'Open Wounds' is an ongoing project developed by Channel 83 in collaboration with some of the artists featured on the website. Spontaneously, each artist taking part in the project has developed a series of new works attuned to the Channel 83's mood, goal and aim - original pieces that have never been displayed anywhere else before. 'Open Wounds' is therefore a tribute of sort to Channel 83, born out of the encounter between people who share a fascination with similar themes and an interested in wounds.
These new artworks - by all means new wounds - grant the project an unique character and allow the website to morph from archive into a platform, transforming Channel 83 into a generator of palpitating open gashes that can be employed to look at the body from a novel standpoint - that of its wound-profile.
Submissions are still open to any interested party: please get in touch if you feel like contributing with a new installment of the series, explaining your basic idea or sending in samples of the works you intend to produce for the website.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
An interview (Italian only, sorry) about my life and Channel 83 has been published on the blogzine of Simone Bisantino - Italian writer whose new book should hopefully hit the shelves sometimes in the next year.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Vanni Bassetti's series of photographs document - without adding any unnecessary poetry - the reality of the slaughter house. Seven photos for a few poor lambs...they went on a trip and never came back. The bare reality of meat and its processing is served on a plate for you to observe. Eat up!
Friday, July 04, 2008
Six works by Tisbor (aka Nicola Vinciguerra) - Italian illustrator you may already know from the cover of several recent records from the power electronic and noise scenes - have been added to the gallery. Politically uncorrect, sarcastic, devious and - at times - simply unnerving and incomprehensible, Tisbor's world is made of cannibal zombies, friendly torturers and wounded TV presenters. You can try making sense of it and look for a logic of sort or just go with the flow, follow him into his surreal, messy and absurd dimension...the fun is guaranteed, and so is the filth!