DTC project on “Working Geographies”, by Mousse Publishing

The book Working Geographies  RESÒ International Art Exchange Residency Program, embodies all the works of the artists selected for the residency program from 2010 until 2015. Among them the Dreams’ Time Capsule project which took place at the  Townhouse residency, in 2012, when Eva Frapiccini was invited in residence. (see also this Link)

Edited by Mousse Publishing, Milano, was presented during the last edition of Artissima Art Fair by William Welsh, director of the Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Lisa Parola, art curator, Gail Cochane, art curator, and Fulvio Gianaria, director of the CRT Foundation for Modern and Contemporary Art.

Resò has been an international art residency program for Piedmont, run in collaboration with leading Piedmont institutions for contemporary art and education, the platform is supported and promoted by the CRT Foundation for Modern and Contemporary.

The selection of the artists involved has been made by a committee representing the institutions involved in Piedmont (Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea,Unidee Cittadellarte, Spinola Banna Foundation for Art, CeSAC, PAV-Parco d’Arte Vivente) and in the residencies partners of the program (the Townhouse Gallery, Cairo; Khoj International Artists Association, New Delhi; Capacete, Rio de Janeiro; Lugar a Dudas, Cali)  book embodies all the works of the artists selected for the residency program from 2010 until 2015.

Below the text related to the DTC project expert of the catalog published in November 2015, with a text by the curator Luisa Perlo (a.titolo).

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DTC project in Cairo, Egypt

From 1st till 3rd July 2012, the Dreams’ Time Capsule project was hosted by The Townhouse Gallery in Cairo, curated by Alexandra Stock and Ania Szremski. Eva Frapiccini was artist-in-residence, under the support of the residency exchange program Resò (promoted by Crt Foundation and Piedmont Region), 2012.

Each day between 10 am and 8 pm, people were invited to enter the inflatable structure, to record their oneiric testimony: either a whole night time dream or a dream they do not understand.

In so doing, about 90 testimonies (in Egyptian, English and others languages) were collected and included in the audio archive: voices that will be preserved and given back to the donors in 2021, ten years from the beginning of the project.

Thanks to Mina Nosky, Dina Sfakaki, Alexandra Stock, Ania Szremski and William Welsh and all the staff of Townhouse Gallery for their invaluable support throughout the Cairo leg of the project!

We would like to thank also the Resò program team and all the institutions involved in the program: the Albertina Academy of Fine Art in Turin; Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art; CESAC Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee; Eco e Narciso; the Gai – Association for the Circuit of Young Italian Artists; Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo; PAV – Parco Arte Vivente; Spinola Banna Art Foundation. 

LINKS: The Townhouse Gallery

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