nel paese delle ultime cose Public Program
23.09.22 – 15.10.22
from 23rd September to 15th October
at Manifattura Tabacchi
The Public Program of the group exhibition nel paese delle ultime cose is envisioned as a space of emanation and completion around the research which has led Irene Adorni, Beatrice Favaretto, Roberto Fassone, Lorenzo Lunghi, MRZB and Davide Sgambaro to the realization of their works.
The exhibition combines performances, workshops and meetings curated by the artists whose dialogic and interactive approach creates alternative paths to the language and themes explored by the exhibition. These events are complemented by guided tours with our curator, the activity of cultural mediation is carried out in collaboration with the Accademia di Belle Arti and the SAGAS department of Università di Firenze.
MERZBAU | Tina, Brilla e Malia all’uscita (epilogo)
Friday 23rd september at 6:30pm
Meeting place: Manifattura Tabacchi entrance – via delle Cascine 35
At 7pm it is possible to take a guided tour of the exhibition nel paese delle ultime cose with the curator Caterina Taurelli Salimbeni.
Reservation is required on Eventbrite.
The first appointment with the Public Program of the exhibition nel paese delle ultime cose is with MERZBAU presenting Tina, Brilla and Malia all’uscita (epilogo). It is an outdoor performance that concludes the work Rusty S. & Pitty Blue o Le Sorelle. It takes place at the entrance of Manifattura Tabacchi.
Guided tour of the exhibition with the curator Caterina Taurelli Salimbeni
PERFORMANCE - Irene Adorni | The Ultimate Ensemble - Level III
Wednesday 5th October at 6:30pm
Meeting place: nel paese delle ultime cose exhibition entrance – Manifattura Tabacchi
At 7pm it is possible to take a guided tour of the exhibition nel paese delle ultime cose with the curator Caterina Taurelli Salimbeni.
Free booking is required on Eventbrite
Irene Adorni proposes the reply of Level III which is the last one of the three stages composing her The Ultimate Ensemble. It is a site specific performance focused on defining space and on the concept that movement is an element that transforms reality. Irene Adorni performs the third level of her work using a sound installation, a replica of her opening day performance.
nel paese delle ultime cose - Educational labs by Onouka
Saturday 8th October 2022, from 10:30am to 12:30pm
Meeting place and time: 10:00 am, Manifattura Tabacchi entrance, via delle Cascine 35.
The labs are free but a participation request must be submitted to the following email address nam@manifatturatabacchi.com by the day before the date of the chosen lab.
This event adheres to the Contemporary Day, the event promoted by AMACI – Associazione dei Musei d’Arte Contemporanea Italiani.
NAM – Not A Museum in collaboration with Onouka Association promotes two educational labs addressed to children and teenagers from 6 to 15 years old inside the nel paese delle ultime cose exhibition.
The title of the exhibition, nel paese delle ultime cose, is taken from Paul Auster’s novel In the Country of Last Things. To introduce the young participants to the dystopian and parodoxical country of the last things, an itinerary is created inside the exhibition area. The participants become words, memories and technologies seekers involved in a process where disappearance becomes discovery.
TALK - Beatrice Favaretto | HOLD ME WHILE I’M NAKED. Beatrice Favaretto with Michela Alessandrini
Saturday, 8th October at 4pm
Meeting place: spazio FESTA – Manifattura Tabacchi.
At 5.30 pm it is possible to take a guided tour of the exhibition nel paese delle ultime cose with the curator Caterina Taurelli Salimbeni.
Reservation is required on Eventbrite
These events adheres to the Contemporary Day, the event promoted by AMACI – Associazione dei Musei d’Arte Contemporanea Italiani.
Getting inspiration from Miss Italia, a work on display, both Beatrice Favaretto and Michela Alessandrini have a conversation around the mode of representing sexuality in the contemporary world: the direction explored or to be explored, the differences that help define individual and collective subjectivities. An excursus on the history of images in motion from the cinema and the experimental television to the Pornohub and Post porno trends.
TALK - Lorenzo Lunghi | Presentation of Specchio Riflesso
Saturday 8th October at 6pm
The route begins shortly before 6 p.m., partially overlapping with the guided tour. As in procession, people move along Manifattura Tabacchi up to the spazio Festa.
This event adheres to the Contemporary Day, the event promoted by AMACI – Associazione dei Musei d’Arte Contemporanea Italiani.
Lorenzo Lunghi’s work, Specchio Riflesso, involves the introduction of a lonely talk/performance. The human presence that has exploited the technology of Specchio Riflesso during the entire Superblast residency activates a ritual of egocentric deformation. Ego is the core of a sensitive and perceptive personality overexposed to technology and microphones that can pick up electromagnetic frequencies, ultrasounds, light, feelings and paranoias. Just like bats, people wander through echolocation, bouncing sounds and information which help them moving within a context.
Guided tour of the exhibition with the curator Caterina Taurelli Salimbeni
WORKSHOP - Roberto Fassone | Il pifferaio alle porte dell’alba, workshop by Roi de Coupe
Thursday 13th October at 7am
Meeting place: nel paese delle ultime cose exhibition entrance – Manifattura Tabacchi
To participate, a motivational letter must be submitted by midnight on Oct. 10 to the following email address: nam@manifatturatabacchi.com. The motivational letter should start with the following words: “Vischio e verde limpido.” In the email subject line you should write: “Application Il pifferaio alle porte dell’alba.”
At 9:00 it will be possible to take a guided tour of the exhibition reserved for workshop participants.
Il pifferaio alle porte dell’alba is a workshop devoted to the relationship between music and books. Its goal is to create a book within 41 minutes and 56 seconds which is the exact length of Pink Floyd’s debut album The Piper At the Gates of Dawn. The book is written collaboratively: participants are connected to a common Google drive and the designated area is filled with music. Everyone can freely compile the drive with original writings, appropriate texts and images downloaded from the web while getting carried away by the music. The writing of the book ends at the time the music album ends. The outcome is printed and published by Roi de Coupe.
WORKSHOP - Davide Sgambaro | Non dormire, workshop by Davide Sgambaro
The workshop on Thursday 13 October has been canceled and is waiting to be rescheduled.
Non dormire is a workshop dedicated to creating a collective fairy tale. Delving into themes dear to David Sgambaro’s research, Non dormire gets in touch with the works he presented in the exhibition nel paese delle ultime cose by NAM – Not A Museum. His workshop evolves around a collective exchange of views about desire and sacrifice explored through the metaphor of sleep. The topics addressed are dreamlike imagery and ideal imagery, nocturnal stimulation and the paradox of daytime reality, insomnia and childlike sleep. The participants follow the artist’s research and creation methodology therefore they are given the opportunity to delve into original modes of production and to compare different practices. Together, participants create a conceptual map of generational feelings and reactions to the struggles in the post-capitalist era.
The workshop is held from 2 pm to 8 pm, it is free and open to a maximum of 10 people. Students, artists, curators and anyone who is interested can participate.
nel paese delle ultime cose - Educational labs by Onouka
Saturday 15th October 2022, from 10:30am to 12:30pm
Meeting place and time: 10:00 am, Manifattura Tabacchi entrance, via delle Cascine 35.
The labs are free but a participation request must be submitted to the following email address nam@manifatturatabacchi.com by the day before the date of the chosen lab.
NAM – Not A Museum in collaboration with Onouka Association promotes two educational labs addressed to children and teenagers from 6 to 15 years old inside the nel paese delle ultime cose exhibition.
The title of the exhibition, nel paese delle ultime cose, is taken from Paul Auster’s novel In the Country of Last Things. To introduce the young participants to the dystopian and parodoxical country of the last things, an itinerary is created inside the exhibition area. The participants become words, memories and technologies seekers involved in a process where disappearance becomes discovery.