Linda Rocco

I perceive Curating as taking care, on a total level, throughout a multiplicity of actions. Orchestrator, choreographer and pre-situationist, the Contemporary Curator is to me mostly a thinker, remarkably curious and unceasingly aware. Like pollinators do for flowers, so the Curator gravitates around Art to propagate its own force. Not as a demiurgic presence but more like an acute observer and nearly invisible performer.

Live Art particularly interests me for the dynamics it generates in time and space, when performances of Presence interchange and mingle. I pursue the impetus of the live, to achieve the mutual feeling of both the spectator to experience the Real, the flesh, and of the artists To be, Presence, alive. I strongly believe the career of the artist should be more sustainable and supported in contemporary societies, to include creative talents and genius that can enlarge Art’s own potential to educate, empower and liberate. 

My practice focuses on bringing bodies together to enjoy, reflect and proactively experience in the here and now, using the exhibition as a dialogical space for the production and re-generation of experiences of Presence. Always seeking to reach different audiences to incorporate what can be considered as marginal, my attention lies on subjects more than objects — acknowledging that any artistic process defined as such is built on collaboration. 

Technology fascinates me as opportunity to reflect on the possibilities for the Performance to exist, to develop and perpetuate within multiple spaces and layered temporalities. I promote creativity as integral component necessary to critically challenge static operational modes of reception and perception of Contemporary Art, approaching the Internet as playground and arena, as field of activity and space for experimentation. I am interested in ways to mediate, document, archive and collect time-based practices to guarantee future access and finally discuss immateriality and the ephemeral as substantial values and not just evening’s entertainments.