Davide Ghelli Santuliana

artistiek onderzoek - performance - geluid - audiovisueel - film

Davide Ghelli Santuliana is an artistic researcher working with sound, moving images, storytelling and performance. He carries out his musical practice under the moniker KTONIOS. He researches the musical tradition of Southern Italy, its magic-ritualistic roots and its revival from the 1970s as a tool of resistance and cultural emancipation. His previous research investigated the cultural hegemony of (late) capitalism, which is the basis of economic, environmental and individual exploitation.


Sediments

Performance

  • 28-05-2023 t/m 28-05-2023
  • Locatie: Paviljoen aan het Water, Rotterdam
  • I was invited to perform in the context of the residency project "Sediments" on the closing 24h event. Here I performed a "technotammurriata", where Southern Italian traditional music that echoes influences from North Africa and the Middle East, among others, is mixed with minimal techno in an intimate ritualistic performance.
  • https://sediments.hotglue.me

The Last Cigarette Before The End of The World

Performance

  • 25-02-2023 t/m 25-02-2023
  • In samenwerking met: Mel Chan
  • Locatie: Galerie Franzis Engels, Amsterdam

Sensory Threshold Lab 2022: Holy Grid!

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 12-08-2022 t/m 23-09-2022
  • Locatie: Billytown, Den Haag
  • ST LAB 2022 : HOLY GRID! takes place from August 12th to September 23rd at Billytown The Gallery in The Hague and simultaneously at Sala de Espera in Tijuana Baja California, Mexico. This is not a curated show but an experiment. In total 18 artists and cultural professionals are working at the two artist run initiatives about 9000 km apart. I have been invited to show and re-invent my project MERZ for the Sensory Threshold Lab 2022.
  • https://artviewer.org/sensory-threshold-lab-2022-holy-grid-at-billytown-and-sala-de-espera/

New Current, Rotterdam Art Week 2022

Performance

  • 17-05-2022 t/m 22-05-2022
  • In samenwerking met: Daphnis Monastirioti
  • Locatie: The New Current, Rotterdam
  • A performance and collaboration with the artist Daphnis Monastirioti; in the context of their sculptural work, I presented an electronic music composition based on samples of hard drive sounds.
  • https://www.thenewcurrent.org/rotterdam-art-week-2022

My goals are bigger than yours

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 12-03-2022 t/m 28-05-2022
  • In samenwerking met: Valentino Russo, Cathleen Owens, Carmen Dusmet Carrasco & Arthur Cordier
  • Locatie: Cas-co, Leuven
  • The exhibition project ​“My Goals Are Bigger Than Yours” wants to analyze the consequences of neoliberal policies on the individuals, and especially on the so-called ​“creatives”, meaning the broad range of (mostly) freelance workers operating in the fields or art and design. For this exhibition, I presented my artistic research project "MERZ".
  • https://cas-co.be/kunstenaars/davide-ghelli-santuliana-valentino-russo-cathleen-owens-arthur-cordier-carmen-dusmet-carrasco

Art Au Centre #4

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 08-10-2020 t/m 31-12-2022
  • Locatie: , Liege
  • I was selected to be part of the 4th edition of Art Au Center in Liege (BE) with my series "Nude Interiors". The work was shown in the showcase of a former café in the city center.
  • https://artaucentre.be/en/vitrine/nude-interiors/

KABK Graduation Show

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • Locatie: KABK, Den Haag
  • For my graduation work "Wunderkammer", produced in the context of the Master in Artistic Research, I presented my work as a fictional alter-ego called Andrea Pascal. The fiction extended well into the website of the graduation show, where instead of me, it is possible to find Andrea Pascal, whose picture is a reference to Luther Blissett, a fictional character used by a collective of artists and writers in the 90s.
  • https://graduation.kabk.nl/2020/andrea-pascal

Contamination and maybe even more

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 14-09-2019 t/m 29-09-2019
  • Locatie: Fonderia 20.9, Verona
  • “Contamination and maybe even more” is a research-based project between the gallery Fonderia 20.9 in Verona and the artist-initiative The Balcony in The Hague. The project includes a residency and an exhibition. The residency—initiated and organized by artist Davide Ghelli Santuliana, with the help of Arthur Cordier and Valentino Russo from The Balcony, is intended as a collaboration with Flaviu Cacoveanu & Cathleen Owens.
  • https://thebalconythehague.com/Contamination-Exhibition

Erkenningen

    Stipendium
  • Cas-co Leuven

  • 2022
    Stipendium
  • Fonds Kwadraat

  • 2023
    Publicatie
  • Art Au Centre 2019-2021 Catalog

  • 2022
  • Catalog
  • Editions du Caïd -
    Publicatie
  • Spread Mag n.4

  • 2021
  • Magazine
  • - Article on my work
    Publicatie
  • Trance Zine N.3

  • 2021
  • Magazine
  • self-publishing - Poem-short story by Davide Ghelli Santuliana