PROGRAM

18.11.23
PUBLISHING AS EXHIBITION MAKING
Fondazione Antonio Ratti

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16.00
Mario Garcia Torres (artist)
I AM NOT A FLOPPER
Lecture performance

Coming from the most fundamental ideas of conceptual art, Alan Smithee is a character that has grown out of non-artistic idea. In his practice, the filmmaker does not shoot films, but simply signs them, while dramatically challenging the paradigm of culture production. For this occasion, Mario Garcia Torres plays Smithee himself, in the first of the artist’s stage monologue trilogy.

17:00
Andrea Wiarda e Katia Anguelova (Kunstverein Milano); Matthieu Laurette (artist); Michalis Pichler (artist);
Lectures and conversations

19:15
Frances-Marie Uitti (cellist and composer)
HOMAGE TO SETH SIEGELAUB: SOUNDED TEXTILE
Cello concert two strings technique
New composition inspired by the textile item in Seth Siegelaub's collection

The tapestry collection of Seth Siegelaub offers a wide variety of motifs that can be reinterpreted into musical scores. The colors, the repetitions, grouped patterns, and various depth of stiching give a myriad of possibllities. Of course my interpretation is not strict, but rather inspired by the richness of ideas and complexity of the work as a whole. Weaving through this evening's works are small interludes and homages. The extroardinary instrument in tonight's concert is from the 1920's and believed to come from the famous Pfretschner atelier in Germany. It is a rare example given its deep sonorities, delicate highs, and beautiful physical appearance. I invented the technique of using two bows in one hand in order to access sustained 3 and 4 note chords, non adjacent strings, a simultaneous variety of articulations and colors not possible with the traditional bow. Over 50 composers have used this technique including Giacinto Scelsi, Luigi Nono, Luciano Chessa, Gyorgy Kurtag etc.

02.12.2023
BEYOND COLLECTING TEXTILE
Fondazione Antonio Ratti

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Having been introduced to textiles thanks to the gift of a Chilean Arpillera, a popular women's textile work used as a form of political denunciation, Seth Siegelaub devoted himself to the study of the social history of textiles, which led him to found the Center for Social Research on Old Textiles (CSROT) and publish Bibliographica Textilia Historiæ. Towards a general bibliography on the history of textiles (1997), the first bibliographic collection of all existing textile literature. Through intimate, scientific, technical, historical and ethnographic perspectives, this appointment will interrogate Seth Siegelaub's multidisciplinary approach to textiles, outlining the forms and future prospects of the collection recently acquired by FAR, thanks to the scholars and conservators who have accompanied its formation and now collect its legacy.

16.00
Guided tour to the exhibition with the curators Lorenzo Benedetti, Marja Bloem, Maddalena Terragni and introduction to the textile collection

17.30
Sara Martinetti (researcher)
Lecture

18.00
Marja Bloem (Egress Foundation); Emmy de Groot (textile conservator); Roberta Genta (Centro Conservazione e Restauro La Venaria Reale, Torino); Sara Russo (Textile conservation's referent of Fondazione Antonio Ratti)
Lectures and conversations

16.12.2023
ART AND LABOR
Triennale Milano

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The third appointment of the public program dedicated to Seth Siegelaub intends to explore the relationship between art and labor from historical and contemporary perspectives, in relation to the transformations occurred throughout the art system in all its components.

Seth Siegelaub and Daniel Projansky's 1969 Artist's Contract and more recent
developments, which is displayed in a dedicated section of the exhibition, becomes an
opportunity to reread and reactualize unresolved urgencies.

15.00
Lauren van Haaften-Schick (curator and researcher)
Lecture

15.30
Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti (AWI - Art Workers Italia); Daniel McClean (lawyer); Alessandra Donati (lawyer and professor); Lauren van Haaften-Schick (curator and researcher)
Lectures and conversations

17.30
Biennalocene/Emanuele Braga (collective project/artist activist); Danilo Correale (artist); Vincenzo Estremo (writer and curator);
Lectures and conversations

Animal Stories

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