explosion of speech by Mats bigert & lars Bergström |
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thessaloniki, january 2015
Swedish artists duo Bigert & Bergström present the first of their series of performances “Explosion of Speech”, that starting from Thessaloniki will later take place in various cities around Europe and will result into a 15 mins. film. "A fiery paean to the importance of free speech and the power of poetry, the film follows a common thread – a burning fuse – that winds through Europe leaving a burnt-out trail of text in its wake. Words become sentences, evolving into a collective poem created by a group of poets from the cities through which the burning fuse passes. The film evokes words of flame, burning with anger over such topics as financial inequality, unemployment and growing xenophobia. But it also contains bright sparks of hope and love as this cut-up poem takes shape through the use of gunpowder and matches.” (B&B) The first verse of the poem is contributed by Thessaloniki-based author Alexandros Aimoniotis.
Photos: Ingo Duennebier
VENICE, may 2015
Performance: 8 May, 21.00, Palazzo Mora, Strada Nuova #3659 (nearest vaporetto stop: Ca'D'Oro)
Exhibition: 9 May - 22 November, Palazzo Bembo, Riva del Carbon #4793 (Rialto)
Opening hours: 10.00-18.00 (Tuesdays closed)
Preview & opening parties: 7 & 8 May 2015, 18.00-22.00
The second iteration of Bigert & Bergström’s "Explosion of Speech", that was launched in Thessaloniki last January. For Artecitya, “Explosion of Speech” is a call to arms. As performative and cinematic endeavour, the work cuts through time, space, individualities and realities. Its improvised urban scenography signals the city as the space par excellence where democracy is made possible, animated through polyphony, debate and conflict. The burning poetic word dethrones the slogans of politics as expression of the people’s voice, articulating dreams, aspirations, needs, prophecies, admonitions… In that sense, the work becomes an agency, even more so a peaceful call to arms or a vehicle of transformation, as it positions multiple individualities at a vantage point, that of an emancipated protagonist of a delightfully utopian film, projected into what could very well be the near future. (Lydia Chatziiakovou)
With the contribution of poets Alessandro de Francesco (Italy) and Alexandros Aimoniotis (Greece).
Video by Lars Siltberg
In the framework of "Personal Structures. Crossing Borders", organised by Global Art Affairs Foundation
Exhibition: 9 May - 22 November, Palazzo Bembo, Riva del Carbon #4793 (Rialto)
Opening hours: 10.00-18.00 (Tuesdays closed)
Preview & opening parties: 7 & 8 May 2015, 18.00-22.00
The second iteration of Bigert & Bergström’s "Explosion of Speech", that was launched in Thessaloniki last January. For Artecitya, “Explosion of Speech” is a call to arms. As performative and cinematic endeavour, the work cuts through time, space, individualities and realities. Its improvised urban scenography signals the city as the space par excellence where democracy is made possible, animated through polyphony, debate and conflict. The burning poetic word dethrones the slogans of politics as expression of the people’s voice, articulating dreams, aspirations, needs, prophecies, admonitions… In that sense, the work becomes an agency, even more so a peaceful call to arms or a vehicle of transformation, as it positions multiple individualities at a vantage point, that of an emancipated protagonist of a delightfully utopian film, projected into what could very well be the near future. (Lydia Chatziiakovou)
With the contribution of poets Alessandro de Francesco (Italy) and Alexandros Aimoniotis (Greece).
Video by Lars Siltberg
In the framework of "Personal Structures. Crossing Borders", organised by Global Art Affairs Foundation
