BAU is an independent Cultural Association no profit founded in January 2004 in Viareggio, on the coast of Tuscany. Locally and through national and international collaborations, the project intends to act as a meeting point and aggregation centre, involving the most diverse disciplines: painting, sculpture, photography, video, performance, theatre, fiction, poetry, art criticism, comics, music, but also scientific research, gastronomy and other activities not pertaining to classical studies.
BAU produces yearly the Container of Contemporary Culture of the same name, a limited edition box that includes original works by local authors and participants from different geographical areas. The publication picks up the inheritance of the artists' magazines and of the assembling projects of the Sixties-Eighties, with the addition of an original dimension of group work and of shared planning and ideas, that is also expressed through the organization of exhibitions, readings, meetings, festivals and performative events.
BAU intends to intensify its interdisciplinary connections and to keep expanding the number of participants both Italian and foreign, stimulating cooperation and synergy. The project promotes the experimentation and research of new languages and drafts theses on the relationships between art, science, politics, environment and man. It also intends to verify, study and elaborate a necessary critical appreciation of a history of the artistical and poetical production of the last decades in Versilia and on the west coast of Tuscany.
BAU - Container of Contemporary Culture
Produced yearly in a limited edition of 150 copies by the Cultural Association BAU in Viareggio, BAU - Container of Contemporary Culture houses in a serigraphed cardboard box various original contributions size UniA4 (cm. 21 x 29,7), signed and numbered, from individual authors and groups. The magazine is a sort of workshop that satisfies the participants' curiosity for a mutual discovery of the motivations and expressions of their work.
All the issues of BAU are still available to collectors, institutions and those interested in supporting the activities of the Association.
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