Mediterranea - Analysis of experimental gender audiovisual production in the Mediterranean area

 

In the international experimental audiovisual panorama, the need to bring to light the formal, aesthetic and methodological aspects of videoart made by gender artists coming from the Mediterranean area, in particular from MENA countries (the Middle East and North Africa). These researches are currently of undoubted cultural interest, both for the need to deepen the Cultural Studies of the MENA areas and the consequent urgency of decolonizing the gaze and opening discussion on gender.

MEDITERRANEA aims to define the specificities of the gender of artistic video production of the MENA areas, to collect the experiences of the artists, curators and scholars through interviews and in-depth analyzes to return a text that highlights the curatorial research process, the curatorial text of the selection and an audiovisual selection of the most representative works of the last five years.

Project supported by the Italian Council (11 th edition, 2022), the program aimed at supporting Italian contemporary art in the world promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity within the Italian Ministry of Culture