Stefano Cagol
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The Fate of Energy I-II-III, DVD's  2002
 
 
 

IOR, Artist in Residence / curator Lucia Farinati
 
 
 

> Stefano Cagol @ IOR, London.  February 2002 & Ferbuary 2005
 
 

In history as in nature, the rotten is the laboratory of life." Karl Marx
The Institution of Rot (IOR) was founded by artist Richard Crow and
writer Nick Couldry in 1992 as part of London's Secret Spaces.
Situated in a Victorian House in North London, Crow's working and
living space, the IOR has been (from 1992-1996) an active artist-run
space dedicated to performance, audio works and site-specific
installations. Included in the 'Life/Live' anthology edited by Laurence
Bosse and Hans-Ulrich Obrist (1996), IOR significantly contributed to
the extraordinary dynamism of London's artist-run spaces
phenomenon of the 90s. Rooted in a do-it-yourself production and a
collaborative process, IOR's specific concerns (and obsessions) were
the privacy of the human body and its public transformations
(ingestion, expulsion, cleansing, confession, rituals and taboos). The
IOR was also, from 1985-1994, the recording studio of the group
Diastolic Murmurs (Adam Bohman and Richard Crow).

At present IOR is a 'living archive' of recordings, objects, texts and
images. It also remains 'open' as a point of contact for international
collaborations and occasional artists' residencies 
(... like Stefano Cagol, Margherita Morgantin, Marina Fulgeri) 
created in partnership with curator Lucia Farinati.
 

Recent projects include: Found
Wanting in collaboration with the collective e-Xplo (2004); a live
broadcast in collaboration with Sound Art Museum - Radio Arte Mobile,
Rome (2005); The IOR Archive presents The Adam Bohman Talking
Tapes Vol 1- 2 (ongoing), Resonance fm (2005).

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