TENUTA DELLO SCOMPIGLIO     SPE - PERFORMANCE AND EXHIBITION SPACE

6-24 MAY 2014

Application invitation for 10 interns 
to take part in the installation of solo exhibition
"A Long Day" by Chiharu Shiota

CURATED BY FRANZISKA NORI

Associazione Culturale Dello Scompiglio
Opening 24 May 2014

Work period: 6-24 May 2014
Places available: 10
Hours: Monday to Saturday from 9.00-18.00
Place: Tenuta Dello Scompiglio
Via di Vorno, 67 - 55012 Vorno, Capannori (LU)
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Deadline: 15 April 

The Associazione Culturale Dello Scompiglio is looking for 10 interns to take part in the installation of the exhibition "A Long Day" by Japanese artist, Chiharu Shiota, and curated by Franziska Nori. The invitation is intended for students at academies of fine arts, humanities students or recent graduates looking to enter the field of contemporary arts. An opportunity to experience all the phases of constructing a large site specific installation in which strands of black wool are woven within the space to construct a dense and tangled web. You must be able to work in a team and have manual ability. Preference will be given to those who have independent means of transportation (the Tenuta Dello Scompiglio is in Vorno, in the province of Lucca, about 18km from Pisa). Food and board will be provided for the entire duration of the installation process.

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Chiharu Shiota was born 1972 in Osaka, Japan. After graduating at Kyoto Seika University and an exchange year at Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, Australia, by the mid-1990s she had moved to Germany, initially studying at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig and then at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. These experiences undoubtedly reinforced her concerns with the importance of duration in performance as well as with the intense power of the body – even when its presence is suggested rather than present. Shiota's oeuvre contains various art performances and installations, in which she uses different everyday objects such as beds, windows, dresses, shoes and suitcases. She explores the relationships between past and present, living and dying, and memories of people implanted into objects. To these she adds intricate, web-like threads of black and red. Today Shiota´s installations, sculptures and paintings were presented worldwide in different Museums and Institutions of international meaning such as the Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN / USA,Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, , Tasmania / Australia, Museum of Art, Kochi, Kochi / Japan, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa / Japan, Casa Asia, Barcelona / Spain, La Maison Rouge, Paris / France, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem / Israel among others. Chiharu Shiota lives and works in Berlin since 1996.

Angel Moya Garcia
Co-Director of Visual Arts Dello Scompiglio 

Franziska Nori
Director of the Centre of Contemporary Culture Strozzina