Stefano Cagol
Bird Flu / Vogelgrippe
21 – 26 March 2006
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Kunstraum, Innsbruck
Museion – Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst, Bozen
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento
On-line: www.birdfluartifice.com
Bird Flu / Vogelgrippe is A physical and mental trip into the center of Europe, between real and unreal fears, physical and mental influences.
Bird Flu / Vogelgrippe is An acute febrile highly contagious viral disease or a power to influence persons or events especially power based on prestige
The Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento is proud to announce the new solo project by Italy-based artist Stefano Cagol Bird Flu about the influences of our time.
Its a project that develops/moves in different cities and meaningful locations, between Trento and Berlin, and through media.
The work is in progress; the movement foresees planned stops at Art Centers and Museums that take part in the project. The project put to a wide fruition a reflection about the contemporary mechanisms of influence, of exerting power and prestige, of the hypnotic persuasive means into everyday life. In particular the artist has created and diffuses a specific lexicon of the mental influences the atavic ones and the typical of our time through new associations of ideas between the flu term, in the meaning of influence, and the focal points of our actual society.
The couples of words are: Art Flu, Ass Flu, Politics Flu, Money Flu, Opinion Flu, TV Flu, Dead Flu, Love Flu, Tami Flu, Bird Flu, Star Flu, Peace Flu, Dog Flu, Toy Flu, Sex Flu, Techno Flu, Angel Flu, Boy Flu, War Flu, Religion Flu, Gun Flu, Pig Flu, Pussy Flu, Girl Flu
Since ours is the era of a communication which is increasingly daring, quick, immediate, simultaneous, global, communication has never been used to spread (and create) fears as nowadays.
Television, the net, newspapers and real time news, the world vision of the destruction of the Towers, at each moment of our life we have been connected with the rest of the world, but at the same time every moment of our lives is ruled by what we are listening and seeing. To the point that we are infinitely more open to attacks, more easily influenced than when man lived his life detached from the rest of the Planet.
Related to this situation, the artist creates a study in-depth in order to underline the idea of an influence of power, prestige, media on our daily lives. And his intention is to do it by using the same communication means, by creating the case, by amplifying the information that bombs us every day and by throwing it back to people. That is why the project moves in the heart of Europe, directly within urban realities.
The project develops through the diffusion of this new lexicon, the virulent diffusion. The circulation of the project is part of it trough the movement and trough the distribution in every stop of a series of badges with the couples of words.
In the cities where the Museums and Art Space involved into the project are based, the artist presents the associations of ideas putting in guard against the dangerous and shifty influences, the mental not the physical ones: influences: the influence of money, of religion, and of Television. The extended public get involved by a white and aseptic truck parked in the metropolitan space in front of every art structure and meaningful place: on its sides are the big words Bird Flu, and a sound between the irony and the real of birds. And the action is developed through the diffusion of badges with the printed words, able to stamp, to underline the influences of the power points of the contemporary society into the individual life.
The project results of the action will be presented on a special web site at the address
www.birdfluartifice.com, and by the Art Spaces.
STRATEGY PLAN – Bird Flu / Vogelgrippe by Stefano Cagol
Station, City, Date, Stop Hours
– GALLERIA CIVICA DI ARTE CONTEMPORANEA, Trento – ITALY, March 21 2006, 10 12 am
– MUSEION – Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst, Bolzano/Bozen – ITALY, March 21 2006, 2 6 pm
– KUNSTRAUM, Innsbruck – AUSTRIA, March 22 2006 2 6 pm
– STOPS in GERMANY, Near some meaningful places and historical monuments (like ZEPPELIN TRIBUNE in Nürnberg), München, Nürnberg, Leipzig, March 23 2006, All the day
– Opening of the BERLIN BIENNIAL, Berlin – GERMANY, March 24 2006, 2 pm – 12 pm
Stefano Cagol was born in Trento, Italy in 1969. He lived in Bern for ten years and in Milan for five, now he lives between Italy and a continuous movement/research abroad. He studied at the Accademia di Brera in Milan and at Ryerson University in Toronto.
He exhibited his work in solo shows at Oredaria, Rome and at Platform, London in 2005, at Stefan Stux (project room, video windows), New York in 2004, at Mart Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rovereto in 2000. Then he realized the performance/action White Flags at the opening of the Venice Biennale in 2005 and the work in progress Tokyospace in Tokyo in 2004. His further solo project is in Tokyo at the Italian Cultural Institute in Autumn 2006.
His videos, photographs, installations and performances are part of a research about the social and political issues, the changed point of view, the mutated values system, the altered balances of our actual society. He investigates that themes through the transformations of contemporary metropolises.
Artists web site: www.stefanocagol.com
INFO:
The project results of the action will be presented on a special web site: www.birdfluartifice.com
For images, and further information:
Leila Mai, project assistant, PH 39.339.7054512, MAIL strategy@birdfluartifice.com
The project is supported by
GALLERIA CIVICA DI ARTE CONTEMPORANEA, Trento www.workartonline.net
