Francesca Carol Rolla
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| Francesca Carol Rolla, ph Mauro Sambo |
Francesca Carol Rolla (Venice IT, 1986) is a performance art curator, writer, and PhD candidate in Visual Arts at the Doctoral School of Humanities of the University of Strasbourg (FR) with the thesis Letters to a Radical Performance Art Curator. Performing Urgencies through the Curatorial Praxis. Aligning the curatorial practice with a performative mode of research, and with the aims to set foundations for radical interaction and new terms of exchange, Rolla explores new contemporary approaches, formats, methodologies and displays to the artistic creation and reflection. There, the meaning and value for a more ethical, responsible and independent co-authorship involves both artists and curators in co- creative processes, and the curatorial is needed to re-think its potential, when using performativity as a strategy to act beyond its limits and stimulate a change in the current society. In 2013, Rolla has co-curated "Personal Structures: Time Space Existence exhibition", Collateral Event of the 55th Venice Art Biennale, and organized several national participations and collateral events within the Biennale program. In 2015 Rolla co-curated "Personal Structures: Crossing Borders" exhibition at the European Cultural Center, Venice (IT). Increasingly interested in performance art, since 2015, Rolla is an Associate Curator of the VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK and coordinator of its Educational Learning Program, realized in collaboration with Live Arts Cultures and other international partner organizations. Among others, Rolla has worked and collaborated with artists, such as Bill Viola, Marilyn Arsem, VestAndPage, Marcel.lí Antúnez Roca, Tania Bruguera, Antonio Manuel, Franko B, Preach R Sun, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Andrigo&Aliprandi, Nazia Preema Andaleeb, and ORLAN. Since 2017, she is an honorary member of La Pocha Nostra. In 2017, Rolla has conceived and co-curated with VestAndPage CO-CREATION LIVE FACTORY Prologue 1, the new project of the Venice International Performance Art Week, founded on the principles of artistic collaboration, cooperation and temporary artistic community. Since 2018, in Formentera (Balearic Islands, ES), Rolla conceived and curates COLLECTIVE SIGNATURES, now in its upcoming forth edition, a performance artists-residency project conceived as a critical hub of radical performative actions and conversations, to enquire about the role and responsibility of the curatorial practice within performance art, to explore radical ideas and productions within both these fields, to inquire into how bodies perform as communicant vessels of past, present and future individual and collective narratives within a specific environment. Since 2019, Francesca Carol Rolla is on the board of LOÏE. Magazine as Director of the "Performance Archive" section. Rolla's writing have appeared in several journals and publications, and she has frequently been invited to speak and teach about her praxis at national and international art projects, academic forums and art events.
Francesca Carol Rolla
Independent Curator of Contemporary Art
Doctorant, Arts Visuels, EA 3402 « Approches contemporaines de la création et de la réflexion artistiques », ED 520 École Doctorale des Humanités, Université de Strasbourg
