ludovica carbotta | danilo correale | marco lampis | viviana milan | ciprian muresan | anna positano | anja puntari | stefano romano | mirko smerdel | christian tripodina | marco villani
Collages of postcards, that disassemble and recompose the city’s popular image, reveal those processes that lead to a common imagery grounded in our collective consciousness. By creating utopian landscapes, spaces that are possible and not real, the collages are a subsequent interpretation of the characteristic possibilities of this type of imagination.
INTERSTITIAL SPACES: hybrid and Morphing landscapes, mutant architectures and mutant people.
STORY TELLING: to create connection between past and future, new private mythologies.
MICRO-HISTORIES and their relations with political or social power.
AMBIGUITY in perception of reality: to promise to show extra ordinary stories trough ordinary and private views.
MEMORY and ARCHIVE: not only to represent but also to work through a discursive terrain, an alternative knowledge and counter-memory, an archeology and a mental geography of contemporary life.
“Because the document’s raw material is rhetoric, the practitioner has to constantly evolve a rhetoric of rhetoric to make documents yield. This requires more not less imagination, and a vigilance about the relationship between the externality of a document and the subjectivity implicit in the act of reading it different from the norm”.
(Raqs Media Collective, from “First Information Report” 2003)
On show at CHAN: Down by the sea. MythMaking Landscapes.
Download biography (file .pdf)
Mirko Smerdel's website
Collages of postcards, that disassemble and recompose the city’s popular image, reveal those processes that lead to a common imagery grounded in our collective consciousness. By creating utopian landscapes, spaces that are possible and not real, the collages are a subsequent interpretation of the characteristic possibilities of this type of imagination.
INTERSTITIAL SPACES: hybrid and Morphing landscapes, mutant architectures and mutant people.
STORY TELLING: to create connection between past and future, new private mythologies.
MICRO-HISTORIES and their relations with political or social power.
AMBIGUITY in perception of reality: to promise to show extra ordinary stories trough ordinary and private views.
MEMORY and ARCHIVE: not only to represent but also to work through a discursive terrain, an alternative knowledge and counter-memory, an archeology and a mental geography of contemporary life.
“Because the document’s raw material is rhetoric, the practitioner has to constantly evolve a rhetoric of rhetoric to make documents yield. This requires more not less imagination, and a vigilance about the relationship between the externality of a document and the subjectivity implicit in the act of reading it different from the norm”.
(Raqs Media Collective, from “First Information Report” 2003)
On show at CHAN: Down by the sea. MythMaking Landscapes. Download biography (file .pdf) Mirko Smerdel's website
