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With a view to exchanging and examining ideas, the Diogene Group is organising a series of meetings with artists, theoreticians and critics from the contemporary art scene. The aim of these encounters, based on themes the group has explored during the last three years’ work, is to offer these figures a chance to share “a piece of their mind” by inviting them into the tram to take part in informal debates between members of the public and the Diogene group. Guests will be chosen according to their willingness to probe themes directly or indirectly connected with the art world. The first phase of this exposure of ideas has already begun - ever since December 2009 artists and theorists have been presenting their work to the public in the tram located between corso Reggio Parco and corso Verona. These informal encounters are a useful means of understanding and examining art; and we hope that it will give rise to future collaborations and discussions.
14 May 2010, 7 pm Groshgrup (italian-albanian-argentinean creative workshop) “The idea of the bivouac is part of Groshgrup’s DNA. It all started after visiting Diogene’s bivacourbano in 2008.We asked ourselves, ‘How can we tell the story of those people who are pushed to the fringes of society and forced to live in bivouacs?’ Groshgrup is made up of people on the move – immigrants and migrants. Our first action, La notte fuori (a night out), involved sleeping out in the Stura Park in order to re-live our clandestine experiences beforeretelling the stories using new languages.Diogene’s tram-bivouac fits into this narration by creating a powerful short circuit. In the past the tram was a means of public transport where you could find shelter and warmth whileleading a modern urban nomadic clandestine existence; now that it is sitting on dead track, it has become a new form of welcome stopping-off point where we can work out our experiences and our ideas.”
28 May 2010, 7 pm Antonio Limonciello (Chairman of the Zerotremilacento) MUM, THE TURKS! ISTANBUL BIENNIAL 2009 "In Istanbul you feel like one of those Americans in Rome in the 60s who came and marvelled at the shamelessness if the city in those years. There I was, eyes bulging at the sight of the powerful, explicit social and political comment of the work on show at the Biennial - the most important event. Then I soaked up the vitality and enthusiasm of the young Turkish artists whose ingenu usness and nerve is representing the nation by probing their roots while coming to terms with a future that is bordering on collapse. Bordering on this - but not too close - is the Biennale’s geopolitical role, nestled where it is between the ex-Soviet Empire and the former Ottoman Empire. Here is a humus of hope and disappointment, negation and recovery, nostalgia and projection into the future (all tackled by – let me make it clear - a non expert).”
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