playing # beginning game: links and curiosities
Exhibitions, Italy, Firenze, 19 May 2013
The game establishes a dense network of connections between the real and the imaginary, between reality and its multiple projections, between what you have and what you want, between what you are and what you would like to be. In the game are central to the connections and curiosity. All this in a very specific time and space in mind, but virtual animated, solid and constructive.
This project continues the research undertaken from Connected, the project built for il Giardino dei Semplici di Firenze, where the theme of the matches and ties was addressed starting from the observation of existing connections in nature (between organisms and between them and their environment) and the analogy between natural connections and expansion mechanism of contact among individuals fed – with daily practice of social networks – from the web 2.0 (an adult game definitely very extended and engaging).
The assumption that orients the artistic research in both projects is the existence of an invisible network that connects everything and everyone. An assumption which engages the artist involved in a “visionary” discipline of unveiling and reactivation of bonds.
In a sense-for Connected-the model is nature seen through the lens of web 2.0, and another-for Playing-the model is the practice of feeding of continuous correspondences and cross references and jumps between different parts of reality combined in creative imagination.
Here the dynamics of the game, observed from the perspective of childhood is the focus of research on the human ability to establish connections between things, people, members of a community, their desires, dreams, analysis, cognitive instances, findings, different parts of themselves.
The performance component of the game (often shared and social) is the prelude to the discovery, experimentation and learning. From entering and exiting, you make games that intersect at several points and games, passing from one to the other, in the course of growth and then the whole life they build networks capable of intercepting the meanings, establish meaningful connections. Networks that allow us to communicate.
Silvia Petronici
** The two artists, Jeanne and Isabelle Cornière Meri Iacchi, working on two sensory and linguistic levels enabling, with different strategies, the dynamics of interaction and participation. As part of two exhibitions curated by Silvia Petronici for the two seats of the Giardino dei semplici di Firenze and the Museo Primo Conti di Fiesole, Isabelle Cornière jobs, moving in terms of sensory involvement, suitable for spaces of exhibition venues in dialogue through the forms of sculpture and video with their surroundings. Meri Iacchi work place, however, the task of activation of participatory strategies addressed with ties to the local community and guests of the two museums through the forms of site-specific installation and photography.

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