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What is your first memory? I posed the question to Artificial Intelligence. I have no personal experiences, was the answer.
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©VFMarrese;
“Unclear Inputs,”
2023;
installation art, new-media art;
artificial intelligence, paper, acrylic paint, artificial feathers, tape, metal ring, chunky yarn;
120×230×150 centimetres;
47.2441×90.5512×59.0551 inches;
Xelor Kesselhaus, Berlin, Germany;
“preserve memories - provide energy,” third edition;
photo by V.F. Marrese
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Evil Design is a journey in search of truth. The setting is today’s post-truth world. The flood of information glowing on the colourful screens of electronic devices inspired the piece.
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“Evil Designs (also known as böse Pläne),”
2023;
time-based art, new-media art;
artifiicial intelligence, a gym bag with an erased brand, a city map with erased detail, golf glove, police barricade tape, book, fake book cover;
00:15:00 hours;
first showcased at Galerie die 8, Kalbe (Milde), Germany (photo taken in the studio);
“11. Internationaler Sommercampus. Werkschau der Stipendiat:innen”;
photo by V.F. Marrese
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Inspired by Facebook Business Pages guidelines, I investigated age-based segmentation and marketing strategies.
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“About age-based targeting,”
2022;
time-based art, installation art;
book, police line do not cross tape, gloves, hat, laptop;
25 square meters room;
269.098 square feet room;
00:30:00 hours;
Hotel Villa Terminus, Bergen, Norway;
PAB Performance Art Bergen Open;
photo by Kobie Nel
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I remember that one of the most challenging aspects of old typewriters was the impossibility of correcting errors.
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©VFMarrese;
“Expedition,”
2023;
assembled sculpture;
typewriter, artificial feathers;
90×100×60 centimetres;
35.4331×39.3701×23.622 inches;
Adlerhalle, Dragonerareal, Berlin, Germany;
“Collectiveness In Space,” in the context of Experimentdays Relaunch, in cooperation with Zusammenstelle and Rathausblock, curatorial program Mayer Pavilion;
photo by V.F. Marrese
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Living through various life stages is like performing in a play, thinking of a west classic.
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“eine Rolle, viele Rollen,”
2023;
assembled sculpture;
found object, crepe paper, paper, tape, ink, colored pigments from coloroed pencils;
170×100 centimetres;
66.9291×39.3701 inches;
former courthouse, Kalbe (Milde), Germany;
11. Internationaler Sommercampus, artist residency, Künstlerstadt Kalbe;
photo by V.F. Marrese
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While opening my art studio for visitors, I accidentally left some notes about Jacques Deridda.
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©VFMarrese;
“Ah, Deridda! LOL ,”
2023;
sculpture;
artificial intelligence, FAX paper, ink;
40×35×10 centimetres;
15.748×13.7795×3.93701 inches;
former courthouse, Kalbe (Milde), Germany;
11. Internationaler Sommercampus, artist residency, Künstlerstadt Kalbe;
photo by V.F. Marrese
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The way society divides people by age could bring prejudices. Could prejudices be connected to schools that sort students by age?
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“Hierarchiestufen,”
2023;
assembled sculpture;
found object (old school chair), mirror, F-clamps, crepe paper, coir tree-tie rope;
64×89×45 centimeters;
25.20×35.04×17.72 inches;
former courthouse, Kalbe (Milde), Germany;
11. Internationaler Sommercampus, artist residency, Künstlerstadt Kalbe;
photo by V.F. Marrese
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I combined a beautiful piece of wood, sold as decoration at a market, with original police tape.
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©VFMarrese;
“Aesthetic regulations,”
2022;
assembled sculpture;
nature wood slide, metal nails, police barricade tape;
22×23×6 centimetres;
8.66142×9.05512×2.3622 inches;
first showcased at Projektwohnung „krudebude“, Leipzig, Germany (photo taken in the studio);
krude ohne bude. Eine Abschiedsausstellung;
photo by V.F. Marrese
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I cast a spell according to the instructions in an old magical manuscript. Then, I broadcast my action on Instagram in a temporary account that I deleted after a few hours.
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©VFMarrese;
“I (don’t) know the spell,”
2021;
time-based art;
video formatted as an MP4 file;
1080×1920 pixels;
00:49:57 hours
AKT, Art-Zavod Platforma, Kyiv, Ukraine;
Performance November - Kyiv International performance art days, curated by Tetiana Kornieieva, studio 312;
montage of stills by V.F. Marrese
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It researches identity fragmentation and body perception via Internet technologies. This was a re-enactment in Berlin, Germany.
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©VFMarrese, “Achilles and Tortoise”, Kornieieva-Marrese duo, photo by William “Bilwa” Costa
Format: time-based art
Subject: Identity Fragmentation, Body Perception, Internet Technologies, Time Zones, City Context, Communication Paradox
Venue: Liebig12, Berlin, Germany
Context: PAF Performing Arts Festival Berlin
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It researches identity fragmentation and body perception via Internet technologies. This was a re-enactment in Odžaci, Serbia.
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©VFMarrese, “Achilles and Tortoise”, Kornieieva-Marrese duo, photo by Syporca Whandal
Format: time-based art
Subject: Identity Fragmentation, Body Perception, Internet Technologies, Time Zones, City Context, Communication Paradox
Venue: abandoned Motel “Sumice”, Odžaci, Voivodina, West Bačka District, Serbia
Context: IMAF International Multimedial Art Festival
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It researches identity fragmentation and body perception via Internet technologies. This was the première in Novi Sad, Serbia.
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©VFMarrese, “Achilles and Tortoise”, Kornieieva-Marrese duo, photo by Daniela Beltrani
Format: time-based art
Subject: Identity Fragmentation, Body Perception, Internet Technologies, Time Zones, City Context, Communication Paradox
Venue: Gallery SULUV, Novi Sad, Serbia
Context: IMAF International Multimedial Art Festival
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What if, as we phase out fossil fuels, we transform former power plants into a network of art museums?
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©VFMarrese, “Der Weg der Kohle”, photo by Tetiana Kornieieva
Format: time-based art, installation art
Subject: Social Change, Power Plant Museums, Innovative Art Platform, Fossil Fuel, Magic Door
Venue: Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge, Berlin, Germany
Context: Group exhibition, festival “preserve memories - provide energy” - first edition
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What questions could performance art raise about people’s relationship with the social world when occurring via social media? This was a re-enactment commissioned for a festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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©VFMarrese, “post performance”
Format: time-based art
Subject: Performance Art Questions, Medium of Performance Art, Online Social World
Venue: UBA, Umbral espacio de arte, Zona Imaginaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Context: APAFBA – AUSTRAL Performance Art Festival Buenos Aires, AUSTRAL desde lo VIRTUAL, filmed in Kattegat, Berlin, digital commission, organized and under the curatorial direction of Hector Canonge in collaboration with local institutions and organizations in Buenos Aires, Arterial Performance Lab, Centro Cultural Paco Urondo, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras - UBA, Umbral espacio de arte, Zona Imaginaria
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What questions could performance art raise about people’s relationship with the social world when occurring via social media? This was the première in Berlin, Germany.
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©VFMarrese, “post performance”
Format: time-based art
Subject: Performance Art Questions, Medium of Performance Art, Online Social World
Venue: digital commission, Berlin, Germany
Context: PAF Performing Arts Festival Berlin
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Artwork Cordone , artistic collaboration with Live Art Lab: Tetiana Kornieieva and Anton Romanov, première
Three artists that speak different native languages, Ukrainian and Italian, meet in Kyiv to create a brand-new performance art piece.
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©VFMarrese, “Cordone”
Format: time-based art
Subject: Ukrainian and Italian Languages, Word Loans, Cross Cultural Influence, Language Pronunciation, Language Meanings
Venue: Institute of Automation, Nahirna 22, studio 312, Kyiv, Ukraine
Context: studio 312
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Artwork It’s time , artistic collaboration with Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith, première
Two artists share the same space and moment, acting differently and seemingly unrelated. Yet, being together, they start to collide.
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©VFMarrese, “It’s time”, artistic collaboration with Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith
Format: time-based art
Subject: Artistic Interaction, Collision of Actions, Harmony in Diversity, Two Worlds of Experience
Venue: digital commission, Berlin, Germany
Context: IMAF International Multimedial Art Festiva
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I suggests that nature exceeds humans machines, although it exists inside humans machines.
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©VFMarrese, “I don’t think you realise what I’m talking about”
Format: new media art
Subject: Complexity in Art, Edgar Morin Philosophy, Relationship Reorganization, Nature Representation, Individual Society Species, Nature Exceeds Machines, Discovering Complexity
Venue: digital commission, Berlin, Germany
Context: Bio-Net-Work online based art project, project director Shubho O Saha, curator Sanjid Mahmud, assistant curators Mahmuda Siddika and Afsana Hasan Shejuty, digital commission, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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I related Facebook's rules to the self-domestication hypothesis and the Internet, creating tension between the media and a meta-vision of its rules.
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©VFMarrese, “Community Standards”
Format: time-based art
Subject: Facebook Community Standards, Violence and Criminal Behavior, Self Domestication Hypothesis
Venue: digital commission, Berlin, Germany
Context: Moving Bodies, Festival online_Blu Notte, Teatro Espace, Turin, Italy
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