Camille Aleña (born in Fribourg - lives and works in London) creates new links between art, music and the history of forms and media. Camille develops her work through diverse strategies and approaches such as documentary, narrative, performance, and object making. She is interested in a singular relationship to music and moving image, the artist observes the experimental tendencies within the traditions and conventions of cinema which she references in her work. Aleña graduated from the Royal College of Art (MA) in London. She studied at the University of Art and Design in Lausanne (Ecal) and University of Art and Design in Basel (BA). She collaborated with the Architects Herzog & de Meuron in Basel for two years (2013-2015). Resident at the Swiss Institute Rome in 2020 and Swiss Art Awarded 2018, her recent exhibitions include Kunsthalle St-Gallen, Forde Geneva, Galerie Sultana, High Art Paris, among others.

Edward Thomasson makes performances, plays, videos and paintings about the complexity of social and sexual interaction. His work uses song, dance and enactment to describe the ways people come together and try to build relationships. He writes dialogues, texts and lyrics which are brought to life through collaborations with composers, performers, musicians and friends. Thomasson lives and works in London. Solo shows include Chisenhale Gallery and South London Galleries, 2014 and 2011 respectively. He has presented performances at Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland (2019) Studio Voltaire, London, UK (2019), West Space Melbourne, Australia (2018), DRAF Studio, London, UK (2016), amongst others. Selected group exhibitions include Testament, Goldsmiths CCA, United by AIDS - An Exhibition about Loss, Remembrance, Activism and Art in Response to HIV/AIDS, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland (2019). Thomasson has collaborated with Lucy Beech on performance projects since 2007 Together they have exhibited in theatre and exhibition spaces including Tate Britain (2017), Maureen Paley, London (2016), Barbican Theatre (2011).

Ambra Viviani is an artist and Ph.D. candidate at the ZHdK in Zürich. She holds a MA from the FHNW in Basel (2017); is co-founder of the artist-run space Giulietta in Basel (2020-) and collaborates with Lumpen Station (2022-); has been awarded the Albert Friederich His-Stiftung research grant (2021) and the Fiorucci Art Trust grant (2016); has been an artist in residence at CASTRO in Rome (2022), JET-LEG in Munich (2022), the China Academy of the Arts in Hang-zhou (2019), Akademie der Künste in Berlin (2018) and Lasalle College of the Arts in Singapore (2017). Ambra Viviani was born in Naples, Italy. Currently not very based.

Ian Wooldridge lives and works in London and Zurich. He has exhibited and performed at Kunsthalle Zurich (2022); Centre d’Art contemporain, Geneva (2021); Kunsthalle Fri-Art, Fribourg (2020); ICA, London (2019); Istituto Svizzero, Rome (2019); Nuit Blanche, Paris Arts Lab (2019); The Cruising Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale, (2018); LUX, London (2018); Folkwang Museum, Essen (2018). And written for Artforum (USA), Frieze (UK), Mousse (IT) and Texte zur Kunst (DE). 

We are delighted to announce that Lateral Roma will present a selection of video works in Lecce, IT on Saturday, June 24 2023, at Cinelab / Cineporti di Puglia from 7:30 pm. 

The evening at Cinelab will feature works by Camille Aleña, Edward Thomasson, Ambra Viviani, and Ian Wooldridge. Linked by their use of and interest in music as a driver of plot, the artists tap into performative genres that are charged by emotive perseverance, standing in for or directly linked to a specific political moment. The flash-mob musical of the hopeful early 2000s, emos vs truzzi and the contrary Zeitgeist these subcultures stood for, an angsty edit of a pop trance hit as the backdrop for a proxy experience – these videos are about coming together and coming apart, of being isolated, community, and dissent. “I’ll do the dance we’re supposed to do, try to do it just like you”, they sing, a promise of perfect harmony all out of tune.

Following the screening, Lateral Roma will lead an artist discussion with Edward Thomasson and Ian Wooldridge and an afterparty at PAM PAM! (Manifatture Knos, Lecce). Thank you to the Eresie Pellegrine team for helping us pull all of this together!

Date:  Saturday, June 24, 2023 at 7:30 pm
Address:  Cinelab / Cineporti di Puglia, via Vecchia Frigole 36, 73100 Lecce

SCREENING PROGRAM

Ian Wooldridge, Life filters too, I love you (a road movie), 2023

Lucy Beech and Edward Thomasson, Passive Aggressive 5 (Together), 2017

Camille Aleña, Playlist, 2018

Ian Wooldridge, APEX, 2017

Ian Wooldridge, Meso System Buoyed, 2018

Ambra Viviani, I‘ll steal your voice, 2022

Camille Aleña, Emo vs Truzzi, 2022

Edward Thomasson, Grace + Harmony, 2023

Camille Aleña (born in Fribourg - lives and works in London) creates new links between art, music and the history of forms and media. Camille develops her work through diverse strategies and approaches such as documentary, narrative, performance, and object making. She is interested in a singular relationship to music and moving image, the artist observes the experimental tendencies within the traditions and conventions of cinema which she references in her work. Aleña graduated from the Royal College of Art (MA) in London. She studied at the University of Art and Design in Lausanne (Ecal) and University of Art and Design in Basel (BA). She collaborated with the Architects Herzog & de Meuron in Basel for two years (2013-2015). Resident at the Swiss Institute Rome in 2020 and Swiss Art Awarded 2018, her recent exhibitions include Kunsthalle St-Gallen, Forde Geneva, Galerie Sultana, High Art Paris, among others.

Edward Thomasson makes performances, plays, videos and paintings about the complexity of social and sexual interaction. His work uses song, dance and enactment to describe the ways people come together and try to build relationships. He writes dialogues, texts and lyrics which are brought to life through collaborations with composers, performers, musicians and friends. Thomasson lives and works in London. Solo shows include Chisenhale Gallery and South London Galleries, 2014 and 2011 respectively. He has presented performances at Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland (2019) Studio Voltaire, London, UK (2019), West Space Melbourne, Australia (2018), DRAF Studio, London, UK (2016), amongst others. Selected group exhibitions include Testament, Goldsmiths CCA, United by AIDS - An Exhibition about Loss, Remembrance, Activism and Art in Response to HIV/AIDS, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland (2019). Thomasson has collaborated with Lucy Beech on performance projects since 2007 Together they have exhibited in theatre and exhibition spaces including Tate Britain (2017), Maureen Paley, London (2016), Barbican Theatre (2011).

Ambra Viviani is an artist and Ph.D. candidate at the ZHdK in Zürich. She holds a MA from the FHNW in Basel (2017); is co-founder of the artist-run space Giulietta in Basel (2020-) and collaborates with Lumpen Station (2022-); has been awarded the Albert Friederich His-Stiftung research grant (2021) and the Fiorucci Art Trust grant (2016); has been an artist in residence at CASTRO in Rome (2022), JET-LEG in Munich (2022), the China Academy of the Arts in Hang-zhou (2019), Akademie der Künste in Berlin (2018) and Lasalle College of the Arts in Singapore (2017). Ambra Viviani was born in Naples, Italy. Currently not very based.

Ian Wooldridge lives and works in London and Zurich. He has exhibited and performed at Kunsthalle Zurich (2022); Centre d’Art contemporain, Geneva (2021); Kunsthalle Fri-Art, Fribourg (2020); ICA, London (2019); Istituto Svizzero, Rome (2019); Nuit Blanche, Paris Arts Lab (2019); The Cruising Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale, (2018); LUX, London (2018); Folkwang Museum, Essen (2018). And written for Artforum (USA), Frieze (UK), Mousse (IT) and Texte zur Kunst (DE).