Handso(n)me Hands
Music and camera: me. Vision: Joana Rafael. Hands: Joana, Paulo (o carrasco), Nuno, Monica, mine.
The water here is being recycled. 
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Bona Fide Clip
A short clip extracted from the 40 minutes documentary essay.
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GD4PhotoArt
http://www.gd4photoart.com/concorso.html
The winner and the three finalists of the Second Edition of GD4PhotoArt competition selected by the jury are: Olivia Gay (France), Justin Jin (United Kingdom), Alessandro Sambini (Italy), Niels Stomps (The Netherlands). They will have to complete their project on the theme “Industry, Society and Territory” by the 30th of June 2010. Before the end of 2010 an exhibition of the work of the winner and of the three finalists will be held, which will be inaugurated to coincide with the announcement of the 2011 third edition of GD4PhotoArt.
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Romantzo
ROMANTZO is the written english pronunciation for the italian word romanzo which means romance or novel even though, in italian, a romanzo is different from a novel (novella). A romanzo is longer, more complex, it has longer timing; places and events are much more elaborated and there are more characters; a novella is a short story.
Whereas a romanzo refers to any long prose narration, the english romance is used for heroic-mithic narrative forms similar to the allegory, “long fictitious tales of heroes and extraordinary or mysterious events, usually set in a distant time or place”, artworks that may “deal with sexual love, especially in an idealized form” with some fantastic elements within.
“He was having sex inside the buffer zone with a turkish
“artist”. Then he decided to challenge the turkish soldiers who were controlling the Buffer Zone. He took his
pants off and started shouting something like “I’m fucking your bitches!”. A turkish sniper shot him dead”
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First proposal: husband hunting.
“Ellie is not looking for an husband, anymore”
The first proposal did not go through. She wanted to sit inside the Cube and wait for a man who could bring her love. Eventually, she did not show up!
Shyness? Uneasiness? We waited till 4 pm. We phoned her and she said she had a very important appointment with someone… “Call me back in 30 minutes” she said. After 30 minutes she simply did not answer. A friend of her called back saying: “Ellie is very ill, she can not come”. Fair enough. We stuck a piece of paper on top of the “Looking for a partner adv”. The day after, I was buying some food in one of the nearby shops and the owner told me that Ellie came to buy some groceries an hour before. Ellie told that she was to embarrassed, she could not do it! At the beginning she thought we were kidding…
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James Taylor Gallery
Screening Sunday July 27 2009 7.00pm
http://jamestaylorgallery.co.uk/exhibitions/2009/06/a-cinema.htmlscreen-play looks at a selection of works that turn a blind eye to conventional narrative structure. The presented videos focus on altering the stage of actions, resisting their accomplishment. They do so by playing with the position of the subject and the duration of the time frame. The invited artists propose technical and conceptual shifts that fracture the viewers’ expectations, reversing the course of the events and the context in which they take place. This mode of operation allows for a redefinition of the source material employed, as well as a reframing of the setting in which the action occurs.
The notion of repetition, overlapping and de-contextualization are stretched out to turn the ordinary into the cinematic and the cinematic into the performative.
It is where actions and contexts lose their original significance that new interpretive spaces are created – spaces that go beyond any presupposed reading.
List of works:
Emanuel Almborg, Newsreel, 2008, 10 min; courtesy of the artist
George Barber, Absence of satan, 1985, 4.46 min; courtesy of the artist
Slater Bradley, Recorded Yesterday, 2004, 2.02 min; courtesy of Max Wigram Gallery
Matthew Noel-Tod, Bicycle Thief, 1998/2001, 3.30 min; courtesy of the artist
Maria Domenica Rapicavoli, My Ideal House, 2007, 2.20 sec; courtesy of the artist
Brian Rhodes, Glenn Branca Solo Phaseshift, 2009, 7 min; courtesy of the artist
Zbig Rybczynski , New Book (Nowa Ksiazka),1975, 10.26 min; courtesy of Zbig Visions Ltd. and the artist
Józef Robakowski, The Market, 1970, 6 min; courtesy of the Archive of Polish Experimental Film at the Centre for Contemporary Art Warsaw and the artist
Sepideh Saii, Untitled: Buffalo 66, 2008, 1.49 sec; courtesy of the artist
Alessandro Sambini, Presidents, 2009, 8.45 min; courtesy of the artist
Patrick Ward, Reception, 2004, 4.31 min; courtesy of the artist
ping pong is a double act founded in 2009 that explores the dynamics of curatorial dialogue. It is a continuous flow of ideas that produces unexpected results over the process of exchange. The only exception to the rule is that the ball never falls, simply keeps bouncing.
ping pong is Marialaura Ghidini and Gaia Tedone.
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Photography? Encounters with young authors from photography schools.
A project by Careof and Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea curated by Chiara Agnello and Matteo Balduzzi.
Monday 5th of July Francesco Jodice will present some of my projects and few works by Brave New Alps.