The first public appearance of UTOPIAN PULSE – FLARES IN THE DARKROOM was SALON KLIMBIM, orchestrated by the artist-curator Fahim Amir and Ines Doujak on January 23, 2014, in correspondence with Oliver Ressler.
Bert Theis presented the video 'Culture don’t grow on trees' by
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).
The first public appearance of UTOPIAN PULSE – FLARES IN THE DARKROOM was SALON KLIMBIM, orchestrated by the artist-curator Fahim Amir and Ines Doujak on Jan...
RiMaflow sarà presente alla Industrial Art Biennial- Ride into the Sun - Croazia- insieme a Isola Art Center , attraverso l'opera fotografica di Barbara Barberis che si concentra sulla trasformazione materiale della fabbrica in relazione al divenire delle nostre lotte e al concetto di UTOPIA. Un concetto su cui ha molto lavorato Bert Theis Bert Theis Archive ugualmente presente con i suoi lavori. Un ringraziamento a Mariette Schiltz che è anche curatrice dell'archivio dedicato a Bert (berttheis.com/)
Nel corso della Biennale (aperta da 10 ott al 21 nov ) daremo maggiori informazioni.
Foto di Barbara Barberis "RiMaflow Utopia Re-location 2019"
3rd Industrial Art Biennal \ Ride into the sun
- Labin/Croazia
10/10/2020 - 21/11/2020
Barbara Barberis
\ RIMAFLOW _UTOPIA RE-LOCATION_2019
These images are part of the third chapter of a photographic work in progress that documents the transformations of the internal and external spaces of the recovered and self-managed RiMaflow factory. The documentation took place during the re-location of RiMaflow headquarters to a new industrial structure, also located in Trezzano sul Naviglio (Milan).
The new sheds have an important symbolic value because they belonged to Autosystem Climatronic, an automotive sector company twin of Maflow, closed and relocated in 2018. And they were purchased thanks to the dispute victory against Unicredit Leasing (the owner of the ex-Maflow buildings), which led to the recognition of an economic contribution to RiMaflow cooperative for the important activities carried out by the workers during the six years of occupation.
The re-location, after a long struggle for regularization, entails a further evolution of RiMaflow project: the transition from an illegal occupation to a full regularity situation that opens the way to opportunities but also to the risks that derive from moving completely within a market economy.
Conceptually, I have tried to visually represent how this transition process not only reflects a change in the material structures in which the utopian ideal finds its practical realization, but can also imply a real redefinition of the same theoretical parameters through which the evolution of the concept of Concrete Utopia adapts to the contingency of historical process.
barbarabarberis.it/
3rd Industrial Art Biennial – Ride Into the Sun | Ravno u Sunce
Industrial Art Biennial Christian Oxenius
Labin Art Express XXI
Ri-MAFLOW
Isola Art Center
Bert Theis Archive Mariette Schiltz
We are saddened to hear about the passing of our old friend, the multimedia artist Steve Kaspar. In 2019 he performed at the inauguration of the exhibition ‘Flight Sketches – For Bert Theis’ with Nataša Grujovic at Cercle Cité. Our thoughts are with his friends and family.
Tomorrow you'll find us here at Isola Pepe Verde's little market with some prints, books and t-shirts. The funds go back into our platform to fund projects.
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Domani ci troverete qui al mercatino di Isola Pepe Verde con alcune stampe, libri e t-shirt. I fondi tornano nella nostra piattaforma per finanziare i progetti.