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courtesy Fondazione Prada
Venice:
Ca Corner della Regina - Fondazione Prada - Belligerent
Eyes | 5K Confinement. With
“Belligerent Eyes” Fondazione Prada, until September 11, restlessly searching
for new grounds of confrontation on cinema and visual languages, experiments
with new forms of collaboration, analysis and research. “Belligerent Eyes” was
born out of the Fondazione’s will to create a reciprocally stimulating exchange
with younger generations working in the realms of cinema and visual arts
research and production, enabling them to work in complete autonomy and
freedom. This new relationship has marked independence as the core of such an
artistic collaboration, offering the Fondazione the opportunity to re-invent
the expressions of its cultural commitment.
Belligerent Eyes
| 5K Confinement
Luigi Alberto
Cippini and Giovanni Fantoni Modena
“Belligerent Eyes | 5K Confinement” is, pioneering project on
contemporary image production. Conceived and designed by Luigi Alberto Cippini
and developed in collaboration with film director Giovanni Fantoni Modena,
“Belligerent Eyes” sets itself as an experimental media research facility
geared in the spaces of Fondazione Prada’s Venetian venue, Ca’ Corner della
Regina.
Belligerent Eyes
| 5K Confinement
At a time when cinema has lost its capacity to assert itself as the
beholder of collective imaginary, “Belligerent Eyes” aims at introducing new
didactic perspectives in both filmmaking and film studies. Until 11 September, an
international network of academics and practitioners, together with fifteen
selected participants, will be entrusted as a core group with the development
and sharing of various academic initiatives revolving around the future of
motion pictures. The intended disciplinary spectrum will investigate the most
diverse aspects in contemporary image production: by challenging the
traditional norms related to education and scrutinizing the current
socio-cultural transformations endured by the field, Ca’ Corner della Regina
will foster a borderline association where both professors and students, as
part of a sole academic body, will set themselves against new practices and
innovations.
Belligerent Eyes
| 5K Confinement
John Palmesino
The program composes of six cross-curricular phases and a fortnightly
corollary module. Each interdisciplinary session is anticipated by a
preparatory week which last seven days: various practitioners, including; John
Palmesino, Ann-Sofi Ronnskog, Trevor Paglen, Mauricio Gris, Vittorio Gallese
and Stacy Martin.
Belligerent Eyes
| 5K Confinement
Christian Marazzi
A bi-monthly lateral discussion takes place every two Fridays directed by
Christian Marazzi, an economist and university professor, provoking new lines
of research on image economy, it is partially-open to the public. This choice
will allow a selected wider audience to enhance and share the proposed cultural
platform, besides highlighting the nature of the assembly as a solid research
media facility.
Photograph
courtesy Fondazione Prada
Belligerent Eyes
| 5K Confinement
Since knowledge production is nowadays generally perceived as the main
derivate of what museums and visual art institutions can engender, “Belligerent
Eyes” aims at not dismissing research and its cultural inquiries as a sole
commodity for a nominal exhibition.
In conjunction with the Venice Film Festival, “Belligerent Eyes” will
lastly promote a broadcasting experiment. This will set itself beyond the
traditional Western standards, and it will condense the idea of merging into a
singular production structures and disciplines traditionally foreign to the
realm of cinema.
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