L‘motionless event. Browse the weather is a MAN project for the “L’Isola delle Storie” literary festival in Gavoi, created in partnership with Casa Masaccio, curated by Cristiana Collu, Saretto Cincinelli and Alessandro Sarri .

The event, now in its fifth edition, was divided into various events which, starting from the month of May, took place in Tuscany and Sardinia, concluding with the usual exhibition in San Giovanni Valdarno. Focused on a plural and intermittent path, in the name of relocation, The still event . Browse the weather it was proposed to analyse, through the presentation of video and cinematographic works, what is permanent and fixed that resists and insists in every moving image and, at the same time, to investigate the infinite availability of time to be grasped and welcomed in its own irreducible interval, thus trying to delineate a sort of time in a vegetative state, a temporality in a state of arrest, in stalemate, such that it cannot be classified as simple movement or simple stasis.

The penultimate stage of The still event. Browse the weather was in Sardinia, in Gavoi, as part of the “L’Isola delle Storie” literary festival which takes place from 1st to 3rd July. During the festival, which in 2007 in collaboration with MAN promoted the first edition of The still event, three video works by the American artist Margot Quan Knight were proposed. Appointments of The still event . Browse the weather : Prato (Spazio K and Galleria Gentili, simultaneously on 5 May); Florence (Villa Romana, 13 May; EX3, 17 June); Gavoi (Casa Maoddi-Pira, 1-3 July); San Giovanni Valdarno (Masaccio House and Parish Church of San Giovanni Battista, 17 September). Artists on display: Emanuele Becheri, Katharina Segura Harvey, Alejandro Moncada, Paolo Meoni, George Drivas, Ane Mette Hol, Alexandra Navratil, George Drivas, Alexandros Papathanasiou, Margot Quan Knight, Jutta Strohmaier, Arnold von Wedemeyer, Rob Carter, Kathrin Sonntag, Ken Jacobs, Malcolm Le Grice, Hollis Frampton.