TRIBUTE TO FRANCESCO PENNISI (1934-2000)
A video-musical project based on F. Pennisi drawings and compositions Festival of Contemporary Music Dissonanzen presents a true multimedia show that summarizes the many aspects of the artistic and poetic world of Pennisi. In coordination with the video and graphic improvisations and choices of Andrea Pennisi, video-artist from Catania (nephew of F. Pennisi), it moves […]
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CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN DESIGNERS IN NEW YORK
Four young Italian designers, who have recently relocated to New York, will present their work and illustrate their creative process and methodology. A Q&A moderated by Allan Chochinov, Chair of the Products of Design MFA at School of Visual Arts, New York, will shed light on the professional aspects that have changed over the past […]
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PLATFORM
The New York Transit Museum presents PLATFORM, an exciting series of cross-disciplinary programs created by the public for the public.Live performance, documentary film, animated GIFs, clowns, prayer beads, and a ride on the culture loop — all set against the backdrop of the 1936 subway station home. This ongoing series of crowd-sourced programs invites “commuters […]
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FEDERICO VERCELLONE
Thinking and Imagination: Between Science and Art Book presentation Panelists:Giovanna Borradori (Vassar College) and Achille Varzi (Columbia Uni.) “Thinking and Imagination” makes a fundamental contribution to the understanding of the image as a new cultural environment and as the place where the knowledge of late-modern life is shaped. Developing critically Goethe’s notion of morphology, the […]
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CABINET OF DOCTOR CALIGARI (1920)
An influential ‘classic’ of early cinema, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari directed by Robert Wiene eploits all technical of the time to convey dream-like visions and the distortion of reality. With a radical set-design, this film represents an early nexus between design, space, architecture, and image. The Ensemble Dissonanzen from Italy provides an improvised sound […]
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ASSUNTA SPINA (1915)
Dissonanzen Musical Ensamble Festival of Contemporary Music Dissonanzen Ensamble will feature a live sound-track of the masterpiece of the silent films’ “Assunta Spina” known to the foreign public also as “Neapolitan Blood “, of which this year marks the centenary of the production. It was, in fact produced well twenty years before the birth of […]
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BETWEEN THE SEAS 2015-E.sperimenti Dance Company
The innovative ‘made in Italy’ Company E.sperimenti Dance Company has been invited to participate in the 2015 edition of Between the Seas, a festival of performing arts,focused on the Mediterranean cultures. E.sperimenti Dance Company, presents the acclaimed ‘Per…Inciso’, featuring Italian songs from Modugno to Jovannotti. 7 performers on stage, with background ranging from contemporary to […]
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THE BROTHERHOOD
An exhibition of animated video-paintings by Federico Solmi. Known for his hand-drawn, color-saturated, satirical videos, Solmi seeks to portray a dystopian vision of a present-day society that inexorably continues to regenerate and to renew itself, even as it falls apart in front of our eyes. In this new video portrait series Solmi parodies the iconography […]
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HAPPENCHANCE: World War II Photographs, Italian Campaign, 1942-1945
Photographs by Alfonso Carrara, American 5th Army scout during the war Happenchance: World War II Photographs, Italian Campaign, 1942-1945, an exhibition of photographs by Alfonso Carrara (1922-2012). Carrara, an Italian-American architect-artist-poet-photographer, documented the exhausted, disoriented populations and war-ravaged architecture of Italy’s small towns and villages during the Allied northward advance through the countryside in 1944-45. […]
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Red Roses and Domestic Acid
Rosa , raped by her husbands cousin , is convinced into committing suicide by her husband himself. When she fails he tries to strangleher and the whole matter ends in Court, but…A true case of grotesque domestic violence of the late ’70 Italy , in a multimedia satirical show with music and pantomime by cosmopolitan […]
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