Inclus dans:

• Fonds: Gianni Pettena fonds, 1960-2019
•    Série(s): Works, 1966-2018
•      Projet: Vestirsi Di Siede [Wearable Chairs] (1971), 1971-2017

Personnes et institutions:

• Gianni Pettena (archive creator)
• Gianni Pettena (artist)

Titre:

Vestirsi Di Siede [Wearable Chairs] (1971)

Date:

1971-2017

Niveau de description archivistique:
Project

Collation:

• 49 photographic materials
  41 digital files (785 MB)
  10 textual documents
  5 drawings (including 1 reprographic copy)

Présentation du contenu:
This project series documents Pettena's performance "Vestirsi Di Siede", also know in English as "Wearable Chairs". The performance was carried out between 3 pm and 5 pm on February 12, 1971, in the streets of Minneapolis by ten students of Pettena at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. The students, each wearing a portable chair harnessed on their back, wandered around the city, either by foot or by bus, and than returned to the college. "In this performance, it was the body that activated and gave meaning to the object: the chair only taking on meaning when carried, otherwise, it became disjointed." [1] The chairs were then put on display at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

A second edition of the performance was also carried out with the students from Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA) in Milan, 2011, and an installation of the chairs was presented at the exhibition "Un art pauvre" at the Centre Pompidou in 2016.

The project series contains photographs of the performance by the students of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and photographs of the exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Art in 1971. It also contains three sketches for the chairs, a drawing of the performance and a statement about the perfomance. The project series also includes photographs of the performance of the NABA students in 2011.

Source:
[1] FRAC Centre-Val de Loire, http://www.frac-centre.fr/_en/art-and-architecture-collection/pettena-gianni/wearable-chairs-verstirsi-siede-317.html?authID=148&ensembleID=1286 (last accessed 11 November 2019)

Numéro de référence:

AP207.S1.1971.PR04

Mode de classement:
Material in this project series was kept in its original order when it was first processed upon its arrival at CCA.

Localisation:

Minneapolis Minnesota États-Unis

Langue et écriture des documents:

• English
• Italian

Contient:

• AP207.S1.1971.PR04.001, Sketch and plan, Vestirsi Di Siede, circa 1971
• AP207.S1.1971.PR04.002, Photographs, sketches, drawing and project statement, Vestirsi Di Siede, circa 1971
• AP207.S1.1971.PR04.003, Photographs of the performance in 1971 and in 2011, and installation of the chair at the Centre Pompidou, Vestirsi Di Siede, 2006 - 2017