Dance in the Museum
INCORPO®ARTI, The Museum through the Body
InCorpo®Arti is a project which takes inspiration from the interesting undertaking of reflection and census dedicated to the museums of the Veneto that curate works from the 19th Century to the present-day: the volume “A possibile vocation. The contemporary in the museums of the Veneto,” has allowed us, in fact, to discover, or to see from a different perspective, museums which are little noted yet significant due to their relationship with contemporary art. We have, nevertheless, come to the realization that it is necessary that the connection emerge between the collections and the spaces in which they are curated.
Works of art and the sum total of the constructed space have a great impact on human beings, one that is both evocative and emotional: one of the objectives of InCorpo®Arti is to re-enforce and to deepen with other modes of observation-that which is the space and the body-the perception of a work of art in relationship with the space in which it exists, stimulating through three performance and three conferences a subjective and personal passage. The project intends, therefore, to propose an approach to contemporary creation through the body as “total space” bestowed with emotion and knowledge. The arts support modalities of perception and thought different from other disciplines and give form to our feeling. Movement is man’s first means of expression, and dance, the art of movement, thought and expressive gesture, represents an essential contribution to this program.
To consider space as source of nourishment according to the
platonic concept means that there does not exist a creation
that does not reflect architectural reality; that is, the interpreter
brings with him within the creative act the seeds of everyday spatiality
that, consciously or not, influence the artistic act. Influenced
by space, dance materially and symbolically intervenes upon itself,
reconnecting therefore, from a perceptual point of view, the created space
by the artist and the given space into a single vision.
Why dance? Dance, historically, is an art without space,
dance chooses it’s place also within the theater, and once chosen
establishes a relationship with it.
The arts modify the perception of space , subjecting
the public to a different temporality, indispensable within the same aesthetic
experience. The “urban” performance enters into the rhythm
of the city-dweller, stops, even if briefly, the fragmentation of a stare
that, within the rush of the everyday, is able to acknowledge the reality
that surrounds it.
The perception of the body changes, as the architecture also transforms
itself, fusing themselves within the gaze of the spectator.
Dance and architecture explore the theme of space :
dance has its instrument of the body whose result is movement, architecture
has the graphic medium and is often realized in a concrete edification.
The theme, for both, is represented by the perception and elaboration
of space and becomes the means of representation of the world and of its
evolution. Any constructed space teaches us something about history and
about ourselves, our past and our culture.
And it is for this that InCorpo®Arti begins from a place.
The first appointment the 21 st of October will be at the Fondaco dei Tedeschi at the Rialto in Venice, one of the three architectural sites chosen in which the first of the performances of vertical dance by the choreographer Wanda Moretti with the Marco Castelli Small & Large Ensemble and the Company Il Posto will be presented.
The Fondaco, today the headquarters of the Venice Post Office, is an integral part of the city, a meeting place where people “pass through”. To carry out a performance in a space otherwise designated to another use highlights the aesthetic and architectural value of the structure and offers an artistic collaboration between space and event. The space is thus utilized not only for its functional use but comes to be perceived as an elevated and agile structure capable of accomplishing more activity. To involve this space in an artistic “cooperation” means to reform its relationship with the art world, and to once again pay homage to the skills of architect Scarpagnino, the works of Giorgione and Tiziano and to recall the historical importance of the space as the international center of the city.
The architecture of Aldo Rossi in Borgoricco will host on the 28th of April, 2007, the second appointment with dance in a symbiotic relationship, another creation appositely thought up by the choreographer Wanda Moretti for the Company Il Posto, where the dancers will move in vertical upon the buildings and chimneys. The presence of the surrounding bodies and music will act as a catalyst of attention, which will not subtract neither the monuments nor the more common houses, becoming or returning to be meeting places.
The Gallery of Contemporary Art “Ai Molini” in Portogruaro will see, the 26th of May, 2007, the final meeting of the project: a new work by choreographer Wanda Moretti with the Marco Castelli Small & Large Ensemble and the Company Il Posto, on the building of the gallery facing the water. Here the architecture-two watermills from the 12 th century- joined by a bridge, connect two parts of the city and are chosen as a space to put forth contemporary art.
The contributions to this program appear like pieces of a mosaic of a
drawing still undefined, they show the ties between the different art
forms.
The space, that through the body is a museum in all aspects, is well endowed,
it is the Fondaco dei Tedeschi in Venice, its is the architecture of Aldo
Rossi in Borgoricco, it is the Gallery of Contemporary Art at the “Ai
Molini” in Portogruaro, it is the cloister, bridge, sculpture, the
body of art, the diffused museum.
INCORPO®ARTI foresees three performances and three conferences held
in the indicated spaces:
21 October 2006
Fondaco dei Tedeschi Rialto Post Office, Venice
Conference: To Inhabit the Space
Performance: Proteo Project/Vertical Dance
Concept and choreography by Wanda Moretti
28 April 2007
Municipality of Borgoricco
Communal Theater of Aldo Rossi
Conference: The Places of Performance
Performance: Proteo Project/Vertical Dance
Concept and choreography by Wanda Moretti
26 May 2007
Gallery of Contemporary Art “Ai Molini”
Municipality of Portogruaro
Conference: To Represent the Body
Performance: Proteo Project/Vertical Dance
Concept and choreography by Wanda Moretti
PROMOTIONAL INSTITUTIONS:
Regione Veneto - Il Posto Association
PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS IN COLLABORATION:
University IUAV of Venice, INarch Veneto, Poste Italiane
Municipality of Venice, Municipality of Borgoricco, Municipality of Portogruaro
::download presentation Dance in the Museum.pdf
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::download the poster 'manifesto'