VVV-R + PANORAMICA / Video-Art Exhibition

Video Art Exhibition
March 18, 2025
From 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
At SuperOtium
via Santa Teresa degli Scalzi, 8 – 80135 Naples

SuperOtium (art residency space & boutique hotel) will host the VVV-R residency and video production project alongside the Panoramica*24 selection of Italian video art.

Artists Lara Zimmern, Maria Aoyama, and Will Sibley are in residence for VVV-R 2025, a project by VisualcontainerTv and Ex-Voto [Radical Public Culture], commissioned by Arts University Bournemouth and curated by Alessandra Arno and Simona Da Pozzo. Through conversations and online research, the three artists are creating new found-footage video works, which will be screened on March 18 at SuperOtium, along with the 2024 selection of Panoramica*.

PANORAMICA*24 // SUSPENDED DIALOGUES
Artists: Isobel Blank, Alessandra Caccia, Matteo Campulla, Eleonora Cutini, Silvia De Gennaro, Paolo Ferrari/C999, Eleonora Roaro, Duccio Ricciardelli & Marco Bartolini, Giulia Savorani
Narration and memory emerge as key themes in the research of the nine artists selected for the fourth edition of Panoramica*24.
The need to capture a memory, a thought, or to re-perform the past represents, for these artists, an intimate moment of dialogue—at times a suspended soliloquy between real contingencies and an amniotic unconscious that blurs the boundaries between reality and mental space, analog and digital worlds, and the visual and performative dimensions.

This event is part of SuperOtium’s cultural program, curated by Nicola Ciancio, and aligns with this season’s theme, Ricami—a metaphor for the delicate and intricate traces left behind after a journey or an encounter.

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VVV Residency aims to be a virtual space for critical reflection and a moment of production for video art.
The residency focuses on video-trouvé as a means of looking at one’s own research through the eyes of others: a theme that needs to be addressed nowadays in order to explore how human interaction and the perception of reality are constantly glitching within the interfaces of the screen.
Five artists-in-residence engage with different digital tools: a blog, a webinar platform, digital and physical archives, and a streaming platform.
A specially dedicated online blog is the space where the artists intervene through posts sharing the work in progress of their work with other artists and tutors. It is a kind of shared diary of images that illuminates the visual link between the research.
The residency is aimed at creating video works that will be presented as part of the ongoing online exhibition streamed on VisualcontainerTv for one month.
VVV Residency is a project curated by VisualcontainerTv and Vegapunk and produced by Ex-Voto. They have been collaborating on various projects since 2014, both in the real and digital world.

PANORAMICA*, now in its fourth edition, selects the most original and significant video art works produced in Italy in 2024. The project aims to promote experimental audiovisual production and provide an up-to-date overview of urgent themes and ongoing artistic research.
The cultural objective of PANORAMICA* is to collect and share the most meaningful works with the public through exhibitions and screenings in both national and international circuits. The curated selection contributes to the ongoing research on Italian video art that Visualcontainer has been developing since 2008.

VisualcontainerTv International Videoart webchannel, edited by Alessandra Arnò, since 2009 presents video art projects and festivals curated by curators and festival directors, interviews and monographic programmes from all over the world. It is a renowned cultural project, aimed at video art lovers, students, curators and the general public, a place to find the best selection of video art for free and for cultural purposes. The project aims to disseminate the latest and freshest research in the video art scene under the care of visualcontainer and many other partners worldwide in a comprehensive overview.

Vegapunk is a space and time for sharing artistic practices run by artists. It is an extension of Simona Da Pozzo’s artistic practice into the domain of curating driven by extemporary curiosity. The focus is on artistic practice as an intellectual and physical process guided by dialogue (between people, formats, disciplines). Vegapunk tends to build collaborations with artists whose discourse extends beyond the artistic framework to include research related to the world, including in a social and political sense. The focus on the relationship between space and time, both in a physical and aesthetic sense, leads Vegapunk to favour time-based projects and to define Vegapunk as an artist-run-space-&-time. Vegapunk is a project born within the framework of the activities of Ex-Voto.

Ex-Voto realises complex projects focusing on active socialisation, co-creation and networking as tools for enhancing the activities and resources of the territory and communities. This is the case of Rooms’ Contest (a competition for inhabitants of shared flats that investigates the relationship between private and public space), the Non Riservato Talks (discussion tables between inhabitants, cultural operators and institutions) that give rise to Non Riservato (a network project with a productive vocation of realities that act in Milan’s public space in creative ways) the screening project Action Frame that anticipates the international video art residency project Camouflage, the talk Conversazioni Domestiche per Azioni Pubbliche (aimed at sharing practices where creativity becomes a tool for social transformation), as well as projects in the curatorial and artistic spheres such as Borderlight, Hacking Monuments, A New Hymn 4 New Neapolis, Glocary and others.

SuperOtium is a house in the heart of Naples, founded by Nicola Ciancio and Vincenzo Falcione, designed to welcome tourists, artists, travellers and creative people. It is a meeting place where artists’ residencies, meetings, exhibitions and thè receptive activity coexist, to inspire artists and creatives and question travellers’ assumptions, proposing new perspectives through which to look at the city. SuperOtium’s residency programme featured, among others, Kensuke Koike, Martina Merlini, Pierre-Antoine Vettorello, Pietro Gaglianò, Massimo Uberti, Hypereden, Bianca Felicori (Forgotten Architecture), Paz Ortùzar (in collaboration with the Cervantes Institute of Naples) Giovanna Silva (in collaboration with Lorenzo Xiques), Nuvola Ravera (in collaboration with Made in Cloister), Blase (in collaboration with ShowDesk), Yasser Almaamoun (in collaboration with the Goethe Institut), Khaled El Mays (in collaboration with Edit Napoli).