For reading purposes, I have divided the timeline in 3 main blocks (please, click on the images)
Period 2013-2016
Period 2016-2019
Period 2019-2021
Fundamentally, I will here explain the period 2019-2021, which is the one left.
It will comprise 3 big phases that will correspond each other, and occasionally overlap. Besides regular correspondence with my supervisors, I meet them personally or via videoconference on a bimonthly basis.
- Finalisation of the outputs of I’ll Find a Place for You, Virtual Tour, Martellata_14.09.91 along with a symposium
- Writing of expositions, three peer-reviewed articles, and doctoral summary
- Pre-examinations of components and doctoral defence
In detail, the completion of the doctoral degree will involve the following tasks, which are here arranged not by chronological order but by each of the different components. For a better understanding of the specificities of the projects, please consult the provided links in each case.
Project I’ll Find a place for You (5 months):
- Reviewing the video recordings of Manferri Live Concert and Chroma recording at Hangar.org
- Edition of two videos
- Presentation of the work at Fundació Antoni Tàpies. On the occasion of Loop Video Festival in November 2019
- Exposition at Research Catalogue in collaboration with researcher Lara Portolés-Argüelles, who already published a relational analysis about the project
- Pre-Examination of the exhibition and provided documents of the project
Virtual Tour project (6 months):
- Finalising the analysis of all compiled materials (videos, image and personal notes) at the Second Research Pavilion in Venice
- Conceptual organisation of the documents
- Upload of the contents in the web
- Reading of theory for references and dialogue within the field
- Peer-reviewed exposition in Ruukku: about virtual engagement with art and digital reproduction of exhibitions
- Edition of one video summarising the project; for presentations and conferences
- Development of an exhibition of Virtual Tour. With curator Marta Ramos-Yzquierdo for Loop Festival in Barcelona. November 2020
- Pre-examination of the web and the exhibition
- Presentations at paper calls and conferences
Martellata_14.09.91 project (14 months):
- Intensive course of Italian for improving the spoken language.
- Last phase of data gathering. Interviews to Piero Cannata (vandal), Tiziano Sanzi (testimony of the attack), guard at penitentiary psychiatric (where Piero Cannata was confined)
- Study of all documents and materials gathered during 2018-2019
- Collaboration with scientists Dr. Anu Kaakinen and researcher Katja Bohm. University of Helsinki, Department of Geosciences. Air Erosion Unit
- Coordination for the production of all artistic outputs. Agreements with all collaborators, professionals and providers.
- Work on some artistic parts: two sculptural experimentations, photographic series, and video
- Writing of the book, as a contribution to the theories of response and art history. Supervision of the text by Míriam Cano (writer and poet) and Michael Lawton (Doctor in Fine Arts, University of Kent. Specialized in fiction writing for artworks)
- Design, edition and printing with Mousse Publishing
- Exhibition and book presentations: Villa Romana in Florence, gallery àngels barcelona in Barcelona, (currently conversations for an exhibition in Helsinki)
- Pre-examination of all exhibition and outputs: two sculptural experimentations, photographic series, video and book
- Peer-reviewed exposition in JAR
- Presentations at paper calls and conferences
Symposium, December 2019:
It will take during a whole day, in relation to Martellata_14.09.91. The first keynote Dario Gamboni will approach theories of response and vandalism back to the “attack” to the David of Michelangelo. Fernando Dominguez Rubio, as second keynote, will address aspects of preservation of artworks while claiming attention to object-oriented methodology in field analysis. Local speakers in correspondence with the topics of the symposium will be also invited. If possible, I will submit a proposal for a KUVA Publication collecting and developing the discussions at the conference.
Written Part (ongoing):
- Exposition of A Specific Representation in Research Catalogue (in progress)
- Exposition of I’ll Find a Place for You in Research Catalogue. In collaboration with PhD candidate. Lara Portolés-Argüelles (UOC)
- Peer-reviewed article of Radically Emancipated in ANIAV
- Peer-reviewed article of Virtual Tour in Ruukku [mentioned above]
- Peer-reviewed exposition of Martellata_14.09.91 in JAR [mentioned above]
- Article of Martellata_14.09.91 in Tadeo Dearte (invited for Autumn 2019)
- A printed summarising chapter of circa 50 pages
Submission and defence (in September 2021):
- Pre-examination of all peer-reviewed articles after all artistic outputs will had been already examined
- Pre-examination of the summarising chapter
- Identification of the thesis and preparation of the summary.
- Distribution of the printed summarising chapter and its articles
- Press release and publicising of examination
Public examination and thesis evaluation