THE PROJECT
MediterraneaAnalysis of experimental gender audiovisual production in the Mediterranean area
Abstract
The project 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.
The Project
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), nowadays is urgent and precious to enrich the experimental production's scenario.
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.
Supposing Cinema is a field of study for Gender Media Studies, experimental audiovisual and video-art offer a still new and exciting point of discussion. MEDITERRANEA aims to investigate these expressive's forms and create a fruitful network of relationships and collaborations between different actors as artists, curators and scholars from the Mediterranean area, the rest of Europe and worldwide for sharing ideas, research and audiovisual materials.
The project aims to analyze the specificities of gender video art production in the MENA areas, a collect the experiences of artists, curators and professionals through interviews and insights for returning 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.
Finally, the curatorial project will consist of the creation of a text that illustrates the curatorial process, the curatorial text and the selection of video artworks by artists from The Mediterranean and the Mena Area. Mediterranea aims to be exhibited in the Festival circuit and other spaces to nourish the international debate, exchanges and relations between the different countries with the potential of supporting and continuing this research in the future.
Project supported by the Italian Council (11th 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
