Are We Really Free?
XVIII Advanced Course in Visual Arts
2–25 July 2012
Lecture by Liliana Moro
5 July 2012, 6:30pm
Fondazione Antonio Ratti
Villa Sucota, Via per Cernobbio 19
Como, Italy
Liliana Moro, Moi
5 July–12 September 2012
Opening: 5 July, 8pm
Spazio Culturale Antonio Ratti
(ex-church of San Francesco)
Largo Spallino 1, Como
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday, 4–8 pm
Like any other word, Moi is first of all a sound. It can be a cry, an onomatopoeic expression, but it can also be the first singular person of the pronoun “I” in French.
Moi is the title of the work that Liliana Moro presents in the central alley of the ex-church of San Francesco. It is a site-specific sound piece, conceived for the occasion, in which the words of the artist evoke the presence of the movement of two bodies, proceeding according to a rhythmic score of pauses and accelerations. What appears to be the description of an action, produces in its listeners an awkward sensation of dilation and contraction of perception, of the comprehension of the spoken words, and of time in general.
In Moi the visitor passes from being an observer to being observed, once he entered the sound circle.
Liliana Moro’s voice speaks about a performative action. But once outside the circle—where sound is no longer comprehensible—the spectator cannot avoid questioning if the text is not actually talking about her or himself.
During the course, directed by Annie Ratti and curated by Andrea Lissoni, seminars and public lectures will be held by international speakers coming from different cultural backgrounds.
On July 10 there will be Toni Negri’s lecture titled Are We Really Free? and Arto Lindsay’s lecture, Proud Beggars, will be held on July 12.
All the lectures will be at 6:30pm at Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Villa Sucota, via per Cernobbio 19, Como.
Corso Aperto will be held on July 19, in which the participant artists will present their research and works developed during the workshop.
Liliana Moro was born in 1961 in Milan, where she lives and works.
In 1989 she founded, with other artists, the Spazio di Via Lazzaro Palazzi in Milan, active until 1993. Encountering the works of Liliana Moro we get the impression that only what is strictly necessary is present. Sounds, words, sculptures, objects, and performance create a world that “stages” a reality simultaneously raw and poetic. These are territories of an individual experience (that of the artist, but primarily that of the viewer) that asks to be taken beyond what is visible. The reduction to the essential understood as an attitude, a practice, and a positioning does not result from a recollection of a minimal language: it is rather something that the artist triggers when choosing to use elaborate techniques and when working with existent materials and objects of everyday use.
Liliana Moro has participated in major international group exhibitions including Documenta IX, Kassel (1992); Aperto XLV Venice Biennale (1993); Castello di Rivoli, Turin (1994); Quadriennale, Rome (1996/2008); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1998); MoMA PS1, New York (1999); De Appel, Amsterdam (1999); Bienal de Valencia (2001); Italics, Palazzo Grassi, Venice (2008); Focus on Contemporary Italian Art, Mambo, Bologna (2008); Save Venice, Magazzini del Sale (2009); and Celebration, Institution, Critique, Galleria Civica di Trento (2009). Recently, Liliana Moro has exhibited at the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles (2008), and Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan (2008).
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