Ramdom Project: Default 2015
Investigation on the Extreme Land
Time: 13-19 July, 2015
Venue: Lastation, Gagliano del Capo
Default 15 is a project now its third edition promoted by Ramdom and curated by Arthub. After residencies, performances and exhibitions in 2014, the 2015 edition launches with an open call for an intensive workshop that will take place July (13th-19th), in Gagliano del Capo (LE). An extensive program of collateral events will take place alongside Default 15.
Following the residencies and projects by Coclite, Andreco, Carboni and De Mattia, Carlos Casas (Spain) will be the main artist in residence during this latest edition. For Investigation on the Extreme Land, Casas will focus on the idea of Extreme as the vantage point for looking at the world.
Casas states “I believe looking ahead from the extreme lands is a way of calibrating our limits and a way to meet our expanding abilities to understand our world beyond our comprehension.”
160 artists from 46 countries applied to attend for the new edition of Default 15. Six artists and one curator, coming from Italy, Spain, China, UK and United States will gather together between in Gagliano del Capo (LE) to start a new Investigation on the Extreme Lands.
Participants include:
Carlos Casas, Spain
Mariagrazia Costantino, Italy/China
Andrew Friend, UK
Giorgio Garippa and Oliver Palmer, UK/Italy
Brett Swenson, USA
Matthew C. Wilson, USA
Default 15 is an international artistic project hosted in the heel of Italy’s Apulia region (Gagliano del Capo, LE), in the centre of the Mediterranean. The project offers the opportunity for select artists and researchers to be a part of and contribute to an investigation of the “extreme land”. Currently in its third edition, Default presents a new topic and format, which offers a context to discuss, imagine and put forward sustainable ideas and artistic production related to the “extreme lands” (as part of an investigative process launched by Ramdom in 2014 in the frame of the GAP project).
With the support of other experts, the project will focus on the life, culture and social relations of extreme lands, where geographic dislocation also functions as a socio-anthropological characteristic of the people who live there. The notion of “extreme” as a point of departure confronts challenges to survival as addressed by many scholars and artists particularly relating to climate and environmental conditions. Situated at the tip of southeast Italy on the Mediterranean, Gagliano del Capo poses as an ideal geographic location to explore diverse interpretations on human and natural landscapes in the context of the “extreme”.
See below for a schedule of events leading up to Default 15:
See here for more information about upcoming events.
Saturday, 20 June at 8:00 pm
Carlos Casas’ movie Aral. Fishing In An Invisible Sea will be shown in the port of Tricase within the 3-days event Solstice. Culture and Nature in Ecomuseum of Venus.
Thursday, 7 July, 7:00 pm
Live performance by Carlos Casas will take place on the rooftop of Planar Association, in Bari. The artist will realize a sound performance at the sunset, using field recordings taken in several extreme location of the world. At night, pieces from his video work will be projected over the walls around the terrace, with a live sound-set.
Saturday, 11 July, 6:30 pm
Exhibition Extreme Land will be inaugurated with works by Andreco, Carboni, Coclite e De Mattia. All works have been specifically realized for Ramdom. Andreco will show Parade for the Landscape, video and flags from the performance realized on June 2nd alongside the coast of Santa Maria di Leuca.
Carboni will exhibit his re-mapping and performative works of the Extreme Land. Coclite will show his Imaginary Holidays work and, in collaboration with De Mattia, the installation Deriva (Drift).
The exhibition will be open until August 2nd, inaugurating the new Ramdom’s space: Lastation. The first floor of the last train station on the Southeast side of Italy (Gagliano – Leuca), Lastation will be a hub for the artistic and cultural promotion of the Extreme Land, hosting residencies, exhibitions and workshops.
On August 2nd, the exhibition will close with a concert by Matilde Davoli, the Italian, London based, songwriter and composer. She will perform her latest acclaimed work I’m Calling You From My Dreams.
Investigation on the Extreme Land is part of GAP, an extended local workshop for the experi- mentation and cross-contamination of contemporary art languages in dialogue with the social and geographical borderlands.
GAP is realized with the support of Fondazione Con Il Sud Progetti Speciali e Innovativi 2010 and with the support of Apulia Region.
Curatorial team: Heba Amin, Francesca Girelli
Supported by: Arthub, Capo D’Arte, Gariga, LUA, Spazio 314, Municipality of Gagliano del Capo, Planar
