Roberta Colavecchio

Roberta Colavecchio

Art Production Assistant Netherlands
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Roberta Colavecchio

Roberta Colavecchio

Art Production Assistant Netherlands
About me
I am an Italian researcher currently based in Amsterdam. I completed a PhD in Cultural and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Naples “L’Orientale" with a dissertation entitled “Residual Aesthetics. Political Ecology of Matter and Re-Cycling Technologies within Contemporary Art Landscape”. My research interests are specifically located in the field of new media theory at the intersection with the transdisciplinary perspective of cultural studies and postcolonial theory. From this double perspective, I address contemporary cultural processes by probematizing the themes of difference, migration, mobility, globalization, investigated through technology, contemporary art and aesthetics. I contribute to an Italian quarterly journal of arts and culture, for which I edit the section 'Technoculture'. I am member of the Technocultures Research Unit and the Centre for Postcolonial and Gender Studies at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, and collaborate as researcher and curator to the Matri-Archive of the Mediterranean, a digital archive, a website and forthcoming app for mobile devices, collecting female artistic practices in and/or about the Mediterranean area.
Projects
  • Entangled Relation
    Entangled RelationContribution to Diego Cibelli's art project Domestic Extremists with a story for the volume Entangled Relation, a picture book performed by Adela Bravo Sauras at Italienisches Kulturinstitut Berlin. Title: "Octopus and the Thin Tellin or The Eternal Return of the Nascent Estate" Subject: cultural ecology, resilience, startup culture, smart citizens.
  • 1_La Peste/1_The Plague
    1_La Peste/1_The PlagueA site-specific environmental installation, the first stage of Seven Seasons of the Spirit (2013 - ) art project by Gian Maria Tosatti, curated by Eugenio Viola, in collaboration with MADRE – Musem of contemporary Art DonnaREgina (Napoli, Italy), Fondazione Morra (Napoli, Italy), Hermann Nitsch Museum (Napoli, Italy). I contributed as PR and Art Production Assistant, helping in internal and external relations, as well as in the exhibition setup.
  • The World as I Found It. Deconstruct it - Reconstruct It
    The World as I Found It. Deconstruct it - Reconstruct ItResidency project by Diego Cibelli and Angelo Ciniglio working on urban ecologies and encouraging new citizenship performances. I contributed in the concept development of the project, in the video production and in the editing of texts and photographic materials as the outputs of the project.
  • Papers for Words to Develop Cultural Plans
    Papers for Words to Develop Cultural PlansA residency program organized in collaboration with artist Diego Cibelli and independent researcher Angelo Ciniglio to identify tools, strategies, and technologies for rethinking the relationship between organism and environment (such as art and its institutional environment, citizens and their cities). The project focused on the re-elaboration of the practice of dwelling in the surrounding space, sharing it interculturally, fostering interdisciplinary exchanges and trans-species encounters (humans and non-humans aggregates), in order to perform unpredictable citizenships. I contributed in the concept development of the project, in the planning of and participation to open seminars, and in the elaboration of a critical essay as the output of the project.
  • 2_Estate/2_Summer
    2_Estate/2_SummerA site-specific environmental installation, the second stage of Seven Seasons of the Spirit (2013 - ) art project by Gian Maria Tosatti, curated by Eugenio Viola, in collaboration with MADRE – Musem of contemporary Art DonnaREgina (Napoli, Italy), Fondazione Morra (Napoli, Italy), Hermann Nitsch Museum (Napoli, Italy). I contributed as PR and Art Production Assistant, helping in internal and external relations, as well as in the exhibition setup.
  • Tarzan's House
    Tarzan's HouseContribution to Diego Cibelli's art project Tarzan's House Third Output 2014 (mixed media, installation detail). A profound evolutionary reflection based on the comparison between the dynamics of the animal and the human world in relation to their food and constructed habitats. I contributed in the concept development of the project and with a text (poetic narrative/script for an imagined movie), uploaded on iPads that where part of the installation.
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Work history
    Researcher, Curator and Web Content Writer
    Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Naples “L’Orientale” (Italy) The digital archive, a website and forthcoming app for mobile devices, collects female artistic practices in and/or about the Mediterranean area. I contribute to the project as an artistic researcher, curator and event organizer. I select artists and their works, write press-releases and web-content, participate in the organization of cultural events (conferences and exhibitions), and in the concept development of the project.
    PR Consultant & Art Production Assistant
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    I helped in exhibitions setup, in welcoming and guiding visitors. I managed both the communicative and administrative functions of the project. I was responsible for supplies locating and inventory, for filing and organizing documents and receipts. I took care of PR and communication, of writing and translating press releases. I curated both internal (teamwork coordination) and external relations (interaction with cultural and political institutions), for the building of site-specific installations realized in collaboration with MADRE – Musem of contemporary Art DonnaREgina (Napoli, Italy), Fondazione Morra (Napoli, Italy), Hermann Nitsch Museum (Napoli, Italy), and Italian Ministry of Culture.
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Skills
  • Visual Arts
  • Conference
  • Exhibition
  • Multi-media Artist
  • Blogging
  • Project Management
  • Proofreading
  • Coordination
  • Event Organisation
  • Illustrator
  • Photoshop
  • Word
  • Technology Writing
  • Translation Editing
  • Content and Media Writing
Education
    Interactive Media Lab
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    Field research for my PhD project at the Interactive Media Lab (by the Digital Culture Unit) held by Graham Harwood (artist and lecturer in Practical Methods at the Centre for Cultural Studies)
    New Media Theory, Postcolonial and Cultural Studies
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    Focus on the development of a critical approach to the relations between technologies and cultures. Research project exploring and rethinking contemporary debate on ecology, based of an interdisciplinary approach to digital technologies, new media art practices, philosophy, and scientific research. Final dissertation: “Residual Aesthetics – Political Ecology of Matter and Re-Cycling Technologies within Contemporary Art Landscapes.”
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