Nomas Foundation

Io in testa. Cantiere Comune di Immaginario Politico

Io in testa. Cantiere Comune di Immaginario Politico, workshop and performance by Marzia Migliora e Luigi Coppola, May 20th-25th, 2013. Ph. Francesco Niccolai Io in testa. Cantiere Comune di Immaginario Politico, workshop and performance by Marzia Migliora e Luigi Coppola, May 20th-25th, 2013. Ph. Francesco Niccolai Io in testa. Cantiere Comune di Immaginario Politico, workshop and performance by Marzia Migliora e Luigi Coppola, May 20th-25th, 2013. Ph. Francesco Niccolai Io in testa. Cantiere Comune di Immaginario Politico, workshop and performance by Marzia Migliora e Luigi Coppola, May 20th-25th, 2013. Ph. Francesco Niccolai Io in testa. Cantiere Comune di Immaginario Politico, workshop and performance by Marzia Migliora e Luigi Coppola, May 20th-25th, 2013. Ph. Francesco Niccolai Io in testa. Cantiere Comune di Immaginario Politico, workshop and performance by Marzia Migliora e Luigi Coppola, May 20th-25th, 2013. Ph. Francesco Niccolai Io in testa. Cantiere Comune di Immaginario Politico, workshop and performance by Marzia Migliora e Luigi Coppola, May 20th-25th, 2013. Ph. Francesco Niccolai

A project of workshop and performance by Marzia Migliora and Luigi Coppola

The Workshop will be held:
From Monday, May 20th to Friday May 24th, 2013, from 2pm to 6pm
Nuovo Cinema Palazzo, Piazza dei Sanniti 9/A, Rome
Saturday, May 25th, 2013, from 2pm to 6 pm
Teatro Valle Occupato, via del Teatro Valle 21, Rome
The entrance and the participation in the workshop are free, you can join for a day or for five days.

IO IN TESTA, Performance- event, to which all citizens are called to participate. From the Teatro Valle to the street, appointment at 6pm, Saturday, May 25th, 2013 in front of Teatro Valle Occupato.

Public Call for the activation of Cantiere Comune
Two artists, Luigi Coppola and Marzia Migliora, the Teatro Valle Occupato, Nomas Foundation and Nuovo Cinema Palazzo, invite all the citizens to the construction of an artistic and political action, in response to the marginal role that is now given to the Culture within the political debate. All those who think it's time “to put on his head” the culture as a common good, as a priority for social development, are invited to take part in the workshop Cantiere comune di immaginario politico that will give life to the performance-event Io in testa, which will start from Teatro Valle Occupato at 6pm, Saturday, May 25th.
The workshop and the performance will emblematically take place during the days preceding the municipal elections in Rome.The project gains strength and inspiration from the political and cultural practices started by Teatro Valle Occupato, Nuovo Cinema Palazzo and other alternative realities which focus on culture as a primary means to structure a necessary and concrete utopia in which the citizen is the driver of change.
During the course of the workshop, sharing, listening, suggesting and manual producing merge in order to build the choral/collective structure of the performance.
The aggregating symbol chosen for “Io in testa” will be a headdress made of papier-mâché during the course of the workshop.
Each participant will be able to produce his own headdress made of newspaper, starting from the traditional model worn by masons to take on different and personal features, symbolic.
Wear this object made with the topicality of newspapers, express an act of awareness and willingness to dress up everyday life, bringing it back to where it starts and where it is played: the street.
The workshop is also proposed as a means to collect and synthesize contents which have come into being during the occupation experience. With this aim, several guests will be invited to animate and stimulate the debate on the question of culture as a common good.
No experience is required to participate, only the desire to share and collaborate. Carry only 1 head: to propose, listen and wear the headdress produced during the workshop.
Entrance and participation in the workshop are free. The invitation to take part in the performance is extended to all citizens.

Collaboration on the project: Claudia Polizzi
Luigi Coppola was born in1972 in Diso (Lecce, Italy); he lives and works in Bruxelles. His artistic practice comes from a combination of various educational and professional experiences, in 1997 he graduated in Environmental Engineering at the Politecnico of Turin and he continued his studies with a PhD. At the same time he was also trained in the Visual and Performing Arts. His first artistic experiences are in the field of research theater, successively he moves towards participative and collaborative practices.
After the experience as a theater director of artistic collectives as Blusuolo and LOSS, with whom he produced several projects presented at numerous festivals, theaters and European festivals; his interests have moved on politically motivated actions as the Atti Democratici project, a great platform to reflect on the crisis of representative democracy and the development of new models of political participation or the latest projects on the phenomenon of European populism as On Social Metamorphosis and Build Your Leader.
He created performances and exhibitions in different international contexts such as Extra City in Anversa, Belgium (2011); Teheran Biennale, Teheran (2010); 1st Democracy Biennale, Turin (2009); Farmlab Social Sculpture, Los Angeles (2008); Museo Madre, Naples (2008); New Langton Art, San Francisco (2008); Galleria Lungomare, Bolzano (2008); Dock11, Berlin (2008); Fabbrica Europa Festival, Florence (2008); Wunderder Prairie, Mannheim, Germany (2007); Young Artists Biennale, Athens (2004).
He participated in numerous international residences such as Air Antwerpen, Belgium (2011); Seoul art Space, Geumcheon, Sud Corea (2010); Taipei Artists Village, Taiwan (2009); Hualien International Artists Workshop, Taiwan (2009); Here Arts Centre, New York (2008); CESTA, Tabor , Czech Republic (2006).

Marzia Migliora was born in 1972 in Alessandria. She lives and works in Turin. She studied photography in Florence, at the Fondazione Studio Marangoni.
The research of Marzia Migliora is articulated through a wide range of different languages including photography, video, sound, performance, installation and drawing. Her works originate from the attention on everyday life. The artist explores themes such as identity, desire and responsibility, referring to the present and past history and linking places, spaces and memories. Le sue opere si pongono come interrogativi che mirano at the active involvement of the user, who becomes the protagonist and without whom the work itself can not be resolved: the artist's aim is to offer an experience that can be lived and shared by the audience.
Solo exhibitions (selection): Capienza massima Meno uno, performance, Fondazione Maxxi, Rome (2012); Viaggio intorno alla mia camera, project for Oltre il Muro, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Turin (2012); Ginnastica dei ciechi- La corsa al cerchio, Giardino di Sant'Alessio, Rome (2012); Rada, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Ex3, Florence (2011); Quelli che trascurano di rileggere si condannano a leggere sempre la stessa storia, Museo del Novecento, Milan (2009- 2011);  Tanatosi, Fondazione Merz, Turin (2006); The Agony & The Ecstasy, The Foundation for Art & Creative Technology, Liverpool (2005); Pari o Dispari, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2004).
Group exhibitions (selection): Autoritratti. Iscrizioni del femminile nell'arte italiana contemporanea, Mambo, Bologna (2013); Premio Artistico Fondazione Vaf, Stadtgalerie, Kiel, Germany;  Museum Biedermann, Donaueschingen, Germany; Castello Colonna, Genazzano, Italy (2012); Acting out, Artisti italiani in azione, Fondazione Maxxi, Rome (2012); MenteLocale, Cesac, Caraglio (2012); Forte Piano: Le forme del suono, Auditorium della Musica, Rome (2012); C'est à ce prix que nous mangeons du sucre, Evento 2011,  Musée d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux (2011); Sindrome italiana, Le Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble (2011); Tutto è connesso, ricerche e approfondimenti nell’arte dell’ultimo decennio attraverso la collezione, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Turin (2010); Où? Scènes du sud: Espagne, Italie, Portugal, Carrè d’Art Nimes, France (2007); La parola nell’arte, Mart, Rovereto (2007); Focus,Videoteca GAM Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2003).