FRAGMENTA

Malta’s Muses: Goddess, Madonna, Witch – RECAP

2018/07/25 by Bettina

For the event MALTA’S MUSES: GODDESS; MADONNA; WITCH, Fragmenta invited performing artist, writer, musician, and folklorist Kay Turner to engage the Maltese people in an experience centered around these 3 female figures who are important on world scale, but who have a special place on the Maltese islands. Prof. Kay Turner has been studying all 3 figures in her academic work. Beginning in 2012, Turner initiated a lecture-performance series “What a Witch” to explore the witch figure in participatory story-rituals. […]

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Malta’s Muses: Goddess, Madonna, Witch

2018/05/29 by Bettina

FRAGMENTA is incredibly honored and proud to be able to present a site-specific performance on June 5th by renowned folklore professor and performer Kay Turner on a special prehistoric site of Malta – the TARXIEN temples. Kay Turner will lecture on the overlapping her-stories of the Goddess, Madonna and Witch, three figures identifying Woman and women in Maltese life for generations, even millennia. Following the talk, Kay Turner will invite to a participatory performance. The performance will take form of […]

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SUBVERSIVE SEMIOTICS; a happening for a billboard – Eve Cocks in interview with David Pisani

2018/05/02 by Bettina

Subversive Semiotics – a happening for a billboard took place on May 10th in form of an official opening ceremony for a public billboard. The artistic happening was disguised in good Dada-style as official event, where visitors had been invited to obey the dress code (“Cocktail”); to converse politely over background music and to champagne; and to listen speeches by the Minister of billboards, sustainable debauchery and mental health, by the chairman of a local foundation and the founder of FRAGMENTA. […]

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THE SNAKE SHOW

2018/01/27 by Bettina

The exhibition “The Snake Show” tells the story of the changing perception of snakes throughout history – from prehistoric examples to contemporary perceptions. Having been a symbol of wisdom, fertility and life, the snake lost its positive meaning with the arrival of St. Paul to Malta, his encounter with a snake, and the advent of Christianity. The symbolic power of the snake symbol, however, has remained undiminished from prehistory to her incorporation into popular Christian devotion and beyond. The exhibition […]

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Almost There – Nov. 19th, Birkirkara

2017/11/14 by Bettina

TIME: Sunday, November 19th, 2 – 6 pm. LOCATION: Underground shelter of the Sant’ Elena Band Club Birkirkara FRAGMENTA-event with Darrin Zammit Lupi and Karen Irmer. The event takes place in an underground war-shelter. Bring a torch and water-proof shoes. Walk in the dark. Shine your light. There is some fog. See what you find. Maybe you discover something new… In “Almost There” Darrin Zammit Lupi presents beautiful landscape images that were created while on a two-week migrant search and […]

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Psychoarcheology – Fragmenta-event with Erik Smith, October 15th

2017/10/18 by Bettina

Fragmenta invited to discover “Psychoarcheology,” a project in the form of a temporary intervention by artist-in-residence Erik Smith. Drawing on psychogeography and urban archeology, this trans-disciplinary, “psychoarcheological” project is conducted on a field close to the Chapel Ta Loretu, looking out on the airport runway. This site was identified by overlaying a network of “ley lines” onto maps of the island based on the location of existing archeological sites and prominent geological features. The project seeks to produce an altered […]

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From Purity to Perversion – FRAGMENTA with Charlie Cauchi. RECAP

2017/10/01 by Bettina

Text by Holly Knowles Valentine Hall, Hamrun, July 12th, 2017: A dark haired woman in a long white dress stands outside the front doors on a hot pavement. It is 6.55pm and the sunlight is at ankle level, flickering over her silver platform shoes. She smokes a cigarette as “(Today I Met) The Boy I’m Gonna Marry” by Darlene Love plays in the background. Her carefully made up eyes follow the traffic. Summer, 1986, Valletta: A dark haired girl in a long […]

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Imħabba Bl-Addoċċ – with Roxman Gatt. RECAP

2017/09/20 by Bettina

The sound of chains. The sound of some solid object dragging across a pavement. Slow steps. As we watch the video, we see a pair of white Reebok classics cast in plaster, in rough art-school style. They are dragged across the ground, leaving white traces on the pavement of an early-morning, deserted Sainsbury supermarket parking lot. The Reebok plaster casts are attached to the ankles of a person with chains. This person is wearing plastic Adidas slippers, white socks, a […]

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Imħabba bl-Addoċċ

2017/08/02 by Bettina

We are pleased to invite to a FRAGMENTA with Roxman Gatt on August 23rd from 7pm onwards, with a one-of performance at 8pm. Roxman’s main inspiration for the upcoming event is fetishisation of objects and brands in a consumer capitalist society, epitomized in men’s love of cars: “I am aware that this car culture is popular in other countries, but I have always been fascinated by Maltese men and their obsession with their ‘Bejbi’ or ‘Angel’.” The event evolves around sexuality, […]

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