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film screening and artist talk in Berlin: Aleksander Prus Caneira. Quantum Physics and the Portals of the Unconscious

Aleksander Prus Caneira. Quantum Physics and the Portals of the Unconscious, the video piece i recently co-authored with artist eva frapiccini, originally included in her solo exhibition museo caneira |la fisica del possibile i curated in turin (italy) in september 2011 is travelling and now on view until 09.03 in berlin at sine die project room.


do not miss the artist presentation on 24.02 at 10.30 pm!


screening organised by White fish tank.

Three interviews to unravel curatorial practices in Yerevan

La Tempra di Yerevan I and II and Oasi nel deserto are three interviews to three curators based in Yerevan, to inquire on the state of contemporary art and curatorial practices in Armenia. A project (in Italian) for Undo.net, in collaboration with curators and critics Eleonora Farina and Marianna Liosi, two of my fellow participants in the 6th Summer Seminars for Art Curators in Yerevan, Armenia, in July/August 2011.

La Tempra di Yerevan I: interview with Harutyun Alpetyan, co-director & curator of the artist-run AJZ space
La Tempra di Yerevan II: interview with Eva Khachatryan, independent curator
Oasi nel deserto: interview with Susanna Gyulamiryan, independent curator and director of Art and Cultural Studies Laboratory

Dreams' Time Capsule - episode 1, Piazza Maria Teresa, Turin

Dreams’ Time Capsule: Installazione in Piazza Maria Teresa, aperta da giovedì 3 a sabato 5 dalle 18.00 alle 02.00 e domenica 6 novembre dalle 9.00 alle 18.00


Dreams’ Time Capsule
Durante Artissima 18 (dal 3 al 6 novembre), la prima mostra personale di Eva Frapiccini presso la galleria
Alberto Peola - Museo Caneira | la fisica del possibile - estenderà i propri confini fisici, occupando
temporaneamente lo spazio verde di Piazza Maria Teresa.

Con il suo laboratorio mobile Dreams’ Time Capsule, Frapiccini offre alla città una stazione temporanea di
ascolto, registrazione e deposito di sogni, che avvia le proprie attività proprio a Torino per poi apparire nelle
piazze e nei cortili di diverse città europee ed extraeuropee. Un viaggio in più tappe lungo poco più di un
anno che permetterà la creazione di un archivio audio di sogni, sigillato completamente nel 2012, e riaperto
dall’artista e da un team di studiosi soltanto dopo dieci anni, nel 2022. Un’opera performativa ispirata al
sogno come traccia dell’immaginario collettivo e che richiede la partecipazione del pubblico, di cui accoglie
testimonianze ed esperienze oniriche e di passaggio; Dreams’ Time Capsule è un esperimento atto a
raccogliere uno spaccato sociale e a tracciare l’evoluzione del vissuto onirico e della memoria
dell’immaginario collettivo.

La struttura mobile atta a ospitare Dreams’ Time Capsule è stata sviluppata dall’artista in collaborazione con
l’architetto Marco Canevacci di Plastique Fantastique. Studio nato a Berlino nel 1999, Plastique Fantastique
sperimenta con le possibilità performative degli ambienti urbani attraverso strutture sintetiche temporanee
leggere che intrudono il paesaggio, generando nuovi ambienti ibridi, e permettono un’osmosi tra il pubblico e
il privato. La bolla sintetica pensata appositamente per Dreams’ Time Capsule, con la sua camera interna e
l’ambiente sonoro che essa racchiude, proietterà il visitatore fuori dal contesto urbano per collocarlo in una
dimensione spaziale fuori dell’ordinario, caratterizzata da sensazioni profonde di leggerezza e intimità, in
uno scenario perfetto per una registrazione individuale delle proprie testimonianze oniriche.

Dreams' Time Capsule è un'opera patrocinata dal Comune di Torino

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Dreams’ Time Capsule: Installation in Piazza Maria Teresa, open from Thursday 03.11 until Saturday 05.11 between 6 pm and 2 am and Sunday 06.11 between 9 am and 6 pm.

Dreams’ Time Capsule
During Artissima 18 (3 - 6 November 2011), Eva Frapiccini’s first solo exhibition at Galleria Alberto Peola -
Museo Caneira | la fisica del possibile – will be extending its physical boundaries by temporarily occupying
the green area in Piazza Maria Teresa, Turin.

With her mobile laboratory Dreams’ Time Capsule, Frapiccini offers to the city a temporary station where the public can listen to dreams as well as entrust their own in the form of a recording. It kick-starts its activities in Turin, to then appear in a number of squares and courtyards in different cities across Europe, and beyond. A long trip unfolding through different legs, lasting for just over one year, it will allow for the creation of an audio archive of dreams, which will be sealed in 2012 and re-opened by the artist together with a team of researchers only ten years later, in 2022. A performative work drawing its inspiration from dreams as traces of a collective imagery, Dreams’ Time Capsule requires the participation and engagement of its visitors, whose testimonies of passage and oneiric experiences it will hold. It is an experiment to construct a crosssection of society and trace the evolution of dream states and of the memory of collective imagery.

The mobile structure hosting Dreams’ Time Capsule has been developed by the artist in collaboration with
architect Marco Canevacci of Plastique Fantastique. A studio founded in 1999 in Berlin, Plastique
Fantastique experiments with the performative possibilities offered by urban environments through light
temporary synthetic structures that intrude landscape, generating new hybrid realms and allowing for an
osmotic blurring between public and private spheres.
The synthetic bubble especially designed for Dreams’ Time Capsule, with its inner chamber and the
soundscape it encloses, will take the public into an extraordinary spatial dimension, outside the urban
context. A dimension characterized by deep feelings of lightness and intimacy, setting the perfect
atmosphere for the visitor’s individual recording of his/her own oneiric testimonies.

Dreams’ Time Capsule is an installation under the patronage of Comune di Torino.

Museo Caneira | la fisica del possibile

The exhibition opened with a great public attendance on 22.09 and we're seeing the first interviews and reviews coming out already (for now, only press in Italian):

* UNDO.NET INTERVIEW: Eva Frapiccini: a 15 minutes something audio interview published by the platform Undo.net in the Voices section, dedicated to  interviews to the most interesting curators, artists, researchers and museum directors in Italy. Originally broadcast live on 21.09 around 5 pm during the program Humus on Radio Città del Capo, it features myself and artist Eva Frapiccini on a telephone interview with the Italian art critic and curator Massimo Marchetti.

* INSIDE ART review:  Più veloce di un neutrino, an interesting review (tho with some inaccurate details) published on 30.09 on the website INSIDE ART in the SPAZIPRIVATI section. Written by Susanna Sara Mandice

* Artribune comments on the TAG (Turin white night for art galleries) with a quick and very flattering comment on the show, choosing an image of Museo Caneira | la fisica del possibile as the iconic image of the night, in the article: Torino, si ricomincia. Una manciata di gallerie inaugurano all'unisono. Con ottima partecipazione di pubblico e buon livello di proposte artistiche.


* LaStampa / TorinoSette has chosen the exhibition as a must-see and dedicates a long review in the first page of the Art section to Museo Caneira | La fisica del possibile, see image below:

* Artribune publishes a short video interview with myself and the artist, and a short review with a variety of images, titled "Eva contro Eva".

* LaStampa 27.10.2011, in the Culture column Renato Rizzo reviews Museo Caneira | La fisica del possibile, the article is titled "In mostra una fiction dell'arte", see image below:

Coming soon! Opening of the exhibition Museo Caneira | La fisica del possibile, a project by Eva Frapiccini, curated by Elisa Tosoni; at Galleria Alberto Peola, Turin, 22.09.2011

(for English, please scroll down)

ARTE CONTEMPORANEA A L B E R T O P E O L A Eva Frapiccini Museo Caneira | la fisica del possibile a cura di Elisa Tosoni Inaugurazione: giovedì 22 settembre 2011 dalle ore 19.00 alle ore 23.00 Durata: da venerdì 23 settembre a sabato 12 novembre 2011 Orario: da lunedì a sabato dalle 15.30 alle 19.30 mattino su appuntamento La galleria Alberto Peola ha il piacere di presentare la prima personale in una galleria privata dell’artista Eva Frapiccini. Per l’intera durata di Museo Caneira | la fisica del possibile, la galleria si trasforma in un museo dedicato alla figura di Aleksander Prus Caneira, scienziato nato a Barcellona nel 1928 e scomparso in circostanze misteriose a Torino nel 1991. L’ingresso della galleria diventa la reception di un museo, con a disposizione testi informativi - cartacei e in supporto digitale - sulla fondazione fortemente voluta dalla famiglia Caneira. Le sale ospitano una collezione di singolari ciondoli porta-ritratto contenenti fotografie o disegni di ciò che il fisico definiva porte dell’inconscio, oltre a una serie di lettere, diari, annotazioni e riviste scientifiche, volti a presentare la sua ricerca sui tunnel spazio-temporali, l’invisibile e la relazione con l’inconscio junghiano. Gli oggetti e i reperti presenti in mostra rappresentano i pochi materiali sopravvissuti a un incendio doloso scoppiato nello studio dello scienziato nel 1992. Ricerca e vita dello studioso si intrecciano in un breve documentario attraverso immagini d’archivio, scene di vita familiare e testimonianze di collaboratori e allievi. Fisico teorico specializzato in quantistica e cosmica, antropologo e saggista, fondatore ed editore della rivista scientifica Source, figura tanto geniale quanto tormentata, Aleksander Prus Caneira studiò tra Zurigo e Princeton e contribuì alle ricerche dei suoi illustri insegnanti Wolfgang Pauli, Eugene Wigner e John Archibald Wheeler. Fu amico e collaboratore del fisico Hugh Everett III, della psicologa junghiana Marie-Louise Von Franz e intrattenne una fitta corrispondenza epistolare con lo scrittore Jorge Luis Borges. Insegnò presso le università di Princeton, Zurigo e infine a Torino, dove tra il ‘65 e il ‘76 fu anche attivo come ricercatore nelle squadre del Centro di Fisica Cosmica e del CNR. Le sue teorie sulle porte dell’inconscio e sui portali sospesi, malviste dalle alte cattedre internazionali, lo portarono a discostarsi gradualmente dagli ambienti accademici, fino al definitivo ritiro dall’insegnamento nel ‘76. Sin dalla morte del padre nel ’53, Caneira aveva ampliato il raggio dei propri studi sull’invisibile, cercando non solo di rispondere ai quesiti tipici della fisica quantistica e cosmica, ma anche di trovare un nesso tra spazio-tempo e sogni, archetipi, e il passaggio tra la vita e la morte, attraverso l’antropologia e le ricerche sul campo. Applicando con originalità a tali fenomeni il concetto di sincronicità di Jung - Pauli, la teoria dei mondi paralleli di Everett III e la geometro-dinamica di Wheeler, nel 1987, sotto lo pseudonimo Alek Arencia, giunse alla pubblicazione del saggio di successo Una vita nell'aldilà. Frapiccini opera una forte critica non solo nei confronti delle logiche di storicizzazione, inserendovi un personaggio “dimenticato”, ma mira anche – come già in Stanza, 2010 – a mettere in discussione l’attendibilità delle fonti, il nostro modo di relazionarci con la Storia della nostra cultura, e cosa possa essere effettivamente considerato auctoritas. Durante Artissima 18 (dal 4 al 6 Novembre), Museo Caneira | la fisica del possible occuperà temporaneamente uno spazio pubblico in Via della Rocca, Torino, con il laboratorio mobile Dream’s Time Capsule, una stazione di registrazione e deposito di sogni, che viaggerà per il mondo tra novembre 2011 e dicembre 2012, per collezionare un database audio di sogni, da aprire e ascoltare solo dopo dieci anni. (testo di Elisa Tosoni) Per ulteriori informazioni contattare la galleria. Via della Rocca 29 - 10123 Torino (Italia) tel 0118124460 fax 01119791942 info@albertopeola.com www.albertopeola.com ARTE CONTEMPORANEA A L B E R T O P E O L A Eva Frapiccini Museo Caneira | la fisica del possibile Curated by Elisa Tosoni Exhibition Opening: Thursday 22nd September 2011, 7 to 11 pm Show open: from Friday 23rd September to Saturday 12th November 2011 Opening hours : Monday to Saturday, 3.30 to 7.30 pm. Mornings by appointment only Alberto Peola Arte Contemporanea has the pleasure to present Eva Frapiccini’s first solo show in a private gallery. For the entire duration of Museo Caneira | la fisica del possible (Museum Caneira | the physics of the possible), the gallery is transformed into a museum dedicated to the scientist Aleksander Prus Caneira, born in Barcelona in 1928 and who disappeared under mysterious circumstances from Turin in 1991. The foyer of the gallery becomes the front desk of the museum, providing information - both in print and digital form- on its foundation, strongly advocated by the Caneira family. To present his research on space-time tunnels, the invisible and the relationship with the Jungian unconscious, the rooms accommodate a variety of objects: a series of letters, diaries, notes and scientific journals, and a collection of unique lockets holding photographs or drawings of what the physicist defined doors to the unconscious. The objects and the finds displayed in the exhibition represent the few items rescued from an arson that, in 1992, almost entirely destroyed the scientist’s studio. Furthermore, the research and life of the scientist intertwine in a short documentary constructed through archival images, scenes of his everyday life and testimonies from his collaborators and students. A physicist specialized in quantum and cosmic theories, an anthropologist and essayist and the founder and editor of the science journal Source, Aleksander Prus Caneira – a rather tormented genius figure – studied between Zurich and Princeton and contributed to the research of his famous professors, namely Wolfgang Pauli, Eugene Wigner and John Archibald Wheeler. He was a friend and collaborator of the physicist Hugh Everett III, and of the Jungian psychologist Marie-Louise Von Franz. He also held a lengthy mail correspondence with the writer Jorge Luis Borges. Caneira taught at Princeton, as well as Zurich and Turin, where – between 1965 and 1976 -- he was active as a researcher in the teams of the Cosmic Physics Centre and CNR. His theories on the doors of the unconscious and on suspended portals – largely despised by the international scientific community – caused him to gradually distance himself from academia, until his final resignation from teaching in 1976. Since the death of his father in 1953, Caneira had been widening the scope of his studies on the invisible, trying not only to find answers to questions typical of quantum and cosmic physics, but also to locate a nexus between space-time and dreams, archetypes, and with the passage from life to death through the anthropological and his own field research. By originally applying a series of concepts to such phenomena --for example Jung – Pauli’s synchronicity, Everett III’s theory of parallel worlds, and Wheeler’s geometrodynamics-- under the pseudonym Alek Arencia, in 1987 he published the successful essay Life in the other word. Frapiccini strongly criticizes not only the logic behind the production of history, inserting a character who  has been “forgotten”, but aims also at discussing the validity of sources, our way of relating to our cultural History, and what could be truly considered auctoritas – as in Stanza, 2010. During the artfair Artissima 18 (4th to 6th of November), Museo Caneira | la fisica del possible will temporarily occupy a public space in Via della Rocca, Turin, with the mobile laboratory unit Dream’s Time Capsule, a dream recording station and repository, that will travel around the world between November 2011 and December 2012, to collect an audio database of dreams, to be opened and listened to only after 10 years. (text by Elisa Tosoni) For further information, please contact the gallery. Via della Rocca 29 - 10123 Torino (Italy) tel 0039 (0)11 8124460 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            0039 (0)11 8124460      end_of_the_skype_highlighting fax 0039 (0)11 19791942 info@albertopeola.com www.albertopeola.com *** image credits: Eva Frapiccini from the series Portals, 2011 Obj. Nr.01 – Barcelona, Plaça Sant Felip Neri, 1932 courtesy: the artist and Galleria Alberto Peola, Turin

Coming soon! 6th International summer school for art curators - Yerevan, Armenia

Getting ready for the Seminars!
Here's the program
and below the abstract of my presentation

See you in Yerevan, maybe?

Elisa Tosoni
Transnational Artistic Events: On Temporality and its Repercussions on the Local Context

Is it possible to imagine a biennial - the most iconic of transnational art events - as something that could possibly exceed its canonized temporality? Could an event be considered not as a momentum, but rather as an iteration of simultaneous momenta, for which power resides in a moving - evolving - mass, becoming something that stretches across a time-lapse of two years? Or would the art system then face the paradox of a continuous, eternal biennial, in which one edition fades through to the next? And, again, what are the consequences of the voracious rhythms of artistic production and consumption, often dictated by those of global institutions, on the locality? How could a host city or territory forge a biennial in becoming, adapted to the rhythms of its own social norms, its inhabitants and geographies, aiming towards sustainability and perhaps a fruitful slowness? Rethinking the temporality of such events, by shifting the attention away from the “finished” exhibition and artworks, the opening week and the art professionals’ tourism, towards a continuously accretive process, in which a variety of tangents unfold simultaneously or remain idle, appears to be a solution to connect with - rather than tower over - the local context.
The presentation will address these questions through the lens of three case studies: BB3 (Bucharest, Romania, 2008), Manifesta (with particular focus on the exhibition The Rest of Now, and its offspring Tabula Rasa, at Manifesta 7 - Bolzano, Italy, 2008) and the 6th Momentum Biennial (the exhibition Imagine Being Here Now, and its itinerant performance program - Moss, Norway, and across Scandinavia, 2011).