Giornata del Contemporaneo 2023
The Giornata del Contemporaneo returns on Saturday 7 October 2023. This important event is promoted by AMACI – Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums, and is organized with the support of the Italian Ministry of Culture and the collaboration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, which since 2005 brings contemporary art to the general public.
As part of this event, the Italian Cultural Institute of Sydney has established a collaboration with an initiative conceived by the Sydney Powerhouse Museum, the Talanoa Forum. The Forum was presented for the first time at the 59th Venice Biennale, and it extends the themes of the Paradise Camp exhibition by bringing together 24 artists, curators, scholars, activists and policymakers from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Sāmoa, Tahiti, and Italy. Over three days, this interdisciplinary program will highlight urgent issues around small island ecologies, climate justice, decolonial museology, diasporic and Pacific alliances.
Two Italian scholars, Cristina Baldacci and Francesca Tarocco, will also take part in the conference, and they will talk during the 1.30 pm session on the 10th of October titled ”Everybody talks about the weather”. The talks will be given along an exhibition, funded by Prada, which explores the semantics of “weather” in visual art. Some 50 works by contemporary artists are complemented by a selection of historical artworks to trace the various ways in which climate and weather have shaped our histories and how humanity has dealt with our everyday exposure to meteorological events. The exhibition closes 26 November 2023.
Cristina Baldacci is an art historian specialized in contemporary art and visual studies. She is Senior Researcher at the Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice. Her research interests focus on the archive and atlas as artistic gestures and visual forms of knowledge; appropriation and montage as artistic strategies; “re”-practices in contemporary art; image theory and visual culture; contemporary sculpture and installation art; new media art. She is the author, most recently, of “Archivi impossibili. Un’ossessione dell’arte contemporanea” (2016), a monograph on archiving as artistic practice, and the co-editor of “Venice and the Anthropocene” (2022).
Francesca Tarocco is the director of NICHE, The New Institute Centre for Environmental Humanities and a Full Professor at the Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Before joining Ca’ Foscari, she also taught at SOAS, New York University, and the University of Manchester, and was a visiting professor at the Asia Pacific Institute at New York University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is the author of four books and of more than fifty articles and book chapters on various aspects of environmental and global history. Currently, she is researching for two new books on cosmotechnics and on different trajectories of human-environmental relationships. As a writer and art critic, she has written for publications including Frieze, Art in America, Parkett and Flashart International, the Gwanju Biennale and many others.
Now in its 19th edition, the Giornata del Contemporaneo, which will be extended until Friday 13 October, will involve museums, foundations, public and private institutions, galleries, studios and artist spaces throughout Italy, highlighting the vitality of contemporary art in our country, and in order to encourage and enhance the widest possible participation, it will maintain, as in the past, a hybrid format, physical and digital, with online and offline events. The underlying theme of the 2023 Giornata del Contemporaneo will be the theme of ecology, connected to that of environmental sustainability.
Information and bookings:
https://powerhouse.com.au/program/talanoa-forum-moana-rising#3-day-program
