NO TIME FOR HEROES: Polish - Czech – Italian project

No Time For Heroes conects three european cities: Kladno-Prague, Naples, Gdańsk. Still there is the problem of waterfront privatization and global consumption of water, and it is stimulating the analysis on the adaptation of waterways as a means of transport and communication.

The partner´s of project No Time For Heroes are: the Italian cultural association MEMENEST Associazione Culturale in Neaples (www.napoliest.it). The project is supported by the Visegrad International Fund, a program of the Visegrad Artist Residency Programme – VARP (Krzysztof Topolski's residency).

The exhibition No Time For Heroes will be also presented during the 6th International Biennial Vestiges of Industry 2011 (Prague-Kladno)

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NAPLES

italian city is divided into two parts. The East is a poor districts, where in the 80's were built huge factories that have been abandoned over a decade. The west area of Naples is totally different. There luxury villas overlooking the sea have been built, near the famous park of Virgil and the island of Capri. The Italian part of the project will be concentrated on the East and also on the West side of Naples.

DANILO CAPASSO

lives and works in Naples. He is Architect, Designer, Artist, Curator.He spents the last six years researching relations among art, public space and urban transformations. Photography, urban installations, internet and design are the privileged media in his artistic production. His last artwork in urban space is Portoallegro Bank marina, in the framework of the show Urbanism 2009 (Liverpool, UK), financed with a residency of European Biennial Network Residency Program (www.biennial.com).

CHRISTIAN COSTA

was born in Warsaw, Poland. I live in Naples, Italy and in Warsaw. I explored the world of art living in many different European cities as Wien, Milan, Rome, London. In 2002 I founded with them the container collective, an artistic group and a visual design studio. From 2002 to 2006 I had about twenty exhibitions under the name container.My preferred techniques are installation, video and performance, often focused on sound (sound art, sound installations).

The idea of ‘place’ is my medium. Identities connected to places, the way they are perceived by the people living there and by the people coming from the outside. The mutual relationship between identity/memory and physical space. The consequencies socio-economic processes have on cultural perception of space.

SUSANNA HORVATOVIČOVA

Curator and art critic, I was born in the formal Czechoslovakia and I live and work between Rome and Prague. In 2005 I worked in Prague Biennale 2 like a co-responsible of staff and PR. I participated in the International Art Fair Shangai 2006 in China and later I worked in Art Basel Miami Beach 2006 in USA as a responsible of Crudelia? magazine stand. Next I volunteered to participate in the preparation of the exhibition in the Czech and Slovak pavilion on Biennale di Architettura 2006 and a year later on Biennale di Venezia 2007. Moreover, from some years, I cooperate with Czech Center in Rome where I carried out an artistic project focused on the collaboration between the Italian and the Czech artists.