Five Takes by Eleonora Luccarini
Otters Holding Hands - curated by Ambra Viviani
A Strange New Kind of Inbetween Thing, episode 5
Co-production: Lumpen Station, Kunsthaus Biel Centre d'art Bienne, Giulietta
This project is part of Community Building, supported by FSRC, SWISSPERFORM, Pro Helvetia and Kanton Appenzell Ausserrhoden
The audio track includes five recordings of the poem Il corpo standard/The standard body, written by Eleonora Luccarini and performed by singer Valentina Chirico in different styles of operatic singing.
These five recordings belong to the preliminary research material that will constitute part of the soundtrack of Eleonora Luccarini’s next film work THE CONTEST, currently in production.
The film deepens Luccarini’s relationship with her alter ego Milkdromeda and acts as a metaphor for the inner conflict between hope and nihilism as perspectives on the future, questioning the role of poetic language and storytelling in the process of individual accountability and female self-awareness practices.
Eleonora Luccarini (Bologna, 1993) lives and works in Amsterdam and Bologna. Her research is interdisciplinary, systemic and focused on the performative potential of language. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, Università IUAV di Venezia and Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. Recent exhibitions include: MACTE, Termoli (2024); MACRO, Roma (2022 - ongoing); Baleno International, Roma (solo show, 2022); Fondazione smART, Roma (solo show, 2022); Istituto Svizzero, Milano (2021), Manifattura Tabacchi, Firenze (2021); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino (2021) and Quadriennale di Roma (2020). In 2021 she also took part in the residency project Nuovo Forno del Pane at MAMbo Museum in Bologna. She is the winner of Pini Art Prize 2021-2022 at Fondazione Adolfo Pini in Milano and ClubGAMec Prize 2023. Her work is part of public and private collections such as GAMec, Bergamo.
Images’ captions
1) THE CONTEST - Storyboard study #1, installation view, Cripta747, Torino IT, 2023, photo
Sebastiano Pellion Di Persano, courtesy the artist and Cripta747
2) THE CONTEST - Storyboard study #2, installation view, Cripta747, Torino IT, 2023, photo
Sebastiano Pellion Di Persano, courtesy the artist and Cripta74
