Towards a New Critical Perspective: Fakewhale Presents “Authors’ Insights”

In an increasingly dynamic and multifaceted artistic landscape, creating spaces for open reflection where authoritative and passionate voices can engage is essential. Responding to this need, Fakewhale’s Log proudly introduces the new format, “Authors Insights’”, which focuses on experimental practices such as sculpture, installation, video art, and transdisciplinary research. This section offers writers, curators, and art professionals a platform to share their perspectives, enriching and broadening contemporary critical discourse.

The role of art criticism is often undervalued or reduced to quick reports on exhibitions and events, neglecting the broader theoretical and aesthetic dialogue. We believe that today’s art scene is not just a space for aesthetic production but also a meeting ground for languages, narratives, and ideas that frequently struggle to find adequate critical support. While exhibitions and cultural events occur in rapid succession, there is a noticeable gap in in-depth dialogue capable of sparking questions, hypotheses, doubts, and radical perspectives.

“Authors’ Insights” aims to fill this void, providing a context where reflection is not confined to the brevity of press releases or fleeting reviews but can grow and branch out organically.

In this spirit, we have invited authors whose profiles and experiences embody the critical and experimental breadth we seek to promote. Through their contributions, “Authors’ Insights” aspires to catalyze meaningful discussions that resonate within and beyond the contemporary art community.

Matteo Giovanelli is an art historian, emerging curator, and writer with a versatile approach to contemporary art. Holding a BA in Cultural Heritage and an MA in Art History from the University of Verona, he has developed a multifaceted profile through his work at APALAZZOGALLERY, where he supported artists and contributed to organizing exhibitions, international art fairs, and curatorial projects, managing all aspects of their realization. As a writer, Matteo collaborates with esteemed publications such as ARTFORUM and Flash Art, offering insightful critiques and analyses of contemporary artistic practices. Combining a sharp eye for innovation with critical depth, he provides thoughtful perspectives on the evolving art landscape.

Linda Rocco, PhD, is a London-based Independent Curator, Writer, and Research Tutor at the Royal College of Art. Her practice is situated at the crossover of contemporary art, the curatorial, and new media, with a focus on how emerging technologies can facilitate new organisational, financial, and collaborative paradigms for future distributed arts infrastructures.

She has curated public realm projects for the Mayor of London and worked internationally on exhibitions, programmes, and residencies with organisations including the Yinka Shonibare Foundation, Goethe-Institut London, Delfina Foundation, Ministry of Culture Taiwan, Brooklyn NARS Foundation, Bagri Foundation, and Jatiwangi Art Factory.

Giuseppe Moscatello is an Artistic Director and Cultural Entrepreneur with over two decades of experience in shaping the art and cultural landscapes of the UAE and Italy. As a cofounder of the Maraya Art Centre and 1971 – Design Space in Sharjah, Giuseppe has played a pivotal role in establishing groundbreaking platforms for contemporary art and design. Currently, he serves as the cofounder and director of Foundry Downtown, a progressive art space in Dubai.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma. Specializing in Placemaking, Giuseppe is renowned for conceptualizing and implementing thought-provoking art, design, and cultural projects, with a strong emphasis on art strategies, cultural diplomacy, innovation, and fostering cultural intelligence. A committed advocate for emerging artists, Giuseppe supports the cultural ecosystem by mentoring young artists and cultural practitioners. In recent years, Giuseppe has observed and deepened into the evolving realm of digital art, exploring the intersections of blockchain technology and new media as tools for empowering artistic and cultural projects.

Matilde Crucitti is an author and curator based in Milan. She specialized in Visual Arts and writes for exibart, Coeval Magazine, and C41. She worked at the press office of Mimesis Edizioni and is a co-founder of the multidisciplinary collective Sinergie Naturali. Her current research focuses on the hybridization of electronic text, visibility, and new digital media, along with non-linear hyperfiction in contemporary software society, from both practical and psychological perspectives. Passionate about independent publications and electronic music, which she promotes through hybrid sound projects in the recording studio she co-curates in her city.

To complete this initial group of voices, Ilaria Sponda, an in(ter)dependent curator, writer, and editor. She lives and works in Munich. She holds a BA in Arts, Media, and Cultural Events from IULM University, Milan, and a MA in Culture Studies at Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Her words have featured in The British Journal of Photography, C41 Magazine, Lampoon, Over Journal, Umbigo and Trigger among others. Her focus of interest lies in photographic art, media ecologies, globalization, and image circulations. She works at the intersection of contemporary art, image-culture and their distribution. Her research and work are rooted in in(ter)dependence as a curatorial practice itself. Her curatorial work has indeed been supported by alternative dialogical work of knowledge sharing outside common circuits of financial support given both the current economic crisis and exclusion policies at play in the art world. Her commitment to questioning the curatorial redefines the parameters of the artist-curator relationship, inviting a reexamination of how cultural knowledge is generated and disseminated in our interconnected world.

The new Authors section will welcome various types of contributions, each designed to organically and interconnectively highlight crucial aspects of contemporary artistic debate.

Firstly, critical reviews will offer in-depth analyses of exhibitions, events, and projects, moving beyond observations of aesthetic execution to expand the discourse to include socio-cultural implications and potential theoretical connections.

In parallel, thematic investigations will explore key issues in the realm of experimental art, such as the role of new technologies and the importance of research in installation practices, building bridges between disciplines and fostering cross-disciplinary reflections. These will be complemented by commentaries and interviews—spaces for direct dialogue with artists, curators, and scholars, offering a pluralistic and layered perspective on the current artistic landscape.

Finally, the section will be enriched by essays and broader theoretical reflections, where analysis transcends the boundaries of art criticism, philosophy, sociology, and other humanities disciplines, opening new perspectives for a genuinely critical and engaged debate.

In an era marked by rapid transformations, we believe it is essential to promote a culture of complexity, where art is not merely a visual product but a form of shared knowledge and experience. Through Authors, Fakewhale aims to foster constructive exchanges between creators and observers, writers and readers, in a continuous flow of intellectual interaction that sheds light on unexplored areas of the contemporary.

Are you a writer, curator, or art professional? Do you have a unique perspective to share or a critical reflection that could enrich the contemporary debate? Fakewhale invites you to contribute to the new “Authors Insights” section.

Reach out at info@fakewhale.xyz

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Towards a New Critical Perspective: Fakewhale Presents “Authors’ Insights”

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