Giovanna Maroccolo

*Curaduría contemporánea* Curso dirigido a artistas, curadores, museógrafos y gestoras culturales sobre la figura del curador y sus metodologías en el ámbito del arte y los procesos sociales.

Descripción del curso

En las últimas décadas, el papel del curador ha experimentado profundos cambios. Si antes trabajaba dentro de los confines del museo, ahora ocupa una posición más libre y centralizada dentro del mundo del arte en general. En consecuencia, el enfoque crítico ha pasado de las obras de arte individuales a la estructura global de la exposición, que se transforma así en una expresión por derecho propio. Esto ha dado al curador los medios para alzar la voz, hablar y ser escuchado. Este curso está diseñado para comprender y analizar la figura del curador en su papel actual, que trasciende la idea de la exposición como objeto acabado para adentrarse en un mundo más amplio y complejo, a través de estrategias y metodologías que se analizarán mediante casos de estudio.

Como propuesta política y utópica de una sociedad futura “Coexistencia, revolución” invita a imaginar una nueva identidad colectiva, unida por la lucha contra la explotación de todas las formas de vida. El biotariado (Stephen Collis, 2016), es toda existencia considerada un recurso para quienes dirigen y se benefician de la acumulación de riqueza, como lo son los seres humanos que son explotados para el trabajo productivo y reproductivo, la mayoría de los demás animales y plantas, incluidos los árboles y los ecosistemas de bosques, manantiales y praderas, el agua, el aire, la tierra y los minerales que yacen bajo la superficie.

La exposición trasciende los límites de la museografia y se presenta como proyecto curatorial radical que más allá de la representación invita a la experiencia directa, a compartir, a convivir.

. Artistas:

Daniela Ortiz (Perú) Regina José Galindo (Guatemala) Terike Hapooja (Finlandia) Patrick Lopez Jaimes (México) Colectivo MUNA (México) Andrea Lazcano junto a otros integrantes del diplomado con una instalación colectiva (México) Kelpie (México) . Proyecto apoyado por el IMACP - Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura de Puebla, a traves del PEIDAC 2024.

FROM RIVER TO SEA Call for art

From the river to the sea is a call to participate in a confrontation in which there are not only bombs and missiles. In a conflict of ideas, culture and art are our weapons. 75 years after the Nakba, Palestinian people live a new challenge, tracing on the map of world history another chapter that speaks of freedom and resistance. This river and this sea belong to all of us, and with them the land that thousands of Palestinians have been defending today and for many years resisting the Israeli occupation. It is time for artists to take their active place in this struggle against imperialism and corporate-state interests in defense of the people and the land.

Existence/Resistance curated by Giovanna Maroccolo and Patrick L. Jaimes

ANIMAL, Patrick Lopez Jaimes 2021/2022, MUTEC Museum, Puebla (Mexico)

hear the noise! Training meetings for artists and curators, for the development of critical thinking, curated by Giovanna Maroccolo

“One of the tricks of the human mind is that once a certain noise is heard constantly and repeatedly, our consciousness starts to force it down into a silence that can easily be ignored or at least be tolerable.”

The phrase quoted above speaks of “noise” as a sort of habit, a succession of stimuli which if listened in a constant and repeated way stop being perceived as sounds, bringing our consciousness to weave them together in a negligible silence. What if this happens with everything we intend to be our life-system? Our culture, our history, our habits, what we identify as bad and what is tolerable, are not they a texture of information that we have accepted as “normal” and that we take for granted? If a system is taken for granted, disappearing in our eyes as a separate system, then without its architectures of values and hierarchies, how do you put it into question? It would be like questioning that we exist. What emerges in these cases is only those who disobey, those who do not take for granted what for everyone else is normal, those who question the obvious, who saw something and can not go back. Who is not content to collect data but transforms data into tools.

hear the noise! is the will to bring out all this, in a moment, ours, which requires those who can and want to communicate using the tools of storytelling, curating, art, to observe our time with criticality, to hear that noise and make it feel to others. These meetings will begin in November 2018 and will take place at Neo, the space for artistic generation, headquarters of the Fusion Art Center in Padua.

out of the studio Exhibitions and meetings created to deepen the process of young artists's work curated by Giovanna Maroccolo

Artists: Barbara De Vivi, Valentina Rosa, Yiming He, Xhimi Hoti, Matteo Vettorello.

This is a collaboration between Fusion Art Center and Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, a historic point of reference in Venice for emerging art in Italy and international artist's residence. The project was created with the aim of bringing attention to everything that in an artist's work precedes the creation of the work, to design an exhibition in which the artifact is not the subject but the process that precedes it.

Today artists and curators find themselves operating in a socio-economic context in which even art and works are forced to adapt to the dynamics of a consumerist market that is always dissatisfied. This very often involves the sacrifice of research and depth, for the benefit of form and fast production. Changing a system means constructing alternatives and today it is necessary to rethink the dynamics of exchange and value to create new models based on the person, on knowledge, on relationships.

Check Me Out - art&science curatorial project 

Intensive project platform for art innovation, that involve new graduates and their thesis from all fields together with artists, for the development and production of new creative models and the experimentation of different exhibition display. 

#1 - the expaded states of consciusness Graduate: Carolina Camurati Artist: Raluca Andreea Hartea

#2 - the scientific paradigm Graduate: Alessandro Ferraris Artist: Ubik Collective (Francesca Sarah Toich, Andrea Santini)

#3 - War and Nomos: Conflict, Space and Law in Carl Schmitt Graduate: Nicolò Campitelli Artists: Sara Zanella, Jessica Marangon, Roberta Santi, Livia Rescigno, Marta Brunetti (Marta Bi), Cristiano Polato, Giada Ottone, Serena Gomiero, Gabriele di Benedetto (Akab), Anna Marzuttini, Nilo Australi, Claudia Bernardi

DERMA - digital art and sound explorations

A collective project focused on the new digital artistic practices together with the electronic sound and research. Each exhibition is the result of the work of two artists invited by the curators of the project, for the making of an unpublished scenario and exhibition. _ Artists :

New media artists: Samir Sayed Abdellatef, Alice Palamenghi, Lucrezia Negrini, Valerio Veneruso, Mauro Ferrario, Andrea Vitti, Daniela Di Maro.

Sound artists and composers: Davide Cairo, Gianluca Berti, Alessio Ballerini, Giulio Spampinato, Beatrice Goldoni, Wavefold, Alessandro Ragazzo.

Derma collective: Giovanna Maroccolo visual curator, Giuliana Placanica sound curator, Samir Sayed Abdellattef artist supervisor.

I built a canopy for dreams, Lorenzo Passi 2017 curated by Giovanna Maroccolo Art space Spiazzi, Venice, Italy - According to psychoanalysis, dream censorship is a function of the psyche that prevents unconscious desires from accessing conscience directly. It is a control mechanism – exerted by the ego and the superego over memories, ideas, and impulses of the unconscious sphere – that forces dreams to conceal themselves through disguise strategies and symbolic representation. - In the artist, we see the same basic short-circuit that takes place in the dream world, and brings about the symbolic coercion that may be recognized in the works he or she creates. Metal, a material that, in its production, is second only to glass, acts like the superego of the mind in constraining the natural expansion and expression of glass in space and behaving like a censor. - In this manner, glass, the archetype of all things pure and essential, becomes the representation of the artist’s self, a concrete expression of the desires, impulses and emotions that are exhibited, undisguised and free of indecipherable symbolism, in uncensored dreams.