August 16th, 2008 | 2008, works
Manifesta 7 – Trentino, Italy “PRINCIPLE HOPE” – 19.07 – 02.11 2008
Installation view, Caregivers, 2008
THE EUROPEAN BIENNIAL
OF CONTEMPORARY ART
TRENTINO – SOUTH TYROL, ITALY
19 JULY – 2 NOVEMBER 2008
All exhibition venues open from 10.00 am to 7.00 pm.
Official Opening: 19 July, 2008.
http://www.manifesta7.it
“PRINCIPLE HOPE”
Curated by Adam Budak
Rovereto, Manifattura Tabacchi and ex Peterlini
Artists:
Alterazioni Video, Michelangelo Antonioni, Knut Åsdam, Bernadette Corporation, Margrét H. Blöndal, Michal Budny, BURGHARD, Nina Canell, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Claire Fontaine, Oskar Dawicki, Evelina Deicmane, Rä di Martino, Miklós Erhardt and Little Warsaw, Igor Eskinja, Tim Etchells, fabrics interseason, Famed, Didier Fiuza Faustino, João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva, Heide Hinrichs, Heidrun Holzfeind, Runa Islam, Ricardo Jacinto, Ragnar Kjartansson, Barbora Klímová, Daniel Knorr, Adam Leech, Deborah Ligorio, Miks Mitrevics, Christian Philipp Müller, Ewa Partum, Gianni Pettena, Riccardo Previdi, Philippe Rahm, Pamela Rosenkranz, Janek Simon, Luca Trevisani, Tatiana Trouvé, Uqbar Foundation, Guido van der Werve, Nico Vascellari, Danh Vo, Johannes Vogl, Stephen Willats, ZimmerFrei.
Installation view
TTITLE: Caregivers / YEAR: 2008 / A WORK BY: Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson
MATERIAL: Video, color, sound / LENGTH: 14 min. / LANGUAGE: English and Italian / subtitles English and local language / MUSIC: Karólína Eiríksdóttir / TEXT: Davide Berretta MUSIC PERFORMED BY: Soprano; Ingibjörg Guðjónsdóttir, oboe; Matthías Nardeau, choir; Women Choir of Garðabær / CAMERA: Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson / EDITING: Kristján Loðmfjörð, Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson / APPEARANCE BY: Mihaela Tabaranu, Maria Slobodyan, Paolina Mazzucchi in Ciaghi, Diomira Raffaelli and others.
Intrigued by the dense history of women-labour in the Rovereto area in North of Italy, we produced two works for Manifesta 7 related to this macro-topic. The video Caregivers and the public art work Uterus Flags, at ex-Peterlini and in Rovereto´s main shopping streets Via Mazzini and Via Garibaldi (scroll down for more images and text on Uterus Flags).
Caregivers portrays two migrant caregivers from Ukraine and Romania and their (elderly) clients in their relationship and daily work in the area of Rovereto. For the video´s soundtrack we commissioned the Icelandic composer Karólína Eiríksdóttir to write a music score to an article we came across, written by a young journalist Davide Berretta, describing this recent and rapidly growing phenomenon. Karólína wrote the music for a soprano, women choir and an oboe. The video combines footage, edited to the soundtrack, shot in and around two homes in Northern Italy with footage documenting the singers and the musician recording the cantata in Iceland – in all juxtaposing journalism, documentary making and classical contemporary music.
Installation view
Installation view
Utuerus Flags (Rovereto), 2008 – by ex-Peterlini
Locations: Center of Rovereto; Via Mazzini, Via Garibaldi – and by the exhibition venue ex-Peterlini.
Uterus Flags is a new version of a work exhibited earlier in various European cities. The flags, in 9 different color combinations, inspired by heraldry and party-flags, bear the silhouette of the female sexual organs; uterus, falopian tubes, ovaries and vagina. Exhibited in the streets of Rovereto, celebrating in the urban public space, the flags become a part of the city´s architecture and life throughout the duration of the exhibition.
View from Via Mazzini
View from Via Mazzini
View from Via Mazzini and Via Garibaldi
View from Via Garibaldi
The works Caregivers and Uterus Flags were supported by Center for Icelandic Art (CIA.IS), The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (BKVB), Centre of Visual Arts Rotterdam (CBK) and Manifesta 7. Courtesy of the artists and Manifesta 7