LUIGI COPPOLAportfolio 2016-2012

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VIDEO INSTALLATION

DOPO UN’EPOCA DI RIPOSO16 QUADRIENNALE D’ARTE, ROMA, 2016. In the exhibition DE RERUM RURALE

curated by Matteo Lucchetti.

insipired and dedicated to Casa delle Agriculture (Castiglione d’Otran-

to, Lecce)

video HD and painted banners(2016)

photo (optical bench): Francesco Quarta Colosso

video editing: Luca Mattei

The concept of mixed seeding (evolutive population) practiced in the Parco Comune, that allows the ground to “choose” which seeds to make grow, overturns mainstream agricultural practice and is also a metaphor for integration between migrant, asylum seekers and local community.

In the artwork the concrete utopia from Castiglione is confronted with the painted words on the banners, inspired by the book News from Nowhe-re or an epoch of rest, a work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist and socialist pioneer William Mor-ris (1891)In the novel, the narrator falls asleep after returning from a meeting of the Socialist League and awakes to find himself in a future society based on common ownership and democratic control of the means of pro-duction. In this society there is no private property, no big cities, no authority, no monetary system, no courts, no prisons, and no class systems. This agrarian society functions simply because the people find pleasure in nature, and therefore they find pleasure in their work.

Luigi Coppola’s installaion, comprised of a video and a series of pain-ted banners, is a visual rendering of a process that has been underway since 2013 in the Salento ara, in Castiglione d’Otranto (LE, Italy) to be precise. Here the artist, together with the local association “Casa delle Agriculture”, has created the Parco comune dei frutti minori: a participatory project that has redeveloped areas used for fly tipping, converting them into cultivated areas focusing on biodiversity and the common good.

Dopo un’epoca di ripos, installation view, Quadriennale d’Arte, Roma

LONGTERM PROJECT - PUBLIC ART

PARCO COMUNE DEI FRUTTI MINORI2013- ONGOING

ongoing project developed with Casa delle Agriculture (Castiglione d’O-

tranto, Lecce), in collaboration with Free Home University project,

Parco Otranto - S.M. Leuca, citizens and associations of Castiglione

d’Otranto (Lecce, Italy)

ENParco dei Frutti Minori is a large project for the communities of Salen-to (South of Italy), that hopes to create a safe environment for local biodiversity and a sense of participated care for the land, the soil and our common living. Together with Casa delle Agriculture (House of Agricultures) the artist has organized multiple actions to develop a cultural and social change in their community, suggesting ways to reclaim the land, to work it re-spectfully, envisioning a different approach to the territory, one that can suggest beauty, memory and a different future. Many actions have been conducted to regenerate abused and abandoned land (public and loan for use), to select and reproduce native crops (cere-als, vegetables, beans),to experiment with the cultivation of hemp, and to create a sense of common good, togetherness and solidarity.

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Parco della bellezza partecipata e della biodiversità locale, luogo di

sviluppo rurale solidale delle comunità del basso Salento.

Il parco comune dei frutti minori nasce dal desiderio di restituire del-le zone rurali del Sud Italia alla bellezza, alla memoria e al futuro, di ripensare la tradizione, di creare spazi di sperimentazione e rifles-sione, con la consapevolezza del valore della terra, del lavoro e del vivere insieme. E’ un progetto di rigenerazione di terreni pubblici e in comodato d’uso nelle aree rurali di Castiglione d’Otranto e allo stes-so tempo un processo di attivazione culturale della comunità locale e di economie sostenibili.

Il Parco Comune dei Frutti Minori è il luogo dell’utopia concreta. Qui seminiamo utopia per raccogliere realtà. Cerchiamo di restituire dignità al nostro paesaggio rurale, liberando le strade di campagna da centina-ia di tonnellate di rifiuti e al loro posto piantiamo centinaia di albe-ri delle nostre più antiche varietà di frutti minori, che diventano bene prezioso della comunità. Nelle terre in comodato d’uso (circa 15 ettari in continua espansione) è attivo un laboratorio continuo di agricultura organica insieme ai migranti ospitati nel villaggio. In un punto centra-le del parco è nato il “Vivaio della Biodiversità” recuperando moltissi-me varietà locali e sperimentando il miscuglio e le popolazioni evoluti-ve di semi. L. Coppola, Dopo un’epoca di riposo, photography realized with optical bench, F. Quarta Colosso, 2016

Studio di segnaletiche per parco rurale, 2014

Vivaio della Biodiversità e sede Gruppo Acquisto Popolare, Casa delle Agriculture, 2016

Philosophical and working campus for the realization of the first part of the Parco Comune with:

Ayreen Anastas and René Gabri, Yeti Agnew, Sara Alberani, Lisa Batacchia, Antonia Bonura, Mauro Bubbico, Sarah Ciracì, Carolyn Cristov Bakarkiev, Irene Coppola, Enkli Doya, Elisabetta Falanga, Andrea Fabbro, Margherita Fabbri, Giulia Gabrielli, Karen Hakobian, Valeria Iacovelli, Laura Lovatelli, Carlo Marchetti, Francesca Marianna, Gianluca Marinelli, Federica Menin, Luca Musacchio, Luigi Negro, Giancarlo Nore-se, Mattia Pellegrini, Luigi Presicce, Alessandra Pomarico, Francesco Quarta Colosso, Samuele Piazza, Davide Ricco, Noah Richeler, Roberto Tenace, Pelin Uran, Shawn Van Sluys, Gordon Knox

Associations and local institutions involved: Comune di Andrano, Provincia di Lecce, Ass. Famiglie Castiglionesi, Ass. Auser, Ass. Knide, Ass. Cavalieri del Salento, Legambiente, ProLoco Andrano, Ass. Vivere la Ca-napa, Gruppo giovani Castiglionesi, Istituto Comprensorio Andrano Marittima Diso, Istituto Agrario e Alberghiero Presta- Colummella di Lecce in collaborazione con Edu-topia e Ecotopia per Lecce 2019

with the contribution of: Leonardo Angelone, Mauro Bubbico, Salvatore Coppola, Anna Silvia De Pascali, Giu-seppe De Matteis, Francesco Minonne, Alberto Piccinni, Angelo salento.

Notte Verde, Castiglione d’Otranto, 2016. Meeting with Salvatore Ceccarelli on evolutive population.

PUBLIC ART / PERFORMANCE

SPIRIT OF COALITIONa project for Parckdesign 2016, Jardin Essentiel

Luigi Coppola (concept and dramaturgy), Gabriel Mattei (composition and musical direction), Gregory Dapra / Stefano Faoro (visual design), Mi-riam Secco (performance assistant), Teresa Gentile (coordination)

with the workers of Bruxelles Environnement/ Leefmilieu Brussel:Laurent Marchand Sound designer, Michel Hermans composition et saxophone alto, Quentin Stinglhamber, instruments électroacoustiques, Tallita Sa-murovic, violon, Aurélie Duliere, violoncelle / Christophe Steynen, pia-no /Rodolphe Paternostre, trompetteVoices : Malcolm Eeman , Gery Hubin, Mathilde Sauzet Mattei, Martine Cantillon, Cecile Riffont, Eric Lacasse

and the volunteers and the staff of Jardin Essentiel, Parckdesign 2016photos: Julie Guiches

Representing the thousands of people who work for the environment and common goods across diverse local communities of Brussels, the employees of Brussels Environment (IBGE) will be the protagonists of the closing event of Parckdesign2016.

Contemporary debates around the complex issues of preservation, access to, and distribution of essential resources need to be kept alive, fed by different perspectives and current observations. This is especially important for individuals with institutional responsibilities in this field.

Following a process of collecting musical and text ideas, a choral per-formance will stage the potential debates and paradoxes of the institu-tion: how to think the individual, the employee, the member of a poli-tical authority as one of the drivers of a solidarity movement? And how could the institution be developed into a convergence of thoughts, ac-tions and desires?

A place of exchange titled the Bureau of Precarious Coalition is set up from June onwards in the administrative offices of Brussels Environment to collect points of view and encourage expression. The ideas, actions and texts generated by the Bureau constitute the base material for the dramaturgy of the performance, mixing together harmonies and vocal dis-sonance.

LONGTERM PROJECT - PUBLIC ART

FONDO SPECULATIVO DI PROVVIDENZA(speculative fund of providence)

a project by Luigi Coppola and Christophe Meierhanscoordination: Teresa Gentile. Logo: Marzia Dalfinipresented in Santarcangelo Festival 2015 and in network of italian per-forming arts festival: Santarcangelo Festival, Short Theatre Rome and Terni Festival, 2016Logo: Marzia Dalfiniwww.thespeculativefund.org

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FSP ufficio (office) Santarcangelo, Piazza Ganganelli, da (from) 8/07 a (to) 17/07, 10:30-13:00 e (and) 17:00-23:30

Questo biglietto certifica la tua quota parte di 1 euro al  Fon-do Speculativo di Provviden-za  2016. Conservalo, perché ogni biglietto ti permette di de-cidere la destinazione dell’inte-ro capitale accumulato durante i Festival di Santarcangelo, Short Theatre (Roma) e Terni Festival.   Vieni a trovarci nel nostro ufficio,  segui  l’evoluz-ione del Fondo su  www.thes-peculativefund.org  e intervieni anche a distanza via sms  (+39 329 3799558)

This ticket certifies of your 1 euro share in the  Speculative Fund of Providence 2016. Keep it well because each ticket al-lows you to decide upon the usage which will be made of the entire capital accumulated during the festivals of Santar-cangelo, Short Theatre (Rome) and Terni. Just visit us at our office, follow the proceedings of the SFP at  www.thespecu-lativefund.org  and act upon it also remotely via sms (+39 329 3799558).

The Fondo Speculativo di Provvidenza was launched in Santarcangelo in 2015 by artists Luigi Coppola and Christophe Meierhans. The project’s aim was to turn the festival’s audience into a political community by making all spectators co-owners of a monetary capital and asking them to collectively decide which purpose this money should be used for. By adding a compulsory one-euro donation to the price of each ticket, the Fund succeeded in raising a certain amount of money over the ten days of the Festival. Through participatory processes and voting the spec-tators – having become shareholders – took upon themselves to dedicate their common capital to the development of a performance arts training programme. The second edition of the project reiterates the same basic operation of raising the entrance tickets prices by one euro, but the manner in which the Festival audience will be able to engage with the decisonal process is radically different: leaving behind the notions of majoritarian democracy, the Fondo Speculativo di Provvidenza follows a rather unorthodox protocol. It sets the focus on individual responsibi-lity and gives every shareholder of the Fund the possibility to enact a radical change at any moment of the process by either making, disqua-lifiying or re-qualifying a proposal, independantly of what the majori-ty could be thinking and of the discussion. What is more, the scope of the 2016 edition of the Fondo Speculativo di Provvidenza reaches beyond the spatial and temporal confines of the Santarcangelo Festival itself by expanding the process to two other contemporary arts festivals: Short Theatre in Rome, and the Terni Festival. The Fondo Speculativo di Prov-videnza establishes a link of continuity between these three Italian festivals. It creates relationships of interdependency between distant communities and creates a parallel with the realities of the demateria-lized finance on a global scale. A financial operation dealing with real capital becomes a collective exploration of where our cultural and in-tellectual potential could lead us to.

SITE SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE

CONTINUUM Luigi Coppola, Teatro Continuo di Burri, Milano (2016) in “Stage as social platform” cur. by Simone Frangi and Tommaso Sacchi, assisted by Giovanna Manzotti. Production coordination: Viafarini.Project coordinator: Lucia Mazzi; Soundtrack: Nicola Ratti; Performer: Elena Adamou, Lenia Georgiou, Antonella Fittipaldi, Caterina Gobbi, Car-lotta Mansi, Sofia Paggiaro, Lucia Palmero, Emilia Piz, Miriam Secco, Floida Skraqi, Simona Rinaldo, Erica Romano, Claudia Scarsella, Letizia Scarpello; Narration: Alessio Baù, Daniel Blanga Gubbay, Barbara Boioc-chi, Daria Carmi, Ivan Carozzi, Ilaria Cuccagna, Giulia Ferrarese, Cri-stina Lorenzi, Lucia Palmero, Erica Romano, Giacomo Zani.Photography: Ilaria Cuccagna

The public action and installation ‘’Continuum’’ conceived by Luigi Cop-pola operates an imaginary and ritual reconnection with the spatial and temporal hole in which Teatro Continuo has disappeared from the histo-ry of Milano from 1989 to 2015. This absence becomes a potential element for re-examining the history and the events that occurred in Milan in that period, by imagining this “urban space of possibilities” – as Burri defined it – as a theatre of public, political and cultural actions.

In 1973, on the occasion of the XV Triennale International Exhibition of Milano, Alberto Burri inaugurates Teatro Continuo in the frame of the project Contatto Arte-Città curated by Giulio Macchi for Parco Sempio-ne. Teatro Continuo is an architectural installation that functions as a open access stage and as a theatrical machine always ready for use, hosting a wide range of activities, from artistic acts to indipendent initiatives triggered by the civil society. The theatre is placed on an imaginary axis that, cutting the park, connects the Duomo with Cor-so Sempione and generates a telescope between the Filarete tower of the Castello Sforzesco and the Arco della Pace (S. Frangi, about Teatro Con-tinuo).

PHOTOGRAPHY - PARTICIPATORY ART

SOCIETY HOUSESphotography intallation created in the frame of Museum as Toolbox, a co-operation project with Kunsthaus Graz, KUMU Tallinn, MSU Zagreb, Museion Bozen and MS Łódź.

Project produced in Tallin, Kumu Museum, cur. by Mary Ann TalvistuPerformers: The Youth Club of Kumu

The construction of collective identity of the places and the places of identity. In a young country like Estonia, it’s interesting to propose these open issues to a group in an age of passage, strongly related to the construction of his own identity and sense of belonging to a terri-tory, a collectivity, a nation.The starting and vanishing point of the laboratory are the Society houses, places created in the end of 19th century, on the initiative of rural intelligentsia and ordinary people as part of the emergence of Estonian nation – building (*). The landing site for our experiences is the Estonian National art Museum (Kumu) which instead was built to ra-tify a national identity.The photo series, which condense the stimuli created during the wor-kshop, are taken in a in between space, a majestic entrance planned to welcome the public in the museum and to connect the great Lasnamae district, created in the Soviet times. This connection with the city has never happened, the entrance to the museum for practical and logisti-cal reasons becomes another one. The site then becomes a stage or an identity transitional space, where ghosts can resurface, fragile narra-tives can be built and walls could collapse.

(*) Estonian Community Houses as Local Tools for the Development of Estonian Cultural Policy, Egge Kulbok-Lattik

LONGTERM PROJECT - PUBLIC ART

ORTOCOMUNE ongoing project

progetto prodotto da aperto_2015 art on the border, promosso dal Di-

stretto Culturale Valle Comonica in collaborazione con Case Sparse_tra

l’etere e la terra, ColtivarVivendo, Ass. Codadilana, Istituto Compren-

sorio Malonno (BS), i cittadini e le associazioni locali.

Orto Comune è un’opera aperta, che genera azioni collettive per la riap-

propriazione e la messa in comune del patrimonio di biodiversità.

Le pietre del fiume, su cui sono state scolpiti i nomi di molte varietà

locali di alberi da frutto e cereali, formano un inizio di percorso che

dall’Oglio risale verso i centri abitati delle varie frazioni di Malonno

in Valle Camonica.

Le pietre costituiscono così un potenziale generatore di bene comune che

risale la valle, nel senso inverso a quello delle acque, costruendo con-

nessioni culturali, agricole, geografiche e di pensiero.

Oltre alla riappropriazione e alla messa in comune del patrimonio di

biodiversità, l’Orto Comune si propone di agire sull’immaginario collet-

tivo, su un idea di varietà intesa anche in senso culturale e sociale.

Le diverse varietà, nel corso del tempo, si pianteranno in diversi luo-

ghi pubblici della valle, attivando collaborazione con scuole, associa-

zioni, istituzioni e cittadini. I semi e le varietà riprodotte saranno

intese come bene di tutta la collettività territoriale.

PERFORMANCE | PUBLIC ART

MASSES and MOTETS vol.IIExercises in Political Chorality developed in the fremework of Face to Face with Monument, Into The City

Festival 2014, curated by Chto Delat? group photos by: Renate Ranzi,

a project by: Luigi Coppola

musical coordination and original composition for choir: Irene Keppl

with: Chor des KSŠŠD directed by Esther Wratschko, Mieze Medusa, Jasmin

Hafedh, Homies4life, Selbstlaut MC, ZUZEE

Dramaturgie: Anna Gojer

Coordination: Anna Gojer, Renate Ranze

Video Hundsturm: Renate Ranzi

Production: Hundsturm, Into the city / Wiener Festwochen festival

Masses and Motets vol II is specifically conceived for the festival Into

the City (Wiener Festwochen), reacting at the context created by Chto De-

lat? collective, in Schwarzenbergplatz in Vianna.

The work lies in unveiling—uncovering as well as anchoring—histories and

memories.

The result of the laboratory with the slovenian choir, hip hop, spoken

word and contemporary musician is a musical performance where the main

figure is a “choir of witnesses”. Philosophers like Giorgio Agamben have

theorized the position of the witness as the basis of ethico-political

relations insofar as the witness answers to the suffering of others wi-

thout usurping their place. Witnessing is a way of seeing and listening

that requires an acceptance

of vulnerability.

How can we make room for the voices of those others to “appear” in public

without attempting to speak for them?

What about those who can speak—those who can bear witness, and those who

cannot—or those who don’t have the possibility to appear, or who we pain-

fully know will not re-appear?

How can we welcome those others who address us from the deep wells of hi-

story and from the present memories of our democratic societies?

photo: Renate Ranzi

still: Benoit Bollon

PERFORMANCE | PUBLIC ART

MASSES AND MOTETS vol. IExercises in Political Chorality

developed in the fremework of Lungomare Gasthaus Bozencurated by Angeli-

ka Burtscher, Daniele Lupo, Lisa MazzaLUNGOMARE GALLERY AND PUBLIC SPACE OF BOZEN, 2013

a project by: Luigi CoppolaMusical coordination: Marcello FeraDramaturgic coordination: Ina TartlerCoordination e dramaturgic assistance: Anna GojerStage objects: Luigi Coppola with Marzia MiglioraWith: Monika Callegaro / Michele Cirillo a.k.a. Ciro /Choriosum /Arno Dejaco /Claudio De Nicola a.k.a. Jack Herer / Riccardo El Madany a.k.a. Bomberman / Fabio Grandinetti a.k.a. Dj Nigo / Diletta La Rosa / Matteo Jamunno / Lene Mor-genstern / Marco Picone a.k.a. Zelda / Alex Piovan a.k.a. Sigma / Flora Sarrub-bo / Samuel Stenico a.k.a. Sten / Alissa Thaler / Matthias Vieider Spatial Structures: ConstructLab/eXYZtAlexander Römer, Patrick Hubmann, Gonzague Lacombe, Mattia Paco-Rizzi

PARTICIPATORY ART | PHOTOGRAPHY

IO IN TESTA (A-HEAD)cantiere comune di immaginario politico

project in collaboration with Marzia MiglioraFondazione Teatro Valle Bene Comune | Nomas Foundation - A Theatre Cycle | Nuovo Cinema Palazzo, 2013photos by: Francesco Niccolaiblog of the project: iointesta.tumblr.com

IO IN TESTA is an artistic and participatory process activated with the aim of revealing the potential resulting from the experiences of occupation, self-triggered, crowdfunding and citizen mobilization.The project took place during the week proceeding the municipal elections in Rome (20-26 May 2013) on the invitation of the Teatro Valle Occupato (in tran-sformation as Fondazione Teatro Valle Bene Comune), Nomas Foundation) and Nuo-vo Cinema Palazzo.With the title cantiere comune di immaginario politico, Marzia Migliora and Luigi Coppola have set up a workshop open to all citizens, in the spaces of the Nuovo Cinema Palazzo area, both philosophical and physical. The aim was to listen, stimulate and translate in a symbolic and artistic way the instan-ces, proposals and potential resulting from the commitment of all participants, transforming them into a collective experience, driving force of the common good, a realistic utopia where the citizen is the engine of change.During the workshop, interviews regarding personal stories of commitement, strategies for the common good, small musical and theatrical performances were continuously held on stage while around the tables each participant was produ-cing his own headdress.

Act 1: ResistanceAct 2: Harmony or conflict?Act 3: Vision and Prophecy

“Masses & Motets” are three musical performances that focus on having one’s say, the resistance to entertainment and consumer society, political declara-tion, proposal and vision. The choir symbolizes the ability of a group of pe-ople to “agree” and to create a shared harmony through moments in which their individual or collective voices are in dialogue or in conflict.The artists involved come from different musical and performance backgroun-ds, including hip-hop, performative literature, polyphonic singing, theater, slam poetry, easy listening and experimental music. The project is rooted in the writings of authors who continue to leave their mark in terms of political imagery, such as Langer, Pasolini, Gramsci and Beuys, and also contains ori-ginal writings specially created for the project. The performances will first take place in public spaces around the city and then at Lungomare Gasthaus in a group performance.

The unifying symbol chosen for the project was a headdress made of papier-mâché, starting from the traditional model worn by masons.Simple sheets of paper have became personal manifestos “to put on head”, ex-pression of desires and symbolic, identifying, combative, personal proposals.

The moltitude of headdress created during the workshop have become a means to build a “social sculpture.” A series of symbolic actions have connected the Te-atro Valle to public space and vice versa.

Io in testa, Luigi Coppola and Marzia Migliora, Permanent collection Fondazione Teatro Valle,

(lambda print 110x180 cm), 2013

VIDEO / PERFORMANCE

The project sprung from a collaboration with the belgian economist and antropo-logist Paul Jorion. Starting from a section of the famous blog of the latter, the two have worked on a text that gathers the propositions written by visitors of the blog, that collectively participated in the creation of a “realist uto-pia” - as the title of the section recites. Here the users were invited to sug-gest their own ideas about the economical and political crisis. The new script is staged through the structure of the classical greek choir, so as to articu-late a parallelism of demands and propositions around the issues raised in the text.While the figure of the hero/leader is absent, the voice of the choir, here in-terpreting the so-called “people”, is empowered by the use of masks built by the artist himself.

ON SOCIAL METAMORPHOSISVIDEO, 13’ 40’’ monochannel full HD 2012 presented in the frame of ENACTING POPULISM curated by Matteo Lucchetti, Kadist Art Foundation Paris, 2012

PERFORMANCE, 35’presented in Mains d’Oevres, Paris with: Olivia Algazi, Gaël Bourhis, Ilios Chailly,Périne Julien, Théo Vailly, Jean-Joseph Vital.video images: Claudio Cavallari, Fabrizio Lapalombaravideo editing: Claudio Cavallariartistic coordination and logistic: Les Commissaires Anonymes (Cécile Roche Boutin et Mathilde Sauzet)musical direction: Gabriel Mattei

Texts taken from:Utopie Réaliste (Realistic Utopia), proposals published on Paul Jorion’s blog (2011)Saint-Just, extracts from Discours sur la Constitution de la France (April 1793)J.M. Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936)Paul Jorion, Le capitalisme à l’agonie (2011)P. Sarton du Jonchay, contributions on Paul Jorion’s blog (2011)Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address (March 1933)

CURRICULUM VITAE:

Luigi Coppola, born in Lecce (Italy) 1972, based in Brussels

EDUCATIONAcademic2010- 2009 Researcher at Fontys University, members of the Arts in Society Knowledge Circle. Studies and research on art & post-Fordism, community art. Tilburg (NL)2002 -1999 PhD, Safety and Risk Analysis, Politecnico di Torino (ITA)1997 – 1991 MA and BA in Environmental Engineering – Politecnico di Torino (ITA)Extra -academicEducation in performing and visual arts, obtained via experiences, interests and col-laborations involving artists, theorists, methods and institutions. 2011-2009 collaboration with the artist Michelangelo Pistoletto and his institution Cittadellarte. Reenactment of performances, publications, developement of the art in-stitutions for socially engaged practice.2010 collaboration with Italian philosopher Paolo Virno: studies in Art & Post-Fordism.2006-1999 applied studies in Authentic Movement (A. Whaterhoeg) and Expression Primi-tive (Jhon Doese).1995-1998 study and collaboration with the Italian exponent of the literature and con-temporary art movement Neovanguardia: Edoardo Sanguineti, Nanni Balestrini, Alfredo Giuliani: studies, performances and experiments.1993-1996 workshops with Josef Svoboda (scenography, Czech Republic), W. and J. Janicky (theater, Kantor’s actors), Luciano Berio (music), Riccardo Caporossi (theatre).

LONGTERM PROJECT - Ongoing -2014Parco Comune dei Frutti Minori, public art project, Castiglione d’Otranto, ITAin collaboration with Casa delle Agriculture.- Ongoing – 2015OrtoComune, public art project Valle Camonica. Initiated in the context of Aperto_2015 Art on the border.- Ongoing -2012Masses and Motets, Exercises in Political Chorality

PUBLIC ART / PERFORMANCES / GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)2016 - XVI Quadriennale d’Arte Roma, in the exhibition De Rerum Rurale cur. by Matteo Lucchetti (october 2016)- Spirit of Coalition, Parckdesign 2016 (Jardin Essentiel), participatory art and performance cur. by Gilly Kirievsky, Alexander Roemer, Judith Wielander, Brussels (Bel-gium) - Society House, photography installation and participatory art, as part of the project Museum as Toolbox, Kumu Museum (Tallin) and MSU Zagreb, Kunsthaus Graz, Museion Bozen and MS Łódź- Pietra Artificiale, public art project with the community of Casale Monferrato (Italy) - Continuum, performance in the frame of Stage as social platform, performance for the Teatro Continuo di Alberto Burri, Milano (Italy)- Fondo Speculativo di Provvidenza, public art project in the festivals Santarcangelo dei Teatri, Short Theatre Roma, Terni Festival. 2015 - The Indipendents, group exhibition, with Casa delle Agriculture, cur. by Aspramente and G. Ferracci, MAXXI Museum Roma, ITA- Athens Biennale, Omonoia, cur. by M. Mollona, Athens GR

- Fashion as social Energy, group exhibition, with M. Migliora, cur. by Gabi Scardi & Anna Dethridge, Palazzo della Moda, Milano, ITA- Fondo Speculativo di Provvidenza, public art project, with C. Maierhans, cur. by Sil-via Bottiroli, within the Santarcangelo Festival dei Teatri, ITA- Orto Comune, public art project, cur. by G. Azzoni, within Aperto_2015 art on the border, Valle Camonica (BS), ITA- Preaching the Choir, group exhibition, cur. by Maayan Sheleff, Herziliya Museum Tel Aviv, IS- Parco Comune dei Frutti Minori, (actions 4, 5, 6), public art project, Castiglione (LE), ITA2014 - Masses and Motets vol III, public art project for the event Notte Verde, Casti-glione d’Otranto (LE), Italy- Masses and Motets vol II, public art project, in Face to Face with Monument, cur. by Chto Delat? Into the City / Wiener Feswochen, Wien, AU- Onufri Prize exhibition, with M. Migliora cur. by Claudio Cravero, Tirana, AL- Parco Comune dei Frutti Minori, (actions 1, 2, 3) public art project, Castiglione d’Otranto (LE), ITA- Rural in action, workshop, cur. by Vessel, Cerignola (FG), ITA2013 - Free Home University, public art project, Ammirato Culture House and Musagetes Found., Lecce ITA- Io in testa/ A-head, public art project, Nomas Foundation (in A Theatre Cycle cur. by C.Canziani and Ilaria Gianni), Teatro Valle, Nuovo Cinema Palazzo, Rome ITA- Masses and Motets vol I, public art project, in Lungomare Gasthaus, Bolzano ITA2012 - Steirscher Herbst 2012, Graz (AU), screening and panel in Truth is concrete cur. F. Malzacher - Kunsthaus Graz (AU), exhibition in Cittadellarte Sharing Trasformation cur. K.T. Bu-cher- 50°49’19.50’’N 4°21’25.53’’ ERG Gallery (BE), screening - Enacting Populism, residency and exhibition in Kadist Art Foundation Paris curated by M. Lucchetti, Paris (FR)- Lovely Days, Brac (CR), screening cur. By R. Poljac2011 - Joint artistic direction of Biennale fo urban art Evento, the urban re-evolution, together with M. Pistoletto, Bordeaux (FR)- Extra City – Antwerpen (BE) performance in public space / screening2010 - Artisterium International Contemporary Art Exhibition and Art Events, Tbilisi (Geor-gia), cur. M.Guruli - MASS Alexandria, Egypt, workshop cur. by W. Shawky- Neutral Ecological Body # Seoul, solo exhibition, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, cur. Kim Hee- young , S. KOREA2009 - Atti Democratici, public art and performance, 1st Democracy Biennale, Cavallerizza Reale, Torino, ITA- Atti Democratici, Fabbrica Europa Firenze, public art and performance Stazione Leo-polda , ITA- Artissima Teatro, reenactement performance Year One by M. Pistoletto, Teatro Regio Torino (ITA)- Long Weekend Performance, reenactement of Walking Scupture performance by M. Pisto-letto, cur. C. Wood and K. Noble, Tate Modern, London (GB)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES2013 Guest curator of Lungomare Gasthaus, public art project, Bolzano ITA2012 Co- curator of Shared Knowledge Site, in Kunsthaus Graz, Austria Collaborator of Fondazione Teatro Valle, Rome ITA2011-2010 Joint artistic director of the urban art biennale Evento 2011: Art for an urban re-evolution, Bordeaux, FR2010-2008 Collaborator of Michelangelo Pistoletto and Cittadellarte, Biella ITA2009-2008 Initiator of the network and projects Democratic Acts, Torion 1st Democracy Biennale, Festival Fabbrica Europa Firenze, Lungomare Bolzano2008-2004 Founder and director of the art and activism network LOSS , ITA2008-2006 Teaching staff Faculty of Science of Education, course of Theatre and Com munity Univ. Torino, ITA2007-2000 Director of the performing art space “Reiss arti performative” Torino -ITA2005-2004 Teaching staff of Torino University, Faculty of Arts and Cinema, ITA2005 Teaching staff of Master “Theatre and Community” – University of Turin – ITA2003-1999 Founder, director and performer of the performing arts collective Blusuolo Torino– ITA

PUBLICATIONS (selected)2011 - COMMUNITY ART: the politics of trespassing, editor Pascal Gielen and Paul De Bruyne, ValizAntennae Series2010 - We’ve come a long way: Michelangelo Pistoletto actions and collaborations with the people ofCorniglia, curated by L. Coppola, Cittadellarte Ed.2009 - Arts in Society: being an artist in post- fordism times, edited by Pascal Gielen and Paul De Bruyne, contributors included: Paolo Virno, Michael Hardt, Michelangelo Pi-stoletto, Pippo Delbono, Anne Teresa Dekeersmaeker, Matthew Herbert, Rudi Laermans. Nai Publishers, NL

PRIZES, FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES2016 Finalist of the competition for the project for the Eternot Park, Casale (IT) Selected for Italian Grand Tour, ITA2015 Finalist of Furla Prize, ITA2012 Finalist of Talent Prize 2012, ITA2011 Residency and fellowship AIR Antwerpen, Belgium2010 Residency and fellowship Seoul Art Space_ Geumcheon, Seoul – South Korea2008 Residency New Langton Gallery, San Francisco, USA.Residency Here Arts Center, New YorkPrize and grant for production Moving – Movimento, ITA (Fabbrica Europa Firenze, San-tarcangelo deiTeatri, Cantieri Culturali - Assessorato Cultura e Politiche Giovanili del Comune di Prato, GiardinoChiuso/ Teatro dei Leggieri, San Gimignano (Siena), Movi|mentale, Interno 5 – CDTM, Na-poli)Grants Movin’up (GAI, DARC), ITA2007 Residency Taipei Artists Village, TaiwanResidency and fellowship HweiLan International Artists Residence, Taiwan.