BUILD YOUR LEADER

site specific performance, 2011

 VIDEO DOCUMENTATION LINK

Grote Markt Antwerpen - 30 april 2011
realized in the frame of Enacting Populism curated by Matteo Lucchetti


a project by Luigi Coppola
realized in the frame of Enacting Populism curated by Matteo Lucchetti
with Luigi Coppola, Sven Goyvaerts, Margareth Kaserer, Matteo Lucchetti, Esther Severi
images and editing by Claudio Cavallari
produced in the context of the residency in Air Antwerp
with the support of a.pass (advanced performance and scenography studies)
Antwerp 2011

ENACTING POPULISM

residency, 2011

 AIR Antwerp / residency 
An ongoing research on the possible relationships between art practices and populist aesthetics

Curated by Matteo Lucchetti
with Francisco Camacho, Luigi Coppola, Danilo Correale
in collaboration with Extra City, Antwerpen


NEUTRAL ECOLOGICAL BODY # SEOUL

performance, 2010

 VIDEO DOCUMENTATION LINK

 performance as part of the exhibition "Rich Disorganization"
Seoul Art Space Geumcheon - august 2010
I wear a screaming mask, in order to give voice to several philosophers, intellectuals and activists who have or have had a clear vision on the crisis of the current system and give us visions about the future.

Partecipants in the conference (through a temporary passage from my body)
Vandana Shiva (1952 India, philosopher, environmental activist)
Slavoj Žižek (1942 Slovenia, philosopher, critical theorist)
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975 Italy, poet, intellectual, film director, writer)
Joseph Beuys (1921-1986 Germany, artist, art theorist and pedagogue of art)
Doal Kim Yong-ok (1948 South Korea, philosopher)
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948 India, political and spiritual leader)
I will do my best to translate and expand their message.

RICH DISORGANIZATION

residency, performances and exhibition, 2010

 Seoul Art Space GEUMCHEON

photo: Luigi Coppola "Neutral Ecological Body #Seoul, 2010

Participating Artists:
 김명남 Kim Myoung-Nam, 김지수 Gisoo Kim, 노재운 Rho Jae-oon, 루이지 코폴라 Luigi Coppola (Italy), 극연구소 마찰 The Pure Theatre Laboratory Machal, 무빙밀머리(박찬국) Moving Milmeory, 박능생 Park Nung-Saeng, 수퍼피쉬스! SUPERFISHES! (Korea+Israel), 스튜디오 우하하 Studio Woohaha, 윤주희 Youn Ju-hee, 이기일 Lee Kiil, 이수영+리금홍 Lee Soo-young + Lee Geum-hong, 이세옥+최수환 Rhee Sei+Che Swann, 이호진 Lee Ho-jin, 인진미 In Jin-mi, 장석준 Jang Suk-joon, 정정주 Jeong Eeong-ju, 조습 JoSeub, 제프 슈무키 Jeff Schmuki(America), 천영미 Chun Young-mi
 The exhibition highlights ways of interpreting the space of Geumcheon.
 Twenty first-term artists from four countries stayed in the Seoul Art Space Geumcheon for two months to one year. The exhibition’s theme Rich Disorganization was proposed to metaphorically present the artists’
 new dreams, their individuality, diverse perspectives, and the possibilities of a newly evolving city from viewpoints different from thoseof administrators and local residents. These strangers who enjoy traveling alone, leaving their home voluntarily, and moving to new places anonymously shed light on Geumcheon from the perspectives of
 collectors, urban scholars, and detectives.
 Their gaze on this region appears inconsistent yet poetic with the intersection of various voices. Moreover, the scenes these artists rendered are mere manifestations of their individual concerns for life here,but have nothing to do with regional issues such as the reality of migrant workers residing here, and reckless development of this area mixed with industrial and residential facilities.
 However, individual scenes resident artists rendered acquire meaning of its presence through structuralized, symbolized representations as cultural images, and the memories, reflected by this region’s artifacts and images they collected, are not individual but collective. Can the artists’ aesthetic attempts to add new identity to this declining area save its concealed, forgotten moments of the past?

GUARANTEES ON THE CONTINUITY OF THE SPECIES

workshop, performance, photography, 2010

 Bressanone - Brixen (BZ) - ITA
with the young people of the On- Stage School of Arts, Bozen



ARTS IN SOCIETY. BEING AN ARTIST IN POSTFORDISM TIME

publication, 2009
-In his contribution to this publication the Italian philosopher Paolo Virno argues that art has been dissolved in society like an effervescent tablet in water. The arts have become an essential component of the post-Fordist production process and have to a large degree lost their autonomy. Taking up the challenge of the views of Virno, Hardt and others concerning the place and function of art in society, this book’s authors consult high-profile international figures from various artistic disciplines and endeavour to gain insight into the changing circumstances in which today’s creative processes arise and take shape.
The ways in which the world of art has evolved in recent decades is traced in discussions with, among others, the visual artists Michelangelo Pistoletto and Thierry De Cordier, choreographers Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Sang Jijia and Willy Tsao, theatre director Pippo Delbono and pop musician Matthew Herbert.
 Arts in Society sketches a provocative impression of the manner in which prominent artists, theorists and art intermediaries relate to economic, political, social and ecological issues. It presents an instructive narrative about power and impotence, cynicism and utopia, and nihilism and engagement aimed at all those who presently dare to call themselves artists and everyone who wants to understand and defend the importance of the role of the arts in society.

 In association with the Research Group Arts in Society, Fontys College for the Arts 
Pascal Gielen and Paul De Bruyne (eds.), NAi-Publishers: Rotterdam, 2009.
With texts by Luigi Coppola, Marie-Josée Corsten, Michael Hardt, Gert Keunen, Rudi Laermans, Sonja Lavaert, Karel Vanhaesebrouck

ART AND POSTFORDISM

special project, workshop

see the documentation of the talk  (italian and english) 1:25:00

00:00 -10:20 presentations Cecilia Canziani, Ilaria Gianni, Luigi Coppola
10:20 - 50:40 Pascal Gielen, Art and postfordism from sociological point of view"
50:40 -1:09:00 Paolo Virno, Key words about art and post-fordism
1:09:00 - 1:25:00 Michelangelo Pistoletto, New forms of institutions

 Reading Room, Nomas Foundation, Roma 2010

with Paolo Virno, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Pascal Gielen, Luigi Coppola
organized by Luigi Coppola and Nomas Foundation


For the first appointment of the Reading Room, Nomas Foundation hosts The Research Group Arts in Society of the Fontys College for the Arts for a day of discussions on issues of art, ecomony and society with Paolo Virno, Michelangelo Pistoletto,  Pascal Gielen and Luigi Coppola.
 In recent times, the culture industry has capitalised on the work ethic of the art world - its ever-youthful energy, allure of freedom, flexible working hours, short-term or lack of contracts - and converted into a standard production model. Following the apparent success of 'capitals of culture' schemes and the creative industries, governments too have been keen to embrace this post-Henry Ford work model and seamlessly link it to the globally dominant neo-liberal market economy. But how have artists and other arts professionals reacted to this situation? Can they offer alternative strategies and policies?

ANNO UNO - TERZO PARADISO

special project, performance, 2009
by Michelangelo Pistoletto
re-enactement Luigi Coppola
with the people of Corniglia and Cittadellarte
realized for Artissima Teatro, Blinding the ears curated by Andrea Bellini
Performance, Teatro Regio Torino, 6 nov 2009
photo Enrico Amici

ATTI DEMOCRATICI / DEMOCRATIC ACTS

special project, 2009
 
Ricerca applicata sul rapporto tra arte e democrazia sviluppata da un network di artisti, curatori e teorici
 
Applied research on the relation between art and democracy developed by a network of artists, curators and theoriticians.
The project will unfold in a series of performances, workshops, screenings, urban interventions, meetings and lectures, and a free press journal on the basic principles of the Italian Constitution.
24 - 25 april 2009 BIENNALE DEMOCRAZIA TORINO
05 - 23 may 2009 FESTIVAL FABBRICA EUROPA FIRENZE
15 - 30 october 2009 LUNGOMARE BOLZANO

project initiated by Luigi Coppola 
Democratic Acts in Torino and Firenze, curated by Luigi Coppola and Marko Stamenkovic
Democratic Acts in Bolzano, curated by Angelika Burtscher, Luigi Coppola, Daniele Lupo, Judith Wielander
Torino and Firenze
contributi artistici / artistic contributions
Angelika Burtscher & Daniele Lupo / Luigi Coppola / Yingmei Duan / Dariusz Fodczuk / Carlos Motta / Juan Esteban Sandoval
"Unmasked a marathon of artists' videos and films contesting systems of rule" 
 curated by  Elise Youn and Carlos Motta, prod. New Museum di New York
Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler / Petra Bauer / François Bucher / Mary Billyou / Paul Chan / Jim Fetterley /Annelisse Fifi / Jim Finn / Ashley Hunt / Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen/ Lin + Lam / John Menick / Jenny Perlin / Dmitry Vilensky / Angie Waller / Susan Youssef
contributi teorici / theoretical contributions
Branko Brezovec / Cesar Brie /Dariusz Fodczuk / Benoît Lachambre / Esteban Mihalik / Andrés Morte /
Carlos Motta / Andrés Neumann / Michelangelo Pistoletto / Juan Patricia Rivadeneira / Marco Valerio Amico / Elvira Vannini
Bolzano 
 Lauren Alexander (designer, South Africa), Marco Angelucci (journalist, Bolzano), Franco Arminio (writer/townologist, Irpinia), Ei Arakawa & Nikolas Gambaroff (performer, New York), Carlo Bachschmidt (Genoa Social Forum), Brave New Alps (Designer, London), Tania Bruguera (performer, Cuba), Yael Davids (performer, Israel), Cornelia Durka (designer, Berlin), Ghalia Elsrakbi (designer, Damascus/Amsterdam), Jack Henrie Fisher & Popahna Brandes (designer/writer, Brussels), Shilpa Gupta (performer, Mumbai), Thomas Kager (political scientist, Bolzano), Merijn Oudenampsen (sociologist, Amsterdam), Cesare Pietroiusti (artist, Rom), Andrea Segre (director, Rom), Maria Rosa Sossai (curator, Roma), Ziga Testen (designer, Ljubljana), Daniel van der Velden (designer, Amsterdam).

BREATHE IN BREATHE OUT

performance,  2009



Performance with Yingmei Duan

Cavallerizza Reale, 1st Democracy Biennale Torino; Fabbrica Europa Firenze


"Breathe In Breathe Out" is the third collaborative performance project between Luigi Coppola and Yingmei Duan.
The stage is installed with a large pulley system of ropes. The ropes connect the audience to different objects: a microphone, a book of the law, a bucket of water, a chair, a table, a knife, and some rubbish bags. These ropes also hold the artists, and the audience can interact with these ropes and pull the performers and the objects as they wish. It is almost as if they have a remote control to command the performance.
One cage with a living white rabbit is free among the other tied objects. On the stage there is also a stopwatch on stage timing the performance.
Within the pulley system/spider web the artists represent symbols of moral, social, religious constriction and denial of freedom, in which the audience has an active role and a possibility to move and transform the performance.
Photo: Christian Fusco

AS WE WANT YOU

performance, 2009

Performance with Yingmei Duan
(30') University of Applied Sciences Nijmegen, The Netherland, 2009
Photo: Rob Gieling

 The performance is a collaboration between Yingmei Duan and Luigi Coppola on the occasion of the festival “Beauty, Ugliness and the Sublime”. Their performance relates directly to this premise of the festival.
The performance is held in a space in which the walls are covered in mirrors. The audience sits in two rows. The two performers stand at different sides of the space, rather than looking at each other directly, they look at the reflections of their body in the mirrors. Slowly they begin to move towards each other and meet in the middle of the room.
Coppola starts to undress Duan. He concentrates his attention to her and actively tries to change and move her body according to his own wishes. He also encourages the audience to observe and touch her while she remains passive. This gesture gives the impression he wants the audience to support his idea of beauty.
Whilst this is happening Duan appears hesitant. Her face looks confused and full of questions. She occasionally smells Coppola and various people from the audience that approach her.

I AND GHOST

performance, 2009 
VIDEO DOCUMENTATION LINK

 Performance with Yingmei Duan
(30') Lungomare Gallery Bolzano, Biennale Democrazia Torino, Fabbrica Europa Firenze  Italy - 2009
showed in partecipanti, connessi e in-dipendenti, Parallel Events Manifesta 7
photo: Ivo Corrà


The attention is focused on the crisis of European culture and the schematic construction of new social models. It would be a continuous and futile attempt to define new scenarios of social relationships, based on the consolidated culture of the Old Continent. The ghost is the advancing of the indefinite, incarnated by cultures that we can hear are coming, but are not able to identify. It forces them to join in the game and seek in desperation for new models of social order.
Through the construction of simple and direct performative actions, the artistic duo, composed of the Chinese artist Yingmei Duan and the Italian Luigi Coppola, work on activation, shaking-up relational mechanisms that criticise passivity and encourage taking the stance of a conscious and direct social actor. The duo also work on distances, fears, and the political and cultural divides that separate European culture from that of Asia.

PARTECIPANTI, CONNESSI E IN-DIPENDENTI

special project, 2008

 THREE DAYS OF PERFORMANCE AND PRESENTATIONS 11., 12., 13. 09. 2008
partecipanti, connessi e in-dipendenti a project by Lungomare & Luigi Coppola Parallel Events Manifesta 7
with Ana Borraho & João Galante (Portogallo), Yingmei Duan (Cina/Germania), Luigi Coppola & Loss (Italia)

photo: Lü Nan, performance To add one meter to an anonymous mountain

The performance weekend at the Lungomare Gallery proposes territories of observation and analysis of the contemporary performing language. “Participants, connected and in-dependent” presents performances which have the shared interest in working on the "aesthetics of relations" and on audience participation, at times subtle and ironic, at times explicit and provocative.

AS CLOSE AS YOU CAN

video, 2008

VIDEO LINK

Action in public space /video by Luigi Coppola
realized in the context of the project: Untitled Portrait in collaboration with Isak Immanuel and Yuko Kaseki.
Shinjuku subway station, Tokyo, 2008

ACTS OF ORDINARY DEMOCRATIC EXERCISE

series of performances, actions and workshops, 2009, 2008

VIDEO DOCUMENTATION OF ACT N. 1

Series of performances, actions and workshops
Act n. 1 Torino, Bolzano / performance Luigi Coppola &  LOSS (40') 2008
with Luigi Coppola, Arcangela Cursio, Francesca Cola
Act n. 2 Prato, Firenze / performance Luigi Coppola & LOSS (40') 2008
with Luigi Coppola, Arcangela Cursio, Marta Lucchini
Act n. 3 Cittadellarte Biella / workshop and actions Luigi Coppola (4 days) 2009
with the Unidee Residents of Cittadellarte.

DEMOCRATIC ACTS are experiments of creation in a system defined by rules and symbols stipulated by a community through a democratic process.
DEMOCRATIC ACT intended as a Exposed Primitive Democracy: each community defining their System, elect a Delegate with the potential of creating actions, relations, images through the body of the Represented in the space.






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