About+Program
James Bridle, Drone Shadow (2013 – on going), in occasion of the show “Preferire l’ombra”
curated by G. Pigliapoco & L. Gennati, 2019 (here a link on Mousse )
About and future Program
Cassata Drone founded (CDEA) in 2017 by g. olmo stuppia with project manager Chiara Bordin and curator Giovanni Rendina with a famous show “Cassata Drone” featuring Raqs Media Collective, MDR, Stefano Cagol. Nowdays, with a nomadic team the project iis redesigned into Cassata Drone Expanded Archive (CDEA). CDEA is a vision of Sicily and the Mediterranean as a media, art and cinema platform to strike and trigger military drone gaze distribution. We strike with actions, with culture dissemination and to spread Sicilianhood as form. As an independent platform, we produce content, exhibitions, interviews and experimental cinema aimed at Islands empowerment and diplomacy for Mediterranean vision of Italy and Eu commitment to freedom of speech and welfare.
HISTORY: SCULTPURE AS EXPANDED FIELD
The project is ongoing with actions, walks, radio podcasts and new exhibition productions after having produced Cassata Drone in 2018 with Raqs Media, MDR, Stefano Cagol, Désolé in 2019, Prefer the Shadow in 2019 (Fond. Sant’Elia), Archéologie du futur in 2019 (INHA Paris), and My Heart Has Seen Too Many Dawns in 2021 (Spazio Aita, Vucciria, Palermo). Soft Powers (Maca Alcamo, Basel, Montpellier, Paris) in 2022. Cassata Drone Expanded Archive is preparing to deliver “Homage to SANTA ROSALIA” 2023 with RTLX-Poush Paris, Antenna by Marthin Chramosta with Kunsthalle Basel.
Cassata Drone Expanded Archive is also a long-term performance by g. olmo stuppia. A nomadic box of free artistic actions and an independent space in a rationalist building from 1937 that was bombed on 8 March 1943 by the Royal Airforce and is now co-housed by the collective Il Pavone. Which is fully part of the project’s community in the infinite “ongoing process”. The flat housing this nomadic reality was inhabited by the urban planner Arch. Fabio Lombardo was also visited by Master Carlo Scarpa. It is located in the south wing on the top floor of Via Malta 21 in Palermo. Sun, Gaze triggering and vulcanos, “Panta rei”.
Nomadic program
2024
ANTENNA
3th of April – 4th of May
Solo Show by Marthin Chramosta founded by Kunsthalle Basel
Interviews on cinema
Milano Design Film Festival Interviews
Berlinale74 interviews at EFM Markets
2022-2023
Hommage Santa Rosalia with Rotolux and IF23 “l’Acchianata” with French Institute Contribution
Secret dérive eco walk program around archeology and drones compound to be part press@cassatadrone.org with a poetical letter against “decolonizing power ideas”
Sigonella Inn footage – film (on going process)
Riders on the Storm, installation at Museo Riso, PAW
SOFT POWERS on Artwort
13 June – 3 July 2022
Solo performance by g. olmo stuppia: a grotesque lyrique drone puppet (310x180x40cm) built during Party TV (streaming project by Andrea Masu) in Alcamo, co-produced with MACA Museum and then moved to Basel, Montpellier and Paris in an European Tour. In collaboration with Rotolux Clichy, Landscape Alcamo, Marcovaldo Paris.
Il MIO CUORE HA VISTO TROPPE ALBE
01 October – 05 November 2021 Palermo Art Weekend
Solo show by Pierre Clement, curated by g. olmo stuppia in collaboration with Spazio Aita and Poush Manifesto Paris
PREFERIRE L’OMBRA
25 September – 30 October 2019
Preferire l’ombra invades the urban landscape of Palermo with a show curated by Giacomo Pigliapoco and Luca Gennati and projects by James Bridle (Piazza Cassa di Risparmio – first outdoor intervention in Italy), Valentina Furian, Julius Neubronner, Il Pavone, Marco Strappato, Paolo Cirio. Via Malta 21 & Fondazione Sant’Elia – Loggiato di San Bartolomeo
http://moussemagazine.it/prefer-shadow-cassata-drone-expanded-archive-palermo-2019/
Désolé – Cassata Drone Expande Archive
curated by Izabela Anna Moren & Giuseppina Vara
From the 15th Dec. 2018 up to the 10 January 2019
Cassata Drone, that’s has become an expanded archive, presents Désolé, an exhibition by g. olmo stuppia with an intervention by Alterazioni Video in Palermo, in the penthouse of a historic building in Via Malta 21. The installation is the second exhibition of the research project Cassata Drone which has been investigating Sicily’s geopolitical situation with its strong connotation to the militarisation of the island for more than a year recently presented at MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, the nomadic archive is a reality in construction that is continuously enriched with contents and images from the direct exploration of the territory, ongoing theoretical studies, organised workshops (last La Sughereta – The Cork Oak, conducted by Andrea Masu) and the involvement of artists, scholars and researchers – http://moussemagazine.it/desole-cassata-drone-expanded-archive-palermo/
Cassata Drone
From 14th June to 5 October 2018
CDEA presented the “Cassata Drone” exhibition involving Raqs Media Collective, MDR (Maria D Rapicavoli) and Stefano Cagol.
Cassata Drone open to the public within a private house that, for the first time, opens itself to the public for free. Cassata Drone show was curated by Giovanni Rendina and conceived by g. olmo stuppia . The three artists will be interacting with one room each transforming them into three different immersive installations. Built-in the modern ascist style, the apartment is located at 21 Via Malta, 90133, Palermo, Sicily . The project was created to investigate the layers of the typical Palermo cake “Cassata Siciliana” and the presence of military drones (UCAV) in Sicily as its contemporary representation. http://myartguides.com/exhibitions/cassata-drone/
Nomadic Program
Soft Powers
13 June – 3 July 2022
Solo performance by g. olmo stuppia: a grotesque lyrique drone puppet (310x180x40cm) built during Party TV (streaming project by Andrea Masu) in Alcamo, co-produced with MACA Museum and then moved to Basel, Montpellier and Paris in an European Tour. In collaboration with Rotolux Clichy, Landscape Alcamo, Marcovaldo Paris.
29 June – 6 July 2021
a Deep Sicily walkscape workshop led by Andrea Masu (AlterazionI Video), Saverio Bonato and g. olmo stuppia with a tend base camp in Mazzatino (CT) countryside. With the support of IUAV University of Venice, Dep. Visual Art & Fashion.
CDEA is was running Dono, Cammino – Summer program 2019
Archéologie du Futur
13 – 27 November 2019
Archéologie du Futur INHA of Paris host CDEA for a solo performance and exhibition at Galerie Colbert, Paris France – curated by Anna Battiston, Lieu de l’Art, produced by INHA and Universitè Sorbonne Pantheon I
Dono Cammino
21 may to 30 sept. 2019
Residency Program Dono Cammino, with Mattia Pajè, Maria Luigia Gioffrè, Studio Calas, Annika Pettini and Giovanna Repetto, Loris Gentile and Greta Pasini with Michele Zanotti, Pamela Breda – Palermo @attic and @Fondazione Sant’Elia
Cassata Drone Expanded Archive at MACRO, Museum Of Contemporary Art of Rome
20 – 21 October 2018
https://www.museomacro.it/evento/cassata-drone feat. Corinne Mazzoli with “The Party Wall” performance –https://www.museomacro.it/evento/cassata-drone-expanded-archive
Serena Schioppa, Cassata Drone Expanded Archive & The Party Wall @MacroRoma, ATP Diary
03 – 09 October 2018, Niscemi (The Cork Oak Reserve, Sicily)
La Sughereta, international workshop by Andrea Masu (Alterazioni Video), in the Natural Reserve of Niscemi. Coordinators: Corinne Mazzoli, Giovanni Rendina, g. olmo stuppia
DOWNLOAD INFORMATION AND THE PROGRAM DAY BY DAY HERE:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7y3tpmmbqi7ygf4/AADN8UGfOPf2FLxBIPaRqiGia?dl=0
Guilded Tree performance
24 August 2018 (6 p.m. – 11.55 p.m.)
LOCUSART (Thale Fastvold and Tanja Thorjussen), will perform “Guilded Tree nr. 3 Palermo” at #cassatadronespace #viamalta21, doorbell Cassata Drone – 6th floor – Further information and Facebook event HERE.
The event is generously supported by OCA Norway
TBOE Manifesta 12 + Cassata Drone
12 June 2018
performance The Body Of Energy with Stefano Cagol at Piazza Borsa – powered by Innogy Cultural Stiftung and Provincia Autonoma di Trento with secondary Class student by Istituto Comprensivo Arenella
image © Locusart and Cassata Drone
TBOE – Palermo Piazza Borsa from Cassata Drone on Vimeo.
Cassata Drone – Un segno nel paesaggio siciliano workshop
04 May – 11 May 2018
Workshop with Istituto Comprensivo Arenella, tutoring with Vanessa Ambrosecchio, curated by g. olmo stuppia & Giovanni Rendina, special guest Corinne Mazzoli (visual artist), Palermo.
Please click here for Italian language workshop schedule.
TBOE – Palermo Piazza Borsa from Cassata Drone on Vimeo.
Cassata Drone, un segno nel paesaggio siciliano workshop
4.05.2018 – 11.05.2018
Workshop with Istituto Comprensivo Arenella, tutoring with Vanessa Ambrosecchio and curated by g. olmo stuppia & Giovanni Rendina, special guest Corinne Mazzoli (visual artist), Palermo. Please click here for Italian language workshop schedule.
The Party Wall (from Rio de Janeiro to Palermo with Corinne Mazzoli)
06 May 2018
The Party Wall is a performance by Corinne Mazzoli at Sigonella Nas 1 US Navy bridge (Catania, Sicily), designed during an international residency of five week at Casa Rio by the Venice based artist. The performance is born out from a reflection on the global phenomenon of urban fencification and the militarization of public security, with a focus on Rio de Janeiro. In Sigonella, where there is a military drone base, the artist adapted her work to the new context, creating a site specific performance.
Tintu è cu nun mancia a Cassata pi Pasqua – lecture + walkscape at ABAPA
27 April 2018
talk-lecture by Giovanni Rendina, Claudia di Gangi, g. olmo stuppia
at Academy of Fine Arts of Palermo, Aula Blu Cobalto, Claudia di Gangi, hosted by the Artist and Prof. Francesco de Grandi – image poster © Marco Casella
Tintu è cu nun mancia a Cassata pi Pasqua
27 March – 12 April 2018
Tintu cu un Mancia a Cassata Pi Pasqua, international workshop by foot from Sigonella to Palermo (253km) Partecipants: Claudia di Gangi, Giorgia Antonioli, Teresa Satta, Francesca della Seta, Maria Teresa Scarabello, Michele Rizzo. Walkscape leader: g. olmo stuppia. Organizers and curators: Giovanni Rendina and Chiara Bordin
Under the patronage of University IUAV of Venice, University of Architecture of Palermo, SDS of Siracusa (Catania)
http://www.residencyunlimited.org/organizations/cassata-drone/
Emotional situationist Sicilian map : F. della Seta; Teresa Satta
Performance Cassata Drone public launch Like the Sound of an Earthquake, Barrieracontemporanea
Like the sound of an Earthquake, Turin, Barrieracontemporanea, made possibile by Robe di Droni Torino
© Bianca Asmara Curti, 2018; Associazione Barriera, Torino
LIKE THE SOUND OF AN EARTHQUAKE – first performance cassatadrone from Cassata Drone on Vimeo.
© Bianca Asmara Curti, 2018; Associazione Barriera, Torino. .
LIKE THE SOUND OF AN EARTHQUAKE – first performance cassatadrone from Cassata Drone on Vimeo.
