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Jeannette Castioni

everywhere´s local

Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 6:0 | Islande | 2014

Public and private spaces make people develop political and social questions reaching beyond localities, widening questions about their role in the formation of political subjectivity. "Everywhere´s local" intends to examine how conventions about mobility as counter resistance affects identities of individuals and small communities as well as in working places and private locations; how these conventions speak about subjectivity ; their way of quest political and social visibility, and whether actions of reciprocity might be the source of mutual support allowing civilians to activate endurance in the development of social structures. The piece investigates the role of the aesthetic vision within the process of objectification, juxtaposing documents of daily practices where individual actions become the apparatus that institutions use to master control and by doing so reducing civilians as objects. Spaces create distinctive features for subjectivity to be activated where meanings of defiance alongside civil resistance are deepened inside description of subjectivity within differentiation of forms. Where actions are endorsed by connotation and not by their visible value. Interpretation of actions are investigated as potential fields, where their manifestations compared coloured smokes, aim to empower people visibility and at the same time longing to dismiss a system.

education: 1989/9 Institute for Arts and Restoration, Palazzo Spinelli. MA(Diploma) in Painting Conservation and Restoration on wood and canvas, Florence Italy, 1999/02 Academy of Arts, Painting department Bologna, Italy. 2004/06 LHÍ University of Arts, BA in Fine Arts Reykjavík, Iceland. 2006/07 LHÍ University of Arts, MA (I grade) Art Education, Reykjavík, Iceland. 2012/14 Goldsmiths University of London MFA in Fine Art. awards: 2010- 1 Year Research Prize from the Visual Artists Foundation of Iceland 2010- Art Prize from the Guðmunða Andresdottir Cultural Foundation for Postgraduate studies in Art. 2012-“Visual Art Award” Icelandic Prize as the best artist of the year 2012. 2013- 6 Months Research Prize from the Visual Artist foundation of Iceland grants: 2007- Travel Grant from the Icelandic Ministry of Education and Culture, for cultural exchanges between Greenland, Iceland and Foræ Islands. 2010-Travel Grant from MUGGUR, Artist Foundation of Iceland 2011-CIA International Travel grant, from the Centre for Icelandic Art residency/ workshops: 2008 Kangerullussuak Atuarfiat, Nuuk, Greenland. Two weeks workshops with pupils from secondary local schools, deepening questions around issues on memories and cultural connotations. 2008 Silamiut Theatre Nuuk, Greenland/ Theatre rehearsals with students from schools 2010/11 Circle Scandinavo in Rome/ Hosted performances and seminars on the rhetoric of language. group exhibition: 2008 After Urban - University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA – USA. New Media & Video Festival at the Indiana University Art Gallery, USA. Art & Architecture event at Monkey town in Williamsburg Brooklyn, New York. The law of dialectic at The New Branch “Grassroots’ 2008”, the Icelandic emergent artist Exhibition in Hjalteyri, Iceland. The entropy of landscape /God words Municipal Art Museum of Akureyri. 2009 Communism didn´t happen /Solitude Landscape, Exhibition at the Kulturhaus in Ahrenshoop, North-east Germany. Sometimes they’ll return Exhibition at the Natural History Museum of Kopavogur in Reykjavik, Iceland. ATTITUDE Festival- Centre for Contemporary Public Arts - Bitola, Macedonia. 2010 Anamnesis/ be known to knowledge, at the Árnesinga Art Museum in Hveragerði, Iceland DRA the Dieter Roth Academy in Hjalteyri Iceland 2011 In between ,Hafnaborg Hafnafjörður, Iceland 2012 The painting site Akureyri Municipal Art Museum 2014 Big Screen/Latitude Festival Southwold , Suffolk UK. 2014 6th Cairo Video Festival. Medrar films Cairo, Egypth