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The visiting curators in residency at vessel, Gerd Elise Mørland e Anna Smolak, along with Viviana Checchia, co-creator and co-curator of vessel, will go to Foggia on Wednesday, July 27, to meet Zara Audiello, an independent curator. Zara, now living in Belgrade, is co-founder of Association 22:37. She will highlight the research interests, intentions, and actions which influenced her work. In addition, this talk will provide an opportunity for a frank and honest self-evaluation of her past curatorial projects, with special attention to her recent work in the Balkans area.

Zara Audiello, born in Foggia, 1974, lives and works in Belgrade and Berlin. Her interests are multidisciplinary; she researches the notion of the conflict in its different respective forms, but also as a concept that can function to explain varying aspects of social life, such as social disagreement, conflict of interests, and fights between individuals, groups and organizations. She is additionally concerned with conflicts affected and caused by socio-economic and political environmental transformation as well as zones of combat and clashes of different customs, cultures and language. These conflicts serve as metaphors of the human psyche, in which there is the omnipresent conflict between impulse and instinct. In particular, she has concentrated on the practice of communicating and mediating conflict, subsequentially investigating how this affects human nature, character, evolution and memory.

22:37 is a non-profit association with artistic and cultural aims. It was founded in February 2009 by a group of young curators, artists and cultural operators, all coming together via their common background of mobility. This network is the main feature of the association, due to the fact that it operates in four cities: Milan, Berlin, Barcelona and Venice. 22:37 believes that the wide vision of cultural horizons offered by its network is key to improving the influences behind different languages and actions. This process could lead to new and broader forms of cultural design, forms outside the institutional devices of the Art system. The association rises from the deep belief that one of Art’s main purposes is to contribute to the breakdown of clichés and prejudices in order to encourage intellectual skills and the expression of different points of view on social issues. This can occur through a net connecting different realities.