20 July 2017

Through a series of workshops and conversations collecting individual stories in York, Italian artist Marinella Senatore is looking for volunteers to feature in her new artwork titled York Symphony that celebrates the city and its people.

Marinella and independent curator, Lara Goodband, are looking for dancers, singers and musicians to help create the new work which will be shown at York Art Gallery this September. Marinella Senatore said:

“I see my art as a powerful agent of exchange. I want to empower people and create new communities through participation in the creation of a new artwork.”

The exhibition will be curated by Lara who added:

“This exciting and unique new artwork will be characterised by the energy, passion and the talents of the people in this famous, historic city.”

Those who wish to take part are asked to come along to St Helen’s Square on Monday 24th July and York Art Gallery on Tuesday 25th July from 10am-1pm to find out more.

The exhibition Marinella Senatore: York Symphony takes place at York Art Gallery from 23 September 2017 – 7 May 2018 which will include a new film of performances by participants.

Marinella Senatore is well-known internationally for the process of making new artworks through public participation. She uses a range of media including video, collage and text allowing her projects to speak within a range of contexts.

York Symphony is the first of York Art Gallery’s new Evelyn Commissions, which were originally introduced in the 1950s and saw the creation of works including LS Lowry’s ‘Clifford’s Tower’.

York Symphony is a commission produced in partnership with York Museums Trust, supported by a York family through the Friends of York Art Gallery.

 

More on Marinella Senatore

Marinella Senatore was born in Italy in 1977. Her artistic practice merges forms of protest and theatre, music and film. She takes inspiration from public ceremonies, civil rituals as well as mass events, while reflecting on the political dimension of collective formations and how they generate a potential for social change. In 2013 she founded The School of Narrative Dance.

Next to her performative practice she explores urban issues and social topics such as emancipation and equality through paintings, collages, installations, video, photography and sound. Marinella Senatore’s record of solo shows includes projects at the Queens Museum, New York (2017), “Under the Mango Tree”, Documenta, Kassel (2017), “Action!”, Kunsthaus Zurich (2017), Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Paris (2016), High Line, New York (2015) and Castello di Rivoli (2013).

She participated in group exhibitions such as the 13e Biennale de Lyon (2015), 5th Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Art (2015) and the 54th Venice Biennale, « ILLUMInations » (2011). In 2014 she won the MAXXI Prize, Rome.

Find out more about her practice and previous exhibitions on her website – www.marinella-senatore.com