Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto and Fondazione Zegna are honored to announce that Helena Producciones is the recipient of the 2011 visible Award, the international production award devoted to art work in the
At Serpentine Gallery in London on January 11th 2012, the jury composed by Ute Meta Bauer – Associate Professor and Director of the Visual Arts Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge), Hans Ulrich Obrist – Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, Okwui Enwezor – Director of German art museum Haus der Kunst in Munich, Michelangelo Pistoletto for Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto and Andrea Zegna for Fondazione Zegna, has assessed the winning project.
The long list for the visible Award 2011 was selected by the curators from the 27 projects submitted by 27 of the 32 invited artists.
From the long list of 15 proposals, after an intense and long debate, the jurors Ute Meta Bauer – Associate Professor and Director of the Visual Arts Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge), Hans Ulrich Obrist – Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, Okwui Enwezor – Director of German art museum Haus der Kunst in Munich, Michelangelo Pistoletto for Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto and Andrea Zegna for Fondazione Zegna, selected a shortlist icluding the following project proposals:
- Helena Producciones: "8 Festival de la Performance di Cali"
- Nastio Mosquito: "Santa Claus is Going to Become an Immigrant"
- Marinella Senatore: "Jammin’ Drama Project"
- Yangjiang Group: "Progressing from Invisible to Unnoticed"
"The realization of a festival, in the specific context of Cali, in Colombia, conceived and run by artists, is a project built on a strong and precise transformative potential, which basis its action on an articulated relationship with the civic society of a local community.
The activities will foster a sustainable relationship between international artistic practices, local needs and public demands, in that spirit of collective production of knowledge that the format of the festival can facilitate.
The festival of performance is read as a long-term laboratory to experiment a diversity of models of civic imagination, where art is able to empower everyday life."
The visible Award is an international production award of 25000 euros devoted to art work in the social sphere.
The visible Award is for those art projects – which have not yet been realised or are in their initial phases – that lead to involvement and interaction with particular urban or rural communities. These are projects that share an awareness of artistic production as an active element and agency in contemporary society, and with critical and future oriented aspirations. Projects with artistic approaches that, in a radical and proactive way, reconsider different models of economic development and the allocation of resources, access to information, and ecological and environmental needs, as well as experimenting with participatory and democratic political models. These processes create areas for reflection and mobilization, acting as a field of action within the public domain, in favor of a reading of participation that considers the social body as a potential power for bringing about responsible change.
The Visible Award is for those art projects – which have not yet been realised or are in their initial phases – that lead to involvement and interaction with particular urban or rural communities. These are projects that share an awareness of artistic production as an active element and agency in contemporary society, and with critical and future oriented aspirations. Projects with artistic approaches that, in a radical and proactive way, reconsider different models of economic development and the allocation of resources, access to information, and ecological and environmental needs, as well as experimenting with participatory and democratic political models. These processes create areas for reflection and mobilization, acting as a field of action within the public domain, in favor of a reading of participation that considers the social body as a potential power for bringing about responsible change.
Read an article about the visible Award: www.theartnewspaper.com
