PERFORMING PAC, the format dedicated to a current theme in the field of contemporary visual arts studies. A platform open to the public that for this new edition will investigate the relationship between contemporary art and nature, developed through video works, archival materials, interventions by artists, critics and curators who explore the interaction between landscape and image in practice and research contemporary art.
As for every PERFORMING PAC appointment, the starting point is an exhibition created in the past by the PAC and therefore the protagonist could not but be the land art icon Richard Long with the exhibition dedicated to him in 2004 Richard Long – Jivya Soma Mashe . A meeting in India, curated by Hervé Perdriolle. An original and unique project that combined the art of the English master with the works of Soma Mashe, a member of the Warli Indian tribe. Different artists but united by extreme respect and sensitivity towards the landscape and nature.
This year’s title recalls an interview with Long dated 1 July 2003 published in the magazine “The Art Newspaper”. When asked about the criteria for choosing the destinations of his legendary walks, the artist replied: “love for a specific place”; but, more precisely, Take me to the place I love winks at the words of Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers in the famous song Under the Bridge, where the singer asks “to be taken to the place he loves”, Los Angeles of his affections, to overcome one of the darkest periods of his life.
The artists invited to the PAC tell or portray a real, metaphorical, metaphysical or imaginary place amidst fascinations, introspections and critical insights, declining their own poetics in very different terms, which concerns themes such as immersion in nature, memory and mythologies places, man’s relationship with the environment, climate and politics.
With the participation of: Dorothy Cross, Lara Almarcegui, Marta Dell’Angelo, Ettore Favini and Antonio Rovaldi, Flatform, Richard Long, Francesco Simeti, Melanie Smith, Ilaria Abbiento.
