Elisa Laraia Artist: Private Conversation

lunedì 1 ottobre 2012

Private Conversation | Contemporary Theater

Private Conversation | Contemporary Theater

Partecipazione è la parola chiave di Private Conversation | Contemporary Theater, spettacolo multimediale tra Arte Contemporanea e Teatro, regia di Elisa Laraia. Un flash mob sui social network coinvolgrà il 10 ottobre a Potenza centocinquanta fruitori | attori, per uno spettacolo che nel suo concept affronta la relazione tra “uomo e architettura”, “corpo e mente”. Attori nei palchi e nella platea, pubblico sul palcoscenico ribaltano lo spazio scenico, in un dinamismo tra reale e virtuale, tra ruoli e identità, oltre ogni convenzione. L’artista lucana Elisa Laraia, con Monica Nicastro e Mio D’Andrea, ai quali si affiancano Giovanna D’Amato, per la colonna sonora dal vivo, e Davide Coluzzi DAZ, per la tecnica del video mapping, guida il fruitore oltre la linea fisica dell’architettura teatrale, tramite l’urban screen di Private Conversation, per guardarvi dentro da protagonista.

Festival Città delle 100 Scale
MERCOLEDI 10 OTTOBRE 2012
4 repliche
h. 19.00 | h. 20.00 | h. 21.00 | h. 22.00
Teatro Francesco Stabile
Potenza

Private Conversation III, Work conceived for the event “Estetica del Virtuale”

Work conceived for the event “Estetica del Virtuale”, Private Conversation III is a dialogue with the city born from the comparison gathered between people who live the culture in the city that returns emotions, wishes, desire for autonomy and change. The video projection accompanied by audio widespread in the urban environment is part of the urban context to create the relational moment that the entire research projects. In the Mario Pagano square, point of greatest aggregation, Private Conversation III is the experience of one for the experience of all. The work illuminates the architecture to describe the interior of the buildings and their life. The first step in a series of installations in the city from the center to the peripheral districts, so as to demonstrate more and more that the culture and especially contemporary art, lives on the skin of all, ready to describe everyday real life, difficult and exciting.

ELISA LARAIA STATEMENT

My very private research tends to explore identity between private and public. The themes of memory and dreams are intertwined with the meticulous cataloging of the object and space, the narrative uses all the languages from the video to performance . Since 1999, my particular interest in public art is developed on the concept of an exchange of identity in a dynamic relationship with the viewer and the artists that gravitate around the work of art in progress Orfeo hotel contemporary art project.since 2004.

The basic elements of all my research are identity and memory.

Identity

I focus on the exploration of identity, on the exchange of identity, and the multiple choice studying theories ranging from psychology to quantum physics as the Many Worlds Interpretation of physicist Hugh Everett. My very private research tends to transpose the story from my private to audience.

Narrative uses all the languages from the video to performance with a focus on site-specific public art. The sharing of identity in a dynamic of exchange is the cornerstone of my testing on the centrality of the user, never intended as a passive element, but as a participant in the creative act, in search of a closer and closer contact, more intimate between me and the other, through the creation of works heavily relational which in turn represent later stages of a process of possible identification.

Memory

Identity and memory, imagined in their being, in their constant change, involve the concept of growth, but also of loss. Memory, in fact, in its game of remembering and forgetting builds a puzzle of our lives, where everyone can find the missing piece, the one that could give meaning to all experience, to capture life in images and sensations that symbolically represent it. The reflection on the elapsing time as construction of space experience, leads to a “own” time that can be summed up linearity and continuity only by souvenirs. This reflection embraces the past but also the future, becoming aware of loss and fear of loss, then the idea of capturing the memories and imprisoning the objects, those that can enhance the power of memory, in a symbolic space that contains them and keep them, out of its ambiguous play, polysemantic techas that build Wunderkammer.

short biography

Elisa Laraia

Multimedia artist

Elisa Laraia - Born in Potenza in 1973, lives and works in Bologna and Potenza.

In 2001 she obtained a diploma in stage design at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, continued her studies at the University Paris 8, Paris and Wimbledon School of Art in London. In 2000 she made the first of many public art intervention in the exhibition Beyond the Garden by Robert Daolio that still follows her research; critics as Mili Romano, Dede Auregli, Antonella Marino, Dores Sacquegna, Eleonora Frattarolo, Marta Massaioli, Rosalba Branà, Rosalba Paiano have written about her and treated her more personal experiences and collective exhibitions since 2000 in galleries and museums, such as the GAM of Bologna; she participated in the Biennale of Young Artists of the Mediterranean, Sarajevo, and the XIV Quadrennial in Rome. In January 2004 she creates Orfeo Hotel contemporary art project, art work in progress on the concept of Identity Exchange and today a project room in Potenza and in Second Life www.orfeohotel.com. Her artistic activity since 2006 is situated between Bologna, where cures the annual event Art for Art's Shake, and Potenza, in which she is part of the network Art Factory Basilicata.

curriculum vitae

Elisa Laraia

born in Potenza on 10.15.1973 lives and works in Bologna and Potenza

www.elisa.laraia.it
www.orfeohotel.com

Since 2004, carries out research on the exchange of identity in the spirit of sharing with other artists in her Project Room Orfeo Hotel contemporary art project and in Second Life.

EDUCATION

1998/2001 Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, with 110 graduating cum laude with a thesis in Cultural Anthropology, Rapporteur Roberto Daolio ;”The death of identity exchange in art”;.

2001 Wimbledon School of Art, Set designer Course, London

Residences

2000 “International Symposium of Sculpture” at the Université Paris 8 reported by Roberto Daolio, Parigi

2006“49° Premio Campigna” curated by Claudia Casali, Visiting Professor Henri Olivier, Santa Sofia (Forli)

2007 “50° Premio Campigna” curated by Rosalba Paiano, Visiting professor Anne e Patrick Poirier., Santa Sofia (Forli)

Awards

2006 Winner of the Youth Murri Public Art Project ;”Life Goes On”; conceived by Alessandra Montanari

2003 Winner of the Photography section Iceberg Art Competition

2003 Prize Guercino

2001 Winner of the selection “Chaos or communication” for participation in the “Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean 2001”, Sarajevo

2001 Reported Iceberg wins the “Cahiers du triangle”, a project of traveling exhibition, Saint-Etienne, Thessaloniki, Bologna.

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Private Conversation III, Work conceived for the event “Estetica del Virtuale”

Private Conversation at 54° Venice Biennale

ELISA LARAIA STATEMENT

short biography

curriculum vitae

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