The Performance Art of Francesca Fini
Francesca Fini:
Video artist, live media and body art performer.
Trained as a digital
artist, she has
worked as a filmmaker
for TV and independent
and experimental
productions. As
an independent documentarist
she wrote and directed
documentaries about
female transgenderism
and human cryonics.
(All distributed
by On The Docks.)
In 2000 she met
the American artist,
Kristin Jones, and
they collaborated
on the “Tevereterno”
(Eternal Tiber)
project, creating
multimedia installations
for the City of
Rome. Included in
the project was
“Trilogy”, for the
Natale di Roma (Birth
of Rome) 2009 celebration
at the Capitoline
Museum and “Solstizio
d'Estate” (Summer
Solstice) which,
with its monumental
giant images of
the She-wolf created
by removing part
of the smog stain
from the embankment
walls of the Tiber
River. This installation
was called one of
the most original
works of urban art
ever created in
Rome.In 2008, she participated,
with Kristin Jones,
Kiki Smith and others,
in the River-to-River
Festival in New
York, projecting
her animation, “Moon
Loop” onto the trees
along the Hudson
River.
She
presently participates
as a video-artist,
live media performer
and body-artist
in numerous happenings
in art galleries,
museums and underground
sites, and participates
in festivals and
international events
such as the Videoholica
(Bulgaria); Experimental
Art Festival Biennale
Baltica (Russia);
LowLives (NY); Cologne
Off & New Media
Art Festival; Currents
Santa Fe’; Moves
- Movement on Screen
(UK); 700is Videoart
Festival (Iceland);
Genoa Film Festival;
Tribeca Underground;
Arcipelago Film
Festival; Portobello
Film festival (UK);
WRO New Media Art
Biennale (Poland);
Directors Lounge
(Berlin); and Contravision
Film Festival (Berlin).
In 2010 she was
one of the winners
at the Magmart Videoart
Festival (Video
Under Volcano),
with her CRY ME
vide
o performance.
In addition, two
of her works won
the on-line vote
in the Celeste Prize
section: “Live Media & Performance”.
Francesca has exhibited
at the “Invisible
Dog” gallery in
Brooklyn. In 2010
the Premio Termoli
selected her for
her digital painting
works by the Art
Shake Festival (exhibiting
at the Galleria
Mondo Bizzarro and
Hybrida Contemporanea,
in Rome, and immediately
after at the 91mQ
Art Project Space
in Berlin). Francesca
Fini was invited
by the Fondazione
RomaEuropa to present
her work at the
Teatro Palladium
in Rome, as part
of the videoart
exhibition, “Cantieri
Temps d'Images”.
She also directs
the “TEN” Performance
Art Festival, a
marathon of live
art whose first
edition took place
on October 9, 2010
at the Lanificio
159 in Rome.
In 2011 she participated at the Nappe dell'Arsenale in Venice as an absolute finalist in the Performance Art section of the Premio Arte Laguna; in Lisbon she performed in the “No Performance's Land?” exhibition; she was a guest artist of the WRO Art Center in Poland, for the WRO 2011, the noted Biennale devoted to New Media. In addition, in 2011 she presented her new performances at the Macro Contemporary Art Museum in Rome, on invitation by the ADD Festival; was an invited artist at the "Omissis Contemporary Performance Festival"; and later in 2011 she performed at the Macro Museum, with all her videoart pieces, for "Visioni Acustiche" videoart Festival.
Links:
sito: www.francescafini.com
blog: http://francescafini.tumblr.com/
video channel on
vimeo: http://vimeo.com/channels/francescafini
Above images from the video Blind (top), and Note-Off