RES DERELICTA - From abandoned to emblematic places

11 September - 12 October 2008

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RES DERELICTA – From abandoned to emblematic places
Vincenzo Casali | Harald Gsaller | Armando Lulaj | Built Event

11 September - 12 October 2008

Opening:
Wednesday, September 10^th at 18.30

Presentation of the special project by Vincenzo Casali
Behind my back Vitra Headquarters by F.O. Gehry
Thursday, September 11^th at 18.30 - Campo Sant’Agnese (Venice)

With the kind collaboration of
KAM - Centre of Mediterranean Architecture, Chania, Crete, Greece
University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
Vitra Design Foundation, Birsfelden, Switzerland

Res derelicta in the Roman law meant the state of abandonment of goods and things of which you may regain possession by occupatio. Here it is a metaphor for considering the fringe areas, and for thinking about that which is left over from all rational territorial planning and production processes. Thus, it is a metaphor aiming to show how our society is characterised by its incredible ability to producing scraps, relics, waste, making abandonment into a widespread and ubiquitous condition.
Environment/dump, consumption/waste, use/disuse: among res derelictae you can find not just the negative aspect of our society, but also other possibilities.
Art is a research that actually seizes this potentiality, these possible further meanings and knows how to develop them into new ways of participation and communication. Thus abandonment and the emblematic meet in spaces and practices that are experimental and ductile, as well as paradigmatic.
An oil barrel rolls through the streets of New York and Rome, reflecting the faint and unsteady image of the city; a desert island  in the Sporades archipelago becomes the setting for the re-enactment of possible narrations; a philosopher thinks back to the places and stages of his education, whilst short descriptions reveal unusual urban views; an ancient Italian park is emblematically caught in its total state of neglect.
Armando Lulaj, the Built Event team (coordinated by Aristide Antonas and Filippos Oreopoulos), Vincenzo Casali and Harald Gsaller present a journey through places and things, opening up new points of view on the role of art, the processes of individual and collective transformation and on the condition of the spaces we live in.

The project is part of a wider initiative by Galleria Contemporaneo, the Vitra Design Foundation, the ISR-Spazio Culturale Svizzero in Venice and the Venice Academy of Fine Arts that consists of an exhibition, Building Vitra – New Projects (September 12 – 30, 2008 at  Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi, Dorsoduro Venice),  and of a conference with Jacques Herzog - Herzog & De Meuron (September 12th   - 11.00am  at Aula Magna, Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Ex Ospedale degli Incurabili, Dorsoduro - Venice).

 

 

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