Artist residency and production of a new work by Anouk Chambaz
Mind the Border is an artist residency project in Gorizia/Nova Gorica produced by Altreforme, aimed at the production of a new video art work. The professional artist selected for the first edition is the Swiss Anouk Chambaz (Lausanne, 1993).
Mind the Border was created with the objective of investigating the border not as a dividing limit between two national identities, Italian and Slovenian, but as a place of encounter and permanent coexistence for people from many nations of the world. In this sense Gorizia, with its history marked by ethnic, linguistic, religious and social complexity, embodies a uniqueness, a peculiarity that can become emblematic of global situations. The work that will be created aims to represent this complexity in a poetic, non-documentary way.
The project also envisages meetings and informative and educational moments, thanks to the collaboration with the main cinemas for the dissemination of film culture in the region: Kinemax in Gorizia, Cinemazero in Pordenone and Visionario in Udine, as well as with the New Media School of Art of the University of Nova Gorica.
These encounters, which will also include an important screening and artist’s talk with the internationally renowned artist and director Yervant Gianikian (Merano, 1942), have the important objective of spreading the themes of promoting interculturality and promoting the languages of contemporary art as tools for reading and interpreting our time, bringing the public and in particular the new generations closer to an artistic and creative use of media languages.
Mind the Border is produced by Altreforme, Udine, and financed by the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia. In collaboration with Casa Netural, Associazione ETRARTE, Agorè, Young for Fun, Cinemazero, Visionario, Kinemax, University of Nova Gorica School of Arts.
