News
(Updated to April 2012)
Open House day on April 26 at Nes Artist Residency. The audience meets the artists in residence at Skagastrond, Iceland. For the occasion, I will show 3 video from my series of Icelandic self-portraits. Just for a few days one of my portraits is online on my blog, hurry up!:
http://rossellapiccinno.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/islandic-self-portrait-in-the-wind/
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Screening at Feltrinelli Bookstore in Pescara (Italy). For further informations visit this link: http://www.webacma.it/2012/docudi.htm
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Dear all, now I have a BLOG!!!! I created a space to update in real time with pictures and videos of the residences that I'm going through. On my blog you will find photos of my just passed experience in Bucharest, and some material on my current journey in Iceland. Enjoy it!
www.rossellapiccinno.wordpress.com
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Artist in Residence at the Nes Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland
By now, there are only a few days and my participation (April-May 2012) at the Nes Artist Residency, in Iceland, is about to begin. I will work with the Skagaströnd's community about the foundation myth of the city. During my stay I will try to come back in life Pordis, the soothsayer, the first inhabitant of the village, a woman lived in the 10th century, respected for her wisdom and skilled in both magic and magical arts. Pordis lived in a farm located at the foothill of the Spákonufell Mountain. It is said that when Þórdís knew that she didn't have long to live, she took a treasure chest up to Spákonufell and placed it on a ledge just in front of the mountain's up- most rock, Spákonufellsborg (Spákonufell's Rock). She announced that, a woman who in her upbringing had not been baptised in the name of the holy trinity or any other of God's titles would get the chest and its treasure. Such a woman has not been found yet, so it's very likely that the chest is still there.
What is the treasure chest of Pordis? What means this archetype for us today? How to reactivate it? I'll find out with the women of Skagastrond.
Leggi l'articolo di Johan Lundh sulla nozione di remoto
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Engage 2012 - artist led residential project
Bucarest, Romania: http://engageinternational.blogspot.it/
Engage 2012 is an artist initiative aiming to bring together artists in a 10-day long collaborative research session. This will take place in Bucharest, Romania, hosted by Bucharest Air, from 16th-25th of March 2012.
Description
The purpose of the encounter is to explore Bucharest city combining individual investigations with a collective process consisting of daily meetings and conversations. The invited artists are encouraged to enter the project through the perspective of their own art-practice. The key issues of the project are ideas of inside(r)/ outside(r), separate/ integrated, subject/ object. During the course of the project the participants will live together in close accommodations provided by Bucharest Air. They are expected to participate in the daily maintenance of the space during this time (ie. basic cooking and cleaning). During each day the participants of the project are expected to go out on their own, exploring the city as individual artists. These experiences, as well as thoughts, ideas or collected ephemera constitute the topics of the conversations later in the evening (or at other times as agreed within the group). The project is dialogue based: It is about being in a dialogue with the city and with the other participants of the engage collective. The participants are not expected to make work during the time of the project, but instead the collective conversations will be recorded with video or audio. This material will be used for a publication and as documentation of the project.
Wow!!!! This residence project has just concluded, it was an amazing experience, full of extraordinary meetings, discovering a city surprisingly rich in contradictions. I'll try to publish as soon as possible something of the material collected.
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"Hanna and Violka" participates in Docudì. I'lll communicate the date of screening soon, for the moment look at the website of ACMA where you can find information about the first appointment: webacma.it
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March 2:
Screening of "Voices of Native Italian and Migrant Women" in Crespellano (Bo), during the event "Women Day", 21.00, Garagnani Palace, Via Marconi 47.
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I invite you to read, on this link, a just published review (February 27), edited by Salvatore Esposito, about the DVD of "Hanna and Violka": www.blogfoolk.com
The DVD is available online at this link:
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On February 25, will be presented the book of Mattia De Pascalis "Multiplex Salento, how making movies with little money and hardly" (within the book there is a chapter on my movies!).
Following is a round table discussion with Edoardo Winspeare, Davide Barletti, Rossella Piccinno, Gabriele Russo, Franco Ungaro, Luigi Chiriatti, Mattia De Pascali, Raffaele Gorgoni.
Read the article by Luciano Pagano on this link: blogautore.repubblica.it
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"Hanna e Violka" is one of six documentary films on migration (Miss Little China, Giallo a Milano, Hanna & Violka, Valentina Postika in attesa di partire, Il colore delle parole, and Come un uomo sulla terra) reviewed in an article by Edward Bowen (p. 263) just published in the United States in a special issue of "Studies in Documentary Film" by Anita Angelone and Clarissa Clo '(Vol. 5, issues 2-3).
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2075/
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Screening of "Hanna & Violka" on February 2 in Leverano (Le) - Italy
The screening will be held Mujmuné association, on 9.30 pm, in Leverano, via Rome 25. At the end, author will meet and talk with the public.
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"The Christmas Lunch", where is my contribution "The silence of the empty hands", is on sale on DVD with the December issue of Duellanti.
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Screening of my short films Comme dans une bulle and The nuclear family in the review Analogie on Dicembre 23, 2011 in Noci (Ba).
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