What happens to the city when the numerous tourists who have filled it for hundreds of years disappear from its streets? Are the local people coming out? And if lately they also prefer to stay at home more often? When the daily noisy crowds have disappeared from the Venetian streets several months ago, the city plunged into a dreamy slumber, in which its dreams, full of real historical inhabitants, who actually lived in the city centuries ago and mythical creatures, created by human fantasies began to appear. Now the dreams can freely go out to the streets under the cover of twilight, along with real Venetians.
Do not be surprised if, as you cross the canal in the evening, you see a mermaid tail flashing in the water, or when you turn around a corner, you encounter a lion and a unicorn discussing their old secrets, or if you look out of the window and see a griffin sitting down to short rest on your balcony. And what was happening at that time in other cities from all over the world, what dreams did they have while their streets were freed from people? To find out, a group of multidisciplinary international artists comes together at an exhibition City’s Dreams that takes place in The Chapel Club, Venice.
EXHIBITION / CURATOR
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER
VENICE
City's Dreams
Reverberations is an exhibition investigating radicality within noise and sound art, in the digital age. It takes place online, on-air and at Chelsea Space gallery. It responds to Her Noise – a 2005 project that examined music and sound histories in relation to gender, now archived at University Arts London Special Collections Centre.
Moving between digital and analogue, on and offline, Reverberations looks at how contemporary distribution networks open out the possibility for subversive acts. Immerse yourself in Reverberations’ four polyphonic strands. The Self and Sound resists conventional identity through language; Sound Swallows Space queers sound and noise; Mapping Intersectionality as Infrastructure explores networks of care enacted through listening and Sound Check investigates the future of DIY culture within sound systems.
EXHIBITION / CURATOR
SEPTEMNBER
LONDON
Reverberations: A Response to the Her Noise Archive
The festival focuses on the concept of “borders”, between the soul and the body, the human being and the city, the city and the ground. The festival analyzes the idea of human and urban borders, how people live them and how they are modified in contemporary society. Every human being lives in a world in which the limits, the borders, shape their attitudes and behaviors, limiting the freedom and creating a sense of alienation. The human being reacts breaking the limits and finding a new way of life. We imagine a world of “liquid cities”, where differences create new possibilities instead of being social barriers.
ART FAIR / ART MANAGER
JUNE
VENICE
Bodies + Cities Skin
Our Haunted Futures: no one is bored, everything is boring is an online exhibition curated by MA Curating and Collections students at Chelsea College of Arts, UAL. It endeavours to reflect on how a contemporary reading of the historic Camberwell Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) Collection shows a stagnation in our envisioned futures.
EXHIBITION / CURATOR
APRIL
LONDON
Our haunted futures: no one is bored, everything is boring
