Max Disgrace, "Crystal Clear", 2017, 3'43'', video still. Courtesy the Artist and Tomboys Don't Cry. 1/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 2/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 3/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 4/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 5/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 6/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 7/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 8/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 9/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 10/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 11/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 12/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 13/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 14/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 15/31
Tamara MacArthur. View of the installation “If You Believed In Me” (2018) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 16/31
Tamara MacArthur. View of the installation “If You Believed In Me” (2018) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 17/31
Tamara MacArthur. View of the installation “If You Believed In Me” (2018) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 18/31
Tamara MacArthur. View of the installation “If You Believed In Me” (2018) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 19/31
Tamara MacArthur. View of the installation “If You Believed In Me” (2018) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 20/31
Tamara MacArthur. View of the installation “If You Believed In Me” (2018) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 21/31
Tamara MacArthur. View of the installation “If You Believed In Me” (2018) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 22/31
Jacopo Miliani. View of the speech “Wendy Windham” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 23/31
Jacopo Miliani. View of the speech “Wendy Windham” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 24/31
Jacopo Miliani. View of the speech “Wendy Windham” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 25/31
Jacopo Miliani. View of the speech “Wendy Windham” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 26/31
TOMBOYS DON’T CRY. View of the screening “Body Language #4” (2019) at ll Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 27/31
TOMBOYS DON’T CRY. View of the screening “Body Language #4” (2019) at ll Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 28/31
TOMBOYS DON’T CRY. View of the screening “Body Language #4” (2019) at ll Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 29/31
TOMBOYS DON’T CRY. View of the screening “Body Language #4” (2019) at ll Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 30/31
TOMBOYS DON’T CRY. View of the screening “Body Language #4” (2019) at ll Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 31/31

THEY ARE THE SUN


EP. 01

 

 

CATERINA DE NICOLA | EMBARASSED AND CONCILIATORY

Solo Show

 

JACOPO MILIANI | WENDY WINDHAM

Speech

 

TOMBOYS DON’T CRY | BODY LANGUAGE #4

Screening programme
con Joseph Campbell, Max Disgrace, Catherine Gund, Olivia Norris, Oscar Oldershaw, Jackie Pratt, Gonnerheous Reese, Timothy Smith, The Institute of Queer Ecology, Julie Tolentino.

 

 

Il Colorificio presents “L’Ano Solare”, a year long programme devoted to the investigation of non-normative constructions of the body and sexuality, a device programmed to identify strategies for the development of new agencies. The programme is declined into a series of formats (exhibitions, performances, screenings, lectures, talks) and goes beyond the exhibition space of via Giambellino 71, opening up to collaborations with other spaces and institutions in a number of cities.

 

“They are the Sun”, the first chapter of “L’Ano Solare”, focuses on language and on the multiplicity of linguistic modalities apt to re-appropriate the self, or to claim its construction. The linguistic codes implemented, whether they are dominant canons being disarmed and re-semantized or rather unauthorised codes being exhibited and exposed, propose to trace alternative paths through the hegemonic structures of normative society, embodying politics of disidentification and apostasy of gender.

In via Giambellino 67, the back of the shop of greengrocer Mohammed Mohammed hosts Embarassed and Conciliatory, the first solo show of Caterina De Nicola, in which the construction of subjectivity is not analysed through the body, but rather through the accessories that contribute to its construction and identification. The ornament is rethought through a process of translation and emptying, that considers abstraction as a synonym for social relations, for the saturation of individualities and for the plastic possibilities of the self-desiring desire. At the same time, at Il Colorificio, Tamara MacArthur’s architecture becomes the theatre of new representations, evoking on the one hand the function of the Baroque in the construction of situations, while on the other hand imploding that same style in its nature of techno-patriarchal weapon.

Jacopo Miliani presents “Wendy Windham”, an informative speech in which disorder becomes a methodology to withhold oneself from semantic control, and triggers hypothesis for a continuous post-identitarian re-definition of the self.

TOMBOYS DON’T CRY introduces imageries of transformation of sexualities in the fourth chapter of “Body Language”, an itinerant research platform about moving images, that presents a selection of video and film projects, in between contemporary expression and cinematographic tradition, to map the complexities of the transfeminist lgbtfqaixyz community experience. Body Language #4 presents SISSY FATIGUE (2019) by Olivia Norris, Oscar Oldershaw, Jackie Pratt, Joseph Campbell, Gonnerheous Reese, CRYSTAL CLEAR (2017) by Max Disgrace, QUEER BABEL (2018) by Timothy Smith, B.U.C.K.L.E (1994) by Catherine Gund & Julie Tolentino and FORM FOLLOWS FOREPLAY (2019) by The Institute of Queer Ecology.

 

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Il Colorificio presenta L’Ano Solare, un programma annuale dedicato all’esplorazione di costruzioni non-normative del corpo e della sessualità; un dispositivo per individuare strategie volte allo sviluppo di nuove agentività. Il programma è declinato in differenti formati (mostre, performance, screenings, lecture, talk) e travalica lo spazio espositivo di via Giambellino 71 aprendosi a collaborazioni con altri spazi e istituzioni in differenti città. 

 

They are the Sun, il primo capitolo de L’Ano Solare, si focalizza sul linguaggio e su differenti modalità linguistiche atte alla riappropriazione del sé e alla rivendicazione della propria costruzione. I codici linguistici adottati, siano questi dominanti disinnescati e risemantizzati o non autorizzati ed esibiti, propongono di tracciare sentieri alternativi attraverso le strutture egemoniche della società normativa e di incarnare politiche di disidentificazione e di apostasia del genere. 

In via Giambellino 67, il retro del fruttivendolo Mohammed Mohammed ospita Embarassed and Conciliatory, la prima mostra personale di Caterina De Nicola in cui la costruzione di soggettività non è analizzata attraverso il corpo, ma tramite gli accessori che concorrono allo sua costruzione e identificazione. L’ornamento viene ripensato attraverso un processo di traduzione e svuotamento che rintraccia nell’astrazione un sinonimo delle relazioni sociali, della saturazione di individualità e delle possibilità plastiche del desiderio auto-desiderante. 

Parallelamente, presso Il Colorificio, l’architettura di Tamara MacArthur diventa il teatro di nuove rappresentazioni, rievocando da una parte la funzione del barocco nella costruzione di situazioni, dall’altra facendo implodere quello stesso stile nella sua natura di arma tecnopatriarcale

Jacopo Miliani presenta Wendy Windham uno speech performativo in cui il disordine diviene metodologia di sottrazione al controllo semantico e ipotesi di continua ridefinizione post-identitaria. 

TOMBOYS DON’T CRY introduce immaginari di trasformazione della sessualità con il quarto capitolo di Body Language, rassegna itinerante di ricerca sull’immagine in movimento, che presenta una selezione di progetti video e film, tra espressione contemporanea e tradizione cinematografica, per mappare la complessità dell’esperienza lgbtfqaixyz. Body Language #4 presenta SISSY FATIGUE (2019) di Olivia Norris, Oscar Oldershaw, Jackie Pratt, Joseph Campbell, Gonnerheous Reese, CRYSTAL CLEAR (2017) di Max Disgrace, QUEER BABEL (2018) di Timothy Smith, B.U.C.K.L.E (1994) di Catherine Gund & Julie Tolentino e FORM FOLLOWS FOREPLAY (2019) di The Institute of Queer Ecology.



Max Disgrace, "Crystal Clear", 2017, 3'43'', video still. Courtesy the Artist and Tomboys Don't Cry. 1/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 2/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 3/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 4/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 5/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 6/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 7/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 8/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 9/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 10/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 11/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 12/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 13/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 14/31
Caterina De Nicola. View of the exhibition and performance “Embarassed and Conciliatory” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 15/31
Tamara MacArthur. View of the installation “If You Believed In Me” (2018) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 16/31
Tamara MacArthur. View of the installation “If You Believed In Me” (2018) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 17/31
Tamara MacArthur. View of the installation “If You Believed In Me” (2018) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 18/31
Tamara MacArthur. View of the installation “If You Believed In Me” (2018) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 19/31
Tamara MacArthur. View of the installation “If You Believed In Me” (2018) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 20/31
Tamara MacArthur. View of the installation “If You Believed In Me” (2018) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 21/31
Tamara MacArthur. View of the installation “If You Believed In Me” (2018) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 22/31
Jacopo Miliani. View of the speech “Wendy Windham” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 23/31
Jacopo Miliani. View of the speech “Wendy Windham” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 24/31
Jacopo Miliani. View of the speech “Wendy Windham” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 25/31
Jacopo Miliani. View of the speech “Wendy Windham” (2019) at Il Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 26/31
TOMBOYS DON’T CRY. View of the screening “Body Language #4” (2019) at ll Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 27/31
TOMBOYS DON’T CRY. View of the screening “Body Language #4” (2019) at ll Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 28/31
TOMBOYS DON’T CRY. View of the screening “Body Language #4” (2019) at ll Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 29/31
TOMBOYS DON’T CRY. View of the screening “Body Language #4” (2019) at ll Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 30/31
TOMBOYS DON’T CRY. View of the screening “Body Language #4” (2019) at ll Colorificio, Milan. Courtesy the Artist and Il Colorificio, Milan. Photography by Alessandro Sellini. 31/31