FRAGMENTA

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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From Purity to Perversion – July 12th

2017/07/07 by Bettina

We are pleased to announce FRAGMENTA’s upcoming event: “From Purity to Perversion” presents a kaleidoscopic and absurdist reconfiguration of the feminine. On invitation of FRAGMENTA, Charlie Cauchi playfully weaves together archival images, home-movie footage, personal and found artefacts, memorabilia, textures and sounds to explore notions of femininity on the island of Malta. Expect edible delights and tipple from the nipple. FRAGMENTA is open to all public and free of charge. FRAGMENTA is supported by Valletta 2018 – European Capital of […]

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Art in Public Space. A case study of FRAGMENTA Malta told in its own words

2017/06/15 by Bettina

View original post on: http://interartive.org/2017/06/art-in-public-space-hutschek/ (page from leaflet by Sonya Schönberger, distributed during Fragmenta event FIELD TRIP, January 2017) The loudspeaker system of the ferry terminal announces in a solemn female voice: “There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown”. Ferry users are slightly irritated. What happened to the soothing commercial spots about bathroom interiors? Public space is now speaking to you dear listener … “What did I just see? What happened?” John asks Holly, […]

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FIELD TRIP – A Fragmenta event at the Cirkewwa Ferry Terminal with artists Sonya Schönberger and Christof Zwiener

2017/06/15 by Bettina

He storms into the hall; at the back he discovers various seats marked “TOURISTS”. They sit down. The row opposite has 5 seats marked with the sign “FOREIGNER”. The signs are written in 2 languages – Maltese and English – the Maltese word for foreigner is BARRANI, which literally means “Outsider”.

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MEMENTO MORI – recap

2016/11/10 by Bettina

A tower with a plank facing outwards … John is confused. John is on holiday in Malta, and on this glorious sunny October Sunday afternoon, he goes to the popular sandy beach of Ghajn Tuffieha. Suddenly, he spots the tower – his curiosity walks him to the cliff edge, overlooking the neighbouring Ghajn Tuffieha bay. In front of the Ghajn Tuffieha watchtower, a beautiful young woman approaches John and invites him to have a look inside. John startles – it […]

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a time and place for art

2016/10/28 by Bettina

Thanks to Marija Schranz for a wonderful interview and article. Times of Malta, October 2016

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Memento Mori: Hints Taken From Terror Management Theory

2016/10/19 by Bettina

For the upcoming FRAGMENTA-event on October 23rd, Maltese artist Aaron Bezzina will present new objects and a site-specific installation entitled “Memento Mori: Hints Taken From Terror Management Theory”. All presented works take their point of departure from Terror Management Theory (TMT), which claims that culture and art provide meaning in an insecure world by being a manifestation of concerns with our own mortality. Photo Credit: Still from “Flight From Death”, a documentary about “The Denial of Death” by Ernest Becker. […]

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