“Some Like it Wrong”

 

Ingrid Berthon-Moine, Daniela Comani, Cécile Emmanuelle Borra, Stefania Gagliano,

Sadie Memphis Hennessy, Lora Hristova, Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo,

Claudia Rossini aka Yamada Hanako, Alice Tatge

 

“Some Like it Wrong” explores the  pornographic image through the lens of humour and indirect representation. The genitals disappear, multiply, become abstract... They are no longer the centrally perceived eroticism of the bodies. The image draws us into its deception, but its content continues to excite. Are the images essentially perverse or do we pervert the image? The works are displayed in unexpected places and ways in order to catch us by surprise.

 

Curated by Giulia Casalini / CUNTemporary.

 

 

22-24 May 2015

Nuovo Cinema Palazzo, Rome @ Genderotica Festival

Opening and performance 22 May h 6 pm

Workshop 23 May h 4.30pm  [details below]

 

 

 

 

Ingrid Berthon-Moine

Ingrid Berthon-Moine is a French visual artist based in London and Paris. Her work employs a variety of media including photography, video, sculpture and text to examine themes related to gender, technology and personal biography. The human body, sexuality and desire are used as a vehicle for questioning new forms of gender representation. Berthon-Moine has exhibited in various group shows at venues including Wysing Art Centre, (Cambridge, 2014), La Suite Video (Mexico City, 2012), Mostyn Art Gallery (LLandudno, 2011), Southbank Centre (London, 2011) and AIR Gallery, (New York, 2009). She is currently pursuing an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London.

 

http://www.ingridberthonmoine.com/

 

 

Daniela Comani

Daniela Comani is an Italian artist who lives and works in Berlin since 1989. Her multimedia work touches subjects related to history, language and gender. Selected exhibitions: The Self, National Academy Museum (New York, 2015), Autoritratti - Iscrizioni del femminile, MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna (Bologna, 2013), Le Printemps de Septembre, Musée Les Abattoirs (Toulouse, 2012), 54th Venice Biennale, San Marino Pavilion (Venice, 2011), Just Different!, Cobra Museum (Amsterdam, 2008), Transmediale08, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, 2008), I Queerelanti, Neon>Campobase (Bologna, 2008), History will repeat itself, KW (Berlin, 2007), The Eighth Square - Gender, Life and Desire in Art Since 1960, Museum Ludwig (Cologne, 2006).

 

http://www.danielacomani.net

 

 

Cécile Emmanuelle Borra

Cécile Emmanuelle Borra is a French born artist, graduate of Goldsmiths College. She has been exhibiting in the UK and internationally, including the solo show Kaleidoscopes at Sketch (London, 2009) and the group shows  Helmut Newton Ladies Nights, curated by Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, at the Royal Academy (London, 2008), Uncut at the ICA (London, 2003), the end of residencyès group show curated by Franko B at Firstsite (Colchester, 2012), Where The Men Met at Kulturhuset (Stockholm, 2011) and Summer Show at A.I.R. gallery (New York, 2012). In 2015, she performed for Charming for the Revolution: A gaga manifesto, a “Subjectivities & Feminisms performance dinner” with Jack Halberstam. 

 

http://www.re-title.com/artists/cecileemmanuelle-borra.asp

 

 

Stefania Gagliano

Stefania Gagliano is an Italian artist and graduate in Visual and Performing Arts in Venice and holds an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. In her works she explores the difficulties of living and feeling at home within a body, together with denouncing the hipocrisy of a society that believes to have gained gender equality and sexual freedom. Selected solo exhibitions: Farfalle e gastriti, Art Ekyp (Modena, 2013), Il nome della donna non compare, Ninapì-nesting Art Gallery (Ravenna, 2013), Organiche interazioni, Spazio Gerra (Reggio Emilia, 2011). Selected group shows: Biennale del Disegno (Ravenna, 2014), NADSAT__/rituali e linguaggi della giovinezza/, Gallerie Civiche di Palazzo Ducale (Pavullo, 2012), I can see from a white canvas, Cà del Duca (Venice, 2004).

 

http://www.stefaniagagliano.com

 

 

Sadie Memphis Hennessy

Sadie Hennessy is a Whitstable-based artist (UK).  Recent solo shows include Strange Hungers, WW Gallery (London, 2012) and More Strange Hungers, A.Brooks Art (London, 2013) and Something For The Weekend, Sir? A. Brooks Art (London, 2014). She holds an MA in Fine Art from Central St. Martin’s, London and has won the Jealous Graduate Art Prize in 2010. She specialises in collage and print-making, with the occasional foray into installation, including her famously controversial My First Tattoo (children’s tattoo parlour) for the Whitstable Biennale (June 2014). She recently won a commission for a public art project in Margate, Souvenirs of Cliftonville (Feb 2015) which culminated in a big solo show at Resort Studios (Margate). 

 

https://sadiememphishennessy.carbonmade.com

 

 

Lora Hristova

Lora Hristova, born in Bulgaria, works across different mediums, engaging with issues of identity and sexuality from a feminist and psychoanalytical perspective. Inspired by mainstream pornography, her work considers the cultural, psychological and social impact of the sex industry. Since graduating from Central Saint Martin's in 2009 she has exhibited across London with work touring Bulgaria and screenings in Berlin. Her first major solo show was held at The Zabludowicz Collection in March 2013. Her work is part of The University of the Arts Collection, The Zabludowicz Collection and private collections in London including those of Les Mes and Tracy Emin.

 

http://www.lorahristova.com

 

 

Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo

Christa Joo Hyun D'Angelo is an American artist based in Berlin. She attended the Maryland Institute College of Art and later the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (Poland). Over the last few years D'Angelo's work has evolved into a more research based art practice that encompasses political issues concerning the politics of representations regarding class, race, sexuality and gender. Recently, D'Angelo begun to explore the production of race in both transnational spaces and urban areas within Eurocentric and American media zones. Her work attempts to reject the restrictive categories of identity in order to adopt a more plural way of experiencing race, gender and sexual relationships. D'Angelo's work has been featured in Art in America, Huffingtonpost, Kenzo's Kenzine and she has exhibited in Volta Artfair (Basel), Galerie Suvi Lehtinen (Berlin), September Gallery (Berlin), and was the 2014 studio grant holder from District Berlin.

 

http://www.christajdangelo.com

 

 

Claudia Rossini aka Yamada Hanako

Yamada Hanako currently lives in Venice, where she studied Visual Arts, graduating from IUAV and the Academy of Fine Arts. In the last few years, Yamada’s artistic journey has focused on two main subjects: the representation of Venice and the imagery surrounding female sexuality. Her artworks have been exhibited throughout international festivals and institutions, including: GU Tophane-i Amire Culture Center (Istanbul, 2010), Venice Film Meeting (Venice, 2011), BJCEM (Thessaloniki, 2011), Italian Embassy in Washington DC (Washington, 2011), Santorini Biennial of Arts (Santorini, 2012), House of Electronic Arts (Basel, 2012); Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa (Venice, 2014), Viafarini VIR (Milan, 2015).

 

http://www.yamadahanako.org/

 

 

Alice Tatge

Alice Tatge is an Italian/American director, choreographer and performer. Tatge's work is located in the field of live art/mixed-media installation and is deeply rooted in her ongoing investigation of physicality and perception. Her practice includes the use of found objects, text, still photography, film and soundscape which she considers as an extension of her choreographic and compositional work. Her pieces have been exhibited in London at the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Barbican, Wapping Project, Trinity Laban, Waterside Contemporary, ArtsAdmin, Freud Museum, ICA and the Colchester Art Centre (Essex).

 

http://alicetatge.com  |  http://www.dyad.org.uk

 

 

WORKSHOP

Saturday 23 May h 4.30pm

 

“Erotic Perils: Slightly Porn or kind of Art?” An open discussion on the topic of censorship and feminist discourses.

Eyes Wild Drag, CUNTemporary and Archivio Queer Italia invite the public to a workshop/discussion on the issue of censorship through feminist perspectives on artworks with pornographic content. The participants will include some of the performers and artists of Genderotica festival. Discussion is open to all.

 

 

 

CUNTemporary is an organisation that works with individuals and groups that explore feminist and queer art practices and theories. The organisation facilitates and curates projects in response to the lack of visibility and the difficulties in presenting such work within mainstream media and institutions.

 

The organisation’s name refers to the positive appropriation and re-claiming of the once purely allegedly offensive words that sexist, racist, elitist and homophobic tactics have used to shame, denigrate and marginalise alternative modes of production. Cultural industries have often either excluded or closeted artists that identify as, or reference queerness, feminism and non-whiteness. CUNTemporary contends instead that feminist and queer aesthetics have a rich and significant legacy and flourishing engagement on a global scale

 

Birthed in March 2012, CUNTemporary started its activity by providing monthly and daily listings of exhibitions, talks and events taking place in London. Parallel to the listings, CUNTemporary organises talks, screenings, exhibitions, performances and events with the participation of a multidisciplinary and international group of members and artists.

 

CUNTemporary is self-funded and organised by committed individuals who share this vision. We function on a not-for-profit basis and all our proceeds go towards the promotion of groups or individuals that engage with feminist and queer frameworks.

 

info@cuntemporary.org 

www.cuntemporary.org

 

 

Archivio Queer Italia

 

Archivio Queer Italia (AQI) is a virtual and live platform for queer artistic practices, theory and politics that relate to Italian culture and society, both in Italy and abroad.

 

AQI began as an affiliated project to CUNTemporary, a queer-feminist arts organization based in London. AQI started as an independent curatorial project within the ArtVerona Art Fair in 2013. On this occasion,

 

AQI started to take shape through a transnational open-call for artists, curators, theorists and activists who operated in the areas of queer aesthetic expression, theory or politics. AQI’s second large project is Teoremi, a biannual performance festival against sexual and gender-based discriminations.

 

At the same time, the fundraiser event Deep Trash Italia was launched. This event now showcases art and performance once every three months in London, with an explosive evening that includes music and DJ sets.

 

AQI is constructing and consolidating its core project: the creation of this online platform that permits individuals, groups and organisations to enter into communication and to explore the various intersections of queer and feminisms. The archive branches into 3 sections: Arts, Theory & Activism, constantly updated through an on-going open call.

 

AQI works with various groups and individuals and is always open to new collaborations.

 

AQI also advertises weekly events, conferences and open calls via its Facebook group, page and Twitter.

 

www.archivioqueeritalia.com

info@archivioqueeritalia.com