DERIVA # 1 S.Giovanni a Teduccio www.nestube.com

Concept:

There are some places adrift in time as well as shoes adrift in the sea: twisted, faded, discoloured, transformed, bearing the echo of what they have been, of the function they had, of the human presences which inhabited them. Lost identities to be imagined alive before time would make them alien to themselves.Shoes, dragged by a river, thrown by a hand, lost by a careless foot, entrusted to the sea stream, hidden and buried in a ruined house.I m going seeking fragments of lost identities.

Those fragments are shoes.I associate them to the places where they have been found,which are as well places of abandon and loss:remainders, traces, remains, , waste, wreckage, collecting, revealing, seeking, discovering, missing, disappeared, worn-out, timehistory, memory, ,lost,found, residual,third landscape,town ,village urban,rural ,identity, factories, ,map, psychogeography.

De-riva is at the same time an itinerant and a site specific project disposal.:it explores places where the anthropization has passed like a sudden and passing cataclysm, or where human presence have been erased by accidents (emigration,delocalizzation ,economics changes, natural accidents etc.,)

The shoe is a subject-pretext as it is the most powerful among the catalyzers of such identities coming from far away in time and space , waiting for being re-collected and re-vealed. Every “collection” of shoes is a documentary which narrates the places, different every time, and the situation of the “discovery”.

Every “collection” of shoes is a web page issues a Site/Adoption registry, an Installation a Documentary which narrates the places,

different every time, and the situation of the “discovery” a creative collective writing experiment.

Adopt a shoe // The project De-riva invites to choose and adopt one of the shoes available on the site.

Whoever adopts a shoe engages him/herself to write down, following his/her own suggestions and sensibility, a story about the

possible shoe’s owner._<0>The visual materials as well as the shoe data registry card constitute narrative hints.

PREVIOUS VENUES Deriva is an artistic projectdisposal conceived by Alessandra Cianelli with the contribution of the media theorist Prof. Vito Campanelli.

first venue Madre Museum ,Naples, in N.EST 2.0 The making of the city, Project Room, curated by Gigiotto Del Vecchio and Stefania Palombo. http://www.nestube.com/nest/theproject.php?lang=2 De-riva has been published on Rhizome.

Visual Stills from video16/9-de-riva splash page

Story of the octopus wiyh a heartshaped head .... is a reading a video , food , music happening ,ephemeral ice sculpture ;

“Once upon a time there was a Heart beating. He was inside a small living human being,

For nine months, he had been inside a human being in which He had been lulled by the liquid movement of the dark water and nourished by the placenta(….) When they were born they stopped being lulled (….)

The beating Heart,that is a pump, ,that is a plunge, that is an unceasing jump,(….)couldn’t survive. (….)In a fullmoon night of february He plunged himself into the only true water: the seeThe Heart, in quest of an identity and in order to survive, throws itself into the sea, the water that is the most similar to the liquid of the placenta. There He couples himself with an octopus by substituting what we would call the “head” but that in reality is the stomach. (….).”(excerpt from the reading)

Alessandra  Cianelli © 2007 -2009 
video http://vimeo.com/19739549                                                 performance http://vimeo.com/8967190

Story of the octopus wiyh a heartshaped head http://vimeo.com/8967190

Waterchildren soapchildren / The making of a baby -Liquidlife recalling place


Genere: sculptures, video , installation photo, drawings.
 
Artist:    Alessandra Cianelli © 2005 -2009
 
Description: This work arise from the ideas of the neverending liquid ,fragile,vanishing life of  the unborn children in both sense of abortion and foetus:
Waterchildren: “children of water”are, foetus, abortion, planctonic submarine life and in a widest perspective every potential being.
Soapchildren: Soap is the material that i use to MAKE little children figures, part of of the installation project and main subjects in the two videoart pieces.
During my investigations i discovered that the unborn children are worshipped in Japan in a temple lying on a pond .
Every year, at a peculiar time, thousand of women use  to go there to recall them. Bathing in the water they connect themselves to their lost children: (WIKIPEDIA) Mizuko kuyo (水子供養 Mizuko kuyō "memorial service to appease an aborted foetus") is a Japanese ceremony for those who have had a miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion. This practice has become particularly visible since the 1970s with the creation of shrines devoted solely to this ritual. Reasons for the performance of these rites can include parental grief, desire to comfort the soul of the fetus, or even fear of retribution from the vengeful spirit (…).
In my view those children are not never born; but forever about to be born. It’s only a dimensional mistake.
In a biological and evolutive perspective they are fixed in an eternal present. The seewater, the submarine environment is the very ancestral PLACENTA:“She”  will look forever after them, preserving them as seeds , preserving their  eternal potenziality.

Part of the project that has been realized: soapchildren sculptures boxes ,vacuum packed soapchildren ,drawings,pictures, three videoart works;
Previous venues (video works):
-Waterchildren soapchildren – liquidlife recalling place – format 4:3';duration:04'16,master: DV ,2005
Lounge art Naplesl, july 2005 Magmart |video under volcano CAM Casoria Contemporary Art  Museum Naples Italy, GenomART;
Kaletra contemporanea , march 2007 Capalbio(Gr)Italy april 2007; Ohnekole, nobudget film festival ,Vienna (Austria) july 2007;
-The making of a baby-format 16:9; duration:variable, master: HD ,2008;
Double track sinchronyzed video installation, one monitor 24” one projection1,20x 2,00 m;
Perfect stranger in Orsara jazz festivalcurated by) curated by Viviana Checchia, Orsara Di Puglia (FG)Italy -july 2008.
Making a baby-video performance live music Pasquale Innarella, Bisaccia (AV) Italy,december 2008



Visual

Stills from the video:Waterchildren soapchildren –liquidlife recalling place

Stills from the video -The making of a baby- 

Sculptures boxes,drawing