Nico Angiuli's The Human Tools at Cittadellarte and Museo Castromediano
Nico Angiuli, born in Bari in 1981, showcases his video installation titled The Human Tools at Cittadellarte in Biella. This project, co-produced with Museo Castromediano di Lecce through funding from the Italian Council, has been in development since 2017. It weaves together concepts from The Tools Dance (2017) and a residency in apple orchards in South Tyrol in 2018. The installation explores various tensions related to economics, technology, biopolitics, and gender through the perspectives of eleven characters discussing robots. Directed by Juan Sandoval, it features performers from Piedmont and Lombardy, including Luca Antonello and Kastriot Shehi, with costume contributions from Augusta Tibaldeschi and Roberta Vacchetta. The Human Tools will be displayed at Museo Castromediano from June 22 to September, coinciding with plans for a gondola service in Porto Marghera.
Key facts
- Nico Angiuli's The Human Tools is a video installation at Cittadellarte, Biella.
- The work is co-produced with Museo Castromediano di Lecce via Italian Council grant.
- Angiuli's earlier projects include The Tools Dance – Collective Performance (2017) and a 2018 residency in South Tyrol.
- The piece features eleven characters exploring the concept of a robot and the body.
- Collaborators include actors, costume designers, a filmmaker, composer, and a robot named Telenoid.
- The team visited an Amazon warehouse in Vercelli and hosted an anthropologist and trade unionist.
- Angiuli's film Tre Titoli (2015) connects historical and contemporary farmworkers in Cerignola.
- The Human Tools will be installed at Museo Castromediano from June 22 to September in a circular 26-meter projection.
- Angiuli teaches Performative Techniques at Accademia di Belle Arti di Bari.
- Students will perform on July 10 at Palazzo Cavanis in Venice during the Biennale.
- Future project: temporary gondola service in Porto Marghera narrating the Taliercio kidnapping and murder.
Entities
Artists
- Nico Angiuli
- Juan Sandoval
- Luca Antonello
- Eleonora Battaglia
- Tatiana Cazzaro
- Shahzada Husnain Fiaz
- Elena Gugel
- Cece Mannazza
- Noemi Iuvara
- Erica Massaccesi
- Graziella Panetta
- Kastriot Shehi
- Seth Oppong
- Augusta Tibaldeschi
- Roberta Vacchetta
- Giuseppe Valentino
- Guglielmo Trupia
- Rino Arbore
- Raffaele Fiorella
- Alessandro Vangi
- Albert Nikolla
- Jean Renè Bilongo
- Giuseppe Di Vittorio
- Pino Pascali
- Beatrice Catanzaro
- Iacopo Seri
- Giancarlo Chielli
- Luigi De Luca
- Lorenzo Madaro
Institutions
- Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto
- Museo Castromediano di Lecce
- Italian Council
- Ministero dei beni culturali
- Careof
- BAU
- Amazon
- FLAI
- Accademia di Belle Arti di Bari
- Fondazione Museo Pascali
- Palazzo Cavanis
- Montedison
- Red Brigades
Locations
- Biella
- Lecce
- Bari
- Cerignola
- Puglia
- Italy
- Piedmont
- Lombardy
- Albania
- Ghana
- Vercelli
- Venice
- Porto Marghera
- Switzerland