not so recent
a disturbance that travels trough space and time
Votivkino , Wien 2014
The work A Disturbance That Travels Through Space And Time is an ongoing performance based on delivering instructions at venues where big gathering of people are expected (cinemas, theaters,ecc). The instructions invite to create human waves of different petterns as a reference to the idea of collective, mass movement, and how to convert a common will by the use of the own body.
What happens to the idea of choreography when carried over into the realm of everyday-life? What is a collective body and how does it move? What kind of temporary community is embodied by the audience? How can the political and social dimension, implicit in the concept of collectivity, be translated and practiced in an artistic form? A disturbance that travels trough space and time deals with such question redefining in a given space the lines between active participation and neutral stance , individuality and and collectivity, movement and still.
 also see: http://www.aldogiannotti.com/?p=941
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a straight line trought the planet
taxi driver
Site-specific intervention for the Triennale Linz 01. 2010
Inspired by Martin Scorsese’s classic film, a taxi driver from Linz is paid to have his hair shaved into a Mohawk. He goes about his daily work with this altered appearance. For the driver, talking with his passengers about his hair style, the film or the art project is neither prohibited nor expected. Cards are simply available in the taxi that indicate the concept and the exhibition, in which a large-format picture of the shaven-headed taxi driver hangs. In the film, the taxi driver played by Robert De Niro runs into social injustice in the metropolis of New York, which he opposes – through his rebellious appearance, among other things. The real Linz Taxi Driver will evoke associations with the film figure by his appearance on the one hand, but on the other will also draw attention to social contrasts. Personal encounters between people in the social fabric of a city are intensified and become part of an art work.
(Nina Kirsch)
Buchen Sie Ihre persönliche Kunst-Fahrt: Taxilenker Gerald Hofer, T: 0681/20406963 / Taxiunternehmen A. SchwaigerAldo Giannotti, »Taxi Driver«, 2010 © Fotosammlung Filmmuseum Wien»TAXI DRIVER« © 1976, renewed 2004 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of Columbia Pictures
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constant sun
Performance and documentation. 2010
During winter of 2010 for one month, in concomitance with an exhibition in a Viennese gallery, I traveled around Europe, following the directions given by a team of the center for meteorology for Austria (ZAMG), as partners of the Project. They daily predicted the locations in Europe, within a range of max. 500 Km from my current position, where most hours of sunshine were expected. In this way I was able to follow the sun and constantly be under it. My route was daily communicated also to the gallery, where on a map of Europe they lined out the travel. Leaving at the Vernissage and returning 8000 Km later to the Finissage the project was completed.constant sun route: Wien-Györ-Budapest-Ljubljana-Rosenheim-Frankfurt-Leuven-Paris-Marseille-Nice-Pisa-Venice-Karlobag-Keszthely-Prag-Dresden-Wroclaw-Wien
photos: Aldo Giannotti, Pablo Chiereghin, Coralie De Gonzaga
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a project in collaboration with ZAMG and Galerie Robert Kastowsky
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Site-specific intervention in Forum Stadtpark
in the frame of the exhibition plateau-raum für zwei. with tomaž kramberger
december 2009with the kind contribuition of cesare pietroiusti
me and tomaž kramberger where invited to realize a double show at the forum stadtpark in graz/we decided to realized something specific for the space/so many ideas started to emerge, so we decided not to choose one idea over another but simply continue this process until the opening/after two months all the potential ideas where published in a book (which is by itself one of the ideas for the show) and presented it at the opening/during the vernisage and troughout the whole exhibition several of this projects where realized, partly by us, partly by the visitors and the institutions team.
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The chase
Performance in Graz, august 2009
Documentation: framed océ lightjet prints on dibond, 130 x 95 cm, 2009Two People where hired to continuously and alternately chase each other in business suits.
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Forever bounded
Installative performance
belt strap, opening guest.
+framed drawings
18×24cm-
Vis-á-vis
2 framed oce lightjet prints on dibond
170 x 130 cm
2008(1) The Artists perform as Swiss guards in front of the Church Jesus the savior in Moscow.
(2) The Artists perform as Russian soldiers in front of the St. Peters basilica in Rome.in collaboration with Stefano Giuriati
photography: Gianmaria Gava-
untitled
DVD PAL 5:00 min
2008in collaboration with: Lucas Cuturi, Georg Eckmayr, Wendelin Pressl, Lea Titz
camera: Nina Dick, Johannes Kubin-
Italian square
installative performance
plywood, italian citizens /mp3-player, sound boxes
200x200x20 cm
Italian citizens living (mostly) in vienna where ask to remain on the wooden pedestal, set in the middle of an exibition space. Eventualy the italians got to know each other and became (during the 3 hour of performance) lauder and lauder, comming up to there own stereotype.
photos: Gianmaria Gava & Fabrizio de Pasquale
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Three influential people from the Viennese art scene were paid by me to speak highly of this exhibition for its entire duration
collaborative performance
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The luxury of resistance
installation with 6 heaters
44x36x29 cm each
2008Six industrial heaters were running constantly over six months in a closed, but acassible room. Challenging the visitors physical resistance.
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Coffee Bolognese – contro il logorio della vita moderna
DVD PAL 4:10 min
2007in collaboration with Markus Hofer
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A love story
DVD PAL 7:00 min
2007by Giannotti&Giuriati
camera & postproduction: Viktor Schaider
music & sound: Xander Zimmermann-
Carabinieri – stazione mobile III
performance by Giannotti&Giuriati around Krtrijk/Belgium, july 2007
Two Italian Carabinieri crossing borders and operating out of there home country
Photos: Viktor Schaider
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An angle of 180 degrees is a straight line or half a circle
framed océ lightjet print on dibond
170 x 127 cm
2007Portrait of the artist’s mother hanging upside-down
photography: Gianmaria Gava
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Self-portrait with black telephone
interactive installation
telephone & table
40 x 40 x 100 cm
2007By pressing the button with the label “MOMâ€, the visitor is calling the artist’s mother, who is willing to give information on her sons history.
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Few steps towards redemption
15 framed oce lightjet prints on pvc
40 x 30 cm each
2007photography: Gianmaria Gava
published in DATUM 02/2008
www.datum.at-
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Carabinieri – stazione mobile
Two Italian Carabinieri crossing borders and operating out of there home country
performance in Munich, october 2006
also 5 digital c-prints on aluminium
60x60 and 50x60 cm
2006in collaboration with Stefano Giuriati
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