Left: Edith Devaney, contemporary curator and head of the summer exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Introducing The MICAS Summer Celebration
  • 10 June, 2019

Antoine Camilleri, Rock n' Roll, exhibited at the 29th Edition of the Venice Biennale, 1958. Courtesy of John Paul Cassar.
Caesar Attard, Human Pantographers, Live participation inside language laboratory, De La Salle College, Cottonera, 1977. Courtesy of Caeser Attard.

Jumpstart: An Incomplete Timeline employs a comparative methodology that juxtaposes significant national and world events with national art events in close conversation with the physical fabric of Valletta’s walls, facades and open spaces. The work presents a tentative but incomplete timeline for Maltese modern and contemporary art, taking Malta’s first ever participation at the 1958 Venice Biennale as the starting point, and meandering, through the modernist pre and post-independence years, towards the palpable shift in practice post-1989. The aim behind this event is to instigate a lively debate on the evolution of the contemporary idiom in Malta, its tendencies, relational emphasis, concerns and new technologies.

Cityspaces (exhibition catalogue), First Collective by Start Art Group, Valletta 2002
Norbert Francis Attard, Where are you from? Minn fejn int?, Photographic installation, Freedom Square, Valletta, 2008. Courtesy of Norbert Francis Attard.

Still a work in progress and by no means a canon, the incomplete timeline extends to Malta’s penultimate appearance at the Venice Biennale, in May 2017. The work is the result of a collaborative process with Maltese artists, through shared material from their personal archives, and those of their families and of art-loving citizen archivists. It is a reflection on an initial aggregation of the disparate collection of art events happening at different locations and points in time that have relevance to the development of the local contemporary context. Jumpstart: An Incomplete Timeline will be projected onto the facade of St. James Cavalier, at Castille Square, Valletta.
 
You are cordially invited to register for free to attend the MICAS Summer Celebration by sending an email to events@micas.art. An invitation will be sent upon confirmation of registration that will be used to access this event. Invitations should be presented at the entrance. Registration deadline: Wednesday 19th June. Registration is mandatory as spaces are limited. For further information visit our event page or call on 21242183.

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