TURIN 2012
MUSEO REGIONALE DI SCIENZE NATURALI

Hydromemories in Turin was curated by Irina Novarese and A.Titolo, in collaboration with the NGO CISV (Comunitá Impegno Servizio Volontariato) and the Berlin and Turin Engineers without Borders groups, with the aim of gathering funds for CISV's “Rouwa! Water Wells in Niger” program (a total of €655 was raised during the exhibition).

Invited artists:
Felipe Aguila, Silke Bauer & Viola Thiele, Jung-Ki Beak, Daniela Bozzetto, Sabine Delafon, Dominic Hislop, Cynthia Hooper, Zoltan Kunckel, Steve Mc Pherson, Isola & Norzi, Francesco Ozzola, Bhagwati Prasad, Alessandro Quaranta, Riiko Sakkinen, Kinya Shiraishi.

Hydromemories in Turin proposes images and visions of our time. In a space dedicated to research into the natural sciences, the invited artists for the Italian edition of 2012 sought to investigate and challenge themselves and the public to question present-day mythologies, and the meaning and function of water in the dramatic environmental context of these first decades of XXI century.

During the course of the exhibition, meetings with the artists, curators and operators from the CISV and Engineers without Borders were organized.

In collaboration with the PAV (Parco d'Arte Vivente, Turin), Hydromemories was invited to Artissima 19° Contemporary Art Fair, to the panel discussion: Anomalie di Gravitá – A Conversation About the Aesthetic of Climate moderated by Lisa Parola (A.Titolo) and Claudio Cravero (curator at Parco d'Arte Vivente) with the participation of Ettore Favini (artist), Heiko Hansen (artists duo He-He), Irina Novarese and the artists from the Hydromemories Project, Daniele Fazio (agronomist) and Michele Vaglio Iori (CISV).

Workshops for schools on the theme of virtual water, were held by the Associazione ambientale Triciclo.

Partners:
Regione Piemonte
Regional Museum of Natural Sciences, Turin
Goethe-Institut Turin
Korea Arts Council
Artissima 2012, Turin
CISV – Comunitá Impegno Servizio Volontariato, Turin
Engineers Without Borders, Berlin
Engineers Without Borders, Turin
Associazione Ambientale Triciclo, Turin
Institute for Art in Context, UdK, Berlin
A.Titolo - Contemporary Art Projects, Turin