Raumlabor presents Übermut Project, Forms of turmoil
04/07/2017.
[Milan] Italy
metalocus, MASSIMO MAZZONE
metalocus, MASSIMO MAZZONE
During the 2017 edition of Fuorisalone in Milan, something unexpected happened at Base, avenue close to Porta Genova, that unsettled the stylish mood of the event.
Forms of Turmoil, activists with microarchitectures in the city of Milano. © Agreements to zinedine, © Übermut Project, Photograph Kevin McElvaney
Forms of Turmoil, activists preparing their protestwalk. © Übermut Project, Photograph Kevin McElvaney
Forms of Turmoil, activists with microarchitectures in the city of Milano, dome at night on the grounds of abandoned Mercati Generali. © raumlaborberlin, © Übermut Project, Photograph Kevin McElvaney
Forms of Turmoil, presentation of the project and party at BASE Milano. © Übermut Project, Foto: Kevin McElvaney
Dreaming with Goya, Nicoletta Braga. Photograph © BreRaum
Colonne di san lorenzo. Photograph © BreRaum
Forms of Turmoil, activists with microarchitectures in the city of Milano. © Übermut Project, Photograph Kevin McElvaney
Forms of Turmoil, dome out of microarchitectures in the courtyard of BASE Milano. © Übermut Project, Photograph Sofiene Bouzayene
Forms of Turmoil, dome out of microarchitectures in the courtyard of BASE Milano. © Übermut Project, Photograph Sofiene Bouzayene
The art project by Raumlabor from Berlin and the collective performance MARE NOSTRUM by Nicoletta Braga, BreRaum, and Agreement to Zinedine-ATZ, part of the project Forms of Turmoil by Raumlaborberlin...
The intention in this case was not to stage a riot or demonstration, nor to aestheticize social deprivation, a widespread and disreputable practice that characterizes so much of contemporary art. The aim was rather to move the attention from the distracted and exhausted mass of visitors that trekked though countless events to some current issues of extreme relevance.
"MICROARCHITETTURE, THE SPONSOR OF THE SKY IS THE WIND, THERE IS NOTHING TO SELL, NOTHING TO BUY, NOBODY IS TO BE EXCLUDED, NOBODY SHOULD FOLLOW US," these were some of our slogans... , from BASE to Giambellino, from Macao to Ortofrutta.
The keywords of MARE NOSTRUM were;
"REFUGEES WELCOME, WORK, NATURE POETRY." Written in the International Code of Signals.
The performers, around 50, had roamed the city from Base through Navigli to reached first Darsena later on Sant'Eustorgio and finally Colonne di San Lorenzo. At each stop flags, inflatable cushions made by Raumlabor, proclaimed their message of complain and hope, urging citizens to take action.
Each maritime flag stays for a specific incident; for example, man at sea, fire on board etc, but also stand out for a letter of the alphabet. Therefore, each flag, concept or letter, can be used to compose any complex message. This generates an interesting and original choreography that makes one to reflect on current events through the language of poetry and art.
Not only performances there were also many lectures like <case senza genete gente senza case- People Without Homes and Homes Without People>, by Massimo Mazzone, and Annalisa Deligia, on stage danced in Bharatanatyam style.
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Dates
April 3rd until April 9th 2017
Organizing
Raumlaborberlin
Collaborator
ATZ, Nicoletta Braga with BreRaum, Massimo Mazzone with Annalisa Deligia.
Place
Furisalone Base, Milan
RaumlaborBerlin, RAUMLABOR
RaumlaborBerlin is a berlin based network-collective of architects founded in 1999. raumlaborberlin works at the intersection of architecture, city planning, art and urban intervention. We address in our work city and urban renewal as a process. We are attracted to difficult urban locations. Places torn between different systems, time periods or planning ideologies, that can not adapt. Places that are abandoned, left over or in transition that contains some relevance for the processes of urban transformations.
Raumlabor is formed by.-
Axel Timm
Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius
Christof Mayer
Florian Stirnemann
Francesco Apuzzo
Frauke Gerstenberg
Jan Liesegang
Markus Bader
Matthias Rick († 28.04.2012)
Raumlaborberlin, yes we do love the great ideas of the 60s 70s and the optimism which is inherent in changing the world at the stroke of a pen to the better. but we strongly believe that complexity is real and good and our society today does need a more substantial approach. therefore our spacial proposals are small scale and deeply rooted in the local condition…. BYE BYE UTOPIA!
Nicoletta Braga
Nicoletta Braga's research is about the connection between the body, signs in the (poetical and politics) individual and social space and female conditions. After graduating in Painting at Florence Academy of Fine Arts (1987), and Master in “Arte Architettura Territorio”( 15 ECTS, Architecture Roma Tre 2006), “Comunicazione e linguaggi non verbali” (60 ECTS Venice, Cà Foscari University 2008), have a PHD, Doctorado en Dibujo en la Facultad de Belles Artes de Granada UGR, Spain; she publishing several essays as: Angiolo Mazzoni, una residenza, 1994, Fertilia: appunti per un progetto di recupero del Moderno, 1994, Note sulla decorazione come pittura sullo spazio dato, 1994, Introduzione all'arte grafica, 1996, Omaggio a Majakowskij, 1996, Attualità del corpo nella performance-Una riflessione su corpo natura e spazio urbano, 2010, by Stampa Alternativa. she showed in various exhibitions, alone and with com.plot S.Y.S.tem group and Escuela moderna group; teaching art from the 1993, at now she teaching Fenomenologia del corpo in Milano, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera.
Biennale Venezia in (2000, less aethetics more ethics, Architecture), 2001 bunker poetico, (Art), 2006 and 2008 (Venezuelea Pavilions, Architecture)
Biennale Venezia in (2000, less aethetics more ethics, Architecture), 2001 bunker poetico, (Art), 2006 and 2008 (Venezuelea Pavilions, Architecture)
MASSIMO MAZZONE
Massimo Mazzone, (Marino, Rome, 1967) sculptor, numerous exhibitions in Europe and beyond, a member of the group of artists complot s.y.s.tem, and a professor of sculpture at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. He has organized several groups to work between art and architecture. Among his recent performances, projects, proposal and publications:
• Ex Polis
• 11. Biennale Venezia
• Edifici concettuali
◦ Post Lauream
◦ Città
• La Penisola degli Agnelli
• 10. Biennale Venezia
• Lezioni di pittura
• Ex Mattatoio
• Piazza Shopping Centre
• Worker Bee Cemetery
• Triennale Milano
• Casa dell'Architettura
• Fass Gallery
• L'altra Roma
• Torretta Valadier
