miart and In Between Art Film announce their collaboration for the miartalks that accompany the 2016 edition of the fair

Milan.- miart and In Between Art Film - the production company founded by Beatrice Bulgari in order to support artist's films and experimental videos - announce their collaboration for the miartalks that will be organized for miart 2016, the 21st edition of the international fair of modern and contemporary art of Milan, from 8 to 10 April 2016 in the pavilions of Fiera Milano City.

In continuity with the three previous editions directed by Vincenzo de Bellis, a new cycle of miartalks will take place during the three days of the fair in 2016. A platform of lectures, conversations and interviews that will involve, as in the past, over 50 outstanding international personalities including curators, artists, museum directors, performers, collectors, film-makers, choreographers and producers.

Ben Borthwick, artistic director of Plymouth Arts Centre (Plymouth, UK) has been appointed curator of the miartalks 2016. Borthwick has developed an intense calendar of interdisciplinary conversations that will explore the current dialogue between the worlds of art, film, music, video and theater. The program of talks is conceived as an eclectic festival of performing arts and moving images.

miart and In Between Art Film will collaborate as cultural producers, reciprocally providing their know-how to create, for the first time inside an art fair, a platform of knowledge and analysis of the interpenetrations of the various disciplines, to explore the possibilities and potential of time-based media inside the present models of museums, curating and collecting.

"The collaboration between miart and In Between Art Film – says Vincenzo de Bellis, Director of miart 2016 – adds new content of very high quality to the miartalks program, which in the past three editions has involved over 150 international personalities during the fair, contributing to make miart a standout event in the worldwide background. This year, the idea of transforming miartalks into a thematic platform that explores the interdisciplinary connections of the various languages of the performing arts is the result of intensive dialogue between Beatrice Bulgari and Alessandro Rabottini, Vice-Director of the fair, demonstrating that the variety and importance of an appointment like miart are based on the ability to work with leading counterparts on original, ambitious projects with great potential for cultural innovation."

"A fundamental part of our research – Beatrice Bulgari emphasizes – is to explore the increasingly osmotic confines between contemporary art, video, installation, photography, theater and cinema. This collaboration between In Between Art Film and miart for the miartalks happens in a historical moment in which it becomes urgent and necessary to make room for a series of confrontations – which we might call a seminar – to investigate this new reality of expressive and cultural hybrids and reciprocal influences, trying to understand what can happen if we erase the barriers that divide the various expressive field."

In Between Art Film is a film production company founded in 2012 by Beatrice Bulgari specializing in the production of independent and documentary films based on an interdisciplinary approach and exchange between the different artistic languages of our time. The firm's main productions include The Lack, the first feature-length film by the Italian video artists MASBEDO; Innocence of Memories, a film about Istanbul, love, memory and loss, based on the novel by Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, presented at the latest Venice Film Festival; and Where is Rocky II?, a film by Pierre Bismuth about the artist Ed Ruscha.

Ben Borthwick is the Artistic Director of the Plymouth Arts Centre (Plymouth, UK). In the past he was Director of the international art prize Artes Mundi 5. As an Assistant Curator, at the Tate Modern in London he curated important exhibitions, including Defining Constructivism and Gilbert & George, and solo shows such as those of Rosa Barba and Latifa Echakhch. He has been a member of the commission for acquisitions of FRAC Franche-Comté and of the selection commission of the British Council for the Great Britain Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2013.