Ofri Cnaani
Ofri Cnaani is an artist and researcher working across performance and media. She creates artworks and writes about data and coloniality in cultural institutions, somatic knowledge in the age of networked spatiality, and performance as a model for developing critical technology. Cnaani is a visiting scholar at the Institute of Visual Culture, TU Wien, Austria, and a research fellow at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam.
Her work has been presented at Tate Britain, UK; the Venice Architecture Biennale; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; PS1/MoMA, NYC; Inhotim Institute, Brazil; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Chile; the Israel Museum; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Amos Rex Museum, Helsinki; Kiasma Museum, Helsinki; BMW Guggenheim Lab, NYC; the Fisher Museum of Art, L.A.; Twister, Network of Lombardy Contemporary Art Museums, Italy; the Moscow Biennial; The Kitchen, NYC; Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, among others. Since 2021, Cnaani has co-organised Choreographic Devices, a three-day choreographic symposium at ICA, London.
Unfolding Desire
Laboratorio: Out of Order
by Ofri Cnaani
Friday 30 January, 4-5 pm, on Zoom
After an introduction to Unfolding Desire by the co-curator Francesca Lazzarini, Ofri Cnaani will present the artworks she realised for the project – the photographic series Mouth to Hand and the video Surviving Images – and the workshop through which those emerged. The artist will then introduce Out of Order, delving into its contents, methodology, and structure. The online session will also offer an opportunity for a quick round of presentations so participants can start introducing themselves and getting to know each other.
Monday 9 February, 2 pm, Centro di Documentazione, Padiglione M, Parco di San Giovanni, Trieste
Like the whole project, the workshop Out of Order approaches San Giovanni not only as a custodian of memory, but as a living, affective and sensorial place where dormant desires can be reactivated and transformed into collective practices of care, knowledge production, and resistance.
Ofri Cnaani will lead the group in experimenting with forms of engagement with the materials of the Centro di Documentazione. Participants will be encouraged to mobilise their own practices and skills to turn archival instances into desires for the future. They’ll be asked to actualise those transformations into audio or audio/visual contributions.
Thursday 12 February, 2 pm, Centro di Documentazione, Padiglione M, Parco di San Giovanni, Trieste
This session will be dedicated entirely to participants’ contributions. They will be shared in the group, collectively discussed, and prepared for the different presentations to come: the podcast, the video, and the project’s webpage.
Thursday 12 February, 5 pm, Radio Fragola, Padiglione M, Parco di San Giovanni, Trieste
Participants are invited to take an active role in the Unfolding Desire Podcast recording and present their contributions. The session at Radio Fragola will retrace and reactivate the meaningful phases of Unfolding Desire through all the voices of the project’s protagonists. In fact, the Laboratorio group will be joined in person by Escuchame’s artists Diego and Renzo Porporati, the performer Pavel Berdon, the composer Samuel Codarin, and the broadcaster Massimiliano Rosati, while co-curator Elham Puriya Mehr and artist Evan Siebens will connect from Canada.
Unfolding Desire
A project by Air Trieste (Cultural Inventory) in partnership with La Collina Social Cooperative, Trieste Contemporanea and Griffin Art Project
Curators: Francesca Lazzarini and Elham Puriya Mehr
Artists: Ofri Cnaani and Evann Siebens
In collaboration with: Pavel Berdon, Samuel Codarin, Diego and Renzo Porporati, Escuchame and Collettivo Marte
Organized with the support of Friuli Venezia Giulia Region.
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