Contemporary Day returns: 20th edition is accessibility themed

Saturday, October 12, 2024, the Giornata del Contemporaneo (Day of the Contemporary) returns, the initiative promoted by AMACI - Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums and carried out with the support of the Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture and the collaboration of the Directorate General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Now in its 20th edition, the Day of the Contemporary will involve museums, foundations, public and private institutions, galleries, studios and artist spaces throughout Italy. Also this year, to encourage and enhance the widest possible participation, the event will have a hybrid format, physical and digital, with online and offline proposals.

The image chosen as the guide for the 2024 edition of Giornata del Contemporaneo is the work Woman in a Cage (1975/2024) by Tomaso Binga (pseudonym of Bianca Pucciarelli Menna, Salerno, 1931), an Italian artist chosen by AMACI museum directors. The image is taken from a performance of hers in 1974 in which the artist, a feminist and women’s rights activist, stood with her head enclosed in a canary cage, being fed by male hands: a reflection on women’s condition of constricting subalternity, but, more generally, on the inequalities that are based on privilege and forms of control, often presented as care and protection. The canary cage becomes not only a physical but also a metaphorical barrier on the inaccessibility to freedom as an inalienable right and to all the tools and possibilities that can bring each individual to a condition of greater awareness and emancipation.

The common thread is the theme ofaccessibility, understood in a broad sense as the removal of cultural, intellectual, sensory and architectural barriers to ensure full access to contemporary culture, in response to the need to rethink the art system through greater awareness and morè widespread sensitivitỳ.

Thanks to the support of the Ministry of Culture’s Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity and the collaboration with the Directorate General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Day of the Contemporary renews the involvement of MAECI’s diplomatic-consular network composed of Embassies, Consulates and Italian Cultural Institutes, and extends to theabroad from Sunday, Oct. 6 to Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024, encouraging the participation of AMACI directors in events organized by the Farnesina’s foreign network and active entities in the countries of reference.

The event will maintain several nuclei of activities all with free admission: ad hoc programming by AMACI member museums, initiatives developed in collaboration with MAECI’s foreign network, the involvement of the network of the Places of the Contemporary promoted by the Ministry of Culture’s General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity, and the proposals of member entities. A very rich calendar of events intended to bring out the widespread network of realities that promote different contemporary languages on the national and international territory.

The initiative has the support of the Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture, the collaboration of the Directorate General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and the patronage of UPI - Union of Italian Provinces and ICOM Italy

To participate in the 2024 edition, it is necessary to register by October 4 through the form available at the link https://giornatadelcontemporaneo.amaci.org/it created in collaboration with Artshell.

For more information visit the AMACI website or write to giornatadelcontemporaneo@amaci.org

Image: Tomaso Binga, Woman in a Cage (1975 - 2024)

Contemporary Day returns: 20th edition is accessibility themed

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