The Intruders

From 7 May 2015 to 28 June 2015

Venice

Place: Various locations

Address: Dorsoduro 1542

Responsibles: Federica Bianconi, Daniele Capra

Telefono per informazioni: +39.338.7060926

E-Mail info: info@theintruders.info

Official site: http://www.theintruders.info

The Intruders stems from a reflection on the potential that an artwork should be alien to the context in which it is housed. A work can be unexpected according its physical location, its contents, in the making of, or in the intellectual process that have determined it: a work can be seen as the result of a series of complex motivations unknown. Claiming their own subversiveness in the context in which is hosted, the artwork itself may in fact be the intruder, introduced “by force, through surprise or ruse” as Jean-Luc Nancy writes. In this way it becomes an element out of context, an irregular or, as Nancy continues, “a disturbance and perturbation of intimacy.”

The show develops the idea of artwork as a device that pursues its own secrety condition into full play. The perception of the artworks is then splitted through an exhibition that is hosted in several locations of Venice, prompting the visitor to try the experience of the flâneur, someone who interacts with the urban context by seizing its diversity and its significant aspects. In this way each observer always has a partial view of the exhibition, depending upon the locations and works seen, and his desire to pursue a physical pathway among the different venues of the city.

The show is curated by Federica Bianconi and Daniele Capra and with the participation of twelve of the most important young artists of the Italian art scene, who each measure themselves with a space of the city by developing a strategy based on intrusion and disorder. The project is a choral exhibition spread over ten locations in the city, the self performance of Drifters and a performance by Roberto Pugliese starting from the Accademia di Belle Arti on May 6th at 5 pm.

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