MARLANDS - MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS CONTEMPORARY ART BIENNALE. « I LANDED » exhibition view.

About “I Landed”.

I Landed is an exhibition dedicated to the natural and cultural heritage of the Meditarenean Islands. The exhibition was simultaneously held on four different islands in local major art institutions. The purpose of “I Landed” is to raise awareness of the ecological issues the islands are facing, and to show the uniqueness of each location trough the artists eyes.

EXLORING THE ISLANDS.

MARLANDS resident artists Olga Sabko, Max Fouchy, Edgar Sarin, Lucy Orta, and Klitsa Antoniou flew to the islands to develop their artwork prototypes. Their creative processes have begun with cultural and environmental immersion in each of the islands. This immersion has offered them the possibility of getting in contact with local cultural arts artists, that have introduced them to some of the materials and techniques they will use in their work.

The cultural identity of the Mediterranean islands in the emerging art projects. MARLANDS.

The development of the art projects goes on. The artists are improving their research by exchanging ideas with the curators, scientists, craftsmen and artisans to uncover the uniqueness of their targeted island, to understand and reflect on the incomparable cultural identity of that island.

Science and Art together across the Mediterranean. MARLANDS's artistic residency has started!

We are delighted to share insights and experiences from the hybrid MARLANDS art residency that took place last week. The first part of the residence was based on a series of online meetings. To deepen their research and improve their proposals, our selected artists, under careful coordination of the curators Elena Posokhova, @elena_maritima Mariagrazia Pontorno, @mariagraziapontorno and Vince Briffa @vincebriffa met representatives from our partner institutions, local artisans and international scientists.

Maritima program of video art at Es Baluard Museum, 1-2 of July 2021.

Since 2019 Maritima 01, contemporary art project, promoting the protection of the Mediterranean to raise public awareness of the environmental challenges affecting the Mediterranean sea.

Elena Posokhova, curator of Maritima01 project and festival program:
"We believe that the most profound we can dive into this topic by connecting artists working together with scientists, to make collaborative projects that draw general public attention to the environmental issues, such as climate change or marine biodiversity extinction. In coming months we will present artists and scientists with their words about the artistic projects that resulted from their collaboration within the framework of the artistic residency of Maritima01.

Interview with Kalie Granier.

Since childhood, I had a very close connection with nature. I grew up close to the Mediterranean Sea. This close bond nurtured my work when I moved to Paris and I often referred to it through my paintings.

For the past few years, I have been living in California near the ocean, redwood forests, and majestic nature. I got inspired by a renewed vision on plants and especially on those growing under the sea level

Maritima01 brings together environmental scientists and contemporary artists in an online residence.

Despite the obstacles caused by the COVID19 pandemic, the organization of the Marítima01 artistic project has managed to launch an online art residency over the past two weeks where contemporary creators and scientists have gathered.
Between June 2 and 15, through the digital tools Zoom and Facebook Time, a group of 10 international artists were able to ask questions about their future video art and photography projects to leading researchers of the flora and fauna of the Mediterranean Sea.

Maritima01 Art&Science Residency, research stage.Week 1 review.

A week already since Martima01's residency has started!

We wanted to share with you this exciting period of discoveries and exchanges between scientists and artists in residence.

What did we learn?
Scientists from Unidad de Zoología Marina Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva Universitat de València raised awareness about plastic impact on sea turtles disappearing.

Interview with Ana Matey

¿Cual es la idea fundamental en tu proceso creativo/investigación? ¿Cómo has llegado hasta ella?

Mi interés fundamental nace del anhelo de entender cómo nos relacionamos, tanto a nivel social como con el medio natural. En mi obra he ido investigando dicha relación a través de distintas propuestas que siempre buscan relacionar y experimentar.

Art, Ecology and Science Unite in Maritima01 Project.

Maritima01 project, with main events to be hosted in the City of Valencia (dates to be confirmed with respect to the end of the lockdown), will be launched this June and will provide a unique experience to its participants through a series of online meetings between artists and scientists.

The project aims to highlight the current Mediterranean region state and leverage the image of Valencia as a city concerned with ecology, sustainability, care for the environment and the Mediterranean Sea in the framework of conversation between scientists and artists.

Our planet is facing a massive extinction once again, but for the first time we realize it.

Mara G. Haseltine (USA, France) is an international artist who works in different media such as large scale sculpture, video, installation, photo, drawing. She is a pioneer in the field of SciArt, and an env1ironmental activist and educator. She frequently collaborates with scientists and engineers to create work that addresses the link to between our cultural and biological evolution. Her work takes place in the studio lab and field infusing scientific inquiry with poetry.

"An artist may visualize things that science actualizes decades later". Mariagrazia Pontorno

The seabed of the Mediterranean is scattered with ancient wrecks. The Mediterraneum is an underwater museum, from which ancient relics continue to emerge. Guardian of our civilization, a meeting point of three continents, a crossroads of culture, dialogue, and human growth, in recent decades it has sadly turned into a cemetery and a landfill.

"El arte y la ciencia siempre han sido enemigas del confort". Entrevista a Fermín Jiménez Landa.

Fermín Jiménez Landa parte de lenguajes diversos– dibujo, fotografía, instalación o vídeo – para indagar en planteamientos cotidianos que extrae de las rutinas diarias del espacio público y social, básicamente la calle e Internet. Un ilusionismo eufórico carente de todo poder que, desde el uso productivo del absurdo, la precariedad entusiasta (que no ingenua) y la superación de lo normativo, plantea una obra definida por un conceptualismo descreído y bromista que centra su atención en la capacidad de incidencia micropolítica del arte.

Jellyfish in Art Work

Ustina Yakovleva, one of the most demanded young Russian artists, talks about her new projects and tells how the quarantine has changed her life for the better. Based on interiew for www.theartnewspaper.ru

They Will Be Only Survivors...

Svetlana Grishina was born in Belarus in 1989. In 2004 she moved to London and started studying at Hampstead College of Fine Arts where her final GCSE mark was confirmed as one of the top ten results in the UK. In 2011 she graduated from Oxford University, Ruskin School of Fine Art and 2017 she got a Masters Degree from the same institution. Svetlana took part in many art projects, mainly in the UK and Russia, but also in Italy and Spain.

Lost Ecosystems

Michael Wang (b. 1981) lives and works in New York. His practice uses systems that operate at a global scale as media for art, addressing climate change, species distribution, resource allocation and the global economy. Wang's work was the subject of solo exhibitions at LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island, New York, US (curated by Swiss Institute, 2019) and at the Fondazione Prada, Milan, IT (2017), and was included in Manifesta 12 in Palermo, IT (2018) and the XX Bienal de Arquitectura y Urbanismo in Valparaíso, CL (2017).

In 2017, he was a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant.

New Alliances with the Ecosystems

Andrea Conte, in art Andreco, is a visual artist with a PhD in Environmental Engineering. His post-doctoral research - a collaboration with the School of Engineering at the University of Bologna and Columbia University in New York City, was focused on Nature Based Solutions and green technologies for sustainable resource management in different climates. His artistic research is focused on the relationship between humans and ecosystems, between the built environment and the landscape.