The performance part of the series A Pound of Flesh was held in Limassol, Cyprus. The event was well received and there was quite a lot of interest. It was sponsored by NeMe and we acknowledge the kind support of the municipality of Limassol. At the end of the event a series of packages containing flesh were addressed from the residents to the European Central
Great time yesterday in Nicosia at the Point Centre for Contemporary Art. Many thanks to Andre Zivanari and NeMe for a great event and to the in house curator, Chrystalleni Loizidou. I had a chance of meeting new and old friends. It was an opportunity to discuss the current economic crisis and its impact on identities and cultures. I really look forward to writing this
Jurisdiction Shopping by Paolo Cirio is a new exhibition curated by Lanfranco Aceti. “As a general rule, it is taxation that monetarizes the economy; it is taxation that creates money, and it necessarily creates it in motion, in circulation, with turnover, and also in a correspondence with services and goods in the current of that circulation.” [Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism
A POUND OF FLESH by Lanfranco Aceti is sponsored by NeMe, a non profit organization based in Cyprus. The participatory performance will take place Thursday May 23, 2013, from 10:30 to 12:30 in the Limassol Municipal Market, Kanari st, Limassol. Performance and exhibition is curated by: Helene Black, Ozden Sahin and Jonathan Munro and coordinated by: Yiannis Colakides. MoCC and NeMe present A Pound of
Trimming the Arts: Art Cuts and the Role of the Artist within Societies in Crisis by Lanfranco Aceti at Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Megaro Hadjisavva 2, Evagorou Avenue 1097, Nicosia, Cyprus Wednesday May 22, 2013, from 19:30 to 20:30 Introduction by: Andre Zivanari Chaired by: Yiannis Colakides The Museum of Contemporary Cuts, Kasa Gallery, NeMe and Point Center for Contemporary Art present a talk
Not Here Not There, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 19 Issue 1. ISBN: 978-1-906897-20-8. ISSN: 1071-4391. Date of Publication: January 15, 2013. Number of Pages: 177. Volume Editors: Lanfranco Aceti and Richard Rinehart Editors: Ozden Sahin, Jonathan Munro and Catherine M. Weir. The print issue of LEA Volume 19 Issue 1 Not Here Not There is available on Amazon. This LEA publication has a simple goal:
DEADLY CUTS TO THE ARTS: THE ART OF SURVIVAL, RESISTANCE OR FIGHT? by Lanfranco Aceti Art-Athina - International Contemporary Art Fair Faliro Pavilion (Taekwondo) Hellenic Olympic Properties 2 Moraitini str., 175 61 Palaio Faliro Athens, Greece Sunday May 19, 2013, from 15:00 to 16:00 Chaired by: Artemis Potamianou Curator & Co-ordinator for Art Athina 2013: Contemporaries & Platform Project A talk at the Art-Athina -
The Museum of Contemporary Cuts (MoCC) is developing a research project, under my directorship, to assess and map the impact of the arts funding reductions in several European Countries and North America, and would like to invite individuals and funded organizations to contribute their data. This is a form that will provide us with the data regarding art organizations that have closed as a consequence
Fifty Sisters (And Other Relations) by Jon McCormak is the new exhibition by MEP (the Media Exhibition Platform) in collaboration with LEA (the Leonardo Electronic Almanac). Senior Curator Lanfranco Aceti, with Vince Dziekan and Christiane Paul. Jon McCormack’s Fifty Sisters is a series of images algorithmically “grown” from computer code using artificial evolution and generative grammars. Each plant-like form in the series is derived from
Connor Graham, Martin Gibbs, and Lanfranco Aceti, eds., "Death, Afterlife and Immortality of Bodies and Data," The Information Society 29, no. 3: (2013). The edited volume for Taylor & Francis is out. It has been a great collaboration with Connor and Martin and I hope you will like the result. The link to The Information Society where there are the abstracts. If you can access
