ART?

[Latest update 29/11/2024]

Anita’s art is vegan, biodegradable, relational (as in “non-transactional”), and 99% analog – except the following 1%.

Every artistic endeavor is situational and ephemeral: spontaneously co-created in/with real life, and gracefully left to “die“ – transform, decay, compost, rot, evaporate, and be forgotten, reused, recycled, repurposed, re-homed, re-appropriated … or lost. This includes – i.e. resists – the arbitrary bureaucratic protocols that the abominable “art industry” – which is not invited to this party – calls “documentation”. And the neoliberal, transactional, proprietary, oppressive professionalization of creativity it upholds.

MEDIA in alphabetical order: art residencies, bodies, books, care, collective consciousness, colors, communities&commons, critical theory and practice, dance, Death, earthlings, fabric, food, friends, gifts, grief, hair, interactions, Magic, music, Nature, needles, pain, paint, paper, performance, people, periods, photography, plants, presence, public spaces, questioning, relationships, resistance, Southern-Italian witchcraft, tarots, “trash”, threads, videos, words.

BOOKED UNTIL MAY 2025 | CURRENTLY CHATTING WITH: Pang Jing about body hair and periods at FURNACE, Hong Kong.

@gwobean Collective Art Studio,
Hong Kong
3rd June – 3rd July, 2023
(Full Moon to Full Moon)

147 Art Residency

According to 2022‘s records, people were spending 147-minutes a day on social media on average, world-wide. It was 145 minutes in 2021 … what if one opts out and starts to use the same amount of time to do something else?
What if that something else is art?

And what qualifies as “art”?

Is it a commercial product, resulting from one person locked up in a room with a specific gear and instruction manuals?

Or could it be a fermentation, resulting from the relation of a diverse community of people, passing through a space and time, and experimenting together with daily objects and tasks, food scraps and trash?

Inspired (while in progress) by:

What if great art included work that is subtle, nuanced, quiet, small, challenging and complicated?

ELIZA GOODPASTURE,
6th June 2023, The Guardian – ‘Notoriously cruel’: should we cancel Picasso …?

PERENNIAL&ITINERANT&COLLECTIVE ART PERFORMANCE

Since 2018

In Full Red. Period.

What would happen if all menstruating people would dress in full red on their period days?

Inspired by:
Corinne Loperfido | Interview | Website
Lucy Peach’s “The Power of Period” TED

Photos credits: Sung Hing @NamChung PEACE, Alberto Gerosa @ThyLab, Walter Romano.

Here is a template for your “Period Leave” auto-responder – multiple languages are being made available.

PERENNIAL&ITINERANT&COLLECTIVE ART PERFORMANCE

Since 2014

Tarots

Deck: “Tarocchi di vetro” by Elisabetta Trevisan, printed by Scarabeo

[story coming soon …]

Photo credits to my friends Kumi Masunaga from Drum Jam and Dina from Healing in Nature.

PERENNIAL&ITINERANT ART PERFORMANCE

Since 2003 – Everywhere I Go

Books are free

It started with me just dropping books where I was as soon as I finished them – classrooms, metros, trains, buses, benches, airports, couches.

Now, before the drop, I write on the first page something to the effect of “This book is a free common good. It can be read, but not bought or sold. And then it always has to be set free again, to circulate”.

Last September I dropped one at my cousin Arianna’s [cited here], so for once this practice got “documented” :)