Spatial occupations, urban subcultures and collaborative design are the issues explored by Milan and Brussels based collective Parasite 2.0 for the exhibition “Temporary Lovers”. More specifically, it is the concept of Temporary Autonomous Zones, theorised by anarchist writer Hakim Bay, that influences the evolution of the exhibition curated by Emanuele Guidi at the ar/ge kunst gallery in Bolzano.
Rave culture inspires Parasite 2.0’s “Temporary Lovers” exhibition
At the ar/ge kunst gallery in Bozen, the collective designs a series of furnishings that have been later “dirtied” by a 24-hour workshop/event.
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- Salvatore Peluso
- 23 April 2019
- Bolzano/Bozen
Photo Tiberio Sorvillo
Photo Tiberio Sorvillo
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Photo Tiberio Sorvillo
Photo Tiberio Sorvillo
Photo Tiberio Sorvillo
The T.A.Z. are moments of temporary re-appropriation of abandoned places – often industrial buildings – for parties or illegal gatherings. The spaces discarded by capitalism are occupied by communities which integrate different classes, ethnic groups and sexual orientations, without prejudice and in a horizontal way. The fragmented margins of the society merge together in a single dancing body, which has no political claims, but whose only intent is that of collective enjoyment.
Parasite 2.0 interprets these principles and practices by integrating a party to the program of activities planned in the exhibition space. The devices designed by the studio - halfway between the artistic installation and the functional furniture - were altered by the students of the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano during a 24-hour workshop, conceived as if it were a rave party.
Photo Tiberio Sorvillo
Photo Tiberio Sorvillo
Photo Tiberio Sorvillo
Photo Tiberio Sorvillo
Photo Tiberio Sorvillo
Photo Tiberio Sorvillo
Photo Tiberio Sorvillo
Photo Tiberio Sorvillo
Photo Tiberio Sorvillo
Photo Tiberio Sorvillo
Photo Tiberio Sorvillo
Photo Tiberio Sorvillo
Photo Tiberio Sorvillo
Photo Tiberio Sorvillo
Photo Tiberio Sorvillo
Photo Tiberio Sorvillo
In addition to the installation project, the architects’ collective also developed a series of “ignorant” tools with which to colonise the initial design: heat-shrinkable plastics, coloured spray paints and pourable polyurethane. The ar/ge kunst spaces, initially clean and aseptic, now preserve the traces of the event, in which the participants shared passion, love and freedom.
- Temporary Lovers
- Parasite 2.0
- Emanuele Guidi
- until 4 May 2019
- ar/ge kunst
- via Museo 29, Bolzano/Bozen
- Free University of Bolzano, Faculty of Design and Art Pasticceria Hofer, Bolzano The Autonomous Province of South Tyrol, Department of Culture Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio City of Bolzano, Department of Culture
- Studio Exhibit - Facoltà di Arti e Design at Libera Università di Bolzano
- Daniel Adlmueller, Michelangelo Boldrin, Giovanni Campitelli, Daniela Capaldo, Carla Carrasco, Filippo Contatore, Lucrezia Erbisti, Marilia Fara, Camilla Hoffmeister, Vincent Lidenmueller, Mark Markin, Isabella Panigada, Lucilla Patrizi, Maximilian Pellizzari, Gaia Sartorato, Theodor Seegers, Antonio Severi, Lucia Tomasi, Gaia Tovaglia.