di una donna oltre l’arte (Milan: Mondadori, 2013), the task of an artist is to express something that captures, retains and gives shape to humanity, because art is mainly nourished by what society condemns, excludes and forgets.
Posted on: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 10:19:41 +0000
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