Friday, July 3rd 2015Palazzo Candiotti

Friday, July 3rd 5 pm - midnight // Saturday, July 4th 11 am - midnight // Sunday, July 5th 11 am - 6 pm

An open call for artists and collectives to exhibit their projects in an exclusive show at Dancity Festival 2015.

The first edition of Dancity Open Call was very successful, with over 40 applications from artists from the national area and abroad. This year, the Open Call is back with: “Possible Realities”: a distinct opportunity for artists to show their creativity and to exhibit their project based on the Dancity concept.
The competition is open to artists, designers, video-makers, photographers, performers and makers of all art forms that can interact and create an exchange with the public; a collaboration of artists to produce an unforgettable show based on artistic experimentation in different languages.
A panel of art experts will choose the top six proposals. The winner of Dancity Open Call will be awarded € 500, in addition to an exclusive exhibition on the in the 2015/2016 season of Dancity.
The artists are: Andrea Abbatangelo, Marco Di Girolami + Pierluigi Scarpantonio, Gruppo R (Come Achille + Maria Giuliana Picchio), Mariotti. Mazzeo, Francesco Soave, Donatella Spaziani. 

Andrea Abbatangelo was born in Terni, Italy, in 1981, but he currently lives in London. Manipulating video, sound and photography he creates sculptures and installations. Abbatangelo created site specific works for several public spaces and took part in many exhibition in Italy and abroad, such as: Documenta 13 in Kassel, Miniatures Officinae 2013 in Marseille Provence  and Mayors Parlour Gallery in London.
Come Sa di Sale!
Video installation
Come Sa di Sale! is a site specific project for Palazzo Candiotti, a five channel video installation which combines previous works like: Morning Tea (2007), Current Mood #3 (2012) and The Feel of Think (2010 - 2013); with other unrealeased ones creating a brand new dialogue between the historical architecture of the location and contemporary culture.

Marco Di Girolami + Pierluigi Scarpantonio. The visual artist Marco Di Girolami and the sound designer and producer Pierluigi Scarpantonio work and live in the Marche region. They start their collaboration after meeting at the cultural association Il Formichiere, during the organization of INVISIBLE FESTIVAL, a visual arts and electronic music event taking place in a former cloister in Colli del Tronto (AP).
+rr
Environmental installation.
The +rr project is an installation which captivates the audience through visual, auditive and tactile stimuli. The artwork’s centre is a table carved throughout the years by the scratches of 400 cats living in an old country house. The audience will be overcome by the sound of the cats' purring in low frequency, which will reflect on a spectrum modifying perception.

Gruppo R (Come) Achille, an artist, and and Maria giuliana Picchio, a math teacher, form Gruppo R in 2015 to explore mathematical language possibilities and visual art codes; together they investigate the concept of subjective vision through scientific formulas.
Fattore soggettività
Installation
The artwork consists in the realization of a guide book and two synoptic charts which report formulas and graphics related to the rational method study and the endless possible interpretations of the reality that surround us. Fattore Soggettività will disclose us the various horizons opened thanks to the “subjectivity” factor.

Mariotti.Mazzeo. After several collaborations which started in 2009, Amerigo Mariotti and Ignazio Mazzeo founded the artistic duo Mariotti.Mazzeo in 2012. The duo base its strenght on the member education diversity, artistically and architectonically, aiming for the creation of artwork reaching several art field: from design to urban sculpure, from site specific installations to architecture, focusing on forms and materials research.
RAM, Ruined Art Memory
RAM, Ruined Art Memory is a site specific artwork that try to give shape to the memory to analyze nowadays communication.  A common tin can telephone - exhumed from alll the abandoned
objects forgotten by the new generation - stand amplified out in size from the real object: the altered dimension modify its transmission oriented communication function.

Francesco Soave is born in 1990, he is an IT Music student at “Università degli Studi” in Milan. Musician, sound engineer and visual arts aficionado, Soave develops interactive installations based on Kinect and Arduino projects using Mindwave and other devices.
Mind the Chair
Interactive installation
Mind the Chair is an interactive installation which reflects on the electronic arts ability to explore the neuronal activity and elaborate new performative creations. The installation goal is to set up the real time audiovisual representation of our brain activity.

Donatella Spaziani (Ceprano, 1970) lives and work in Rome. From 2001 to 2015 she realized many personal exhibitions in public and private spaces in Milan, Torino, Rome, Neaples, Geneva, Zagreb, Osijek and Strasbourg; She also took part in: Omi International Artist Residency in New York, Centre International des Récollettes for Dena Foundation in Paris, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Parigi, XIX Quadriennale at Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, Expò Universale in Shanghai curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, “Arte italiana all’ascolto” at The National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Moscow, curated by R.A.M. radioartemobile, 55esima Biennale di Venezia - collateral events
Self-timer
Photography installation.
The installation is composed by two self portrait realized in Paris in 2006, that portray the body movements of opening and closing: a curtain or a sheet divides the interior and the exterior facing on the city centre, the urban coming and going along the Seine. The two pictures alternate white and black as synonym of light and darkness and represent synthesis and decomposition of chaos accordint to the artist view.

The panel of experts includes:

Paola Capata, MONITOR, Rome

Maurizio Coccia, Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary, Trevi

Silvano Manganaro, Fondazione Volume!, Rome

Pierluigi Metelli, collector / Attack Festival, Foligno

Marta Silvi, art historian and independent researcher, Rome

Massimiliano Tonelli, Artribune, Rome

Carla Capodimonti, Dancity Festival, Foligno.

"Possible Realities" is the selected theme for the second edition of the Call, inspired by the concept of Dancity Festival 2015 "Still in perfect shape", which refers to the glowing condition of an organization as complex as the Festival though at its 10th edition.
With different visual languages, the Dancity Open Call is a container for experiments that tackle the current "crisis" with a positive attitude: an act of courage and vision toward new challenges. The call is therefore open to anyone who is able, through contemporary expressions, to give onlookers a brand new take on the possibility of change.