METRONOM

GENERAZIONE CRITICA #7
STILL aLIVE 
Art and sustainability between experience and production 
17 March - 30 May 2021

'Tourists look at the statues and photograph them. The statues, without sight, never return the gaze. In classical tragedy, blindness is a frequent disease and, even in the Tuileries, some statues seem either blinded or (which is the same thing) condemned to the torment of those who never close their eyes because they have no eyelids' (Geoff Dyer).

The 2021 edition of Generazione Critica STILL aLIVE. Art and sustainability between experience and production aims to reflect on the production and fruition practices of contemporary artistic research, in a context that, as a result of the restrictions imposed, has seen an acceleration and increase in experiences through the digital. How can production, interaction, sharing and digital communication tools collaborate and support the creative process? How are the opportunities for fruition of contemporary art reshaped? What skills to learn, what new contexts are offered for cultural operators?

The curatorial board of this edition of Generazione Critica, composed by Marcella Manni, METRONOM; Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, Exibart editorial director; and Santa Nastro, Artribune editor-in-chief and communication manager at FMAV- Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, has foreseen a widespread structure of five appointments built as a discussion panel with professionals in the art sector and a series of live IGs that will feature artists in dedicated meetings and with IG takeover.
The online meetings will take place starting from 17 March, on the zoom platform: art journalism and online content, 17 March at 6.30 pm; the relationship between art and the market and digital dynamics, 23 March at 6.30 pm; cultural programming of events and online mediation, 30 March at 6 pm; an analysis from the point of view of institutions, between public and private, between network and system, 13 April at 5 pm; art projects and social regeneration, April 20 at 6 pm.

The meetings will involve Andrea Bartoli, Farm Cultural Park; Laura Barreca, scientific director of mudaC, Carrara; Gloria Bartoli, deputy director of Arte Fiera, Bologna; Giorgia Boldrini, director of the Culture and Creativity Sector of the Municipality of Bologna; Federico Bomba, artistic director of Sineglossa; Fabrizia Carabelli and Francesco Angelucci, Fatima; Niccolò Contrino, fundraising consultant for culture; Onofrio Cutaia, General Manager of Contemporary Creativity, MiBACT; Valerio del Baglivo, independent curator; Carolina Gestri, VISIO-European Program on Artists' Moving Images coordinator; Roberto Grandi, president of Instituzione Bologna Musei; Raffaella Frascarelli, Nomas Foundation; Ornella Laneri, Oelle Foundation; Francesca Marani; Photo Vogue Festival; Federico Pazzagli, general manager of Exibart; Donata Pizzi, collector; Elena Giulia Rossi, Arshake; Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, collector and president of FSRR; Catterina Seia, Fitzcarraldo Foundation; Silvia Simoncelli, Head of Education of NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome; Lorenzo Uggeri, Kooness.