2nd birthday party of RiMaflow

RiMaflow
via Bocaccio 1
Trezzano sul Naviglio, Milan.Artworks, video projections, screen printing and more
with Collettivo Isola Art Center, Dario Azzelini & Oliver Ressler, Emanuel Balbinot, Chiara Balsamo, Angelo Castucci, Orestis Mavroudis, Philippe Nathan, Dan Perjovschi, Mariette Schiltz, Duccio Scotini, SerioCollective (Edith Poirier, Daniele Rossi), Milena Steinmetzer, Camilla Topuntoli and others.

List of videos presented:

Occupy, Resist, Produce – Rimaflow
video 34’ 20’’ (it/eng), 2014
Oliver Ressler & Dario Azzellini
In their series of films and installations “Occupy, Resist, Produce”, Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler focus on the occupation and recuperation of factories in Europe as a deliberate step towards workers’ control. In the three exemplary factories in Milan, Rome and Thessaloniki the workers took the initiative and became protagonists, building horizontal social relations on the production sites and adopting mechanisms of collective decision-making. The recuperated workplaces reinvented themselves, building links with local communities and social movements, and thus became components of a socio-political action rather than a merely economic procedure.

Chiara Balsamo, Duccio Scotini A City of the World
Video HD trasferito on dvd, 9’
2013
A City of the World springs from a series of encounters which took place in Val di Susa (Italy) and reacts to the numerous arrests that affected the No Tav (No Speed Train) movement since 26 January 2012. Just as in the novel “The Cities of the World” by Elio Vittorini from which the text in the video is drawn – the city is understood an expression of a model of comunitarian living that lends itself to a political project.

Il presente espanso / The Expanded Present
Mariette Schiltz
video 2’ 44”, (it/eng)
2014
A Tiger’s Leap wrests shards shivers from the past, unfulfilled, failed and successful revolutionary practices, composes them in the present with new struggles, to invent case by case, constituent powers, new and better forms of conviviality. Isabell Lorey wrote the text “The Expanded Present” for Isola Utopia, in San Mauro Cilento, end of July 2014. Voiceover and translation: Steve Piccolo.

Isola Utopia Revolution
Camilla Topuntoli
Video 6’28’’
2014
Running, the young people of San Mauro Cilento (SA) carry around the banner of Isola Utopia.

Isola Utopia Floating
Camilla Topuntoli
Video 2’07’’, (it/eng)
2014
In Latvia, a group of researchers, during the symposium “Urban Utopia: Art and Culture as a Tool for Exploring and Researching City“, carries the banner of Isola Utopia around Riga and surroundings.

Isola Utopia Rising
Camilla Topuntoli
Video 3’12’’ (it/eng)
2014
The flag of Isola Utopia is raised in the great golden metal dome of the Secession building in Vienna.

Tentativo di Tentativo di volo
Angelo Castucci and Francesco Lomonaco
video 1’13”
2013
The video is part of the “Ceiling Sags” series, produced for the project a> Monte. A group of “extravagant“ locals from Montescaglioso (Matera) tries to remake one of the most famous performances of contemporary art without having ever seen it, relying only on recounts from the artists. This video is based on “Attempt to fly“, 1969, by Gino De Dominicis.

Isola Solar Cloud (by Nicola Uzunowski)
Camilla Topuntoli
Video 1’20’’ (it/eng)
2014
This solar cloud is part of an ongoing research of Nikola Uzunovski.
The sun-clouds are hot air balloons that rise with solar energy.
They are made up of three layers of plastic that accumulate and preserve solar
energy inside them. Such clouds can be used to create microclimates suitable
for extreme meteorological conditions, thus becoming social attractors.
In the context of Isola Utopia in San Mauro Cilento, Nikola Uzunovski
sought to create clouds with which a human being could fly.

Attempt to fly
Orestis Mavroudis
video 5’ 00”
2013
In his dark laboratory, a man builds a paradoxical flying machine. At the end, he goes to the mountains, to test the potentialities of his construction.

Ape che vola
Roberto Balletti (withnthe contribution of Emanuel Balbinot)
video 0’ 45”
2014
The video shows the project of an engineer who constructed a flying bee.

Culture don’t grow on trees
video 5’ 39”
2014
Emanuel Balbinot, Angelo Castucci, Bert Theis, Flora Vannini and Wei-Ning Yang
Music by Isola Art’s Club band (Steve Piccolo, Naima Faraò, Igor Francia, Denis C. Novello, Walter Novello, Vincenzo Onida, Gak Sato, Franz Pasquillo, Marco Pezzati, Fabio Bertolotti, Valentina Dellacqua).

Occupare Orizzonti/Occupying Horizons
5’38”
Camilla Topuntoli
2013
A short documentation of the exhibition Occupying Horizons, curated by Camilla Pin and Bert Theis in occasion of the opening of the Isola Pepe Verde community garden, a green, social and cultural space.