ON THE BREADLINE

The artist’s journey

Belgrade, Istanbul, Athens and Palermo are the stops on the artist’s journey. She will have the collaboration of Italian Institutes of Culture, together with a network of cultural institutions and local curators in the residence countries, including Beo Project (Belgrade) and K-Gold Temporary Gallery (Athens), the Ignazio Buttitta Foundation and the Eco Museo Urbano Mare Memoria Viva (Palermo). Belgrade residence has the support of the fellowship studio nctm e l’arte: Artists-in-residence During her project, in each city, the artist will join together with an all-female chorus to create a performance with the protest song Bread & Roses, which comes from a 1912 speech by Rose Schneiderman, a feminist and socialist leader in the United States, given during an important female workers’ strike. The song will be different each time, translated into the languages of the countries involved, following a new musical score created by Sandra Cotronei, director of the Hymns and Songs of Struggle Chorus in the Political Song Laboratory at the Popular School of Music of Testaccio. In Belgrade, the project’s first stage, the female chorus at the Collegium Musicum of the Music Academy will be involved, directed by the composer Dragana Jovanovic. The element of the chorus, like bread, is essential in this project because it becomes an instrument to show, through words, sounds and images, the social and political revolts in the DNA of each country, especially in countries historically and geographically connected to the Mediterranean. The final product will be four-channel video that will be included in the permanent collection of multimedia works at the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, (Rome), and later presented at a solo exhibit in 2020. The project will also involve the publication of a final catalogue, published by Quodlibet, which will describe the journey through the voices of the artist, curator and two art historians, Stefano Chiodi and Riccardo Venturi.