The MoCC Pavillion at the Venice Bienniale is a phantasmic representation of the Museum of Contemporary Cuts. The Museum of Contemporary Cuts decided to respond to the premise of the 55th Venice Biennale "Il Palazzo Enciclopedico" with a metaphorical representation of the process of search, collecting and navigation of large amounts of information, data and events. How do you search through the existing knowledge, in
This essay was started during the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul in June 2013 and has been presented as a Master Lecture at the Centre for Fine Art Research (CFAR) at Birmingham City University. The talk was chaired by Professor Johnny Golding, director of CFAR, and provided me with the opportunity to order and formalize some of my thinking on the relationship between contemporary politics
The second of the conference series titled Sound Curating will take place at ZKM. Over the last decade, many interesting new methodologies have emerged within the field of sound art curating / curating sound. These methodologies are tied up with the creative use of digital technologies and computational techniques such as physical and tangible computing. More specifically, interactive art and design seem to offer a
Not Here Not There, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 19 Issue 2. ISBN: 978-1-906897-20-8. ISSN: 1071-4391. Date of Publication: April 15, 2013. Number of Pages: 221. Volume Editors: Lanfranco Aceti and Richard Rinehart Editors: Ozden Sahin, Jonathan Munro and Catherine M. Weir. The print issue of LEA Volume 19 Issue 2 Not Here Not There is available on Amazon. This LEA publication has a simple goal:
This is an essay on public space and art/political interventions. This version online is partial and fragmented because it was an experiment that I started attempting to write academic articles directly online. The article is being completed off-line and will be presented and become public soon. In the meantime it is available online in order to offer an idea of the problems and social complexities
Decoding the Flow by Paolo Cirio is a new exhibition by the Museum of Contemporary Cuts (MoCC). Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 31, 2013. The exhibition coincides with another show by Paolo Cirio at Kasa Gallery titled Jurisdiction Shopping. Exhibition page: https://museumofcontemporarycuts.org/exhibitions/decoding-the-flow. Senior Curator: Lanfranco Aceti. Associate Curator: Vince Dziekan. Curators: Ozden Sahin, Jonathan Munro. “Let us recall that ‘decoding’ does not signify the state of
The performance part of the series A Pound of Flesh was held in Limassol, Cyprus. The event was well received and there was quite a lot of interest. It was sponsored by NeMe and we acknowledge the kind support of the municipality of Limassol. At the end of the event a series of packages containing flesh were addressed from the residents to the European Central
Great time yesterday in Nicosia at the Point Centre for Contemporary Art. Many thanks to Andre Zivanari and NeMe for a great event and to the in house curator, Chrystalleni Loizidou. I had a chance of meeting new and old friends. It was an opportunity to discuss the current economic crisis and its impact on identities and cultures. I really look forward to writing this
Jurisdiction Shopping by Paolo Cirio is a new exhibition curated by Lanfranco Aceti. “As a general rule, it is taxation that monetarizes the economy; it is taxation that creates money, and it necessarily creates it in motion, in circulation, with turnover, and also in a correspondence with services and goods in the current of that circulation.” [Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism
A POUND OF FLESH by Lanfranco Aceti is sponsored by NeMe, a non profit organization based in Cyprus. The participatory performance will take place Thursday May 23, 2013, from 10:30 to 12:30 in the Limassol Municipal Market, Kanari st, Limassol. Performance and exhibition is curated by: Helene Black, Ozden Sahin and Jonathan Munro and coordinated by: Yiannis Colakides. MoCC and NeMe present A Pound of
