Lungomare turns 20! Founded as a cultural association in Bozen in 2003, for the past 20 years Lungomare has been producing artistic interventions in public spaces, exhibitions in unconventional venues, and publication and discussion formats that look at the relationship between art, architecture, design, and theory. Today, Lungomare is a cooperative and a platform for cultural production and design.
Lungomare 20 is a celebration of this 20-year journey, bringing to life a program of performances, conversations, and concerts within the setting of its premises, where an exhibition of projects, ideas, visions, and impressions produced to date, will also be on display. In addition, the reader AS IF - 16 Dialogues about Sheep, Black Holes, and Movement will be published for the occasion, built around 16 dialogues that place Lungomare's artistic production within a geographic and thematic network, bringing together past and future translocal alliances.
Lungomare 20 is first and foremost a date to look ahead, and bring together a multitude of people with whom to share what is recognized as common, negotiate differences, reflect on how to rethink relationships, and set in motion the transformation of traditional structures. During these two days people from near and far will come together to celebrate, discuss, venture new visions, say goodbye to old ones, and make room for dreams.
program
30.09 –
Saturday from 12pm to 11pm
01.10.2023
Sunday from 12pm to 10pm
12pm Question Time 1 - Opening in collaboration with salto.bz in the presence of institutions, artists, authors and curators
Nicholas Bussmann & Cottbusser Chor, The News Blues, performance
Marzia Migliora, Erbario edule, improvisation
Nicholas Bussmann is an artist, composer and musician. He designs conceptual frameworks and concrete scenarios for collective performances. The focus of his interest is the close and historically evolved connection between music, social practice and socialization.
The Cottbusser Chor a small, diverse vocal ensemble, has been in existence since the beginning of 2014. The singers of the ensemble (Nicholas Bussmann, Lucile Desamory, Yusuf Ergün, Margareth Kammerer, Laura Mello, Eduard Mont de Palol, Aaron Snyder), speak 13 languages and come from different musical contexts. The algorithm-based compositions in which the choir specializes preserve this diversity.
The News Blues
Between 2014 and 2017 Nicholas Bussmann and the Cottbusser Chor developed algorithms how to sing the news. These algorithms where bundled in The News Trilogy. The News Trilogy was first performed for documenta 14 radio SAVVY Funk at Savvy Contemporary.
Marzia Migliora’s artistic endeavors use a wide range of media including photography, video, sound, performance, installations and drawing. Her works have their origin in a deep concern for the individual and their daily life.
Erbario Edule
It is a culinary improvisation by Marzia Migliora that proposes food and the act of cooking as a shared experience that is transmitted through flavors, scents, colors, tactile sensations, consistencies. Using local ingredients, wild herbs and vegetables, the artist invites guests to collectively create a recipe for a completely personalized sauce. The act of eating becomes a moment of creation and potential but also of storytelling and knowledge that reminds us of the vital nature of food.
2pm Martino Gamper, AS IF – Special Edition, laboratory
Working across design and art venues, Martino Gamper engages in a variety of projects from exhibition design, interior design, one-off commissions and the design of mass-produced products for the cutting edge of the international furniture industry.
AS IF: Special Edition
For the occiasion of Lungomare 20 Martino Gamper initiates a live performance in which he creates special edition of the AS IF reading book. With his knowledge of form and his technical skill he will try his hand on paper in an almost surgical operation of cutting and carving directly on the book as an object. During the perfomance’s execution, in a workshop visible to all, the designer will attempt to give the books new form through a gesture of violating the sacredness of the book, which makes each copy he acts on unique.
3pm AS IF, Dialogue about Sheep, Black Holes, and Movement #1 Panel Discussion and Book Presentation with Cecilia Canziani, Anna Colin, Luigi Coppola, Luisa Lorenza Corna, Barbara Holub, Federica Martini, Lisa Mazza
Moderated by Lungomare
5.30pm Wissal Houbabi, Taroots, performance
Wissal Houbabi was born in 1994 in Morocco and raised in Italy. An intersectional feminist, she is passionate about hip hop culture and cultural studies. She expresses herself through writing, poetry, Arabic calligraphy, drawing and painting.
Taroots
Is all about the imperceptible sounds and syncretisms of peoples who no longer recognize themselves as part of a collective identity. As Ortega y Gasset said, "when the Mediterranean was a reality, neither Africa nor Europe existed." Taroots' prerogative is to turn the perspective of reality upside down, like an hourglass: identity is always the same without ever being so, it is irreducible and it is Mediterranean, as understood by Predrag Matvejević to Alan Lomax, from Federico Garcia Lorca to زریاب.
6pm Nicholas Bussmann & Cottbusser Chor, Foreshadowings, performance
Foreshadowings
Learning without understanding. The Cottbus choir will learn Japanese poems from the Edo period in Japan for ReEdoCation phonetically, without understanding them and transform them into songs. For this a cultural technique is developed, which may be useful in the future.
7pm Wang Inc., Mediterraneo, live-act
Wang Inc., Bartholomeo Sailer began experimenting with digital music in the 1990s. Resident at Link. Italian tour with Autechre in 1998 and the following year his first album on Sonig (DE),Trill Jockey (USA), then audiovideo projects with Yuri Ancarani, Toilet Paper, Irene Dorigotti, Basmati and musical Vincenzo Vasi, Roy Paci, Matmos and others. His other pseudonyms are Walking Mountains, White Raven, Dead Asshole Rave.
Mediterraneo
Starting from the assumption that polyrhythmic music is a political statement, Wang inc. developed the Mediterraneo focusing on the stories of the past years tacking place in the central Mediterranean Sea. Stories of hope and despair, often tragic by the will of powerful and egoistic people. It’s harsh techno, slow, with vivid images, lot’s of tension and bleak atmospheres. All titles are in Italian because this story is part of the history of Italy.
9pm Seba Kayan, Oriental Techno, dj-set
Seba Kayan is a viennese DJ and artist. Her work oscillates between DJing, performances, exhibitions and curating. Her music has a forensic, political and metaphorical approach.
Oriental Techno
By digging into various music archives she discovers and collects lost pieces. Her polyrhythmic compositions integrate a wide array of musical genres, including Orientalfuturistic electro, techno and Acid. In between, she burns the unmistakable swing of the so called "Oriental" Music into ironclad techno frameworks.
12pm Question Time 2– Constellation 2003-2023, Archive Installation With Angelika Burtscher and Daniele Lupo
Stefano Bernardi, Timelapse, sound-performance
Stefano Bernardi completed his studies at the Zelig Documentary and New Media School in Bolzano (1994-1997) and since then he has been working as a sound engineer and sound designer within the creative documentary department, from which he draws the modus operandi, the aptitude and the patience necessary to recreate reality.
Timelapse
It is a multi-instrument live act that echoes the archival installation of Lungomare 20 Constellation 2003-2023. Inspired by the materials on display inside, Stefano Bernardi will bring to life a soundscape, creating a transitional space between the inside and the outside. Timelapse is a pulsating, rhythmic, slow and vigorous membrane in which sounds of different origins resonate words, images and visions of the installation, merging with it.
2pm AS IF, Dialogue about Sheep, Black Holes, and Movement #2 Panel Discussion and Book Presentation with Kolar Aparna, orizzontale, Beatrice Catanzaro, Rosalyn D’Mello, Roberto Gigliotti, Wissal Houbabi, Marion Oberhofer, Maxi Obexer
Moderated by Lungomare
4pm Aldo Giannotti & Karin Pauer, The Looper , performance
Aldo Giannotti (Genoa, 1977) is a visual artist who has lived and worked in Vienna since 2000. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, Wimbledon University of Arts in London and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
Karin Pauer is a Vienna based performer and choreographer. In 2008 she received her BA in Choreography at the ArtEZ – Institute of Arts in Arnhem/ The Netherlands. She has since collaborated in various international settings with choreographers, theatre directors, filmmakers and visual artists such as Liquid Loft/ Chris Haring, Davis Freeman/ Random Scream, Yun Jung Kim, Mike O’Connor, Maureen Kägi, Aldo Giannotti, Nicola von Leffern and Veronika Franz.
The Looper
It is a sound structure and a choreographic score of repetition, which takes the visitors’ behaviors, positions, and gestures as a point of reference, thus creating an “embodied archive of visitors”. They will find themselves mirrored or represented through the performing body. Inside this practice a space for empathetic encounters and self-reflection is opening in the relation between the visitors’ own actions, the sound, and the performer. The work dissolves borders between the self and the other and asks for a different level of awareness of one’s own actions and choices.
6pm YOMER, Singing the Playlist of Lungomare, karaoke
YOMER Matteo Jamunno, 1983. Born in Naples, raised in Bolzano, escapes to Vienna. Singer-songwriter known to a few as YOMER. Musician of questionable abilities. Aspiring poet in the show Fiabe della buia notte (Fables of the Dark Night). Author and narrator of the soporific Diari dell’orso (Bear Diaries) podcast. Sometimes artist and graphic designer. SAAV member. Winner of the 2023 edition of ZOOM-ED with his first novel called Nel gnome del padre (In the gnome of the father).
A playlist collects memories of the past two decades while a karaoke machine creates new ones. The party is ending and everyone goes home bringing with them memories, new feelings, visions, songs. Karaoke as a collective democratic musical act. As much punk as pop. The coming together of all voices, those who are out of tune, those who are not, those who know the words and those who will learn them. A liberating act that becomes a chorus. Throwing out what has been held in, getting on stage, becoming a spectacle, participating, karaoke is activism.
8pm Strappi ai piatti, music selection
On going 30.09 – 01.10.2023 Constellation 2003-2023, Archive Installation Lina Ozerkina, Soundscapes Giorgio Seppi, Light Line
Kitchen: Meteo & Friends and Bar
program
30.09.2023
Saturday from 12pm to 11pm
12pm
Question Time 1 – Opening in collaboration with salto.bz in the presence of institutions, artists, authors and curators
Nicholas Bussmann & Cottbusser Chor, The News Blues, performance
Marzia Migliora, Erbario edule , improvisation
Nicholas Bussmann is an artist, composer and musician. He designs conceptual frameworks and concrete scenarios for collective performances. The focus of his interest is the close and historically evolved connection between music, social practice and socialization.
The Cottbusser Chor a small, diverse vocal ensemble, has been in existence since the beginning of 2014. The singers of the ensemble (Nicholas Bussmann, Lucile Desamory, Yusuf Ergün, Margareth Kammerer, Laura Mello, Eduard Mont de Palol, Aaron Snyder), speak 13 languages and come from different musical contexts. The algorithm-based compositions in which the choir specializes preserve this diversity.
The News Blues
Between 2014 and 2017 Nicholas Bussmann and the Cottbusser Chor developed algorithms how to sing the news. These algorithms where bundled in The News Trilogy. The News Trilogy was first performed for documenta 14 radio SAVVY Funk at Savvy Contemporary.
Marzia Migliora’s artistic endeavors use a wide range of media including photography, video, sound, performance, installations and drawing. Her works have their origin in a deep concern for the individual and their daily life.
Erbario Edule
It is a culinary improvisation by Marzia Migliora that proposes food and the act of cooking as a shared experience that is transmitted through flavors, scents, colors, tactile sensations, consistencies. Using local ingredients, wild herbs and vegetables, the artist invites guests to collectively create a recipe for a completely personalized sauce. The act of eating becomes a moment of creation and potential but also of storytelling and knowledge that reminds us of the vital nature of food.
2pm
Martino Gamper, AS IF, Special Edition, laboratory
Working across design and art venues, Martino Gamper engages in a variety of projects from exhibition design, interior design, one-off commissions and the design of mass-produced products for the cutting edge of the international furniture industry.
AS IF: Special Edition
For the occiasion of Lungomare 20 Martino Gamper initiates a live performance in which he creates special edition of the AS IF reading book. With his knowledge of form and his technical skill he will try his hand on paper in an almost surgical operation of cutting and carving directly on the book as an object. During the perfomance’s execution, in a workshop visible to all, the designer will attempt to give the books new form through a gesture of violating the sacredness of the book, which makes each copy he acts on unique.
3pm
AS IF, Dialogue about Sheep, Black Holes, and Movement #1 Panel Discussion and Book Presentation with Cecilia Canziani, Anna Colin, Luigi Coppola, Luisa Lorenza Corna, Barbara Holub, Federica Martini, Lisa Mazza
Moderated by Lungomare
5.30pm
Wissal Houbabi, Taroots, performance
Wissal Houbabi was born in 1994 in Morocco and raised in Italy. An intersectional feminist, she is passionate about hip hop culture and cultural studies. She expresses herself through writing, poetry, Arabic calligraphy, drawing and painting.
Taroots
Is all about the imperceptible sounds and syncretisms of peoples who no longer recognize themselves as part of a collective identity. As Ortega y Gasset said, "when the Mediterranean was a reality, neither Africa nor Europe existed." Taroots' prerogative is to turn the perspective of reality upside down, like an hourglass: identity is always the same without ever being so, it is irreducible and it is Mediterranean, as understood by Predrag Matvejević to Alan Lomax, from Federico Garcia Lorca to زریاب.
6pm
Nicholas Bussmann & Cottbusser Chor, Foreshadowings, performance
Foreshadowings
Learning without understanding. The Cottbus choir will learn Japanese poems from the Edo period in Japan for ReEdoCation phonetically, without understanding them and transform them into songs. For this a cultural technique is developed, which may be useful in the future.
7pm
Wang Inc, Mediterraneo, live-act
Wang Inc., Bartholomeo Sailer began experimenting with digital music in the 1990s. Resident at Link. Italian tour with Autechre in 1998 and the following year his first album on Sonig (DE),Trill Jockey (USA), then audiovideo projects with Yuri Ancarani, Toilet Paper, Irene Dorigotti, Basmati and musical Vincenzo Vasi, Roy Paci, Matmos and others. His other pseudonyms are Walking Mountains, White Raven, Dead Asshole Rave.
Mediterraneo
Starting from the assumption that polyrhythmic music is a political statement, Wang inc. developed the Mediterraneo focusing on the stories of the past years tacking place in the central Mediterranean Sea. Stories of hope and despair, often tragic by the will of powerful and egoistic people. It’s harsh techno, slow, with vivid images, lot’s of tension and bleak atmospheres. All titles are in Italian because this story is part of the history of Italy.
9pm
Seba Kayan, Oriental Techno, dj-set
Seba Kayan is a viennese DJ and artist. Her work oscillates between DJing, performances, exhibitions and curating. Her music has a forensic, political and metaphorical approach.
Oriental Techno
By digging into various music archives she discovers and collects lost pieces. Her polyrhythmic compositions integrate a wide array of musical genres, including Orientalfuturistic electro, techno and Acid. In between, she burns the unmistakable swing of the so called "Oriental" Music into ironclad techno frameworks.
01.10.2023
Sunday from 12pm to 10pm
12pm
Question Time 2 – Constellation 2003-2023, Archive Installation
With Angelika Burtscher, Daniele Lupo
Stefano Bernardi, Timelapse, sound-performance
Stefano Bernardi completed his studies at the Zelig Documentary and New Media School in Bolzano (1994-1997) and since then he has been working as a sound engineer and sound designer within the creative documentary department, from which he draws the modus operandi, the aptitude and the patience necessary to recreate reality.
Timelapse
It is a multi-instrument live act that echoes the archival installation of Lungomare 20 Constellation 2003-2023. Inspired by the materials on display inside, Stefano Bernardi will bring to life a soundscape, creating a transitional space between the inside and the outside. Timelapse is a pulsating, rhythmic, slow and vigorous membrane in which sounds of different origins resonate words, images and visions of the installation, merging with it.
2pm
AS IF, Dialogue about Sheep, Black Holes, and Movement #2 Panel Discussion and Book Presentation with Kolar Aparna, orizzontale, Beatrice Catanzaro, Rosalyn D’Mello, Roberto Gigliotti, Wissal Houbabi, Marion Oberhofer, Maxi Obexer
Moderated by Lungomare
4pm
Aldo Giannotti & Karin Pauer, The Looper, performance
Aldo Giannotti (Genoa, 1977) is a visual artist who has lived and worked in Vienna since 2000. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, Wimbledon University of Arts in London and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
Karin Pauer is a Vienna based performer and choreographer. In 2008 she received her BA in Choreography at the ArtEZ – Institute of Arts in Arnhem/ The Netherlands. She has since collaborated in various international settings with choreographers, theatre directors, filmmakers and visual artists such as Liquid Loft/ Chris Haring, Davis Freeman/ Random Scream, Yun Jung Kim, Mike O’Connor, Maureen Kägi, Aldo Giannotti, Nicola von Leffern and Veronika Franz.
The Looper
It is a sound structure and a choreographic score of repetition, which takes the visitors’ behaviors, positions, and gestures as a point of reference, thus creating an “embodied archive of visitors”. They will find themselves mirrored or represented through the performing body. Inside this practice a space for empathetic encounters and self-reflection is opening in the relation between the visitors’ own actions, the sound, and the performer. The work dissolves borders between the self and the other and asks for a different level of awareness of one’s own actions and choices.
6pm
YOMER, Singing the Playlist of Lungomare, Karaoke
YOMER Matteo Jamunno, 1983. Born in Naples, raised in Bolzano, escapes to Vienna. Singer-songwriter known to a few as YOMER. Musician of questionable abilities. Aspiring poet in the show Fiabe della buia notte (Fables of the Dark Night). Author and narrator of the soporific Diari dell’orso (Bear Diaries) podcast. Sometimes artist and graphic designer. SAAV member. Winner of the 2023 edition of ZOOM-ED with his first novel called Nel gnome del padre (In the gnome of the father).
A playlist collects memories of the past two decades while a karaoke machine creates new ones. The party is ending and everyone goes home bringing with them memories, new feelings, visions, songs. Karaoke as a collective democratic musical act. As much punk as pop. The coming together of all voices, those who are out of tune, those who are not, those who know the words and those who will learn them. A liberating act that becomes a chorus. Throwing out what has been held in, getting on stage, becoming a spectacle, participating, karaoke is activism.
8pm
Strappi ai piatti, Music selection
On going 30.09 – 01.10.2023
Constellation 2003-2023, Archive Installation Lina Ozerkina, Soundscapes Giorgio Seppi, Light Line
Kitchen: Meteo & Friends and Bar
book
AS IF 16 Dialogues about Sheep, Black Holes, and Movement
On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, Lungomare is publishing with Spector Books the volume AS IF - 16 Dialogues about Sheep, Black Holes, and Movement . Starting from dialogue as a form of relationship that Lungomare has adopted over its 20 years of artistic and cultural activity, and in order to approach themes, people and places, whilst always pushing a little beyond its own boundaries and horizons, the book weaves together 51 voices of people invited to express their own vision for renegotiating the future.
These are international authors who have collaborated with Lungomare over the past 20 years, and who have in turn invited many others, in order to open the discourse to multiple voices.
16 dialogues in 4 chapters
The dialogues are structured into four chapters. Each chapter refers to methodologies and issues that Lungomare has always grappled with in its projects, reflecting on current discourses inherent in artistic production:
1. Activating Contextual Practices 2. The Public Space as a Field of Action 3. Sharing Knowledge 4. A Sense of Belonging
The reader is a study of life and the urgent desire to change it. It revolves around places that are not considered in isolation, but in context; around a here that creates offshoots there. The contributors of the reader reflect on the imminent and urgent changes taking place in our cities, proposing for us humans a new relationship with nature, and reflecting on the ongoing ecological and human crises: what role do trees, fallow land, heterogeneity, listening and dancing play when we think about common ground?
In their dialogues, authors ask from what perspective we adopt words and languages, and look at the whole of reality, inviting us to take responsibility in helping to shape a diverse society that encompasses all species. On the one hand, there are people, their stories, dreams, ideas, languages, and imaginings; on the other, there are the responses that exclude, erase, categorize, and silence these same people. The 16 dialogues invite radical openness and rethinking, highlighting the potential that lies in artistic processes, in order to create resonance and lead to a way of acting and being that can connect, heal, and move people towards new collective and social visions. The reader is an invitation to dive into the thematic meanderings in which the individual chapters are divided, or to go through those aspects that are cross-cutting.
AS IF is also an invitation to formulate additional questions to ask oneself and many others, of all species. AS IF is a proposal to continue to stay in motion.
A Lungomare Reader
Edited by Angelika Burtscher, Daniele Lupo
Published by Spector Books (Leipzig, Germany)
Contributions from Bayo Akomolafe, Kolar Aparna, Amélie Aranguren, Linda Armano, Thierry Boutonnier, Cecilia Canziani, Frida Carazzato, Francesco Careri, Lisa Carignani, Beatrice Catanzaro, Anna Colin, Luigi Coppola, Luisa Lorenza Corna, Binta Diaw, Rosalyn D’Mello, Futurefarmers, Peter Galison, Lorenzo Gerbi, Roberto Gigliotti, Valeria Graziano, Saba Hamzah, Barbara Holub, Wissal Houbabi, Anthony Iles, Grant Kester, Sophie Krier, Jan Liesegang, Federica Martini, Erika Mayr, Lisa Mazza, Sandro Mezzadra, Marzia Migliora, Marion Oberhofer, orizzontale (Juan Lopez Cano, Nasrin Mohiti Asli), Maxi Obexer, Constantin Petcou, Doina Petrescu, Tihana Pupovac, Akansha Rastogi, Sharmistha Saha, Marinella Senatore,, Pablo Calderón Salazar, Meike Schalk, Natalka Sniadanko, Parissima Taheri-Maynard, Pelin Tan, Justin Randolph Thompson, Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro, Marina Vishmidt
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playlist
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Created by Angelika Burtscher Daniele Lupo
Production Lungomare (Elisa Del Prete, Sarah Keck)
