Title: Little constellation
Description: "How is the practice of making art experienced today in certain geocultural micro-areas and small states of Europe? "Little Constellation" began in 2004 as a research project focused on contemporary art, but not with the attempt to answer this question by finding a label that could be attached to "small states", or to provide a full, systematic picture of the art that can be found today in Andorra, Cyprus, Iceland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino and in other significant cultural micro-areas such as Canton Ticino, Ceuta, Gibraltar or Kaliningrad.   Instead, the project has developed and taken shape--through the story of many different relationships, ideas, experiences--via the diffusion of information, placed in a continuous current that generates possibilities for interaction, and as a device shared by artists, curators, institutional representatives from museums, centers, and research collectives, to stimulate proposals and the development of a platform of knowledge focused on contemporary artistic practice in these countries, within the sphere of the international artistic debate.   This book collects and illustrates the main steps in this journey, which from 2004 to 2010--through texts, images, video interviews, meetings, workshops, a website and exhibition--not only offers a connection between the relational potential and autopoietic observation that characterize countries of particular geocultural complexity, but also brings together, for the first time, the theoretic and critical contributions that have come out of the contact between the works, ideas, and evolving thoughts of the people who encountered each other along the way." p. 33.
Subjects: Art and society, Modern Art, Exhibitions
Places: Europe
Time periods: 21st century