Senior Studio and Thesis: 2007

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Hello everybody.
We will soon be in New York shooting WEST(NewYork).

This City/New York is part of a huge project named WEST consisting of
video shooting sessions in some Western big cities, a sequence of
single persons collapsing to the ground in front of the video-camera
"as if they were dying".
New York is the 12th and last city so far: WEST(Paris), WEST(Roma),
WEST(Amsterdam), WEST(Athina), WEST(Wien), WEST(Berlin),
WEST(Bruxelles), WEST(London), WEST(Beijing), WEST(Praha), WEST(Tokyo)
and WEST(NewYork)

Also for New York, as the last city of the project, we are looking for
persons willing to be filmed, advisably directed, while "dying" in the
street. The action and the filming engage the person for just a couple
of minutes.

We will be filming all in and around New York from November 24 to 27.
We need as more people as possible who are willing to participate
voluntarily in the project and we are trying to get an outline of the
agreements at soonest. Please choose your favourite spot (among the
ones listed below) and BOOK your own "falling".

For further details or more information and images check the website:
http://www.kinkaleri.it/ewest.htm
For looking at some video extracts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ-8gebz9Wc

Installation and display: WEST consists of the accumulation of the
separate deceases put into effect during the stay in the cities and
edited for a video installation on a multiple monitor-screening. The
completed work:
WEST(Paris)(Roma)(Amsterdam)(Athina)(Wien)(Beijing)(Berlin)(Bruxelles)(London)(Praha)(Tokyo)(NewYork)
will be screened in the 2008 in Florence with a huge video
installation produced by the Osservatorio per le Arti Contemporanee
Ente Cassa di Risparmio of Florence (place and dates to advise). We
will keep you informed about the future events.

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As landmarks, we are giving you hereunder a list of when and where we
are going to be shooting.
We are looking forward to booking your appointment by email at
info@kinkaleri.it Reply as object: WNYC
Two video-cameras (X and Y) will be around NEW YORK on NOV. 24, 25, 26, 27.2007
Here is the LIST OF THE APPOINTMENTS so far.
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VIDEOCAMERA X

SAT 24 Nov 2007
10:30 am – Battery Park: at the entry of Battery Park, corner Battery
Pl. / Greenwich Street
02:30 pm – South Street Seaport: corner Fulton Market / South Street

SUN 25 Nov 2007
10:30 am – corner Canal Street / Broadway
02:30 pm – corner Houston Street / West Broadway

MON 26 Nov 2007
10:30 am – Metropolitan Museum: corner Museum Mile / E 81st street
02:30 pm – Harlem: 125th Street Station: exit on Malcom X Blvd

TUE 27 Nov 2007
10:30 am – Williamsburg: Marcy Ave Station, exit on Marcy Ave
02:30 pm – Coney Island: corner boardwalk W / E 12th street

VIDEOCAMERA Y

SAT 24 Nov 2007
10:30 am – corner St Marks Place / 2nd ave
02:30 pm – Union Square, corner E 14th street / Union Square W

SUN 25 Nov 2007
10:30 am – corner Greenwich Ave. / 8th Ave
02:30 pm – Washington Square Park – in front of the Arch

MON 26 Nov 2007
10:30 am – Empire State Building: in front of central entry
02:30 pm – Rockfeller Center: corner 5th ave / E 49th street

TUE 27 Nov 2007
10:30 am – Columbus Circle c/Central Park West
02:30 pm – Dakota Building Entrance: corner W 72nd street / Central Park West

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A confirmation by email is necessary.
Until the 20th of Nov. you can contact Kinkaleri booking your "death"
from the appointment list above:
by writing to the email address info@kinkaleri.it --- Subject: WNYC
While we will be in New York, on Nov 24/25/26/27 reservations by email
will be accepted maximum until one day before each appointment.
Thanking you a lot in advance for your co-operation, we are hoping to
meet you soon.
Kinkaleri
Project Outline:
This project brings a video work produced and created around the
western world: West by the live art collective Kinkaleri. The project
goes through the apparently continuous and uniform time of history
with istant shots of performed deaths, sought out and repeated in the
singular appearance of each scene/life. WEST gathers and pieces
together the fragments of an age in the material appearance of square,
streets, buildings and other layers of the urban fabric revealing the
present time; what we see now is the risult of the dialectic between
what was, and is finished, and what there is now.
WEST (2003-2007) developed in geographic stages, Amsterdam, Athens,
Berlin, Beijing, Bruxelles, London, New York, Prague, Rome, Tokyo and
Wien edited in sequences of video clips, structured in fields, with
fixed frame, direct gazing into the camera, the collapse and
disappearance of the people stopped on a random basis in Western
cities, filmed a few seconds in front of the unstoppable flow of life.

Short Bios:
Kinkaleri is a live art group based in Italy. It was founded in 1995
as a "grouping of formats and means balancing in the attempt". From
the outset Kinkaleri has worked in a number of different directions
and areas: plays, performance pieces, installations, video, sound,
publications and workshops. The group's work have found homes in
numerous environments in Italy and abroad.
The Observatory for Contemporary Arts is initiated in 2007 by Ente
Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze and it conveys the Ente's interest in
contemporary culture. The primary intention of the Observatory is to
give voice to a variety of local subjects operating with a
multi-disciplinary approach within the field of contemporary art and
culture. It supports and works in collaboration with associations and
organisations expressing artistic and cultural values, which are
relevant for the city of Florence. The Observatory also intends to be
an active and autonomous partner in and promoter of productions and
projects that represent contemporary reality.
Italian Cultural Institute of New York. The purpose of the Istituto is
to strengthen the cultural links between Italy and the USA by
promoting academic exchanges, organizing visual arts exhibitions,
sponsoring the translation of Italian books, promoting Italian studies
and supporting various events dealing with Italian music, dance,
cinema, theater, architecture, literature, cuisine, etc.
Xing is a cultural network based in Bologna and Milan with the
purpose of planning, supporting and promoting products and events
characterized by an interdisciplinary approach toward the issues of
contemporary culture.