S.A.V.E. Milan A Temporary Archive

"If those reading this message consider themselves artists, and if they work and/or live in Milan, it means that S.A.V.E has tracked down your profile. If so, we kindly ask you to come to one of S.A.V.E.'s offices to file your testimonial...."

With this summons, "S.A.V.E. Milan," a new episode of S.A.V.E., a project by Ambra Pittoni and Paul-Flavien Enriquez-Sarano a.k.a. Ze Coeupel, curated by that's contemporary in collaboration with Museo del Novecento, Careof DOCVA ViaFarini, Residenze FARE and Lucie Fontaine, kicks off.
S.A.V.E., an investigative project started in Berlin since 2009, arrives in Milan in the form of a census dedicated to artists active in the city, with the installation of a temporary office to refer to in order to leave a testimony anonymously. Performativity, uncertainty, and relationship are some of the formulas adopted by "S.A.V.E. Milan" to arrive at a new geography of artists and their places, through the documentation collected in the four stages planned in four art venues in Milan.

At the opening at Careof DOCVA Viafarini, a lecture-performance introduced the project along with fragments from the archive. The census was activated from the following day, followed by appointments by Lucie Fontaine within FARE at Frigoriferi Milanesi and finally at Museo del Novecento, with a concluding lecture for a performative reading of the collected testimonies.