News, Italy, Bologna, 24 September 2010
24th September 2010, 7 pm
neon>campobase, via Zanardi 2-5, Bologna
In occasion of the International Award for Participatory Art, Mexican born and New York based artist Pablo Helguera will stay in Bologna from September 20th thru 27th 2010. The purpose of his trip to get to know the territory and to prepare a proposal for a project to be realized in the capital of Emilia-Romagna in 2011.
September 24th Helguera will show a first result of his short working stay in Bologna. Neon>campobase will host a participative performance in which a number of citizens of Bologna (and others) will share their expert knowledge with the audience.
Considering the relationship between history, cultural production and language, Helgueraì’s work often adopts the format of the lecture, museum display strategies, musical performances and written fiction. He has performed and exhibited at many museums and venues, from MoMA to the Havana Biennial. His project “The School of Panamerican Unrest”, was a nomadic think-tank that crossed the continent by car from Anchorage, Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, making 40 stops in between. In 2008 he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship. He is Director of Adult and Academic programs at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
He is the author of ten books, including The Pablo Helguera Manual of Contemporary Art Style (2005), a social etiquette manual for the art world; the novel The Boy Inside the Letter (2008), Theatrum Anatomicum ( and other performance lectures) (2009), the play The Juvenal Players (2009) What in the World (2010) and Urÿonstelaii (2010).
Premio Internazionale di Arte Partecipativa
An initiative of the Legislative Assembly of the Region Emilia-Romagna, Italy
In collaboration with LaRete Art Projects
Info: info@larete-artprojects.net
www.larete-artprojects.net
neon>campobase, via Zanardi 2-5, Bologna
In occasion of the International Award for Participatory Art, Mexican born and New York based artist Pablo Helguera will stay in Bologna from September 20th thru 27th 2010. The purpose of his trip to get to know the territory and to prepare a proposal for a project to be realized in the capital of Emilia-Romagna in 2011.
September 24th Helguera will show a first result of his short working stay in Bologna. Neon>campobase will host a participative performance in which a number of citizens of Bologna (and others) will share their expert knowledge with the audience.
Considering the relationship between history, cultural production and language, Helgueraì’s work often adopts the format of the lecture, museum display strategies, musical performances and written fiction. He has performed and exhibited at many museums and venues, from MoMA to the Havana Biennial. His project “The School of Panamerican Unrest”, was a nomadic think-tank that crossed the continent by car from Anchorage, Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, making 40 stops in between. In 2008 he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship. He is Director of Adult and Academic programs at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
He is the author of ten books, including The Pablo Helguera Manual of Contemporary Art Style (2005), a social etiquette manual for the art world; the novel The Boy Inside the Letter (2008), Theatrum Anatomicum ( and other performance lectures) (2009), the play The Juvenal Players (2009) What in the World (2010) and Urÿonstelaii (2010).
Premio Internazionale di Arte Partecipativa
An initiative of the Legislative Assembly of the Region Emilia-Romagna, Italy
In collaboration with LaRete Art Projects
Info: info@larete-artprojects.net
www.larete-artprojects.net
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