THE EMPIRICAL EFFECT \ ROSA BARBA
Gallery On The Move & The Promenade Gallery
Opening May 10, 2012, h 18.00
Until May 20, 2012
Gallery On The Move present Rosa Barbaâs âThe Empirical Effectâ, in collaboration with The Promenade Gallery in Vlora.
THE EMPIRICAL EFFECT
Rosa Barba
Gallery On The Move & The Promenade Gallery
Opening May 10, 2012, h 18.00
Until May 20, 2012
Gallery On The Move present Rosa Barba’s "The Empirical Effect", in collaboration with The Promenade Gallery in Vlora.
The Vesuvio vulcano can be held as a central metaphor for the complex relationships between society and politics in Italy. Its powerful, unpredictable, destructive existence, along with its location in a densely populated area on the mediterranean coast ensure that it is ever-present in the collective memory. Science has yet to discover a way to control this immense force of nature, and yet it is invisibly tied to the inhabitants and their environment. "The Empirical Effect" charts the stories of a society whose lives are infused with an incredible tension, yet are paralyzed and docile. At the foot of the sleeping monster, the mafia runs its empire, filtering untold numbers of illegal chinese migrants into a secretive parallel society.
They remain visible only in their social impact; meanwhile all official attention is focused on the volcano, where nature is dramatized as a media spectacle – a powerful structure beyond comprehension. It is perhaps similar in this sense to the ways in which the obscure social situation at its foot is mystically narrated. Even history acts ironically here; the last eruption, in 1944 during the Second World War, coincided with the bombing of the region by the US Army. The protagonists of The Empirical Effect are witnesses to this catastrophic 1944 eruption, with shooting taking place during a test evacuation in Summer 2009. I worked closely with the Osservatorio Vesuviano in Naples, and with inhabitants of the “Red Zone”, presenting them as a community separated from its original context and placed in a new setting (the Old Osservatorio next to the crater) to reveal unexplored aspects of their existence. The mix of their views and stories creates a realized utopia, a place where nothing seems contradictory, but includes absurd ideas and paradoxical actions within a single frame. (Rosa Barba)
Rosa Barba was born in 1972 in Agrigento. Lives and works in Berlin. After graduate studies at Theatre and Filmscience Erlangen and Academy of Media Arts Cologne, she frequented Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam. She has also exhibited at Jeu de Paume Paris, TATE Modern Level 2 London, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid, Centre Pompidou Paris, Carlier | Gebauer Berlin, Galeria Gio Marconi Milan, Liverpool Biennale 2010, 52nd and 53rd Venice Biennale, Torino Triennale 2008, Sculpture Center New York, 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Center for Contemporary Art Melbourne, Museum of Fine Arts Taipei, Center of Contemporary Arts Tel Aviv, Project Art Center Dublin, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam and Baltic Art Center Visby.
Screenings and Festivals (selection)
2012
Private Tableaux, Le Silo at INHA, Paris
2011
What makes Art popular, what makes popular art?, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
First Screening, Premiere at Loopfestival, La Pedrera, Barcelona, Spain
Moves # 22: Rosa Barba, Image Movement, Berlin
Seance # 3 Rosa Barba, FRAC Franche Comté, Besancon, France
Rosa Barba Outwardly from Earth’s Center, Rietveld Academy, Studium Generale, Amsterdam
Rosa Barba, Stadtkino, Nürnberg, Germany
2010
Rosa Barba in Conversation, Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
Rosa Barba in Conversation, Cornerhouse, Manchester, United Kingdom
International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands, nominated for Tiger Short Award
Kopietheater, Arsenale, Berlin, Germany, curated by Ian White
BAM, New York, USA
Courtisane Festival, Ghent, Belgium
2009
Pavillion Projects, Toronto, Canada
Pecci Museum, Florence, Italy
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Art Film, Art Basel, Switzerland
Rosa Barba, Cinema Prospectif, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands
Size Matters, 38th International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2008
Anthology Film Archive, New York City, USA
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Flare #3, Languedoc Roussillon Cinema, Montpellier, France
Sugar is sweet, Filmbank Tour with Fiona Tan and Nora Martirosan, various cinemas and Filmmuseums, throughout the Netherlands
Iaspis, Open House, Stockholm, Sweden
Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
2007
No Picture, Swiss Institute, New York
12th Biennale of Moving Image, Geneva
International Filmfestival, Hamburg
Virtuous Sibblings (mit Werner Herzog), Goetheinstitut, Los Angeles
Contemporary Passages, Tent, Rotterdam
International Filmfestival, Rotterdam, nominated for Tiger short Award
International Filmfestival, Gothenburg
International Shortfilmfestival, Oberhausen
2006
Refracted Lens, The Pioneer Theatre, New York City
Rosa Barba, Goethe-institut, Los Angeles
2005
Senef Filmfestival, Seoul, Corea
Museum of Contemporary Arts, Lyon
International Shortfilmfestival, Oberhausen
Emaf, Osnabrück
2004
Moma, San Francisco
CCA, Tel Aviv
Palais des Beaux Arts, Madrid
2002
Video Art Festival, Lima, Peru
Avanto Filmfestival, Helsinki
Rosa Barba, Cinema Gejzir, Budapest
International Shortfilmfestival, Oberhausen
2001
Invideo, Milano
Netmage, Bologna
2000
International Filmfestival Rotterdam
FCMM Filmfestival, Montreal
Internationales Filmfestival Odense Cinematexas, Austin
Murphys Shortfilmfestival, Cork, Irland
Internationales Filmfestival, Dresden
1999
Cinema Nova, Brussels
Video Art Festival, Lima, Peru
1998
12th Videofestival, Sao Paolo
Golem Videofestival Turin
Raindance Festival, London
Collaborations:
Wichtel und die Wuchteln
(Rosa Barba, Klaus Sander, Jan St. Werner, Ingrid und Oswald Wiener), Performance, Villa Romana, 2011
Wichtel und die Wuchteln
(Rosa Barba, Klaus Sander, Jan St. Werner, Ingrid und Oswald Wiener, Mariazeller Alpenchor)
Performance, Kunstverein Graz, 2007
Handed Over, with David Maljkovic, 16mm and scultpure, 6,45min, 2008
„Hämchen“, CD with Klaus Sander, Ingrid Wiener, Oswald Wiener, Jan St. Werner, Anja Theismann
published at suppose, Köln, 2007
production of musicvideos since 1996 for musical formations like: Mouse on Mars, Microstoria and Monade.
Live-Performance with Microstoria (selection)
Sounds like Film, Kölnischer Kunstverein, 2000â¨
Frascati Theater, Amsterdam, 2004
Beursshowburg, Brussels, 2004⨠Club Transmediale, 2004â¨â¨ Live-Performance with Mouse on Mars (selection)
Milano Filmfestival, 2004â¨
Center of Contemporary Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2004â¨
Serravales Museum, Porto, Portugal, 2004â¨
International Filmfestival Rotterdam, 2000
Selected Talks/Teaching
2012
Royal Danish Academy of Fne Arts, Kopenhagen (guest-teaching)
Seance # 3 Rosa Barba, FRAC Franche Comté, Cinema Besancon, France
2011
de ateliers, Amsterdam (guest-teaching)
Royal Danish Academy of Fne Arts, Kopenhagen (guest-teaching)
Kunstakademie Nürnberg, Germany
2010 „Maps for the 21st Century“ with Hans Ulrich Obrist, DLD Conference München
Hochschule für Kunst und Medien, Zürich, Switzerland (part-time Advisor)
Art Academy, Oslo, Norway
EHESS, Paris
L'ile come métaphore des dérives capitalistes, Jeu de Paume, Paris
Rosa Barba in Conversation: Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern, London
Rosa Barba in Conversation: Cornerhouse, Manchester
2009
„To retrieve new places“, Bonniers Konsthall
Saloon Biennale, Konsthogskolan, Gothenborg
Hochschule für Kunst und Medien, Zürich, Switzerland (part-time Advisor)
Art Academy Malmö, Sweden
2008
Ecole des Beaux Arts, Montpellier, France with Benjamin Weil
Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden
Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg
2007
Photography department, Art Academy, Gothenburg,
Department of Fine Arts, University Gotland, Sweden
2005
Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam part-time Advisor
2002
Fachhochschule für Kommunikationsdesign, Wuppertal
Department of Fine Arts, University Mexico City
Audiovisual Department Bilgi University, Istanbul
2003â¨
Kunst macht Schule (workshop), Saarland, 2004â¨
Rosa Barba, Videonale, Kunstmuseum, Bonnâ¨
2001
Department of Fine Arts, University, Austin, Texas
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