Two days of activities for the public with the presence of artists Mohammad Al Faraj, Moza Almatrooshi, Matilde Cerruti Quara, Ufuoma Essi, Lamin Fofana, Invernomuto, and Lea Porsager.
Castello di Rivoli presents two new autumn dates of “Living Museum.” The program promotes experimental approaches that bridge various disciplines, where visual art intersects with other contemporary languages, such as cinema, dance, and music. The project explores the dual nature of the word “live,” emphasizing the inseparable connection between art and audience participation within the Museum’s spaces.
The events will take place on Saturday, September 28, and Saturday, October 12, 2024—AMACI Giornata del Contemporaneo | Italian Contemporary Art—offering to the public a series of activities featuring international artists. The two events are dedicated to the theme of “Erratic Bodies”—a title borrowed from the glacial erratics in the morainic landscape of the Val di Susa—and are curated by Giulia Colletti.
Transported by Alpine glaciers to the valley floor during the Ice Age, these masses, deposited in unexpected locations across the Piedmont region, often became objects of worship and sacred rituals, leaving traces in local folklore. Composed of sediments distinct from their surrounding environment, glacial erratics serve as witnesses to an unusual journey. They thus embody a state of being “out of place” in their context, prompting reflections on contemporary issues of migration and transition for both human and non-human bodies, as well as the challenges posed by past and present climate changes.
The artists featured over the two days are Mohammad Al Faraj, Moza Almatrooshi, Matilde Cerruti Quara, Ufuoma Essi, Lamin Fofana, Invernomuto, and Lea Porsager.
The program blends social rituals, immaterial archives, and various cultural languages and approaches, exploring, over the two days, the significance of collective memory—not as a mere sum of individual experiences, but as a process of shared narrative that cements a common identity. By promoting the convergence of transdisciplinary research, the events highlight how performing arts, as well as living bodies, do not exist within a confined space but take shape and meaning in their erratic existence, continually shifting direction and drawing from the overcoming of geographical, disciplinary, and imposed classifications.
The schedule includes various artistic interventions addressing both individual and collective challenges related to the erasure and rehabilitation of historical narratives. The focus is on movement, both physical and imaginative, with research exploring transitions, boundary crossings, and the imagination of other worlds, embracing a state of personal and collective metamorphosis.
at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin
Saturday, September 28, 2024 – Erratic Bodies I
Saturday, October 12, 2024 – AMACI Giornata del Contemporaneo | Italian Contemporary Art – Erratic Bodies II