vessel is pleased to announce its partecipation in Alternativa 2012, during which vessel will launch its web radio that will provide the project with a wider range of possibilities, in order to reach people all over the world and host many different researches based on the topic of materiality. vessel will start to work on...
We are pleased to announce the selection of young curators to attend the vessel International Curatorial Workshop 2012, which will be held in Bari from June 15th to 17th, 2012. Maja Ciric, Benjamin Fallon, Sasha Gora, Michele Horrigan, Marianna Hovhannisyan, Samantha Jones, Valeria Mancinelli, Maya Mikelsone, Elisa Montesinos Pustkowska, Gean Moreno, Marina Noronha, Victoria Preston,...
The first Reading Group within the Giant Step project was an important step for the work group based in Bari and for all the people involved in the project. The meeting, which took place at BLUorG gallery and was moderated by Vlad Morariu, was attended by Fabio Santacroce, Michele Spinelli, Bruno Barsanti, Alessandro Bucci, Roberta...
Dear Friend, We are engaging collaboratively in a discussion to activate an alternative critical practice responsive to our current time which resembles more often a market driven economy… while more civic engagement is needed. The past critique has been a binary logic – the neo-liberal regime and the leftist ideologies have both revealed to be...
Giant Step 1: Enter the Artworld? Marginal Establishments, Cooptation and Resistance Confirmed speakers: ArtLeaks, The Bureau of Melodramatic Research, Charles Esche, Viktor Misiano, Dan Perjovschi, Francesco Scasciamacchia, Dave Beech Bari, Italy, 12th – 14th of June 2012 Organizer of the conference: vessel More information: http://www.giant-step.org Partners: European Cultural Foundation, Van Abbemuseum, Galeria Labirynt,...
With Elke Roelant and Anna Santomauro On March 16th vessel presents the research of the artist Elke Roelant at BLUorG gallery. The artist is in Bari to investigate her interest in the Giant Step project and to start working on an experimental methodology within it. She will show the phases that have led her to...
On March 12th, vessel will begin a series of meetings for Giant Step, a project that investigates the current conditions of cultural and artistic production within institutions, as well as the possibilities of critical practice resulting in institutional change. Giant Step aims to articulate a collective reflection on the contemporary role of the art institution...
Giant Step is a project organized for the purpose of discovering the place of the institution within contemporary culture, with institutional change being the ultimate goal. To provide a range of perspectives, Giant Step involves two internationally established institutions, Van Abbemuseum (represented by Charles Esche) and MOSTYN | Wales (represented by Alfredo Cramerotti), and two...
We are proud to announce that among the dossier we received at the third call for artists, which closed December 18th 2011, vessel’s Scientific Committee selected the portfolios of the two Apulian artists under the age of 35, Raffaele Fiorella and Mariantonietta Bagliato. The artsist selected by vessel until now are: Nico Angiuli Fabrizio Bellomo...
June 15 to 17, 2012
Bari (Apulia, Italy) Originally supported by the Apulia Region, vessel is an independent non-profit space devoted to contemporary art. It functions as a dynamic container, which intends to build an artistic and social bridge between Apulia and the surrounding areas, as well as Mediterranean, Central and Eastern Europe. The Course...
vessel invites you to support Milano Radicale, a collective exhibition curated by our cultural partner Radical Intention and to be held at the Caravaggio Art High School (Milan) in April. Be part of the project by contributing a minimum of 10 euros to the production of the show. Thanks to your help, Radical Intention will...
Tomorrow at 5 p.m. at the MAXXI B.A.S.E. Rome the book “Italian Conversation. Art in the Age of Berlusconi” will be presented. The result of the Italian residence of Fucking Good Art that includes interviews conducted during the program and the efforts of artists, curators and cultural workers met in Rome, Bologna, Milan, Turin, Naples, Palermo, Bari and Lecce. The Dutch artist duo was the first guest of vessel, in April last year, also thanks to our partnership with Archiviazioni, who...
