Dedicated to the Twin Towers disaster
"Paint From Nature"
a net-art performance
by CATERINA DAVINIO
Giubbe Rosse - Florence - Italy
February 4th 2001 6:00 PM
The net-performance "Paint From Nature", by Caterina Davinio, will take
place February 4th 2001 at the Giubbe Rosse, historical literary café of the
avant-garde, in Florence, Italy, in co-operation with
Massimo Mori, Elisabeth H. Todal, Tiziano Pecchioli, Fiorenzo Smalzi, during
the opening of the visual poetry exhibition "Tribute to Marinetti".
"Paint From Nature" - the nature as media landscape and telematic passage,
communication movement - is inspired to the disaster of the New York towers,
event which has had a great impact on the collective imaginary in the planet
also for the mass-media dimension which accompanied it.
From September 11 until 14 arrived at Karenina.it e-mail address
threehundred messages, from all over the world, from mailing lists (mainly
from Rhizome, but also from others), from artists, cultural associations,
citizens, navigators, speaking about what happened; from the e-mails arrived
at first, fill of dismay for the sudden interruption of communication with
artistic situations and persons who were in New York in those hours, to the
messages which tried to find information, to bring help, to intervention
which tried a political interpretation of what was happening.
In the copy "from nature" the text of 70 e-mails arrived in Karenina.it
e-mail box September 11 and 12 will be mailed to the Giubbe Rosse and
collocated in an installation during the performance. A wider selection of
the 300 arrived e-mails will be in a web page on the site karenina.it
(poetry in fatica function), after the performance, a web page which is a
continuation of the same performance, with photos of the action. The action
is going to be documented in a book.
The choral sound of the rhizomers voices in the "copy from nature", from the
telematic "truth" - which actuates its existence in the continuous passage
from the real to the virtual and back - comes from an every-place, or from a
no-place, from a texture of contacts, which is also a "thing", space where
enter, wander, look for, reality. This space, in the performance "Paint from
nature", is going to be copied down, or, with a metaphor, photographed,
after it was framed in the monitor, together with some questions about what
a net-performance "really" is, what a "copy from nature" and the "nature"
self, for an artist, in the net, in the media universe, is, how Internet
brings in discussion the role of the artist, his identity, and these
concepts (identity, reality, copy, nature, original, presence, performance,
role, space-time) result disintegrated but also reconstructed.
Caterina Davinio's work "Paint From Nature", made of interaction, action,
e-mail art, creation of an object, copy realized with technologic
instruments which are in hands of an artist today (digital, identical with
the represented original, but that finally concretises itself in an unique
not-reproducible experience at the Giubbe Rosse space, this work, made of
communic/action, and generating itself while the communication runs, do not
falls under the categories that the art and the critic put at disposal.
To be continued very soon in Karenina.it web site
KARENINA.IT (poetry in "fątica" function) A web project by Caterina Davinio
[log in to unmask] on line since 1998 - By Jakobson, 'fątico' is the use of
the language which has the finality to maintain open and operative the
communication channel among the interlocutors. On the confine between art
and critic, happening and net performance, Karenina.it is a virtual meeting
place around the theme of the writing and the new technologies, in which
experiences of international artists, curators, theoreticians converge, in a
net that counts thousands of contacts in the world.
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