'Futurism Today or NOT!' will examine the artistic originality of the Futurists and how it can be reinterpreted today as a significant artistic movement of humanity’s inventiveness and/or a fleeting simulacrum of an artificial optimism appropriated by the zeitgeist of its times.
The Call to Participate was a great success and thank you to the over 50 artist proposals which came in....
[read more] 'Futurism Today or NOT!' will examine the artistic originality of the Futurists and how it can be reinterpreted today as a significant artistic movement of humanity’s inventiveness and/or a fleeting simulacrum of an artificial optimism appropriated by the zeitgeist of its times.
The Call to Participate was a great success and thank you to the over 50 artist proposals which came in. The Futuristic Institute of Collective Happenings will include over 30 exhibits, performances, audio works, projections, sculptures, installations and happenings in and around its interior and exterior spaces under the banner of Futurism Today or NOT!
To see everyone through the night, the The Cucina Futurista will be set-up in the back parking lot of The Distillery made-up of of over 20 gourmet food trucks and the grounds of The Distillery will be licensed!
Initiated by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti with his Futurist Manifesto in 1909 published on the front page of Paris' Le Figaro, Futurism's impact, driven by the movement's desire for speed of thought and the acceleration of action, made its presence felt throughout Europe, specifically, France, Italy, England and Russia. Though an off-shoot of Cubism, Futurism pushed the envelope further. Interpretating everyday life in geometric and abstract forms was fine but the cult of the machine and industry was what was transforming all apsects of life faster than art and this is what Marinetti, Boccioni, Carra, Russolo, Balla and Severini stuck to. All artistic expression had to stay ahead of this transformation, and with a severe and glorified sense of irony, expose its dehumanization of everyday life faster that it could be imagined. Futurism was the modernist fuse that ignited the artistic explosions of the great multi-disciplinary art movements which followed into the 1930's, including Dadaism, Bauhaus, Constructivism, Surrealism, Suprematism, Vorticism, German Expressionism, etc.
Artists:
Anthony Cristina & Natalie Viecili
Arianne Pollet-Brannen & Rebecca Hannon
Barbara Astam
BellaLuna
Benecorpo Community
Christine Lucy Latimer
Dominique Banoun
Enza Iovio
Evoke Movement Dance Theatre
Evond Blake
Heather Hughes
Henry Navarro
John Marriot
Kadozuke Kollektif
Kat Citroen
Kevin Bonnici
Kirsten Webb
Larchaud Dance
Marcus Patching
Mladen Ovadija
Nexx Level Dance & Theatre
Nouveau Futurist Art of Noise Group
Paul J. Stoesser
Paula John
Rebecca Leonard
Richard Watts
Saving Us From Destruction
Scenocosme
Sean Smith
Shane Dobbs
Timothy Scaffidi
Typecast Dance
Victoria Ward
The Futurists also faced, more than any other artistic movement, an onslaught of criticism as a result of their eventual ties to Italian Fascism and their glorification of war and misogyny. These cannot be ignored, but at the same time art and politics were never so integrated as they were at the beginning of the 20th Century. Right or wrong-headed, modernism was on the move with unparalleled voraciousness, especially in politics. If Futurism's ideals were driven by the momentum of spectacle, why shouldn't the new politics of Fascism appropriate and steal what they needed until they got their branding together as well? Once Mussolini succeeded in doing this, he broke-off the relationship claiming that Marinetti refused the real violence the Fascists' needed to spread with their urban arditi and rural squadrismos - Marinetti '[is] an eccentric buffoon who wants to play politics and whom no one in Italy, least of all me, takes seriously'. The challenges artists and the momentum of their creative forces faced during the rise of Naziism, Fascism and Communism in Germany, Austria, Soviet Union, Spain and Italy, did not make being an artist comfortable, or sometimes it did, depending on what was needed and not needed from you. Composer Dimitri Shostakovitch's insightful journals while serving under Stalin make for a good read as does Griel Marcus' Lipstick Traces.'
And a big thanks to production by 5th Element PR by Artsy Fartsy PR and event management by Rebecca Cotter.
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