Corpo: Performance Art Festival by the Museum in Nocciano

The Museum of contemporary art in Nocciamo opens the new season with a Festival about the most controversy phenomenon of the history of art: performance art; a cultural opportunity to discover the world of body art, happening and Actionism.

The festival, curated by the Art Historians Sibilla Panerai and the Museum director Ivan d'alberto has been dividing up in two sections: one of the meetings about historical artists with their videoperformance and the second one is about the performance art realized by contemporary young artists in three locations: Museum in Nocciano, the Florian Teatro Stabile d'Innovazione in Pescara and Teathre Marruccino in Chieti.

on Saturday 28th of May at 9.30 a.m, the Festival begins with the meeting with the historians of Art Bianca Campli and Sibilla Panerai "Performance art in Italy from the nineteen sixties to today. For this debate are invited the schools and the Academy of Art.

since the 12 a.m. you can watch the movies "La grande occasione, ed. Triennale di Milano (1973), Interventi pubblici per la città di Milano, ed. Triennale di Milano (1979) e La riappropriazione della città, Ed. Centre Georges Pompidou (1977)" by Ugo La Pietra, international architecture, designer and performer.

since the 4p.m. is dedicated to the one of the bigger Vienna actionists, Hermann Nitsch with the participating of Giuseppe Morra, the director of the Museum in Naples that he will present two Hermann Nitsch's video: Das O.M. Theater 96.aktion Festa di Pentecoste, Vigna San Martino, Napoli 26 maggio 1996 e Nitsch & Caravaggio 130.aktion, Pio Monte della Misericordia Napoli, maggio 2010.

At the 9 p.m. in the Theatre Florian in Pescara Kyrahm and Julius Kaiser present two pieces of their performance art: "Human Installation 1: Gender obsolescence (Obsolescenza del Genere)"; and "the Jeweler".

Julius and Kyrahm's research explores extreme body art, queer theory and live art. Kyrahm created very strong performances, she's a visual artist and body artist too. Julius kaiser is videomaker, performance artist and the most famous drag king performer in Italy. Together they created Extreme Gender Art, a project to promote censored performance art realizing events in theatre, art galleries, museums, international festivals in Italy and abroad.

Human Installation 1: Gender Obsolescence by Kyrahm and Julius Kaiser

The naked body and the I. The mask and the stereotype.

It’s a gynandroid performance where the transition process is intermingled with poetry.

Sex is represented as skin, female, male. Gender is represented in the sense of self, of man, and of woman. A journey, a crossing, a transition. Naked bodies lined up slowly coming closer. Each individual has a story. They are holding hands. Changing sex is painful like birth. The golden masks on their faces are not to hide their identities: In fact as they come closer it is possible to distinguish their genders: a biological man, a trans man, a trans woman, a biological woman. From the bottom of the stage, a female creature unfolds from behind a black towel and goes to stand behind them: she walks across touching the bodies, one after the other. The pain is tiring, the flesh a substance to be shaped. The solemn rite of dressing up - in trousers, jacket and tie: it's the return to the opposite. For a transsexual changing sex is not becoming a man but a return to being a man. There is no need to wear the masks anymore: the self is revealed.

AWARD: ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE - PERFORMANCE ART - 2009(International Art prize - Venezia, Italy)

International Festivals: IDKEX, Columbus (Ohio) - USA 2008 chosen among the 30 best gender exploration performances in the world

Berlin - Germany 2008

The Jewelery - Kyrahm and Julius Kaiser.

The status simbol scars the skin to generate pain and talks about the difference of the power in the gender roles. it was presented during the collateral event of Venezia Biennale Ecosexual Blue Wedding 2009 with Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens.

Sunday 29th of May

since the 10 a.m at Teatro Marrucino the meeting "Oltre i confine del corpo" and the Sylvia Di Ianni's performance "the girl robot plays the bell game, Music Riccardo Alemanno (Kabalisti), Mimmo Pesce's sculptures, video by Gloria Saya.

At the 5 p.m. at the conference hall in Museum in Nocciano the encounter dedicated to the artist Giuseppe Desiato, a performer very far from the academic world but closer to the social trouble in his city Naples. Teacher for Istitute of Art in Aquila, has collaborated with Otto Muehl and Hermann Nitsch.

The historian of art Raffaella Perna will comment Desiato's video Dalla pittura alla sposa (Napoli 1983), courtesy by the gallery of art Delloro Arte Contemporanea in Rome.

MUSEO DELLE ARTI DI NOCCIANO, CENTRO ESPOSITIVO E DI PROMOZIONE CULTURALE,

LARGO MADONNA DEL PIANO

65010 NOCCIANO (PE)

TEL. 085 847135

FAX 085 847602

CELL. 347 9558158

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Teatro Stabile d'Innovazione Florian Espace

via Valle Roveto 39

Pescara 65124

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