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Cyborg Fatale is a book devoted to ten years of my artistic research across performance art, video, live media, and the unstable threshold between real and virtual. More than a retrospective survey, it is a map of the tensions that have shaped my practice: body and interface, ritual and technology, presence and simulation, vulnerability and construction.
The book traces a body of work in which performance is never separated from image, and image is never neutral. Throughout these projects, the body becomes both medium and battlefield, exposed to transformation, distortion, control, and symbolic reinvention. What emerges is not a linear chronology, but a layered journey through actions, videos, installations, and visual strategies that continuously challenge the limits between physical experience and mediated perception.
Richly illustrated and accompanied by critical essays and reflections, Cyborg Fatale offers an in-depth view of a practice that has always moved across disciplines while remaining grounded in one central urgency: to use art as a way of interrogating the relationship between identity, technology, and the living force of images. It is both a documentation of a decade of work and a conceptual framework for understanding the deeper continuity running through it.
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Publisher : Postmedia Books (28 August 2021)
Language : Italian
Paperback / 180 pages
ISBN-10 : 8874903111
ISBN-13 : 978-8874903115
BODY (S)CUL(P)TURE curated by Bruno Di Marino for Ibrida Festival, is the catalogue of the exhibition of the same name presented at Fondazione Dino Zoli. The project reflects Francesca Fini’s self-definition as an intermedia artist, a term she prefers for its darker, more artisanal, almost alchemical resonance, in contrast to the more academic sound of interdisciplinary.
Her practice is shaped by a distinctly phygital aesthetic, producing works that are at once material and immaterial, analog and representational, physical and virtual. Objects, images, actions, animations, signs, codes, and algorithms are continuously recombined into a hybrid visual universe where the real and the digital remain in constant dialogue.
The exhibition brings together human and artificial, organic and synthetic, attraction and repulsion, allowing the body to encounter every possible interface, from drawing to the construction of a 3D universe. In this sense, BODY (S)CUL(P)TURE offers a concentrated view of Francesca Fini’s artistic research, where the body is never fixed, but constantly reconfigured through matter, image, and technological transformation.
FRANCESCA FINI
BODY (S)CUL(P)TURE
curated by Bruno Di Marino
Ibrida Festival delle Arti INtermediali - 2024
Fondazione Dino Zoli
Il Corpo delle Donne , by Lori Adragna for INSIDEART AUTORI, is a project that takes the form of an archive of a performance art curator. It emerged from the author’s desire to gather and reorganize the materials produced through years of research and curatorial work in the field of performance art.
Rather than attempting to explain everything in a linear or exhaustive way, Adragna returned to a folder from her archive titled “Performance 2009–2017,” where she had collected the diverse documentation of her activity. What emerged from this process was a heterogeneous constellation of writings, images, project proposals, emails, and critical and poetic texts. These materials function as residual documents of an experience developed over eight years of curating performance art actions in Rome. Together, they form a layered archive that reflects not only the events themselves, but also the thinking, relationships, and processes surrounding them.
Preface by Maria Giovanna Musso
Afterword by Mona Lisa Tina
Contributions by Tiziana Cera Rosco, Laura Cionci, Francesca Fini, Eva Gerd, Silvia Giambrone, Tamar Hayduke, Chiara Mu, Ginevra Napoleoni, Francesca Romana Pinzari, Paola Romoli Venturi, Alice Schivardi, Silvia Stucky
INSIDEART AUTORI Editions, 2018
Italian Performance Art takes on the difficult task of translating into text what performance, by its nature, resists: the tension of presence, the irreducible force of the gesture, the part of the work that escapes language. It is an attempt as paradoxical as describing Lucio Fontana’s cut in words or rendering John Cage’s silence through explanation.
Structured around essays by leading scholars and researchers, including Brunelli, Fontana, Frangione, Lupieri, Rossini, and Sullo, and supported by a substantial historical and bibliographic apparatus, the volume is the first publication to examine performance art in Italy in an organic and comprehensive way. It offers an articulated overview of the field and traces its main historical coordinates.
Beginning with Futurism, moving through the action poetry of the twentieth-century neo-avant-gardes and Body Art, the book arrives at the most recent relationships between creative gesture and new technologies. Alongside theoretical and critical essays, the volume also includes a section of color monographic entries dedicated to artists who have worked consistently within the field of performance art.
Italian Performance Art 2015
"Percorsi e protagonisti della Action Art italiana"
Published by Sagep editori, Genoa
Edited by G. Fontana, N. Frangione, R. Rossini
pp. 384, 23.5 x 16.5 cm
ISBN 9788863733372
Le Maschere di Dioniso examines the dominant representations of the human figure in contemporary media and the arts, tracing an iconographic map of some of the most significant recent portrayals of the body within experimental artistic practices. Its scope ranges across underground and artist cinema, photography, sculpture, performance, and video art.
Drawing on a flexible methodology that brings together visual and cultural studies with media theory and contemporary art theory, the book offers a broad and in-depth overview of the relationships between processes of bodily representation and the increasingly pervasive role that media devices, along with their technological extensions and applications, have come to play in shaping our perceptual, iconographic, and identity regimes. Focusing especially on the last forty years, the study explores how these transformations have redefined both the theories and the expressive practices of contemporary media and art.
Featuring the works by: Nam June Paik, Gianni Toti, Tony Oursler, Gary Hill, Orlan, Zbigniew Rybczynski, Mariko Mori, Studio Azzurro, Stephen e Timothy Quay, Chris Landreth, Bériou, Char Davies, Leonardo Carrano, Egbert Mittelstädt, Kouhei Nakama, Andrew Thomas Huang, Francesca Fini, Alessandro Amaducci, Igor Imhoff, Alessandro Bavari, Beatrice Pucci, Rita Casdia, Donato Sansone.
Publisher: Armando Editore
Publication date: February 25, 2021
Language: Italian
Print length: 160 pages
ISBN-10: 8869928330
ISBN-13: 978-8869928338