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Teatrum Botanicum in Turin. Tuning the schemes

At Parco Arte Vivente, a festival for emerging artists and curators questioning theory, practice, exhibition and performance.

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“When the azaleas of the Deep South are not in bloom, they are perceived as quite nondescript bushes”
Moving from a remark by botanists James Wandersee and Elisabeth Schussler, theoreticians of plant blindness — incapability to recognize plants in their actual role, thus conferring them an identity — Parco di Arte Vivente in Turin puts an invitation at the core of the third edition of teatrum Botanicum. This festival for emerging artists and curators, operating between artistic and environmental theory and practice, is in fact making an invitation to a shift in perceptive paradigms of art, of the ontological categorization of its means and subjects.

Teatrum Botanicum in Turin. Tuning the schemes Teatrum Botanicum specifically explores the approach of tuning. Revising, tuning our schemes on what can be considered as a work of art, a performance, a practice of setting up.

Furlani-Gobbi, Die Furlani-Gobbi Sammlung: Staffage (2018) installation view, courtesy PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Turin. 

Teatrum Botanicum in Turin. Tuning the schemes Teatrum Botanicum specifically explores the approach of tuning. Revising, tuning our schemes on what can be considered as a work of art, a performance, a practice of setting up.

Gabriele Rendina Cattani, Treasure Trove (2017 – 2018), Teatrum Botanicum, courtesy the artist and PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Turin.

Teatrum Botanicum in Turin. Tuning the schemes Teatrum Botanicum specifically explores the approach of tuning. Revising, tuning our schemes on what can be considered as a work of art, a performance, a practice of setting up.

Gabriele Rendina Cattani, Treasure Trove (2017 – 2018), Teatrum Botanicum, courtesy the artist and PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Turin.

Teatrum Botanicum in Turin. Tuning the schemes Teatrum Botanicum specifically explores the approach of tuning. Revising, tuning our schemes on what can be considered as a work of art, a performance, a practice of setting up.

Mimì Enna, Shop (2017), Teatrum Botanicum, courtesy the artist and PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Turin.

Teatrum Botanicum in Turin. Tuning the schemes Teatrum Botanicum specifically explores the approach of tuning. Revising, tuning our schemes on what can be considered as a work of art, a performance, a practice of setting up.

Mimì Enna, Shop (2017), Teatrum Botanicum, courtesy the artist and PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Turin.

Teatrum Botanicum in Turin. Tuning the schemes Teatrum Botanicum specifically explores the approach of tuning. Revising, tuning our schemes on what can be considered as a work of art, a performance, a practice of setting up.

The Boys and Kifer, Ritual experience #1 (2018), Teatrum Botanicum, courtesy the artist and PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Turin.

Teatrum Botanicum in Turin. Tuning the schemes Teatrum Botanicum specifically explores the approach of tuning. Revising, tuning our schemes on what can be considered as a work of art, a performance, a practice of setting up.

The Boys and Kifer, Ritual experience #1 (2018), Teatrum Botanicum, courtesy the artist and PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Turin.

Teatrum Botanicum in Turin. Tuning the schemes Teatrum Botanicum specifically explores the approach of tuning. Revising, tuning our schemes on what can be considered as a work of art, a performance, a practice of setting up.

The Boys and Kifer, Ritual experience #1 (2018), Teatrum Botanicum, courtesy the artist and PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Turin.

Teatrum Botanicum in Turin. Tuning the schemes Teatrum Botanicum specifically explores the approach of tuning. Revising, tuning our schemes on what can be considered as a work of art, a performance, a practice of setting up.

Youngboyswritinggroup, Dusty Dark Nature (2018), Teatrum Botanicum, courtesy the artist and PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Turin.

Teatrum Botanicum in Turin. Tuning the schemes Teatrum Botanicum specifically explores the approach of tuning. Revising, tuning our schemes on what can be considered as a work of art, a performance, a practice of setting up.

Enrico Boccioletti, A shade of what remains unsaid (2017), Teatrum Botanicum, courtesy the artist and PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Turin.

Teatrum Botanicum in Turin. Tuning the schemes Teatrum Botanicum specifically explores the approach of tuning. Revising, tuning our schemes on what can be considered as a work of art, a performance, a practice of setting up.

Mimì Enna, Shop (2017), Teatrum Botanicum, courtesy the artist and PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Turin.

Teatrum Botanicum in Turin. Tuning the schemes Teatrum Botanicum specifically explores the approach of tuning. Revising, tuning our schemes on what can be considered as a work of art, a performance, a practice of setting up.

ALMARE with Andrea Valle - Acheropitismo, Teatrum Botanicum, courtesy ALMARE, Andrea Valle and PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Turin.

Teatrum Botanicum in Turin. Tuning the schemes Teatrum Botanicum specifically explores the approach of tuning. Revising, tuning our schemes on what can be considered as a work of art, a performance, a practice of setting up.

ALMARE with Andrea Valle - Acheropitismo, Teatrum Botanicum, courtesy ALMARE, Andrea Valle and PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Turin.

Teatrum Botanicum in Turin. Tuning the schemes Teatrum Botanicum specifically explores the approach of tuning. Revising, tuning our schemes on what can be considered as a work of art, a performance, a practice of setting up.

ALMARE with Andrea Valle - Acheropitismo, Teatrum Botanicum, courtesy ALMARE, Andrea Valle and PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Turin.

Teatrum Botanicum in Turin. Tuning the schemes Teatrum Botanicum specifically explores the approach of tuning. Revising, tuning our schemes on what can be considered as a work of art, a performance, a practice of setting up.

Michela Depretris, Che Wing Gun Karaoke (2018), Teatrum Botanicum, courtesy the artist and PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Turin.

Teatrum Botanicum in Turin. Tuning the schemes Teatrum Botanicum specifically explores the approach of tuning. Revising, tuning our schemes on what can be considered as a work of art, a performance, a practice of setting up.

ALMARE with Renato Grieco - Acheropitismo, Teatrum Botanicum, courtesy ALMARE, Renato Grieco and PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Turin.

Teatrum Botanicum in Turin. Tuning the schemes Teatrum Botanicum specifically explores the approach of tuning. Revising, tuning our schemes on what can be considered as a work of art, a performance, a practice of setting up.

Sara Manente and Christophe Albertjin, Fervide (live cultures) (2018), Teatrum Botanicum, courtesy the artist and PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Turin.

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According to psychologist Frederic Bartlett, there are three different attitudes one can show towards an object exceeding our schemata, our consolidated scripts of categorization: Teatrum Botanicum specifically explores the approach of tuning. Revising, tuning our schemes on what can be considered as a work of art, a performance, a practice of setting up: such shift is triggered by the superposition of installations, performances, artists’ interactions in a continuous connection and intersection between places where all these events happen, and a continuous blurring of their expected timeline

Teatrum Botanicum in Turin. Tuning the schemes A Scene, a setting and a work of art at the same time, this work operates a decomposition of “the heart of the Andes” by Frederic Edwin Church, evocating its first mode of display to the public, as the painting used to be hidden behind curtains.

Furlani-Gobbi, Die Furlani-Gobbi Sammlung: Staffage (2018), Courtesy PAV Parco Arte Vivente.

Teatrum Botanicum in Turin. Tuning the schemes At Parco Arte Vivente, a festival for emerging artists and curators questioning theory, practice, exhibition and performance.

Mimì Emma, Spiaggine in legno (Marghine e Gocéano)-(dalla serie shop), stampa su spiaggine in legno, 60x60x37cm, 2017, courtesy PAV Parco Arte Vivente

Teatrum Botanicum in Turin. Tuning the schemes At Parco Arte Vivente, a festival for emerging artists and curators questioning theory, practice, exhibition and performance.

Mimì Emma, Gazebo (Cormorano)-(dalla serie shop) stampa su gazebo, 3x3m, 2017. veduta dell’installazione, FRAC, Corte, 2017

Teatrum Botanicum in Turin. Tuning the schemes At Parco Arte Vivente, a festival for emerging artists and curators questioning theory, practice, exhibition and performance.

Enrico Boccioletti, A shade of what remains unsaid (concerto), 2017-2018. Production still. Courtesy: l'artista e ZKM, Karlsruhe

Teatrum Botanicum in Turin. Tuning the schemes At Parco Arte Vivente, a festival for emerging artists and curators questioning theory, practice, exhibition and performance.

Enrico Boccioletti, A shade of what remains unsaid (concerto), 2017-2018. Production still. Courtesy: l'artista e ZKM, Karlsruhe

Teatrum Botanicum in Turin. Tuning the schemes At Parco Arte Vivente, a festival for emerging artists and curators questioning theory, practice, exhibition and performance.

Sara Manente e Christophe albertijn, spectacle #4 @, 2018, Courtesy PAV Parco Arte Vivente

The space of PAV fulfils an important role in such system, due to the objects that perform its activation: technical objects generating sound and images, scenic objects structuring the flow of events become — through their reinterpretation and reuse — a bridge between designed landscape and curatorial time. These objects can generate theory, be both the channel and the actor of a reflection, of that tuning of categories activated by the contents of the festival.
Installations, Performances and interactions are created and curated by Enrico Boccioletti, Roberto Casti, Michela Depetris, Mimì Enna, Furlani-Gobbi, Sara Manente and Christophe Albertijn, Gabriele Rendina Cattani , Claudio Rocchetti, Youngboyswritinggroup. System is completed by Hotel Antropocene, (press conference curated by Federico Nejrotti e Nelle Gevers);  Acheropitismo, hybrid project curated by ALMARE with Renato Grieco, Andrea Valle and Mauro Lanza; dj sets by Sabla and XIII.

  • Teatrum Botanicum
  • PAV Parco Arte Vivente
  • via Giordano Bruno 31, Torino
  • 14-16 settembre 2018
  • Enrico Boccioletti, Roberto Casti, Michela Depetris, Mimì Enna, Furlani-Gobbi, Sara Manente e Christophe Albertijn, Gabriele Rendina Cattani, Claudio Rocchetti, Youngboyswritinggroup, Federico Nejrotti, Nelle Gevers, ALMARE, Renato Grieco, Andrea Valle, Mauro Lanza, Sabla, XIII.
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