In Bologna, Forza Uova project brings Alterazioni Video's turbo films on display

From January 31 to February 3, 2019, during Arte Fiera and ART CITY Bologna 2019, the project Forza Uova, the first Bologna exhibition of the Alterazioni Video collective, curated by Elisa Del Prete and Silvia Litardi, and promoted by ART CITY Bologna 2019 on the occasion of Arte Fiera, will be presented. It is a project spread over multiple venues, a never-before-seen foray into the latest “Turbo Film” productions of the Italian collective born in Milan in 2004, which develops as a project spread throughout the city, between the center and the suburbs, offering itself not only as an exhibition experience but as a true immersion in the artistic practice of the collective.

In order to explain what a “turbo film” is, the artists of Alterazioni Video (Paololuca Barbieri Marchi, Alberto Caffarelli, Andrea Masu, Giacomo Porfiri, Matteo Erenbourg) use metaphors: “you know when a Super Tele comes in your face? Your first instinct is to puncture it, but then you find yourself in the small square taking punishment. Turbo Film is the equivalent of a lob or a burning bank or an unexpected kiss, maybe from a sweaty, bearded guy.” More specifically, Turbo Film is a film genrethatbroadly wants to place itself between spaghetti westerns and YouTube neorealism. Often improvised and participatory, it harks back to the beginnings of cinema while maintaining its roots in contemporary art.In these video productions, which arise from impromptu, unplanned occasions and are characterized by low definition, the involvement of unknown or barely known people, photomontage, and an undefined and never concluded nature, the glittery world of fashion and geopolitical speculation, minimal stories, worlds and cultures that would once have been called underground coexist and conflate.

The heart of the widespread exhibition will be the installation Forza Uova at the Voxel space (at 56 Corticella Street), which opens on Friday, Feb. 1, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at a very special welcome brunch in which the public is projected directly into a self-produced, calorie-dense set. The installation is created especially for Voxel’s special venue, the colorful building in the melting pot district of Bolognina, where videos, sculptures and props compose a cluster of Turbo Film’s latest productions with an ironic lunge on the theme of fake news, the subject of their latest War and Peace filmed in Moscow a few months ago. In the evening, starting at 9 p.m., the set will come to life at a big party, curated by the artists. The exhibition can then be visited until Sunday, Feb. 3, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Next, on Saturday, Feb. 2 from 11:23 p.m., on the occasion of ART CITY’s “white night” and thanks to the collaboration with Pop Up Cinema Bologna, the Medica Palace Cinema in downtown Bologna will host a performative cinema event with special guests Petr Bystrov and Giovanni De Donà, who together with the artists will lead the audience in a lesson in self-discipline education to present the Bologna premiere of Turbo Film 2018 War and Peace.

On Sunday, February 3, at 12 noon, a selection of Turbo Films from 2008 to the present will be screened at the Medica Palace Cinema, with a special presentation by Lorenzo Balbi, director of MAMbo - Museum of Modern Art of Bologna.

In Bologna, Forza Uova project brings Alterazioni Video's turbo films on display

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