What do we talk about when we talk about collective practices
~digital curatorial project
November 2021
Artoday invites, each month, an external curator to create an “exhibition” inside its space through a dedicated trptych on the instagram feed. The guest curator will select three works involving three different artists to realize a free exercise made of associations and unprecedent bonds. The traditional curator will play the role of the digital curator by presenting a path that could dialogue and stand out through the tools of digital.
CampoBase decided not to present three artists but rather three projects.
The exhibition titled What do we talk about when we talk about collective practices features House of Displacement, Storytelling Sessions and What Do You Sea? projects.
We have identified three kinds of practices to be intended as tools to activate collective moments of encounter and dialogue, which we have carried out since the beginning. CampoBase has always been focused on a diversity of tactics that spring from the cooperation of individuals in a community, and on the potential that a collective body contains and which is fully deployes when it becomes movement.
A storytelling session aims to involve the community of participants in the creation of a choral narrative that, starting from the personal experiences of each narrator, generates the conditions for the production of meanings that represent shared and common values.
Storytelling Session at Villa Romana, 2020, Florence; Hangar.org, 2020, Barcelona; Villa Romana, 2021, Florence.
Courtesy CampoBase
House of Displacement is a festival which reflects on the issue of displacement, intended as a shared contemporary experience, adopting an immersive and participatory approach.
The term displacement defines the movement of a body from a place to another.. In the last years it has been used to describe a complex and multi-layered condition, linked to the dysfunctions of advanced capitalist societies, both with reference to the tourist and migratory flows and to the related phenomena of gentrification, and in its psychological and social connotations of estrangement.
The project creates the paradox of a displaced house, by pairing together two contradictory words: on the one hand the solid structure to inhabit, on the other a state of instability and precariousness.
House of Displacement, 2019, Turin
Lucia Cristiani, How far should I go to explode? (Act II), video frame, Ph. Mattia Pastore
Corinne Mazzoli in collaboration with Ilaria Salvagno, The Party Wall, Ph. Studio Abbruzzese
Alessio Mazzaro and Fiona Winning, Do Nothing Club, Ph. Studio Abbruzzese
Courtesy the artist and CampoBase
What do you sea? is a video-installation project created by the artist Daniele Costa and the curatorial collective CampoBase. Starting from the materials in the archive of the Italian Touring Club, the work puts images, videos and texts in dialogue, evoking and recalling the surrogates of the sea, suggested by the architecture of the Piscina Cozzi in Milan.. The alternative space to the sea is also explored through the sound design intervention of Mauro Martinuz and Marco Furlanetto. The project is the winner of the Open Call "The open image" launched in 2020 by Video Sound Art, in collaboration with the Italian Touring Club Archive.
What Do You Sea?, 2021, Milan
Courtesy Daniele Costa and CampoBase, winning project of the Open Call launched by VSA in 2020 in collaboration with Touring Club Italiano
