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1. Festive opening of The Rooftop Gallery with a program in 3 acts, Padua, October 2024
2. Paperboat edition nr.3 launched during the screening of Entr’Acte, 1924 at The Boxing Gallery, Milan, November 2024
3. At La Bonheur, Berlin, August 2024
4. Conversations with the Body, Galleria SpazioCorteQuattro, Cividale del Friuli, 2023
2. Paperboat edition nr.3 launched during the screening of Entr’Acte, 1924 at The Boxing Gallery, Milan, November 2024
3. At La Bonheur, Berlin, August 2024
4. Conversations with the Body, Galleria SpazioCorteQuattro, Cividale del Friuli, 2023
Friends
The Boxing Gallery, Milan
On Sunday, November 3, 2024, The Boxing Gallery was opened with a talk by director An Paenhuysen about boxer and poet Arthur Cravan. A cravanesque action with the paper boat edition of minìsae took place during the screening of the 1924 film Entr’Acte. The film is said to be inspired by the life of Cravan, who disappeared in 1918 at sea.
The Rooftop Gallery, Padua
On Saturday, 26 October 2024, The Rooftop Gallery was officially inaugurated by director Camilla Crispino with an exhibition project surrealists everywhere! of the flying curators Mariko Mikami and An Paenhuysen. For the occasion, minìsae did an reenactment of Rosemary Mayer’s Temporary Monuments on the rooftops of New York in the 1980s. An orange balloon celebrated the change of summer time into winter time. Accompanying the screening of Entr’Acte, a 1924 surrealist film recorded on the rooftop of Théâtre Champs-Elysées in Paris, minìsae launched its paper boat edition from the rooftop in Padua.
La Bonheur, Berlin
7 June and 25 August 2024: La Bonheur is a garden and house for art. It finds itself in the midst of the Schrebergärten in Plänterwald, Berlin and is run by artist Charlotte Dualé and curator An Paenhuysen. Sometimes, when minìsae is in town, they hang out in the garden.
Galleria SpazioCorteQuattro, Cividale del Friuli
Conversations with the Body
A performative talk by Gilad Ben Ari, March 8, 2023, Galeria SpazioCorteQuattro, Cividale del Friuli
How do we answer the questions asked by our bodies? What role do we entrust to the sensitive and embodied experience? How can the body become the main vehicle of an artistic and a human journey? In Ben Ari's practice, the experience of the living body, usually neglected by most or even forgotten, is the very essence of the research: the "animal" dimension of the human, the primal adherence to the senses and perceptions, to the movement that emerges spontaneously, are all that he asks us to pay attention to, all that really exists. How much effort, how much time, how much listening can we offer to our bodies that are none other than us?
Gilad Ben Ari is a performer and dancer. For more than twenty years he has been dancing professionally, first in Tel Aviv in the Batsheva Ensemble, then in Brussels where he studied dance and choreography at P.A.R.T.S. and finally in Amsterdam, where he received a Master's degree at Das Choreography. In 2015 he embarked on a 4000 km journey on foot, from Turkey to the Netherlands, which was followed by the decision to move away from institutional contexts to favor his personal research on the mechanics of attention.
G.G.A. Minisini Residencies
Since 2015, Giorgia Minisini has invited friends and colleagues to join her in Cividale del Friuli. These visits took the form of residencies. Some residencies were directed towards specific practices like qi gong, shiatsu, Feldenkrais, dance. Some were for writing and exploring in the vicinity of other thinking bodies. Some were for resting.
Former residents were:
Gilad Ben Ari (Greece) - shiatsu and dance
Marco Benozzi (UK) - video
Marie Chabert (UK) - dance and yoga
Camilla Crispino (Italy) - somatic research and education
Jean-Baptiste Fave (France) - video and sound
Eve Ganneau (France) - Feldenkrais and dance
Roberto Mancuso (Italy) - photography
Caterina Marzoli (Italy) - physiotherapy and Feldenkrais
Rosalind Masson (UK) - dance and choreography
Letizia Monea (Italy) - dance and yoga
An Paenhuysen ( Germany) - curating and writing
Cristina Pertoldi (Italy) - yoga and gong master
Eryn Rosenthal (USA) - investigative choreography and social practices
Paulina Ruiz Carballido (France/Mexico) - dance and choreography
Stéphane Kamesh Seckin (Germany) - qi gong and kung fu master
During some residencies a book came about:
Residency, July 2021
“Una vita in vacanza” (a dream by Rob in I cassetti)
It is always nice to have a container for thoughts and ideas and dreams. This container can be a notebook, but it can also be a box. For example, the time capsules of Andy Warhol. In the archive of the Minisini Pharmacy An Paenhuysen and Giorgia Minisini found some old drawers that date back to the 1930s: i cassetti. We cleaned and restored them, decorating their interior with some laminated colours. We then took photos of each box and created the booklets in July 2021. The friendship books are given to guests who are invited to fill a box with a dream.
Residency, September 2020
“The apartment was like a dress. It was part of her character.”
A visual story on Iole Gobitti Minisini (1917 - 2013) and her apartment came about in September 2020. It was written by her granddaughter Giorgia Minisini and visiting resident An Paenhuysen to commemorate Iole and celebrate the location of G.G.A. Minisini Residency in Iole's Apt #1, Largo Boiani 15, 33043 Cividale del Friuli. The stories are based on interviews conducted by Giorgia and An with family members, staff and friends of Iole. The book is printed in a limited edition of 30 copies.
Residency, September 2019
“Make a poem in the landscape by the use of your body.”
During the residency at the G.G.A. Minisini Residency in Cividale del Friuli in September 2019 two dancers, Eve Ganneau and Giorgia Minisini, and a writer, An Paenhuysen, met. They conceptualised exercises in which writing and dancing meet. These are documented in a publication Residency with a Schedule. A Creative Holiday for Dancers and Writers.