Who is Oreste? Nobody is Oreste. It is not a group that produces collective artworks. It is not a trade union for artists. It is not a non-profit organisation. Up to now it has been a variable set of people, prevalently made up of italian artists who have been working together with the aim of creating spaces of freedom and of action for ideas, inventions, projects since about three years ago when a summer residency programme was set up by them in Paliano.These artists “found” each other (and continue to find each other in a ramified and open process) and make a habit of collaborating and relating with others. Their way of working is probably shared by many others, in Italy and internationaly.Residency programmes, workshops, web sites, meetings, trips, live or e-mail conferences, books, theoretical discourse, and public statements. Such practices show the vitality of Oreste and its ability to join resources, qualities and experience to question languages and be open to differing contexts and relationships, to identify and experience channels of communication without prejudice. ( Oreste at the Venice Biennale, 1999)
More about Oreste in http://undo.net/oreste
Oreste’s activities
July 1 - 30, 1997 Open residency, Paliano (Italy)
November 1997 Three-days meeting “come spiegare a mia madre che cio’che faccio serve a qualcosa?”, Link, Bologna, (Italy)
July 1998 Open residency, second edition, Paliano (Italy)
1999 A letter addressed to the PS1 International Studio Program, undersigned by many italian artists to propose a collective usage of the New-York 1999 studio program.
June 16-18, 1999 Bacinonapoli, three days of informal encounters in Naples, during which Neapolitan artists “adopt” 35 artists from other italian cities.
June-November 1999 Oreste at the Venice Biennale. Organisation of a five-months ongoing program of meetings, performances and events in the Sala A of the Italian Pavilion.
September 1999 Open residency, third edition, Montescaglioso (Italy)
September 17-19, 1999 “Mister Picasso, I suppose!”, a three-days meeting in Matera with artists, curators, philosophers and sociologists dedicated to artistic research and non-profit cultural organisations.
November 1999 Workshop in Lecce, (Italy)
April-May 2000 A public informal meeting and workshop among Italian, British and international artists, curators and independent art organisations; “democracy!” Royal College of Fine Art, London
August-September 2000 Open residency and workshops, fourth edition, Montescaglioso (Italy)
Oreste books
“Progetto Oreste O” / “Come spiegare a mia madre che cio’che faccio serve a qualcosa?” ed. Charta, 1998 (208+40 p.)The first Oreste’s publication is made of two parts, and the book can be read from both sides.First part, Oreste O, is the diary of the residency organized by Oreste in Paliano, between Rome and Naples (July 1997). Seventy artists and curators from all around Italy met in an informal and open residency, to exchange ideas, information, show their’s own work and discuss it with the others.Second part, “Come spiegare a mia madre che cio’ che faccio serve a qualcosa?” (“How to explain to my mother that what I do is usefull?”) collects individual and group contributions to the meeting organised in Bologna, (Link, October 31 - November 2, 1997) about communication, subjectivity and daily life in the recent italian artistic research.
“Oreste 1”
ed. Charta, 1999 (192 p.)
Collections of texts proposed by 40 artists and curators, among the 140 who took part to the second residency in Paliano (July 1998).
A diary of the residency written by several participants is also included
“Oreste at the Venice Biennale”ed. Charta , 2000 (256 p.)- nine curators wrote about Oreste.- 205 pages relate the event, each invited group has managed freely some pages of the book.- directory of the names and mail adress of more or less 250 artist, associations, curators from all around the world
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