FatStudio is proud to present the third edition of R A I D,free and subversive goals are magnifying authorship,recover fringe territories through artistic manipulationand acting outside market’s dynamics. Previously on R A I D, artists scanned society through different artistic practices, working, as usual, within 6
hours. If the first edition dealt with Work as topic, penetrating a huge abandoned mechanical factory, if in the second authors reasoned about Nutrition by manipulating the first laboratory of Pasticceria G.Cova, in the third edition FatStudio is determined to elaborate the fragile topic of School. R A I D , thus, targeted the Istituto Pertini, Turin, a structure comprehensive of primary and secondary school. The educational institute is the one of reference for the Ex MOI area, the former winter olympic village, which, after being abandoned in 2006, is currently occupied by more than a thousand people. Teachers efforts and side school activities fight daily with. problems of criminality and non-integration, as scholar and cultural italian systems have to deal with rude cutoff and massive doses of morphine. Turin microcosm and italian. macrocosm became ruined lands, often on the blasting point. R A I D intends to transform the School into the Chocolate Factory of education, where teachers and alumns. and artists cooperate for one day, hoping the operation to trigger cultural and pedagogic mechanisms. The R A I D development stays the same: 6 hours of action, via web streaming direct; at conclusion the artistic products will be offered on the altar of edition’s topic. R A I D will be acting during the 6 lesson hours, november the 3rd, Artists are free to decide to interact with students and teachers or not. For those who will, five different gathering areas have been found, as 3 gyms, a swimming pool and the huge courtyard. Artists who want to create on their own will be set in the glass classrooms of the secondary school. Painters are asked to work on chalkboard, in order to sell them at the end of intervention and devolve to the school the whole reached amount. Culture feeding itself.
A class room at Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, 2017, Torino, Italia
The Office of Lost Objects – A Small Memory of Oblivion
Does an object remain an object when no one is there to look at it? What interests me is that once they are lost, objects are completely dead. Because, on one hand, they have lost all function, and on the other, they have lost all emotional memory. They are thus doubly dead, yet not devoid of memory.
One aspect of my work is to preserve something of them, to save them from oblivion through their own image. To do this, I am obliged to kill them again, as every form of preservation immediately entails a form of death.
Collecting and archiving are one of my obsessions, as if the accumulation of objects and photographs could somehow counteract the inexorable loss that affects each of us in our experience of time.
I return to the form that this work of memory takes, which is tied to oblivion only to make us see it more clearly, by creating a kind of (visual, sonic, and textual) inventory.
performance, Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, 2017, Torino, Italia