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The second 2018 event of The Independent revolves around NESXT – Independent Art Network.

NESXT will draw a symbolic map of the practices that inhabit the ever-expanding independent national scene on the wall dedicated to The Independent by proposing a selection of eight projects: Adiacenze (Bologna), Giuseppefraugallery (Gonnesa), Localedue (Bologna), Lu Cafausu (San Cesario di Lecce), Quartiere Intelligente (Napoli), RAVE-East Village Artist Residency (Trivignano Udinese), Spazio Buonasera (Turin), There is no place like home (Rome).
The invited groups/spaces, which have been selected among those belonging to the NESXT network, will recount their story in a free, personal manner through videos and an iconographic image.
NESXT is an interdisciplinary project born in 2016 and devoted to independent cultural and artistic production that documents, supports and links associations, artist-run spaces and collectives through a festival, an observatory and a network of collaborations.

ph: Adiacenze, Bologna

The Independent opens 2018 with the MoRE group, the digital museum that collects, preserves and exhibits on line unrealised projects by 20th- and 21st-century artists. It also won i8, namely the initiative of the ArtVerona fair dedicated to independent spaces.
For this MAXXI event, MoRE presents WunderMoRE, a project curated by Ilaria Bignotti, Elisabetta Modena, Valentina Rossi, Marco Scotti and Anna Zinelli that showcases the museum’s archive by use of a collection of images.
The wall of the museum turns into an “exhibition room” based upon a perceptive disorientation caused by the indiscriminate accumulation of objects of different nature, which are only apparently exhibited following no logical or taxonomical principle. Every image comes with a brief explanation of the artist’s work and a QR code to trace the project in the MoRE digital archive. The materials will be exhibited in two different set-ups which will follow one another from March to July.

MoRE, which is a flowing, scientific, mobile container that is constantly under definition and enlargement, enhances and studies the preserved projects by use of research, articles, seminars and publications, making full use of the web’s potential and interacting with different institutions and entities also by carrying out experimental and site-specific exhibition projects and always promoting an active exchange.

The group has been selected in partnership with ArtVerona | Art Project Fair – i8 independent spaces!

Founded in 1998 by Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner in Caracas, since 2010 the group has been operating within the ambit of the Zurich Polytechnic, working on an international level with people from various disciplines and promoting dialogue between developing and developed countries.

At MAXXI Urban-Think Tank is presenting Città Parangolé, a reflection on utopian theories and their consequent development within the ambit of the contemporary urban context. The project was inspired by the concept of Parangolé developed in the Sixties by the artist Hélio Oiticica, extending its cardinal principal – “ life is movement” – from the human body to the urban context.
On show in the Carlo Scarpa Foyer will be an architectural model that translates the philosophy of the alternative city as a solution for the hypothetical future city of Piacenza and a graphic wall comparing present day city life with that of the future city.

Ph. Urban-Think Tank, The 1km radius Città Parangolé City

Caffè Internazionale is a Palermo-based club managed by production manager Darrell Shines, artist Stefania Galegati and Davide Ricco, an eclectic barman-curator.

Its programme mainly revolves around music, with periodical concerts, and contemporary art, with an exhibition area which has hosted twenty-eight personal and collective projects.
The cultural programme also includes events and conferences – IntellectualEYEzed – to bridge the gap between the audience and complex topics such as contemporary art, physics, musicology, new technologies, astronomy, botany and many more.

On the occasion of The Independent, Caffè Internazionale is to involve the students of its summer school – which has reached its second year of activities under Daria Filardo and Stefania Galegati Shines’s supervision – in the realisation of a project conceived for the rooms of the museum.

Founded in Beijing in 2010, the group Institute for Provocation (IFP) is an artistic organization and a working space that promotes cultural exchanges and production of a collective nature. IFP organizes and supports activities of various kinds, including artist residencies, research projects, debates, exhibitions, workshops, publications and so on, in the belief that artistic processes must be understood as alternative forms of the production of knowledge.

On the occasion of The Independent, Institute for Provocation is presenting the project Space Odyssey: an installation on wallpaper reproducing the physical environment of the IFP studio and the strata that make up its history and the micro-social dimension.

Taking the Democracy Wall Movement (created in 1978 in Beijing and reprised in the Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong in 2011) as a symbol of its artistic-curatorial partnership, Radical Intention is using the museum space as a workplace to develop and construct its Dazibao, a large font mural newspaper.

The curator Aria Spinelli and the artist Maria Pecchioli, founders of the group, transform the space into a workshop for exchange and reflection, using slogans, keywords and inspiring phrases, creating, together with the public, a work in progress for the construction of a Dazibao composed of post-its.

European Alternatives, which was launched in London in 2007 by Lorenzo Marsili and Niccolò Milanese, is a civil society transnational organisation and citizen movement stemming from an alternative understanding of Europe. It has been operating through projects, campaigns, events, studies, publications, workshops, and training sessions for ten years, supported by a large community of European and foreign partners, activists and supporters.

The Independent will see European Alternatives present the Terzo tempo/Overtime project, divided in two parts: a day-long debate and action session revolving around the idea of Europe, which is to take place on 26^th March 2017, namely the anniversary of the signing of the Treaties of Rome, and a map drawn by Marco Raparelli dedicated to the social and cultural motives which have characterised the continent ever since the crisis broke out in 2007-2008.

Founded in 2013 and based in Cyprus, Urban Gorillas is a non-profit organization run by a multi-disciplinary team of urban enthusiasts planning for healthy, creative and socially inclusive cities.
Within the context of The Independent the group is presenting Urban Spectacle, a series of public interventions exploring basic human activities in urban spaces, starting out from the relationship that is established between observer, player and spatial context and attempting to spark a new dialogue between them.
A project designed to encourage people to overcome stereotypical ways of looking at “the other” and to interact with them in public spaces.
The research conducted by Urban Gorillas to date has revealed for example that the public spaces in Cyprus are currently underused and socially segregated, a factor that has invited new and innovative methods of planning of public space. What has emerged is a wide-ranging action with urban interventions in various contexts within the city.

FouskoPolis public installation in Paphos Castle in collaboration with Plastique Fantastique | Green Urban Lab, 2015

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Founded in 2013 by Gianni Garrera, Giuseppe Garrera and Carlo Pratis, Una Vetrina is a non-stop place for the consumption of thoughts and daydreams: that which happens within the field of critical vision of the vetrina/showcase is its own museum. A space in which the contents are put in the shop window, for the attention or indifference of passers-by

The Mormorazione project is associated with the verbal vocation of the Una Vetrina space, with the frequent exposition of proclamations, writings, complaints and censures through which revolutions and utopias are denounced.
Those contributing are artists, philosophers and theologians with spare, repetitive writing, without decorative elements or superfluous signs, indifferent to graphic skills. The premise is that the highest representation is the word: every inscription invokes the replacement of reality by the word and declares that the verbal element is superior to any other manifestation of art. The highest apparition if the vision of a speech.

Composed of 11 artists, BASE / Progetti per l’arte recounts, through videos and documents, its 18 years as an independent space in Florence.

The video wall will be transmitting a selection of images of the site-specific works created in the Florence space as well as a series video interviews with the artists of the collection curated by Lorenzo Bruni. Also on show will be all the materials produced over the past 18 years and the posters created for the occasion by the individual artists in which they represent their own practices in relation to the BASE project.

BASE is an artist-run spacein Florence driven by a collective that currently numbers 11 member artists: Mario Airò, Marco Bagnoli, Massimo Bartolini, Vittorio Cavallini, Yuki Ichihashi, Paolo Masi, Massimo Nannucci, Maurizio Nannucci, Paolo Parisi, Remo Salvadori, Enrico Vezzi.
Founded in 1998 as a non-profit space, BASE has presented over 60 exhibitions of artist of international standing, with projects conceived specifically for the space. In parallel, seminar cycles, screenings and concerts have been organized, stimulating reflection on the role of culture today and in a dialogue with the city and its history.