Benna (Venice, Italy)
Artist and the Caveman (duration 13 min)
Watch: 14th May 2017 at 9pm UTC
DESCRIPTION: “Artists and the caveman” is a video-performance enacted in a very dark room, motionlessly facing faint motion pictures about the history of mankind. The dark room represents a Platonic Cave, the famous allegory concerning the fundamental dilemma between nature and education, with which the Greek philosopher even foresaw the risks of today’s television’s virtualisation.
BIO: Philosophy, Poetry and Interdisciplinary Arts – “Either eclecticism or boredom” Selected events Biennials VideoFest2K16 – Bienal Internacional de Video y Cine Contemporáneo, 2016 – Mexico 7th Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius, 2015 – Italy / Lithuania 03 Videoakt – International Videoart Biennial, 2014 – Spain VideoFest2K14 – Bienal Internacional de Video y Cine Contemporáneo, 2014 – Mexico 3éme Biennale Méditerranéenne d’Art Contemporain d\’Oran, 2014 – Algeria 2ª Biennale Internazionale del Libro d\’Artista, 2013 – Italy 2ª Biennale del Libro d\’Artista, 2012 – Italy VIII International Festival of Experimental Art, 2010 – Russia Fairs Paratissima XII, 2016 – Torino Esposizioni – Turin, Italy 17th International Vilnius Book Fair, 2016 – Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre LITEXPO – Vilnius, Lithuania Solo exhibitions artists and the caveman, 2017 – Performance, Genoa, Italy all rods lead to Rome, 2016 – Itinerant performance, Rome, Italy The Italian Jobless, 2014 – Itinerant performance, Turin, Italy rewilding a plum tree, 2014 – Itinerant performance, Genoa, Italy nothing happened, 2012 – Sala Severini, Centro Sant\’Agostino – Cortona, Italy europawns, 2012 – Internet, Belgium nothing happened, 2011 – Ca\’ Annelise – Venice, Italy Critical mEss, 2011 – Torre Saracena – Zoagli, Italy Recent group exhibitions Disaster – WADEM Congress, 2017 – Toronto, Canada Sofia Underground International Performance Art Festival, 2017 – National Palace of Culture – Sofia, Bulgaria BAU 14 – Contenitore di Cultura Contemporanea, 2017 – Viareggio, Italy Frammenti d\’Amore, 2017 – Galleria Domus Romana – Rome, Italy Intermediaciones – III muestra de videoarte & video experimental, 2016 – La Pascasia – Medellín, Colombia Der Einzelhandel ist mit dem Weihnachtsgeschäft zufrieden, 2016 – Group Global 3000 – Berlin, Germany ELATE MEMORIES, 2016 – Lavagna, Italy 75 second film awards – Amy Johnson Festival 2016 – Hull, England ART-MAP – Re-Cognition, 2016 – Ponte de Lima, Portugal Urban Research 2016 – 48 Stunden Neukölln – Berlin, Germany Proceso de Error 2016 – 3º Festival Internacional de Video Experimental, Sala Cine Internado – Valparaiso, Chile Fabled Mechanisms – The Southern Theater – Minneapolis, U.S.A. Obsolescenza Programmata, 2016 – LX Premio di Arte Contemporanea Basilio Cascella, Ortona, Italy PERCORSI, 2016 – Torre dei Doganieri – Sestri Levante, Italy SNO 119, 2015 – Sydney Non Objective Centre – Sydney, Australia. Artist Website