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a cura di clanMC: selezione musicale – Alessandro Cardinale, selezione progetto visuale – Nicoletta Lolli

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Precedentemente intitolata “South African Song”, “Rise” è stata ispirata a John Lydon dall’era dell’apartheid in Sud Africa. 

“Ho letto un manuale sulle tecniche di interrogatorio sudafricano”

ha detto John Lydon a Smash Hits…

“Rise è soprattutto un insieme di frasi dette da alcune delle vittime sotto tortura, le ho messe insieme perché pensavo che si adattassero perfettamente ai miei sentimenti e ricordi riguardo quella che è stata una terribile parte della mia esistenza. Il mio messaggio è che non c’è nessuna causa politica abbastanza degna perchè la gente ne debba morire: ho avuto parenti cattolici e protestanti in Irlanda del Nord che si sono uccisi a vicenda e una volta che inizi a uccidere i tuoi simili, è finita. Rise vuole mettere fine a tutto questo”.

“May the road rise with you” (antica benedizione irlandese)

(Alessandro Cardinale)

Christine Spengler – “War Photographer: between shadow and light”

Christine Spengler è nata nel 1945 in Francia,  vive in Spagna, a Madrid, dall’età di sei anni.    Nel corso di un viaggio in Chad in compagnia di suo fratello Eric, scopre la sua vocazione per la fotografia documentaria.  Nel 1972 segue i noti conflitti in Irlanda del Nord come fotografo freelance, l’anno sucessivo segue la guerra del Vietnam per conto della Associated Press di New York, in questo periodo subisce la perdita dell’amato fratello, a causa di un traumatico suicidio.   La denuncia del dolore e della morte violenta diventano definitivamente il filo conduttore di tutta la sua carriera.   I suoi lavori sono crudi e senza filtri, volti a denunciare i conflitti e gli orrori che tormentano il mondo, nulla deve restare nel silenzio, ogni suo scatto è un grido di dolore che urla al mondo la realtà dei fatti, portando ognuno di noi a vivere per un attimo la vita di efferatezza e di odio dei protagonisti.   Christine Spengler si è sempre gettata nell’occhio del ciclone, in primo piano nel cuore delle giornate più sanguinose della storia, il suo è un racconto personale, profondamente vissuto accanto alle vittime, alla vita che si rivela indomita in un deserto di morte, per questo i suoi non sono semplici scatti documentaristici, piuttosto difendono un instancabile, urgente, necessario messaggio di pace.

(Nicoletta Lolli)

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Propellerheads Propellerheads were an English electronic duo, formed in 1995 and consisting of Will White and Alex Gifford.   The term propellerhead is slang for a nerd, and when Gifford and White heard a citizen from California use this in a conversation, they thought it would be the perfect name for their band.(Wikipedia)

Dame Shirley Bassey Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey, DBE (born 8 January 1937) is a Welsh singer whose career began in the mid-1950s, best known for both her powerful voice and for recording the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever(1971), and Moonraker (1979).   In January 1959, Bassey became the first Welsh person to gain a No. 1 single.

In 2000, Bassey was made a Dame for services to the performing arts. In 1977 she received the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist in the previous 25 years. Bassey has been called “one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain during the last half of the 20th century.”

                Merve Özaslan Born in Istanbul, graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University as an ceramic artist in 2010. She created “Choke Jungle” brand (co-founder) and started to design ceramic jewellery. Her ceramic works are featured by known magazines such as British Vogue, Elle and Marie Claire. She has been working on collage projects since 2012. 

Natural act is composed by several collages based on the questions of the relation between nature and the humanity. It is basicly a critical presentation referring to the fact that each of us is part of the nature. it seeks the answer whether greed, urbanization, mechanization and detaching from the nature is favorable or coherent for human or not. In that sense natural act appears with its all colors when our emotions are paralysed in the vital points of the clishe and dull city life.

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Chrome Chrome is an American rock band founded in San Francisco, California in 1975.

The sound of the group is often coarse and features heavy elements of feedback and distortion. Their experiments in mixing synthesized noise with rock instrumentation, marking them as part of the post-punk movement, have been cited as a forerunner of industrial rock music.  During the 1970s, Chrome’s music did not fit into any particular music scene in America, and people found it hard to know how to book the band or promoting and distribute their music.

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Brooke DiDonato Brooke DiDonato was born and raised in Ohio, and is now based in New York City. Her work explores the complexity of human perception and what happens when psychological anomalies manifest in reality…more

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Robert Lee Burnside North Mississippi guitarist R.L. Burnside was one of the paragons of state-of-the-art Delta juke joint blues. The guitarist, singer and songwriter was born November 23, 1926 in Oxford, MS, and made his home in Holly Springs, in the hill country above the Delta. He lived most of his life in the Mississippi hill country, which, unlike the Delta region, consists mainly of a lot of small farms. He learned his music from his neighbor, Fred McDowell, and the highly rhythmic style that Burnside plays is evident in McDowell’s recording as well. Despite the otherworldly country-blues sounds put down by Burnside and his family band, known as the Sound Machine, his other influences are surprisingly contemporary: Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker and Lightnin’ Hopkins. But Burnside’s music is pure country Delta juke joint blues, heavily rhythm-oriented and played with a slide.

It wasn’t until the 1990’s that he began hitting full stride with tours and his music, thanks largely to the efforts of Fat Possum Records. The label has issued recordings made by a group of Burnside’s peers, including Junior Kimbrough, Dave Thompson and others…read more

    Rony Hernandes Rony Hernandes, or Ron Junior, but not Rony Hernandes Júnior. He is an artist who photographs. Photography became part of his life when he realized that he could get through what he felt and felt with such a camera object, in his hands. It is expressed through the self-portraits and portraits of the stories of others told together. contact Rony Hernandes

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