Bad at Love - Phase One of Bad Investments (Love in Neoliberal times)
Project
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01-01-2024 t/m 14-03-2024
- In samenwerking met: Paviljoen aan het Water; HumDrumPress
- Locatie: online; radio WORM; Paviljoen aan het Water, Rotterdam
- The project was an intimate exploration of my personal struggles with love and relationships, but it also aimed to address questions about the commodification of love and its political repercussions. It culminated in a performance at Paviljoen-aan-het-Water, with Luke Deane as co-performer and Amy Gowan as wrangler. It was largely improvised: we conceived it as an “open book/open album,” an opening up the artistic process since its early stages.
- https://www.instagram.com/p/C4LTX3Aopob/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
A Conversation on Love
Overig
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01-03-2024 t/m 01-03-2024
- In samenwerking met: Radio WORM
- Locatie: Radio WORM, Rotterdam
- In this episode we tried to tackle a sticky topic: love! We rambled a lot, from romantic love to politics, from bad exes to spirituality and art. There will definitely be a Part Two! Some of the people we mentioned/songs we listened to: Byung-Chul Hang, John O'Donohue, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Bini Adamczak, Vacation from Love (Michelle Gurevich), Slurf Song (Michael Hurley, The Unholy Modal Rounders, and Jeffrey Frederick & The Clamtones).
- https://www.mixcloud.com/valentina-vella2/art-is-dead-long-live-art-on-love/
Zo doe je dat
Performance
Performance at Party Party - DAI Fundraiser for non-EU students
Performance
Netherworld at an other world
Performance
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30-09-2023 t/m 30-09-2023
- In samenwerking met: an other world, CBK
- Locatie: an other world, Rotterdam
- The first full live performance of Netherworld, an album of sonic poetry about personal and planetary crises set to electronic music. Weaving together the literary and the utterly mundane, it is brutally funny and often danceable.
- https://anotherworldproject.space/Netherworld_Valentina_Vella
performance at Vrooom
Performance
ART IS DEAD - LONG LIVE ART notes towards a post-capitalist art practice (RADIO SHOW)
Project
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24-03-2023 t/m 22-03-2024
- In samenwerking met: radio WORM
- Locatie: WORM, Rotterdam
- The current art system is broken. It creates artificial scarcity, exhaustion, anxiety, needless competition. How do we make good art while taking care of ourselves and each other? How do we set the old model on fire and build something new? Valentina doesn't have the answers (yet?) but she will be exploring these questions with the help of many books and friends in her (monthly) radio show. There will also be sounds/music!
- https://www.mixcloud.com/dashboard/my-shows/published/
LIVE: Kunstinstituut Melly and Amarte Foundation in Concert
Performance
Rehearsing Change | Fostering a culture of radical self-care
Workshop
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25-10-2022 t/m 25-10-2023
- In samenwerking met: Baltan Laboratories
- Locatie: Baltan Laboratories, EIndhoven
- In a complex, profoundly unequal and ecologically imperiled world, most of us don't feel at ease. In this workshop I guided participants through somatic exercises based on the Polyvagal Theory and my own embodied artistic practice that gave them a taste of what is possible when we work with and not against the needs of the body and the nervous system.
- https://www.baltanlaboratories.org/events/rehearsing-change
Netherworld - album launch
Tentoonstelling / presentatie
Netherworld
Tentoonstelling / presentatie
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13-07-2021 t/m 15-07-2021
- In samenwerking met: Zurich University of the Arts
- Locatie: Switzerland, Zurich
- An installation comprising photos and a sound album. Netherworld is composed of spoken word recordings and sound pieces about failure, depression, involuntary nomadism and the pathologizing of perfectly normal emotional responses to the social and ecological crises we are facing. It achieves epic levels of mundanity and it will make you feel uncomfortable about the state of the world but your body will want to dance to it.
Coming Suddenly, Passing Strangely
Tentoonstelling / presentatie
Urbi et Orbi
Tentoonstelling / presentatie
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21-04-2020 t/m 21-04-2021
- In samenwerking met: Archipel Community Radio/Berlin Potsdam
- Locatie: online, Berlin
- my piece Urbi et Orbi was broadcasted during Rava Vavàra, a radio show by Eva Macali
- https://ravavavara.art/episode21
Cognitive Capitalism, an Open Letter to the Invisible Committee
Tentoonstelling / presentatie
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01-08-2018 t/m 31-08-2018
- Locatie: Magasin Géneral, Tarnac
- exhibition of texts and artworks made during the Saas-Fee 2018 Summer Institute of Art | Berlin
Dark Matter
Overig
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02-07-2015 t/m 05-07-2015
- In samenwerking met: PORT
- Locatie: Antenna and PORT, New Orleans
- practices. In 2015 I led creative workshops during the micro-residency program Dark Matter, which I developed with Pamala Bishop and Jay Murphy in New Orleans. We embraced the principles outlined by Erin Manning and Brian Massumi in Thought in the Act (which explores the intimate, embodied connections between thinking and creative practice). I worked with thirty American artists during three days of experimentation, exhibition, play and rest.
A Ride West (hybrid memoir)
Project
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01-12-2016 t/m 30-11-2017
- Locatie: , Rome
- I worked on a hybrid memoir based on A Ride West
A Ride West Live
Performance
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09-01-2015 t/m 11-01-2015
- In samenwerking met: Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago and Links Hall Chicago
- Locatie: Links Hall, Chicago
- A theatrical performance based on the film A Ride West written and performed by Valentina Vella; featuring a live band (Nathan Paulus, Sharon Hoyer and Josh Miller from the I Ching Quartet and Daniel Schneider from The Singleman Affair) and live video editing and processing by Michael LaHood. Sound design by Alex Drosen. Lighting by Chelsey Shilling.
Desire(d)
Performance
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09-09-2015 t/m 09-09-2015
- In samenwerking met: Industry of the Ordinary
- Locatie: Mana Contemporary, Chicago
- performance event during which I presented Dirge Circuit
- https://vimeo.com/107173381
You Are Not Your - performance by Caleb Yono
Performance
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01-07-2015 t/m 01-07-2021
- In samenwerking met: Terrain Biennial
- Locatie: Terrain Biennial, Oak Park (IL)
- I performed in a collaborative piece by Caleb Yono
The Imaginary Center of Perception
Performance
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01-05-2015 t/m 01-05-2015
- Locatie: Gallery 400, Chicago (IL)
- I participated as performer and collaborator in a performance by Kirsten Leenars about police violence
Notes on Empty Chairs (1, 2, 3) - performances by Kirsten Leenaars
Performance
A Ride West
Project
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01-10-2012 t/m 14-05-2014
- In samenwerking met: Columbia College Chicago
- Locatie: , Chicago
- An experimental film on love, fear, desire and the violent, masculine American myths of conquest and self-reliance. The projected started as a durational performance (riding a horse across America in the summer 2013) and culminated in a video installation presented at The Center for Book & Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago in May 2014.
- https://vimeo.com/93747729
Erkenningen
Stipendium
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Praktijk Bijdrage CBK for Netherworld performance
- 2023
Stipendium
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College Art Association (Professional development Fellowship)
- 2014
Stipendium
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Columbia College Chicago (Graduate Fellowship)
- 2013
Stipendium
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Foundation ICU art projects - Artistic Development Grant
- 2024
Stipendium
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CBK Praktijkbijdrage for Bad Investments - Phase One
- 2023
Publicatie
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From “Our House is On Fire” To Climate Justice Code Burnout
- 2020
- article written for March: A Journal of Art and Strategy
- The Luminary - St. Louis (MO) - Valentina Vella
Publicatie
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Christmas Dinner
- 2021
- poem written for the journal "Magiun"
- Alice Strete and Simon Browne -
Publicatie
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Elephants in the Room at Casco Art Institute
- 2019
- article written for Temporary Art Review
- Temporary Art Review -
Publicatie
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A Ride West excerpts in Secret Life
- 2015
- poem
- A Quiet Spell publications - Montréal, QB (Canada) Una -
Publicatie
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Una Lady nel West
- 2013
- non-fiction writing
- The Trip (travel and culture magazine) -
