The MAN museum, as part of the second edition of the “Museo Call Artista” project, promoted by AMACI, is pleased to present to the public the film “Jammin’ Drama Project”, by the artist and filmmaker Marinella Senatore. The work will be visible in the rooms of the MAN Museum starting from December 13th during the museum’s opening hours.
The documentary is a participatory project that involved over 450 members of the diverse Harlem community in the collective construction of a plot for a radio drama, structured in 4 chapters and recorded live. The collaboration between the participants, based on the dialogue between different identities, generations and races, gave rise to a jam session of ideas, desires and experiences, analyzing the social dynamics and ways of coexistence in a multicultural society. An archive of shared narratives that redefines the meaning of community.
“I feel I am part of those processes that see the artist as an activator of energy – states Marinella Senatore – who has a score through which people negotiate, or contest, their participation. I try to implement an emotional exchange, which passes from story to story. The story itself becomes an exchange and often an open laboratory situation is built, where those who work learn something and take it with them together with the memory of having been on the set”.
Marinella Senatore (1977) lives and works between London and Berlin. Since 2006 he has been curating public participation projects, involving entire communities in the creation of collective works in which the roles of the artist as author and the public as passive recipient are questioned and reworked. He has exhibited his works (short films, photographs, drawings, installations) in numerous Italian and foreign museums including the Kunsthalle of San Gallo, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Santa Barbara, the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2014 she was awarded the MAXXI Prize.
Museum Call Artist, is an AMACI project (the National Association of Museums of Modern and Contemporary Art) born with the aim of actively supporting the contemporary system in our country, encouraging and disseminating the newest forms of artistic experimentation through commissioning artists Italians of works subsequently presented in associated museums.
The 2014 edition, curated by Ludovico Pratesi and Angela Tecce, sees the collaboration with the MiBACT consolidated through the Plan for Contemporary Art, an instrument that the Ministry has given itself for the financing of proposals aimed at increasing the public heritage of art of our time.
The choice of Marinella Senatore, who bases her artistic practice on participation and sharing of the creative process, responds to the ambition of bringing contemporary art into the daily lives of citizens, highlighting the relationship between personal creativity and social dynamics .
