PERUGIA | Various venues | First week – 4 > 10 June 2012

TRACKS - Artistic Workshops Storytelling Urbana
"The City Suspended"

MEETINGS - Maurer United | “Approaching Public Space”
Francesco Careri | “Walkscapes”

Comma, Urban Art Festival in the city of Perugia this year second edition, inaugurates the very dense book of events dedicated to the city as a vast, potential container linguistic projects, forms of expression and interpretative codes to pay past, present and future, stabilizing the link between history, cronaca and Utopia.

Accepting the challenge launched by Festarch, festival of architecture to be held a Perugia dal 7 to the 10 June and will propose a reflection on "The city within a city", Comma intervene, parallel, proposing models of realization, imagined by artists who interact with the urban context recognizing it as a raw material of the current art forms.

In laboratory Paths, "The City Suspended", workshop for ten young artists selected through a call for national competition, Bob Gibson, Star of the collective British The London Police, among the highest in the European street art, will lead the participants in the creation of a 'environmental installation collective and a video artistic-documentary on the process of evolution and development of the city, mutant organism from multifaceted dimensions. Set in the picturesque backdrop of’Former Hospital Fatebenefratelli, one of the oldest and most emblematic areas of Perugia opened on this occasion, the city model in the city developed by the workshop-boys will be inaugurated Sunday 10 June.

At the same time, will start the Meetings with the protagonists of new reflections on the city as a hub of languages, ideas and formulas expressive of contemporary. The frame chosen for the meetings to be held in Comma throughout its course until 12 July, is the square of the Circus, auditorium open at the foot of the Rocca Paolina and Perugia returned to the symbol of the modern nation, the city antioscurantista, the capital released.

On this occasion, Zedz, star of the firmament olandese, install one of the temporary monuments that have made him famous: a futuristic totem, playful and open to reading neo-constructivist, a living space and living, a theater inside the removable permanent stage of the square. Another - can - city in the city.

The first two meetings will involve the public in discussions that will reflect in the locations and in the making of Comma, as an experiment of Chinese boxes. Dutch architects Maurer United, presented by Bas Ernst, cultural manager of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Rome (partner and supporter of the festival Comma), discuss Friday 8 June its innovative approach to the design of public spaces dedicated to social: spaces designed and implemented constantly confronted with groups linked to the contemporary urban subcultures.
Saturday 9 June, Francesco Careri, architect, essayist and founder of the collective Roman Stalker / Osservatorio Nomade, presenting its proposal to rehabilitate marginal spaces and urban spaces, to reclaim the city from below: instrument adopted, walking, reread as aesthetic practice.

PARAGRAPH appointments this week

4 > 10 June 2012
Artistic Workshop
at Perugia, Ex Fatebenefratelli Hospital
Piazza San Giovanni di Dio, 4

8 June | hours 19.00
Meetings
“Approaching Public Space”
will be present Maurer United (architects, Holland) with Ernst Bas (cultural manager of the Embassy of the Netherlands, Rome) at Piazza del Circo, Perugia

9 June | hours 19.00
Meetings
“Walkscapes”: Walking as aesthetic practice
will be Francesco Careri (architect) Carmen Leombruni (S.O leader. Old Town, Municipality of Perugia) at Piazza del Circo, Perugia

10 June | hours 16.00 > 19.00
Inauguration of "Paths", video and installation environment
at Perugia, Ex Fatebenefratelli Hospital

Comma - Second edition
A View on the European Contemporary Art Scene
Various venues, Perugia

4 June - 15 July 2012
first week – 4 > 10 June 2012

TRACKS- Artistic Workshops Storytelling Urbana
"The City Suspended"

MEETINGS - Maurer United |“Approaching Public Space”
Francesco Careri | “Walkscapes”

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