Gaz' - from the archives

Let's start from Gazira Babeli. She deserves it. She involved me in all this mess...
Here are some links to what I wrote about her, or what I did with her complicity. This is the text (Italian only, sorry) I wrote for a little exhibition set up for the last PEAM meeting ( Pescara, Italy, December 6 - 10, 2006), called Second Life / Real Life. And this is the critical essay (Gaz', Queen of the Desert) for the exibition Collateral Damage (ExhibitA, Odyssey 38,30,23, from April 16 2007), downloadable (in Italian and English) from Gazira's website.

Thanks to Gaz', in the fall of 2006 I came across Second Front, the very first Performance Art collective in Second Life. About them, I wrote an article for the Italian art magazine Exibart (Virtual Fluxus, May 7 2007). A wider analysis of the state of Performance Art in Second Life (focused on Gazira Babeli, Eva and Franco Mattes and Second Front) has been published in February by the Italian newspaper Liberazione, and can be read (in Italian) here. The english reader can check out my interview with the Second Front crew, commissioned by Rhizome.org. Have a nice reading!