Site specific installation 2024
Realized for the exhibition OF LOVE, curated by Kristen Cooper
The text was composed through the words collected in dialog with a group of young scholars of the Mildred-Harnack Schule in Lichtenberg, Berlin.
Works
UNDER THE RUG
Site specific installation 2024
Black aluminum foil, 8 x 4 mt circa.
Artist Book – digital print on pergamin paper – 2/2 copies
Nea Ionia (GR) – Yellow Brick –
LESEWUT (DO THE WORDS)
Installation site specific – Kottbussertor – 2023
realized for the Group Exhibition rage ’n‘ boredom at Westgermany – Büro für postpostmoderne Kommunikation, Berlin, curated by Karø Goldt.
Installation with 17 LED Lamps,
LED each Element 100x20x5cm
The contents of the work are the words of 45 people I met around the Kottbussertor in Berlin and who responded to my question: „What do you need?“
DO THE WORDS (MAKE! a difference?)
20 LED Lamps – Site specific installation – 2023
presented during the Lange Nacht der Bilder, hosted by St37 – Atelier für Eisen und Feuerarbeiten, Berlin.
SHINY BLACK, ALMOST SHARP-EDGED, CRUMBLING TO THE TOUCH.
2023 – Site Specific Installation, realized for the exhibition TREASURE
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CHPPS
ACT III of WHILE WE SINK (The Word is on Flowers)
2022 – Poem and Experimental Reading
In Collaboration with Bianca Jannuzzi and Maria Baeza Ramirez
Presented as LED Text-Installation at the Caném Gallery.
Part of the experimental Book/Audio Exhibition OUT THERE organized by HIER & JETZT: Connections.
WHILE WE SINK
(The Word is on Flowers)
2022 – Mixed Media Installation
The research for While We Sink (The Word is on Flowers) starts with five black and white drawings that translate images of the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also called plastic continent. The marine debris is an accumulation of garbage in the Pacific Ocean that has reached a size similar to Texas, and that researchers and activists who observe it, describe with names such as „The Soup“.
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DO THE WORDS
2020/22 – Mixed Media Installation
Do the Words is a site specific project presented in a solo exhibition at Careof Milano in 2022: an investigation of infrastructure and metropolitan movements through words.
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LiP
2022 – Site Specific Installation
Digital prints on tracing paper, LED texts, 2 Elements
LiP (Live in Pankow) is a literary narrative of encounters and visions that begins with an immersion in the Heinrich-Böll-Library’s collection and continues to unfold keywords related to the Pankow area in Berlin. Terms, thoughts, quotations are freely designed as a flow of words, creating new links and poetic and visual associations that open and develop a guiding path between urban spaces and artistic concepts.
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IM NEUEN BEWUSSTSEIN
2021 – Poster A1 – 100 copies – realized for the exhibition in Public Space „Hey Universum“ – Berlin.
MY CONCRETE MONDAYS
2021 – A „site-specific“ audio work for the new program of MING Studios, Contemporary Art Center, under the title My on Mondays which explores the possessive „My“ through narratives, art and sound.
11’42“ min.
Hier gab es mal eine anscheinend wunderbare Frau
2012 – Site Specific Installation
Lichtenberg Museum im Stadthaus, Berlin
A written dialogue with Margarete Steffin (actress, writer, translator, social activist), inspired and constructed from her words, and based on an exchange of opinions and ideas about building communities, solidarity and the importance of communication.
GEDANKENPOSITION
2019 Site-Specific Installation for the Exhibition Unter Palmen ein U-Boot
Villa Heike, Berlin
GEDANKENPOSITION is about balance, support and solidarity.
The mirrors are a direct reference to those found in the more recent jail cells of the former Stasi Prison in Hohenschönhausen. Former prisoners recall how important the presence of the mirror was in indicating denied reality and the passing of time.
THE FOLLOWING QUIET IS BROKEN
THE FOLLOWING QUIET IS BROKEN BY CHEERING FROM THE CROWDS, THE BIRDS FLEEING TO THE SKY AND HUGE CLOUDS OF DUST WAFTING SLOWLY AWAY
2019 – Site-Specific Video Essay
for Holding What Can’t be Held, MING Studios, Boise ID (US).
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SPEAK AGAIN, SPEAK LIKE RAIN
2018 Site-Specific Project
GOETHE NA VILA – Vila Itororó, Sao Paulo, Brasil
FALE NOVAMENTE, FALE COMO CHUVA – SPEAK AGAIN, SPEAK LIKE RAIN is a participative project on spoken words as cultural form of activism moreover on urban interstices seen as chances and resources through the practice of Sarau and Slam poetry, which engage the participants to debate the right to the city, to celebrate urban life, to embrace visions and concrete’s surfaces. Continue reading „SPEAK AGAIN, SPEAK LIKE RAIN“
THE FOURTH WALL
2018 Mixed Media Installation
A collage of datas, thoughts and visions report to the ideas and projects of urban planning, realities of worldwide trading till fictional neighborhood builded for military purposes. Continue reading „THE FOURTH WALL“
ONE SHOT
2017 Site-Specific Mixed Media Installation
MING STUDIOS – Contemporary Art Center & international Residency Program, Boise, Idaho (USA)
The origin of the site-specific, solo exhibition ONE SHOT is an investigation into a image sourced from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation entitled All Female Survey Crew taken in 1918, during the works for the Mindoka infrastructure Project in Idaho.
INTERSTICES-CRACKS
The work’s group titled INTERSTICES/CRACKS is related to the broad comprehension of living space in relation with infrastructures and their interstitial spaces.
NOTES ON THE WESTWARD JOURNEY
NOTES ON THE WESTWARD JOURNEY is a work composed by a video and five artist’s books. Here I deal specifically with women’s diaries of migration during the so called Westward Journey in the US, between 1841 and 1867.
MAPPING IT OUT
A map can be described as a two dimensional interpretative representation of an area. Nevertheless the map stands for a reading of existing spaces in which people are moving toward, following routes, necessities and needs, desires and thoughts. MAPPING IT OUT is a participative project. A map of La Havana after the point of view and the experiences of the people: a representation of what for me means reality.
LANDOLOGY. GLIMPSES OF A DIVERSITIES’S POLITIC.
For this series of works I employed a slow and meticulous process of active but nevertheless approximate mapping of a city’s actual existing systems and dynamics. In its core the project surveys urban structures as places that oscillate between desire and repulsion, between basic needs/necessities and the ultra-de-luxe, in which a city’s accelerated ow is perceived as the last place of the social.
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LANDOLOGY. FALLING BACK TO CARACAS FROM THE PERIPHERIES OF MY FIELD.
Caracas’s urban structure is the focus of a cartographical representation of Caracas composed of drawings, prints, site-specific installations and an artist’s book as a catalog of the exhibition.
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WE ARE THE PLAGUE
A dystopic intuition on new geographies, this installation follows a project about water resources and provisions, specifically after the observation of water reservoirs in California, where the waters are protected from the sun rays through black plastic spheres. Not really the ideal representational objects for an ecological environment.
ÜBER DISTANZ UND DICHTE / ABOUT DISTANCE AND DENSITY
The project titled ABOUT DISTANCE AND DENSITY expand upon concepts like Landscapes, Land‘s survey and the perceptual space in always changing urban environments.
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AAA THE DESERT SERIES
AAA The Desert Series is a compilation of works, realized between 2012 and 2014, and related to the construction of fictional territories starting from existing ones. Drawings, installations, printed works, collages and artist’s books compose a narration on unbounded landscapes coming out from the relation between micro and macro visual elements.
HOW TO LIE WITH MAPS
HOW TO LIE WITH MAPS is a series of installations made with black aluminum foil stripes, which build nets-like maps. The work is inspired by the same-named book of Marc Monmonier and on the possibility to create a plausible territory from the perception of an existing one.
HOW TO FIND PLACES: OR MY PSEUDOSCIENCE OF WHEREABOUTS.
Proceding the investigation on the line between real and fictive territories, the series of works and the artist’s book HOW TO FIND PLACES: OR MY PSEUDOSCIENCE OF WHEREABOUTS. focus on the manipulation of real elements in order to construct a simulated territory.
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WALK WITH THE ARTIST * BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ
The walk moves toward the Alexanderplatz, following the narrative path of Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz.
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SOMOS MUCHAS
Realized for the exhibition NINES (Dolls) at the Canèm Gallery, Castellòn
installation with 89 ceramic elements – 2012
THE MACHINE
Installation site specific – 2012
Work commisioned by Lithops, research center for electric batteries, Italy
REMIND ME THEN TO GIVE YOU THE INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO GET LOST
Remind me then to give you the instructions on how to get lost is a mixed media compilation of works: black aluminum thread installation, drawings, collages and an artist’s book based on the construction of fictional spaces and geographies derived from the perception and the research on real landscapes.
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IT IS NOT A TOY (IT IS A FAILURE)
It is not a toy (It is a failure) – paradigm #1
objects for the social context * 2011
shopping cart, plastic bags, tape
N Main street, Los Angeles
Realized during the residency at Raid Projects, Los Angeles
PATTERNS
Patterns. Trees in Lincoln Heights is an installation based on infrastructural objects observed in California during a residency project in 2011. Continue reading „PATTERNS“
THE GLORIOUS FLIGHT OF RILE LESOV
In the summer of 2007, I was in Belgrade for an artist residency. During a visit to the Novo Groblje Cemetery, I had the fortune of meeting Ms Milka Janszoon, an elderly Australian lady who was travelling with her son Vladimir. They were there to get to know the hometown of Rile Lesov, the man who was Vladimir’s father and who had been her partner and until he disappeared on the 3rd of April 1964 in the F5 Tornado at Wichita Falls, Texas. Rile Lesov was one of seven people who died in that tornado.
THE FURNO’S BOOK
multi media installation * 2010
Compared to portrayals I have been working on in the past, in which my attention was focused on the way self-representational forms of a certain subject mutate within an heterogeneous context like Facebook, in The Furno’s Book the experimentation field is extended to a more dynamical and contemporary objet trouvé. By way of facebook I have begun to interact, through the fictional identity of Mrs Furno, with unknown people which shared Furno as same surname.
SPAZIO MONO #1
Video project for the public space. Pescara, Italy.
Three video works about public space and living context in different cities (Berlin, Shanghai).
SPAZIO MONO #1 is a project of UNOaUNO studio – Arch. Umberto Ulisse and Marino La Torre –
* 2010
INTER_SUBJECT
„Using found photographs as starting point Irina Novarese reflects on the perceptive, associative and not least physical space that is identity. Working on these topics she interacts with other persons in order to create fictional biographies that she defines as third subject. Based on the theoretical basis of her practice, the video Inter_Subject becomes a new experiment defining those fictional places in process.“
INTER_SUBJECT * 2009
Video DVD 7’40“ * 7/7 copies with english subtitles // stereo
DAS DRITTE SUBJECT ODER: WER WAR FRAU FURNO?
The installation is an experiment based on our perception and reaction in front of a portrait of an unknown person and the interaction between dif ferent identities; the photographical representation of an existing identity and the plausibility of a fictive one.
multimedia installation * 2007-08
Realized for the Master Thesis at the Institut for Art in Context, UdK Berlin.
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HIGHLY DISCRIMINATING GLOBAL CLIENTELE*
Site specific temporary installation for the exhibition Palm Fiction at Berlin Stralau – 2008
The Palm is a Collage realized directly on the wall. All the images are part of copies, of photos from the german colonialists: after the research-keywords “work and Oilpalm”.
K.G. SERIES
K.G. Kollektives Gedächtnis Series
* 2005-2008
In 2000 I found about 500 portraits of unknown people in Italy, probably the work of a professional photograph. During the last years I produced many installations and videos realized with these photos. I describe these works as experiments about the interaction between different identities and memories. I define this as the “third subject”, meaning the outcome of the interaction between two or more other subjects. The associative system of the mnemonic structure of an observer, facing an unknown portrait reacts in producing an ascription of information about the possible identity of the person in the picture.
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LA PRIMA IMMAGINE
Site specific and temporary installation realized during the Residency at Foundation Spinola Banna for the Arts,
Turin * 2007
Collage with B/W Xerocopies on wall
Dimensions: 17 x 3 mt.
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