Coexistence]]> Claudia Losi]]> Southeast Asia]]> Artistic Research]]> Topography]]> How do I imagine being there?, realized in 2016 alongside an eponymous exhibition. Following the same train of thought, the research project for the residency is titled Being There or Life is a State of Mind, after the 1979 film by American director Hal Ashby. Losi intends to conduct a series of interviews with people from diverse disciplines, generations, and socioeconomic backgrounds asking them to describe a certain typology of place. Texts, drawings, and possibly a video will be created on the basis of the gathered materials.]]> Claudia Losi]]> Drawing]]> Performance]]> Southeast Asia]]> Experiential]]> Fiction]]> 1 Nov 2018, Thu 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Studio #01-02, Block 37 Malan Road

To what extent can a place be described by its geology, morphology, and history, and to what extent can it, instead, be imagined? What kind of descriptions are triggered by direct experience and what kind of descriptions arise solely from imagination? How is the subjective experience of a place transmitted to and received by others? In recent years, the work of Claudia Losi has interrogated the physical and imaginative potential of “being there,” the act of encountering a specific space through direct experience, remote imagination, and multiple narratives. In this talk, the artist will discuss her fascination with the elsewhere, the poetics of wandering, and the theatre of memory in the context of her practice, addressing the collaborative methodologies that nurture the creation of her collective mindscapes.

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Being There. Oltre il giardino, talk by Residencies Alumna, Claudia Losi (Italy)]]> Nature]]> 2 Mar 2021, Tue 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
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Continuing the research started during her residency at NTU CCA Singapore in 2018, Claudia Losi reflects on Being There. Oltre il giardino (which literally translates from Italian as Being There. Beyond the garden) in the context of her practice.  Being There. Oltre il giardino is a long-term project that revolves around the concept of nature and the relationship between real and imagined places. At the core of the artist’s endeavours is the deceivingly simple question: “What is your idea of a natural place?”. Guided by this query, the artist is intent on exploring the complex relation between humans and nature adopting a relational and processual perspective. Through workshops and participatory formats, Losi is in the process of soliciting responses from a wide range of individuals. The contributions she has gathered so far show how our subjective understanding of “the natural” is invariably influenced by culture, age, language, geography, memory, and imagination. This growing collection of written and visual contributions will be brought together in an installation, an artist’s book, and a website.

NTU CCA Singapore is an official cultural partner of Being There. Oltre il giardino, recipient of Italian Council 9, a grant of the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity (Italy).

 

Suggested readings:

Eduardo Kohn, How Forests Think. Toward an Anthropology beyond the Human, University of California, 2013

Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking like a Geologist Can Help Save the World, Princeton University Press, 2018

Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble-Making Kin in the Chthulucene, University of Chicago, 2016

 

Project partners:

Direzione Regionale Musei delle Marche, Italy
Rocca Roveresca of Senigallia, Senigallia (AN), Italy
CIMeC – Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Accademia di Belle Arti, Urbino, Italy
NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem

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