The Performance Day - Nora's House - Oreste

     

Emilio Fantin has been carrying on a research about the structure of sharing art practices for many years. He has taken part in various participatory art projects. Talking about one of this projects he said: <<by taking part in the Biennale di Venezia in 1999, with Oreste we tried out a collective process which entailed to ask everyone not to present a work of his own. We had to do this in order to create an open space which could be as a container for proposals, discussions, encounters and so on. We used the space made available for us not in order to exhibit works, but in order to create a meeting place>>. On that occasion, for the project, Emilio Fantin and his friends had to give up their individual identities and artistic propensities or aptitudes. Emilio Fantin developed also some shared creative processes based on the opposite approach-i.e. the participants were asked to bring with them as much as possible of their personal creative aptitudes and by using any medium they wanted. The “experience”  La casa di Nora (Nora ‘s house) took place within the context of the workshop, “ I solisti e la banda. Per una critica alle pratiche artistiche confìdivise”, held in early 2004 at the Fondazione Baruchello in Rome. This “Experience” was an attempt to organise a collective that could express itself as a system, as an ordered form of participation, as happens in the world of music. After having experienced several different forms of sharing art practices, with The Performance Day, Emilio Fantin tries to highlight the paradoxical value of the competition. Instead of affirming the power of the sharing versus the individual statement, he wants to show how a healthy individual competition can be a powerful engine for a sharing art practice.