TALKING ABOUT PUBLIC ART http://www.undo.net/tapa/
draft neon> campobase and Mili Romano collaboration with UnDo.Net, network for contemporary art
... Just because of the complexity of the elements involved are aware of the impossibility to define public art with a single formula: TALKING ABOUT PUBLIC ART project aims to collect contributions in the voice of artists, curators, architects, anthropologists, as well as the city s welcome to participate with their thoughts and express their views on theme of public art and the issues that arise as expectations rise that public art, so as to form a dynamic database that elaborated the basic elements to start a broad debate which will be further developed during a study day.
The contributions collected in voice-lasting about two minutes-may express a personal definition of public art, or recount the experience of a work of public art, but also asks that look to the future assuming that it could be a perfect work of public art in an attempt to delineate the role and the tools and modes of action for the future of public art in the city '.
TALKING ABOUT PUBLIC ART is carried out in collaboration with UnDo.Net, network for contemporary art (www.undo.net) through the network that will extend the collection of contributions and make them shareable.
All contributions received will be available online in a section of UnDo.Net and collected on CD, can be heard inside the container MOBILE PUBLIC ART WORKSHOP, located in Piazza of the Constitution, alongside the main entrance for visitors to ARTEFIERA / ART FIRST 24 to 28 January 2008.
Inside the container will be made available documentary material relating to the first stages of the work that the container is developing in the San Donato, video and pictures to help illustrate the ways and means adopted by the artists. You can also record live their contribution to the debate.
We ask a contribution to the voice (audio waw/mp3/mp4) lasting approximately two minutes (120 ") that you can send us through this web page http://www.undo.net/tapa/ which will remain active even after the expiry of ARTEFIERA / ART FIRST. Remember to precede the registration in your name and your qualifications.
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CONTAINER : MOBILE PUBLIC ART WORKSHOP (public art mobile laboratory) will be located from January 24-28, 2008 next to the main entrance of ARTEFIERA.
CONTAINER is a mobile communication device, a dynamic laboratory working with the neighborhood and a sign of works in progress, a space of production and practice of public art, active in the project “Sposta il tuo centro. Quartiere San Donato. Città di Città” (Move your center. The San Donato neighborhood. City of Cities). Inside the CONTAINER documentary materials will be made available that are relative to the first phases of the work, video and images that help to illustrate the modalities of intervention adopted by the artists with the intention of informing and of bringing concrete elements to the debate around public art. We are aware of the impossibility of defining public art with an unambiguous formula, and of the fact that our own is but one interpretation public art; we thus believe that it is very useful to collect contributions of artists, curators, architects, anthropologists, etc. to constitute a base of debate to be successively developed in the course of an open forum. For this we request from you a spoken contribution (audio file waw/mp3/mp4) with a maximum duration of two minutes (120”) in which you could give your own definition of public art, recount an experience you have had with public art (whether it is about a work you have created or one you have seen), imagine your ideal work of public art, etc. N.B. Remember to preface the recording with your name and position. All contributions will be collected on a CD and made available to the public of ARTEFIERA.