Epress.am News from Armenia
At 5 pm on Dec. 14, the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art (ACCEA or NPAK in Armenian) in Yerevan will host a one-day event, Italian Container: the emerging Italian video art comes to Yerevan project. The event is curated by Carolina Lio, currently curator-in-residence at ACOSS Cultural NGO in Yerevan, and supported by European Cultural Foundation of Amsterdam and the Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundation in New York, through the “Step Beyond” travel grant.
A sequence of fourteen videos will be screened during the evening. The works have been realized by emerging and mid-career Italian artists and have been selected by the curator in collaboration with Visual Container, a Milan-based organization for the promotion and dissemination of Italian video art and new media, according to the event press release.
The videos are of varying types, ranging from animation to performance, in order to give as complete view as possible of today’s video art in Italy. Artists include Barbara Agreste, Riccardo Arena, Alessadra Arnò, Barbara Brugola, Silvia Camporesi, Igino De Luca, Luca Christian Mander, Sabrina Muzi, Christian Niccoli, Giordano Rizzardi, Natalia Saurin, Angelina Voskopoulou.
The initiative is part of the “Step Beyond” program, aimed to stimulate transnational collaborations and mobility of artists and cultural actors. In particular it is focused on cultural exchanges between European countries and their neighbors. Following this one-day-event at ACCEA/NPAK, a screening of works of Armenian video artists will take place in Italy in January 2011, organized by “Visual Container” exhibition space in Milan.