Meet IAB Scientist for the Make a Move Lab in Rijeka.

We are pleased to introduce the IAB scientist for the Rijeka Lab (10-19 September 2019), within the “Make a Move” Project, co-funded by Creative Europe Project: Prof. Alessandra Troncone.

Alessandra Troncone (b. 1984, Naples, Italy) is an art historian and curator. She earned her Ph.D. in History of Art at Sapienza University in Rome in 2012, researching the history of Italian exhibitions in the 1960s and 1970s. On this research topic, she authored the book La Smaterializzazione dell’Arte in Italia 1967-1973 (The Dematerialization of Art in Italy 1967-1973), published by Postmedia Books in 2014. Since 2013, she has been a Researcher in the Research Department of the Madre Museum in Naples. In 2015/16, she participated in the Curatorial Programme at de Appel Arts Centre in Amsterdam, where she co-curated the project Rien ne va plus? Faites vos jeux! and its public program, including the public event This is Cosmos at the Stedelijk Museum. In 2016, she was curator-in-residence as part of the Curatorial Program for Research – Eastern Europe. She is currently the Artistic Co-Director of Underneath the Arches, a program for contemporary art that takes place at the archaeological site holding the remains of Acquedotto Augusteo del Serino in Naples, and a professor of Art History at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. She is also a correspondent for “Flash Art” and the author of several articles and essays in art magazines, books and catalogues. In 2019, she co-curated with an international team of curators the 12th Kaunas Biennial titled After Leaving | Before arriving. She is a member of IKT – International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art.

Prof. Troncone has been selected by Make a Move Project Managers for the IAB, Armando Rotondi and Valentina Temussi, for her strong expertise in site-specific project that is the core of the Rijeka Lab. Specifcally, the Rijeka Lab is focused on “Site-Specific, Theatre and Audience”. The Lab is comprised of two modules: Artistic and Business Module. The Artistic Module will focus on the exchange of different contemporary performance practices and approaches within the context of site-specific theatre. The Business Module will expand the fundraising focus topic initiated during the Galway Lab session. However, the Rijeka Lab will switch the perspective from the supply to the demand side. The element of Audience Development will be interwoven in both modules in accordance with more audience-centric perspective, within small cultural organisations and among independent artists, addressing relations between artists and audiences in the context of site-specific performances. This approach looks at audience development as multifaceted strategy that includes different aspects of any cultural work/organisation: marketing, promotion, programming, education and digital.

About the project: The Make a Move project will execute and test an innovative Art Incubator program, designed particularly for non-institutionalised theatre practitioners and small independent cultural operators primarily from the field of contemporary movement-based theatre. The initiator and leader of the project is an arts organisation Creative Laboratory of Contemporary Theatre KRILA from Rijeka. The main partners of the project are the Galway Theatre Festival (Ireland), the Institute of Arts Barcelona (Spain), the University of Arts Targu-Mures (Romania).


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