{"id":19179,"date":"2024-02-08T00:48:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T23:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penelopearts.com\/arts\/?p=19179"},"modified":"2024-06-07T13:22:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T11:22:28","slug":"cosmic-syntropy-performance-in-collaborazione-con-arts-at-cern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penelopearts.com\/arts\/blog\/2024\/02\/08\/cosmic-syntropy-performance-in-collaborazione-con-arts-at-cern\/","title":{"rendered":"‘COSMIC SYNTROPY: WATER’ – Performance 13 Jan 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Solo exhibition and performance curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio<\/span>
\nProject in collaboration with Arts at CERN<\/span>
\nPart of the Art City Bologna 2024 institutional calendar<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDario Nobili\u201d Library<\/span>
\nCNR Italian National Research Council<\/span>
\nBologna Research Area<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mostra personale e performance a cura di Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
\n<\/span>Progetto in collaborazione con Arts at Cern
\n<\/span>Nell\u2019ambito del calendario istituzionale di Art City Bologna 2024<\/span><\/p>\n

Biblioteca \u201cDario Nobili\u201d<\/span>
\nCNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche<\/span>
\nArea Territoriale di Ricerca di Bologna<\/span><\/p>\n

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Type of performance: Round table involving nine professionals including the artist, by invitation. The public is invited at the end to add short contributions and questions.
\nDuration: 1h 44m
\nDocumentary video in the artist’s archive.<\/p>\n

Tipologia di performance: Tavola rotonda che coinvolge nove professionisti inclusa l\u2019artista, su invito. Il pubblico \u00e8 invitato alla fine ad aggiungere brevi contributi e domande.<\/span>
\nDurata: 1h 44m<\/span>
\nVideo documentale in archivio dell\u2019artista. <\/span><\/p>\n

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[\/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QoCHbQrj3iI”][vc_column_text]Reduced version of the documentary video – Versione ridotta del video documentale<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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“Cosmic Syntropy: Water” participatory performance, CNR Area Territoriale di Ricerca di Bologna (CNR Italian National Research Center, Bologna site), 13 January 2024. “Cosmic Syntropy: Water” performance partecipativa, CNR Area Territoriale di Ricerca di Bologna (CNR Italian National Research Center, Bologna site), 13 Gennaio 2024.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Syntropy is opposed to entropy and indicates the tendency in nature to create differentiated and ordered structures, as seen in biological phenomena and human activities.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCosmic Syntropy\u201d is an experimental project held at CNR\u2019s \u201cDario Nobili\u201d Library in Bologna, in collaboration with Arts at CERN, a programme aiming to forge closer links between art and science by CERN in Geneva, Europe\u2019s nuclear research organisation.<\/span><\/p>\n

The collection of artworks created for the \u201cCosmic Syntropy\u201d project includes performances, documentary videos, and installations.<\/span><\/p>\n

La sintropia si contrappone all\u2019entropia, e indica la tendenza alla creazione in natura di strutture differenziate e ordinate, tipica dei fenomeni biologici e delle attivit\u00e0 umane.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCosmic Syntropy\u201d \u00e8 un progetto sperimentale ospitato all\u2019interno degli spazi della Biblioteca \u201cDario Nobili\u201d del CNR di Bologna, nato dalla collaborazione con Arts at CERN, il programma dedicato al dialogo tra arte e scienza del CERN di Ginevra, l\u2019organizzazione europea per la ricerca nucleare.<\/span><\/p>\n

Il gruppo di opere realizzate per il progetto \u201cCosmic Syntropy\u201d include performance, i relativi video documentali, e installazioni.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCosmic Syntropy: Water\u201d participatory performance, CNR Area Territoriale di Ricerca di Bologna (CNR Italian National Research Center, Bologna site), 13 January 2024<\/span><\/p>\n

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Critique by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

During Bologna Art City, the annual public art exhibition held from 1 to 4 February as part of Arte Fiera in Bologna, artist Penelope Chiara Cocchi presented the first phase of her multidisciplinary, multi-stage art project. It is a complex artwork in which and with which the artist questions herself and us about the crucial issues of our being in the world, several of which coincide with the UN sustainable development goals to be achieved by 2030. These goals range from democracy to ecology, from resources and their redistribution to globalisation.<\/span><\/p>\n

For this initial stage, held at CNR\u2019s library in Bologna, the project focuses on the issue of water <\/em>as a common and indispensable good coming from and belonging to our planet without which life, in all its forms, would cease to exist. The project employs a range of artistic methods, techniques and aspirations that fit into the modernist tradition with a public and social vocation channelled by artists such as Joseph Beuys or Michelangelo Pistoletto, who put the care of society at the centre of their work.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is possible, to paraphrase artist Penelope Chiara Cocchi, if different forces are made to converge towards a single purpose, a common good, as is the case with syntropy, which, unlike entropy, which makes use of and enhances disorder, is a centripetal force that reorganises and orders the forces of nature’s complexity and differences, while at the same time striving to achieve the maximum configuration of order in differentiation.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is why, for this initial stage, the artist\u2019s Cosmic Syntropy<\/em> proposes a collective work of objects, liquids and people engaging in dialogue about water. <\/em>It is at once an installation and a performance in which specialists from various backgrounds come together: scientists, art critics, philosophers, sociologists, geographers, anthropologists, foresters, Latinists, Greekists… converge in a performance-discussion in a place not dedicated to art, but to scientific knowledge: the CNR library in Bologna. The scene is set with an installation of water bottles placed on pedestals each with a different label, from Mediterranean Sea Water to Japanese and Italian Alp Water, Mars water and even \u201cdinosaur\u2019s pee\u201d. This metaphorical term, coined by scientists to describe the water of the world\u2019s origins, is useful to illustrate that the water cycle has always been the same since time immemorial, so the water we drink today is the same water that the dinosaurs drank. Water is a common good that cyclically renews itself, but the cycle is not eternal and we must take care of this precious resource. This is why the artist has gathered together a group of unsuspecting authors from different disciplines to debate the issue of water<\/em>. Authors who, as creators of meaning, are also questioned on the subject by both artist and audience.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reflecting on the fact that content in art is substantiated in form, the artist placed the participants in a circle, thereby ensuring that their very conformation, arrangement and placement engendered a sense of egalitarian democracy of knowledge. A round table, rather than a confrontation, of syntropic knowledge that the artist wants to circulate. A circularity to mirror the roundness of the Earth itself, which was also emphasised by the chessboard placed at the centre with all equal pieces to further emphasise the equality of humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Testo critico a cura di Giacinto Di Pietrantonio<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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In occasione di Bologna Art City, rassegna annuale di arte pubblica che si tiene dal 1 al 4 febbraio durante Arte Fiera a Bologna, l\u2019artista Penelope Chiara Cocchi presenta la prima fase di un progetto artistico multidisciplinare in diverse tappe. \u00c8 un\u2019opera d\u2019arte complessa in cui e con cui l\u2019artista si interroga e ci interroga su tematiche cruciali del nostro stare al mondo; diverse delle quali sono gli obiettivi dello sviluppo sostenibile indicati dall\u2019ONU da raggiungere entro il 2030. Sono traguardi che vanno dalla democrazia all\u2019ecologia, dalle risorse e loro redistribuzione alla globalizzazione, \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In questa prima tappa, che si tiene presso la biblioteca del CNR di Bologna, il progetto si focalizza sulla problematica dell\u2019acqua<\/i> quale bene comune e indispensabile del e al nostro pianeta senza cui la vita, in tutte le sue forme, cesserebbe di esistere. Modalit\u00e0, tecnica e aspirazioni artistiche che si inseriscono in quella tradizione modernista con vocazione pubblica e sociale di artisti come Joseph Beuys o Michelangelo Pistoletto che mettono al centro della loro poetica la cura della societ\u00e0.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ci\u00f2 \u00e8 possibile, parafrasando l\u2019artista Penelope Chiara Cocchi, se forze differenti vengono fatte convergere verso uno scopo unico, un bene comune, come avviene nella sintropia che, al contrario dell\u2019entropia, che si serve e valorizza il disordine, \u00e8 forza centripeta che riorganizza e ordina le forze della complessit\u00e0 e delle differenze della natura, cercando, allo stesso tempo, di raggiungere la massima configurazione d\u2019ordine nella differenziazione.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00c8 per ci\u00f2 che l\u2019artista con Cosmic Syntropy,<\/i> in questa prima tappa, ci propone un\u2019opera collettiva fatta di oggetti, fluidi e persone volti ad attivare discorsi intorno all\u2019acqua. <\/i>Si tratta di un\u2019istallazione e di una performance in cui i discorsi di specialisti di vari mondi espressivi si incontrano: scienziati, critici d\u2019arte, filosofi, sociologi, geografi, antropologi, forestali, latinisti, grecisti… convergono in una performance-discussione in un luogo non dedicato all\u2019arte, ma del sapere scientifico come la biblioteca del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche della citt\u00e0 felsinea. Qui abbiamo l\u2019installazione di gruppi di bottiglie d\u2019acqua messi su piedistalli ognuno con un\u2019etichetta diversa, dall\u2019acqua del mar Mediterraneo a quella delle Alpi giapponesi, nonch\u00e9 alle Alpi italiane fino all\u2019acqua di Marte e a quella \u201cdinosaur\u2019pee\u201d (pip\u00ec del dinosauro). Quest\u2019ultimo termine metafora, coniata dagli scienziati per definire l\u2019acqua delle origini del mondo, parola utile per indicare che il ciclo dell\u2019acqua \u00e8 sempre lo stesso dalle origini e che quindi anche oggi, dato il riciclo, continuiamo a bere la stessa che bevevano i dinosauri. Acqua, bene comune che si rinnova ciclicamente, ma non eterno, di cui dobbiamo prenderci cura. Per questo l\u2019artista chiama a raccolta un gruppo di insospettabili autori di discipline differenti a dibattere della problematica dell\u2019acqua<\/i>. Autori che da generatori di senso vengono anche interrogati sul tema sia dall\u2019artista che dal pubblico.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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E, dato che nell\u2019arte il contenuto si sostanzia nella forma, la stessa conformazione, disposizione e collocazione dei partecipanti decisa dall\u2019artista ha un senso di democrazia egalitaria dei saperi, essendo essi messi in circolo a discutere. Una tavola rotonda del sapere e non una frontalit\u00e0 dei saperi che qui, in quanto sintropici, l\u2019artista vuole circolare. Una circolarit\u00e0 come la stessa rotonda Terra, sottolineata pure dalla scacchiera messa al centro con scacchi tutti uguali per evidenziare ulteriormente l\u2019uguaglianza dell\u2019umanit\u00e0.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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THE FIRST PERFORMANCE: various professions in dialogue<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201cCosmic Syntropy: Water\u201d performance, held on 13 January 2024, and the related video represent the focal point of the artist\u2019s work for this project. An exchange of ideas, a \u201cround table of human beings\u201d<\/strong>, exploring thoughts on a common subject of global relevance for mankind: water. The work casts a critical eye over the conviction that the complexity of global affairs is so vast that they can only be tackled by teamwork <\/strong>that strives towards truly shared good and truth.<\/span><\/p>\n

The entire performance was recorded and a documentary video is now available at the artist\u2019s archive (duration 1:44:40 h).<\/span><\/p>\n

SPEAKERS:<\/span><\/p>\n