Friday, November 4, at 2.10 pm will take place at the Meeting Point of Artissima - International Fair of Contemporary Art in Torino, the performative investigation "The Embassy" by Marco Scotini, Director of the School of Visual Arts, inside the panel "Mr. Freedom Summit" - curated by Anna Colin, Associate Director Bétonsalon, Paris, in dialogue with Kodwo Eshun - that involved also Marco Scotini.
"The Embassy" is a performance created in collaboration with the students from the Two-year MA Program in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies of NABA - Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano. Performance participants: Martina Castoldi, Gaia Mauri, Leah Messersmith, Edith Porier, Edna Gee, Ilaria Bombelli. Documentation: Chiara Balsamo.

Paris, end of the Sixties. The U.S. Special Agent Mr. Freedom is committed by the head of a multinational corporation, acting through the television circuit, going to solve the problems of France in the 1968 and grappling with challenges that threaten to overthrow the power. The performance consists of a critical reading of the scene set in the U.S. Embassy in Paris, in which the hero goes in an official visit, accompanied by pin-up with stars and stripes scantily dresses, and the interior of the embassy is an overflowing supermarket, an ultrapop apology of the capitalist regime in the years of the Cold War. The same girls will be around the stands of Artissima, asking the public a series of questions on the role of creative industries today.

The Mr. Freedom Summit is a one-day event focused around William Klein’s anti-imperialist satire Mr. Freedom (1969). Theorists, filmmakers, critics, writers, artists and curators are invited to select an extract of the 95-min long film and to come up with a response which could be as short as 1 minute and as long as 30 minutes. The various contributions present a range of approaches and expertise around the many components of the film – from the figures of Mr. Freedom and Delphine Seyrig, to politics, protest and gender representation, through Dr. Freedom’s speech art – while produce links with Klein’s overtly militant cinema and his cultural involvement with the African liberation struggles and the US Black Panthers.

With: Eric Baudelaire, Matthew Biederman, Nicole Brenez, Kodwo Eshun, Nicole Fernández Ferrer, Olivier Hadouchi, Shanay Jhaveri, Wayne Koestenbaum, Lars Bang Larsen, Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson, Uriel Orlow, Marko Peljhan, Brian W. Rogers, Thibaut de Ruyter, Marco Scotini, Marina Vishmidt with Melanie Gilligan, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Florian Zeyfang et al.

Info:
http://www.artissima.it/frontend/progetti-curatoriali/approssimazioni/auditorium/